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Broken Down House with Truck Passing - Olancha, CA - Limited Edition 1 of 20 - Limited Edition 1 of 20 Photograph

Osceola Refetoff

United States

Photography, Color on Paper

Size: 22 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Like many of the desert locations I photograph, I've returned to this abandoned house many times to capture its ongoing decay in different seasons and lighting conditions. In this early capture, the interior walls remain largely intact, there is no graffiti, and the roof has yet to collapse. I chose this particular exposure because the passing truck helps to situate the house alongside a 2-lane stretch of California Highway 395. First printed for Solo Exhibition at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 - 2014 Each print is titled, signed, dated and numbered on verso. There is an approximately 2" white border around the image area. Prints are manufactured in-house at Chungking Studio in Los Angeles Chinatown. The Window Series is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Museum Etching paper, a museum-quality, 350 GSM-weight paper which is exceptionally robust and renders outstanding detail. After a successful print is inspected and approved, a protective seal is applied using a three-step process that increases moisture, dirt, fingerprint, and UV resistance; extending the already significant color-fastness of modern archival inks approximately 3x the length of untreated prints. Note: Image area is approximately 12x18" on 17x22" paper.

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22 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in

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Osceola Refetoff’s interest is in documenting humanity’s impact on the world – both the intersection of nature and industry, and the narratives of the people living at those crossroads. His images exist within traditional means – landscape, portraiture, travel, editorial – and are variously produced using film, digital, infrared, and pinhole exposures. Thus, despite his documentarian impulses and the fact that his images deliberately depict ordinary, even mundane, subjects; he trains on them a nuanced vision, often yielding surreal, even dreamlike images. His process generally happens “in camera,” at the moment of capture, in a kind of alchemical reaction that transforms the external world into something both realistic and magical. Refetoff’s early influences were the great mise-en-scène directors Lang, Welles, Kubrick, and Melville. Today, his motion picture background informs his approach to constructing visual narratives. Framing meticulous compositions in depth, he uses the many cameras he carries to render not only how a place looks, but how it feels to be there. As he shifts between stylistic modes to build layered, multidimensional histories, what links all aspects of his eclectic practice is a commitment to capturing “what the picture requires.” Refetoff holds a B.A. in Film & Mass Communications from Duke University (1985) and an M.F.A. from New York University's Graduate Film Program (1991). His photography has been featured in Artillery, Palm Springs Life, Arid, Boom, Hemispheres, and WhiteHot magazines, among others. His work is widely exhibited including at the San Diego Art Institute, the Palm Springs Art Museum, The Main Museum, Photo LA, Porch Gallery, and numerous solo exhibitions covered in The LA Times, Huffington Post, CBS, LA Weekly, and other publications. "High & Dry," a long-term collaboration with writer/historian Christopher Langley, is syndicated on KCET's Emmy-winning program Artbound, receiving the Outdoor Writers Association of California’s 2016 award for Best Outdoor Media.

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