We Belong Together - Yale MFA Photography @ Gallery 339
Justin Leonard, Broken Window, York, AL, 2008 . “…where the action of the camera stops and smears simultaneously the forms it describes.” In this landscape, Leonard uses the camera as a paintbrush, with no plan, intentional mistakes, restrained color palette and askew composition.
Dru Donovan, “Through photography I gain access to the private lives, thoughts and emotions of strangers.” Dru said she grew up with men being intimate and close to each other, being sensitive and affectionate without being sexual.
Dru Donovan @ Gallery 339. Donovan likes the idea of “doubling”, photographing twins and people who’s body has turned against them in black and white because, “it links images together from different times and places.”
Catharine Maloney, Flower and Joe, “This series of work is about movement, gesture and having men who are skinny take their shirts off for me.”
The Yale MFA Photography 2009 show at Gallery 339 is on view through the end of August - if you have never visited this showcase of cutting edge fine art photography, now is the time to investigate what, as one artist put it, “the current generation” of the photographers.
Congratulations to Sarah Stolfa on the publication of her book, The Regulars, by Artisan books.