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There’s a photograph by Stieglitz of
an opera house that finds a lever of perspective capable of dissolving its
perfect mass into energy. “Focus,” he said, “is
inessential.” Pro-Am shoots view life and the métier
with “the passion of the scientist.” Zoom is a good
example. Abundant focus and anecdote stipulate the inactivity of Downtown,
where the more beautiful a building is, the more likely it is to be vacant. Nonetheless, there are photographers
working with “the precision of the artist.” Yoshi Hashimoto takes
emblematic pictures of a flower, say, diffusing its essence in
snow-on-charcoal tones but secure as a mon. Liza Hennessey Botkin snaps
in monochrome a squat lady on a cylindrical stool at a shopping mall computer
stand under a zippy monitor and gives it a title: I Am Woman. For color, that dimension ignored by
museumists with platinum prints in slipcases, Heather Lowe dispenses a
seaside view of a pole adorned with sail-like extensions, viewed in a
stereoscope elegantly mounted on a tripod: Death of Dracula’s Bride. |
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