At first glance the photograph is a medium of great limitation. The primary function of the camera is to describe the surface of an enclosed scene. Yet, for perhaps ineffable reasons, certain imagery surpasses it’s technical purpose, instead conjuring sensations that span the senses and inspiring curiosity as to what lies beyond the frame. The […]
Surrealism
Mara Trachtenberg: A Studio of One’s Own
Mara Trachtenberg is a lens-based artist who makes fantastical dream worlds out of sugar. I met Mara when I was a grad student at UConn and she was a recent graduate from the same program. Her working method fascinates me and we share a love of Rhode Island and sourdough bread. Mara Trachtenberg is a […]
Photography and the Surreal Imagination at The Menil Collection
We continue to share exhibitions that are no longer available to public access. Photography and the Surreal Imagination is currently on display. Conversation between two people walking along (six feet apart). Question, ’Did you see the speed that COVID 19 is spreading in Europe?’. Answer, ’Yeh man, it’s surreal’. The word surreal has slipped into […]
Jo Sandman: The Restless Spirit
Jo Sandman: The Photographic Work on view until June 7, 2020 at the Fitchburg Art Museum explores Jo Sandman’s turn to photography in the 1990s. Over the course of the last three decades, Sandman has grounded her photographic images in the human figure, mortality, and the tensions between the material and the spiritual. Her photography is […]
Nadine Boughton: A Fractured Atlas
Over the next week/months, we are making room on Lenscratch to feature work that was slated for exhibition that is not making it to the walls. Nadine Bought0n was to open the exhibition, A Fractured Atlas, at the United Photo Industries Galleries in New York on April 2nd and run through May 1st. She also […]
Paolo Ventura: An Invented World
“I use photography because what people see in photographs they believe is real – even if they know it is a model. When you go to a film, you know it’s a setup, but you cry, you get excited, you are deeply touched. People want to believe what they see on film. I photograph what […]