Fine art photography was on view in Chelsea as the 2013 season starts (many are happy to see 2012 go; lingering remnants of Hurricane Sandy remain in the form of still-dark galleries).
Upstairs at Tanya Bonakdar are more photographs, and are by Dirk Stewen. Here, similar to the work downstairs, are sculpturally-based work using photographs, photographs with collage and some nearly “straight” photographs.
Several black and white images of a man turned holding a subway poll and taped or collaged with another image in the smaller gallery were oddly compelling, and were the most simple and effective.
Next: Charlotte Dumas: Anima at Julie Saul Gallery. Here, are mysterious and emotive images of horses. In “repose”, resting and in their stalls are large 44 7/8 x 59 7/8” (edition of three; smaller size available) portraits of the majestic burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery. They are shot using natural light. From afar, they look photographic; on closer inspection (“pixel-peaking”) the prints are quite noisy—the digital equivalent to grain—and this can be distracting, at least to me (full disclosure: I’ve made many high-noise images, so I wont begrudge a fellow artist creative license to print as they see fit).
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