Anodyne
Monday, May 15, 2006
 
New issue of the Fillip Review out -- articles by Pete Culley, Jessie Caryl, and Cliff Lauson the standouts.

"Abandoning things in the country just doesn't work. Like pets, objects find their way back, and they're different." (Culley)

"Alongside broader shifts in style, certain documentary approaches to encounters with the real and the supernatural have prevailed over time. Our present, broad awareness of the capabilities of photographic reproduction to capture images that escape natural vision, mixed with cynicism about photographic manipulation, has replaced traditional records of paranormal occurances in the form of ghostly silhouettes or detailed, pallid figures with the more modern bumps and jostles of abstraction." (Caryl)

"Of course, Wall himself has overtly returned to rework past subjects, as in the re-shooting of The Drain (1989) to produce Still Creek, Vancouver, winter 2003 (2003). And, perhaps less overtly, he has also digitally reworked two pieces from 1988, Eviction Struggle (now An Eviction) and Tran Duc Van, using the original source material. These pictures have been clarified (distilled?) by reducing the amount of peripheral activity, thereby focusing the viewer's attention on the protagonists or primary event." (Lauson)
- posted by cjb @ 9:44 AM


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