Field #16 Photograph - Limited Edition of 6

"A similar sense of calm informs James Cooper's three renderings of distant horizons. They manage to recall Hiroshi Sugimoto seascapes and color-field painting both." Mark Feeney, arts writer, reviewer, and editor, Boston Globe "In his unmanipulated, sweeping American landscapes - captured with transparency film - James Cooper's alluring compositions feature simple shapes and geometries with minimal detail, elevating his work into elegant abstract imagery." Elin Spring, photography writer, What Will You Remember? "Cooper's 'Surf Beach Station' is compelling.” Daniella Walsh, art critic. "The fact is that when one stands in front of one of James Cooper's works, one wonders in this era of computer graphics, if his images have been manipulated. The answer is no; they are unmanipulated.” Antoinette Sullivan, Studio Gallery. “James Cooper's twilit Barn #8 develops a distinctive visual language for capturing agricultural subjects through compositions reduced to simple shapes and geometric structures His approach emphasizes clear outlines, minimal detail, unexpected viewpoints, and abstract form, reprising the American Precisionist movement. This style draws connections to the photography of Paul Strand and parallels Ellsworth Kelly's barn photographs from the 1950s through the 1980s, where interlocking forms evoke the planes found in Kelly's own paintings and sculptures. Through his lens, Cooper transforms rural architecture into a study of essential form.” Amy Gillette, Associate Curator, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Photo Review 2025 International Photography Competition exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum The photographic image should be an accurate record of what the camera and film captured. And, an image made with film has a certain feel to it. Suggestive of the American modernism Precisionism movement, the work is characterized by the reduction of compositions to simple shapes and underlying geometrical structures, with clear outlines, minimal detail, unexpected viewpoints and framing, and an emphasis on the abstract form of the subject. American Precisionists focused on selecting subjects from the American landscape and regional American culture. Many of the same artists applied their new style to long-familiar American scenes, such as agricultural structures and domestic architecture.