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Brendan Austin creates imaginary landscapes out of crumpled pieces of paper. He calls them paper mountains, Austin examines what we mean by nature and the way humans have impacted upon it. "The isolated desert city running on oil generators, the mars like landscapes of a volcanic environment and the mountains made from paper all attempt to start a conversation concerning the loss of meaning and reality." The resulting images appear both recognisable as landscapes but also suggest a sense of artifice. Humble materials are made to carry an important message.
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was a Czech avant-garde photographer who became known for combining different styles of modern photography including cubism, futurism, constructivism, new objectivity, and abstraction. His photographs often reduced images to elementary lines and shapes, exploring the contrast of light and shade. He experimented with a wide range of techniques and processes including photograms and double exposures.
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Bill Jacobson Bill Jacobson (b.1955, Norwich, Connecticut) is widely known for his out of focus photographs of both the figure and the landscape. Jacobson began his signature, indistinct images in 1989. These early works, titled Interim Portraits, feature shadowy, pale figures that evoke the loss experienced by many during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The blurred subjects underline the futility of capturing a true human likeness in both portraiture and memory. |
Ambiguity is a sustained investigation of Antoine Predock's Nelson Fine Arts Center in Tempe, Arizona. Kerr spent hours photographing, waiting and observing how the lines, shapes and forms changed as the sun moved from morning to late afternoon, revealing new relationships of harmony or tension.
The ambiguous forms, shapes and textures of the almost featureless stucco exterior intrigued Kerr as a designer. By observing how the structural lines intersected from various vantage points, Kerr was often able to confuse the visual perception of foreground and background. The pastel colour palette is inspired by the building’s southwest geography and was a challenging visual departure from my previous monochromatic approach to abstract architecture. . |
With his project ‘the light inside’, photographer Radu Zaciu shows ordinary fruits and vegetables in — quite literally — a different light. Using bulbs and tools with strawberries, pineapples, potatoes and pears, Zaciu illuminates the inner core of each edible, allowing both a faint and fiery glow to naturally emanate.
The skin of each organic item acts as a shade, casting its own hue onto the inner illumination. the thick and warn exterior shell of a celery room offers little transparency — rather, the hazy warmth it emits likens itself to a photo of a planet in the solar system; a strawberry’s delicate skin exposes a hot red glare, polka-dotted with seed showers; when light is placed inside a cauliflower, an almost atomic-bomb-like impression is created. |