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...woman striding past what appears to be an alpine background is seen not just from the front but also from high overhead, where the camera reveals that she's actually walking on an urban rooftop with an alpine backdrop in place of the real thing. A miniskirted woman lying on a tile floor is photographed in color from the waist down--a perspective that suggests she's holding the camera. A black-and-white image of the same torso shot from around a corner strips away the playfulness and eroticism and suggests nothing so much as a crime scene...
Perhaps the subtlest of Probst's pictures are her portraits, in which people look into the camera in one shot and are photographed from a few degrees off to the side in another. "When they're looking at the camera, they're able to defend themselves," Probst says. "From the side, it's as if we're seeing them secretly...
Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. Young and beautiful is as fleeting as a camera snap--and thus all the more worth preserving...
...would take photographs and pass them on to Nick, who painted on them. The two liked what they got and soon were working together on what they called light paintings--and what 19th century photographers called photograms--images produced by exposing photographic paper directly to light without a camera getting into the game...
From there, Rob and Nick explored even further. They built interactive light sculptures from neon. They produced a series of photographs in which Rob used a revolving camera to capture impressions of light and color from landscapes around the world. They painted tiny oil abstracts, photographed them and blew them up to 50 times the size of the originals before destroying the paintings. It was the photos that would be the art, after all. The paintings? Merely a means to it. "All the work is about light, color and form," says...