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Falling Bodies (80) Photograph
United Kingdom
Photography, C-type on Other
Size: 50 W x 96.1 H x 1.6 D in
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This project sprang from my wish to see and record, in detail, what a falling person looks like. It was crucial to that these falls took place in reality, from real heights. The narrative of falling - as experienced by mythological figures such Adam and Eve in the Fall, Ikarus, Lucifer - alludes to notions of temporality and mortality, but also emancipation; the fateful passing from one state to another. I used conventional large-format photography, one shot per fall. Each photographs is thus a record of my pressing the shutter at a particular moment during each fall. The element of randomness - within the otherwise tightly controlled studio setup - represents a theme, in that falling eludes control. This work carries autobiographical references.
Details & Dimensions
Photography:C-type on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:50 W x 96.1 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
My interventions are rooted in a sense of curiosity - a desire to see. I use the camera to record the normally invisible: moments too fast for the human eye to register, inner processes, states of being; but photographs, of course, never fully deliver on their promise of truth. I would argue that our fascination with things elusive is caused by the tickle of simultaneous failure and reassurance, the tension between knowing and not knowing. My work owes much to the camera's peculiar relationship with time. It is one of Photography's paradoxes that inanimate objects remain sharp while the living tend to blur and disappear; comparable perhaps to the quantum particles whose location and speed, according to Heisenberg, cannot be determined at once. A recurring theme in my work is the experience of the individual ('the particular') within the framework of collective experience, or myth ('the general').
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