Posted by sabine7
Art | 03 Feb 06 | Stumble
There was a solemn start to the week with Robert B. Smith’s black and white photo file on the crypts and mausoleums of New Orleans, pre-Katrina, but from images of that which marked the end we jumped to signs of life, in the forms of weeds. Roxy Paine’s Weed Choked Garden was a feature, as well as the fields of mushrooms cultivated on gallery floors.
Photography featured quite prominently, from the witty slices of British life by Martin Parr to the work of Katy Grannan which reveals an incredible intimacy between photographer and subject. Grannan’s models offer an uncomfortable honesty that makes it almost easier for the viewer to look away.
We also had the cravings-producing oils by Tracy Miller and the more threatening aspect of food that is larger than life in a series of miniatures by Gregory Steel.
As always, it’s all so subjective, but it is difficult not to be moved by Alec Soth’s most excellent photo study on love, romance and Niagara Falls. Not to mention that big, bad thing called life. One of the best collections of photos we have seen in a while.
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