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| Der Weg in die Bilder, 1982.
photogram, unique (in two parts) 108 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (276 x 106 cm) each 108 3/4 x 83 1/2 inches (276 x 212 cm) overall. © Floris Neusüs |
Von Lintel Gallery's selection @ PARIS PHOTO
By Juliette Deschodt
. John Chiara John
Chiara travels the California coastline with a room-size camera obscura
of his own creation hitched to his car, capturing landscapes and urban
vistas directly on photographic paper. The large size of his hand-built
camera allows him to create monumental work without the use of an
enlarger. Chiara’s elimination of a negative makes his process immediate
and unique, but also time intensive with exposures lasting many hours.
He incorporates deliberate strategies of chance into his work to invite
exposure and processing anomalies. He also experiments with
auto-reversal paper, creating images in which light and dark are
reversed and colors are transformed into their complements. His
revisionist and surreal landscapes include skewed perspective, tilted
horizons, radical over and under exposure, and jarring color shifts that
produce refreshing and unexpected imagery. Immediate, intuitive, and
experimental, Chiara’s work is unique among Contemporary photographers. Chiara’s photography has been reviewed in the Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Artforum.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently purchased his work, and,
in 2011, the Pilara Foundation commissioned his Bridge Project for their
permanent collection.
. Klea McKennaKlea
McKenna uses light sensitive paper to reveal something unexpected about
the natural world, transforming familiar elements into abstractions of
light and form. She experiments with a number of strategies, including
hand-made cameras and outdoor photograms to create images that convey a
sense of place that is both visual and emotional. Her rain study
photograms are composed outdoors at night in her native Hawaii and her
current home in Northern California.McKenna
has exhibited over the past decade across the United States, including
group shows at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Marin
Museum of Contemporary Art, the Woodstock Center for Photography, and
the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Her work has appeared in Esquire, the San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic, and Art News.
. Floris NeusüssThe
German photographer Floris Neusüss has been a pioneer in camera-less
photography since 1954. He has explored the technical and visual
possibilities of the photogram, pushing the technique to create a
groundbreaking body of innovative work. He initially came into the
public eye in the 1960s with his Körperfotogramms or “nudograms,”
photograms of nude women. These images of ethereal silhouettes in
graceful poses were created by laying models on photographic paper.
More recent work includes his Nachtstücke (Night Pieces) created outside
at night, often in a garden, by exposing photographic paper to
lightning or to an electric flash. The resulting images of ghostly
leaves and shrubbery are wind tossed and speckled with dew, reflecting
the outdoor conditions of their production. Hovering between abstraction
and representation, these pieces are portraits of the mysterious
natural world at night.Neusüss
has shown internationally over the past fifty years, including
exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and
Albert Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Several monographs on Neusüss’s work have been published, and he was a
subject of an expansive illustrated volume produced in conjunction with a
2010-11 Victoria and Albert exhibition on the work of five camera-less
photographers.
Read more @ L'Oeil de la Photographie
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