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ICE/AMMO - Mojave, CA - Limited Edition 1 of 20 Photograph

Osceola Refetoff

United States

Photography, Color on Paper

Size: 24 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in

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First printed: 2016 Captured off Highway 14 in the remote desert town of Mojave, California, the iconic "ICE/AMMO" sign was displayed for what seemed like forever before suddenly disappearing from view shortly after this image was captured. Each print is titled, signed, dated and numbered on verso. There is an approximately 3" white border around the image area. Prints are manufactured in-house at Chungking Studio in Los Angeles Chinatown. Papers include Hahnemuhle Fine Art Museum Etching, Museo Silver Rag, and Moab Entrada Rag, and are selected based on exhaustive tests to determine which material best suits the interpretation of each individual image. These museum-quality, 290-350 GSM-weight papers are exceptionally robust and render 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 18x18" on 24x30" paper. Each print is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

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Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:24 W x 30 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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