[AGL] Starn twins and Earth exhibitors

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Thanks, Connie, for the links.

I discovered that if you Reload the http://www.photofest.org page you will
see a kind of slide show of photos from the show.

Mike

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From: "Connie Clark" <connie_3c at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [AGL] Starn twins and Earth exhibitors


>  Earth is the other theme of fotofest this year.  In Artists Responding to 
> Violence, I saw a lot of photos of people - cultural and political, real 
> and/or dummied up.  The Earth theme shows us more landscape and still life 
> type work - but nothing cliched or traditional about any of them.
>
>  Artist Heidi Bradner traveled to Siberia and recorded in black and white 
> the Nenets life, constantly on the move in the Artic circle, following 
> reindeer. People like this still exist.
>  http://www.heidibradner.com/galleries/nenets/index.html
>
>  Vesselina Nikolaeva walked the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the southeastern 
> edge of the Soviet bloc to gather photographic evidence of what was once 
> there.
> http://www.vesselinanikolaeva.com/
>  Her soft eye-pleasing compositions of abandoned guard stations and 
> broken, penetrated border fences are printed on watercolor paper giving 
> the color photos texture, and a painted quality.
>
>  I noticed that in the various fotofest exhibits that ink jet prints of 
> digital photos can be printed on just about any surface that will run 
> through the printer.
>
>  The reknowned NYC photographers, twins, Doug and Mike Starn used mulberry 
> paper to print a series of photos of a very old, large Thai mulberry tree 
> in the northeastern US.  Since this paper is somewhat translucent, they 
> were able to frame a printed photo over another printed photo with a 
> pocket of airspace between them. One could see the blue-grey photo behind 
> the bare limbed knarlly tree on top. There were some very large pieces. 
> One delicate and vein rich leaf photo covered an entire wall.  This one 
> was printed on rolls of shiny photo paper, in strips hung side by side, 
> matching, much like a bilboard poster. Spectacular.  Better yet, was their 
> trippy one-minute video of dried fall leaves.  The video was created with 
> one of those laparoscopy cameras that is used in surgery - it wiggled and 
> swiveled, twisted through the leaves intimately in quiet seduction.
>  http://www.newworldmuseum.org/starn.html
>
>  Several of the artist exhibits showed beautiful natural spaces ruined by 
> man or industry, like the gas fields that are poised soon to invade the 
> Nenets' "land of the second sun".
>
>  See works of Masaki Hirano (Tasmanian old growth forests), Martin Stupich 
> ( the Red Desert) and John Ganis (Oregon clear cutting).
>
>  And this Korean guys work jumped out with gorgeous color.
> 
> http://mcserver.gold.ac.uk/media_showcase/ma_image/0405/ma_ic_0405.php?name=hyung-geun_park
>
>  Photographic art seems to take the viewer on a trip somewhere that one 
> might not ever go, or be able to go.  That's what I like about this big 
> show.  I'm about half-way through the main exhibits.
>
>  Connie
>
>  http://www.fotofest.org/
>
>
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