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...series “Transparent and Opaque,” Bochner seems to abandon his flirtation with perspective and use textural nuance as the springboard for further photographs. By photographing glass surfaces smeared with either Vaseline or shaving cream and brightly colored with filtered lights, these photographs transform mundane, household accoutrements into stunning artistic landscapes. While the Vaseline acted as a shiny, phosphorescent light trap of transparency, the voluminous viscerality and lush corporality of the shaving cream reflect light, recording the light without the presence of its own physical existence. Bochner distills and separates the reflected color as imposed...
...Technology grant working with scientists, the artist became infatuated with scientific concerns about communication, quantification, numbers and measurements. Playing out these scientific concerns led to photographs of demarcated and measured spatial segments (with their numeric lengths inserted into the scene) in the interior three-dimensional environment of rooms. Bochner became increasingly interested in the representation of scale in a photograph and began developing images of a 12-inch measurement printed to actual size, so that the entire picture was necessarily life-size. At this point, Bochner felt that he had achieved the total deconstruction of photography because the life-size...
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