Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Artist: Richard Learoyd
The Show: Presences, at the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
May 5 – June 25, 2011
Step into my camera...Richard Learoyd at the Fraenkel Gallery
Both visually and psychologically revealing, the photographs of British artist Richard Learoyd probe the limits of image-capture. Learoyd’s subjects pose inside his camera: a specially designed camera obscura-type mechanism consisting of two small rooms. In one, the subject sits illuminated by a powerful light source. A lens fixed inside a bellows projects the image onto a sheet of photographic paper mounted on the wall in the adjoining dark room.
The resulting image is the image: there is no enlargement, and the direct-positive process means no photographic negative is used. The exposed sheet is fed directly into a processing device, which yields a large and highly detailed print with virtually no noise or graininess. The direct capture of light from subject to print results in images that defy our expectations of what a photograph should look like, and how we should feel when looking.
All images Richard Learoyd and Fraenkel Gallery
Agnes with eyes closed, Richard Learoyd
Nancy nude with white chair, Richard Learoyd
Tatiana in green chair, Richard Learoyd
Tatiana with imperfect lens, Richard Learoyd
Category: Gallery Notes, Photography, San Francisco
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it’s really great pictures ..
they all seem to look nowhere …
THE MIND
I see the beginning,
And the memory slips so vaguely along the lane of life,
I stopped for a while to think,
And I see again the beginning of creation.
The mind is vast,
And the very veil that fastens to the gear of life
Is the mind,
Say the memory.
In the brain,
The beams swallow up the veins
That cast the man to work.
It spreads so widely on life,
And other individuals keep theirs to think out good…,
While a whole other persons keep theirs
To think out evil—
Oh what a life?
At times the mind revolts,
And the basics of life are again subdued to dust—
And there is war—
While at other times
The mind is lifted high
And the world again is developed.
Spread the ends—
And the mind is used.
Seal-up the facts—
And it is enveloped in suspense
For fear of expulsion.
Sight the extremes—
And the mind seeks for such apparatus
To hold unto in reaching that target safely.
The mind is a faculty—
We should use it wisely
To thinking out every good and useful developments
For Life.