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"It's a Mess Without You!" - Cinco, CA - Limited Edition 4 of 20 Photograph
United States
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 17 W x 22 H x 0.1 D in
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First printed: 2014 I had been photographing the abandoned trailers at this site for four years before capturing this image. The same room appears in an earlier photograph "Desert Kitchen - Cinco, CA - 2010" before the sink was pried out and some unknown person or persons were moved to add this memorable inscription to the scene. As a documentary photographer, I can only bear witness to the aftermath of such events, wondering like you, who may have spray-painted the note, in what circumstance, and for what intended audience. Whatever the author’s intention, this image has caught the imagination of a wide range of people on a personal level, leading to rampant, engaging speculation as to the full story. The large-size print edition is on its way to selling out, but this edition remains accessibly priced. It's a Mess Without You - Solo Exhibition – Porch Gallery - Ojai, CA - 2017 Artillery Magazine - Feature Story by Betty Ann Brown - 2017 - tinyurl.com/z4by4b6 Photo LA – The REEF - Los Angeles, CA – 2017 Finalist - FOCUS Photo – 2016 Office Hours – The Main Museum – Los Angeles, CA - 2016 Museum Tour (Solo Show) - Venice Institute of Contemporary Art/Gypsy Trails Gallery - Torrance Art Museum - 2015 Boom: a Journal of California - Framing the Desert - Summer 2015 West Hollywood Lifestyle Magazine - Premiere Issue - Winter 2014 Solo Exhibition - Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 - 2014 The Life of Things - SCA Project Gallery - Pomona, CA - 2014 KCET Artbound: High & Dry - A Collaboration Surveying the American Desert - May 21, 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 13x13" on 22x17" paper.
Details & Dimensions
Photography:Color on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:17 W x 22 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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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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