| NudesJanuary 20, 2006- March 4, 2006
Renowned photographer Gary Schneider presents an extraordinary series of nudes.
Each figure is photographed alone, and seems to materialize and float above a receding black ground. Each portrait looks somehow prehistoric; bearing the imprint of time as a result of the prolonged exposures that the artist uses to render each portrait; sometimes as long as three hours. Schneider calls this process a “durational portrait”; the subjects are photographed in the dark; illuminated only by a flashlight that the artist uses to explore the surfaces of the skin. The inevitable movements and consequent distortions that occur in the process both reveal and obscure the intimate physical details and emotions of the individual who poses.
Schneider explains, “The central issue for me in my work is to try to locate privacy in a very intimate way with my subject, then to frame it so it can be exhibited and brought out of the studio…You should be able to come to the surface of all my work and be able to read the information and the surface, as if you were reading a map or a landscape.”
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