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...first group of images—which is also his oldest work—describes Bochner’s investigation of block structures constructed from a systematic arrangement of two-inch cubes. Grid-like and highly organized in both presentation and content, the photographs depict the formation of these assembled cubic modules and their dependence on a mathematically predetermined model. Schematic diagrams that are evidence of the work’s interest in seriality are shown in conjunction with several views of the block structures. As Bochner stated, this series is principally about the process rather than the object. Attempting...
...unnecessary in photography as the image inherently depicts depth on its own. Nevertheless, Bochner applies the device of perspective to photography as a way of analyzing and looking at the artistic device itself, rather than actually using it. Portraying linear perspective as the image of a black or white grid on a contrasting ground in space, he is effectively displaying “a representation of representation...
...Bochner takes the negatives and photographs of his perspective series as the literal object and subject of his next exploration: “I would use the photographs and negatives that I had and treat them as objects. By changing it as a surface, the photo-grid in perspective becomes a map of itself through deformation and crumpling. I had a photograph developed, soaked it until it dissolved, let that dry and shrivel up, photographed that and then had a negative and positive displayed...
...Fuel cells promise to unhitch us from the electrical grid, and that's good. We'll never have to grope for a hotel-room outlet again, and no more waiting for batteries to recharge, either. But details on how costly the devices will be to own and operate are scarce, and there are potential drawbacks. Will there be maintenance hassles? (Batteries are, after all, wonderfully simple.) Casio's laptop power plant is fueled by small methanol cartridges that are replaced when the liquid is spent. Will we want to carry spare fuel cans around with us? Will airlines allow them...
...warm, sparse earth colors, the heat and the townscape of Hammamet, a desert construction of white boxes and bubbling domes, affected him so powerfully that he was at last able to tell his diary that "color and I are one. I am a painter." The vision of the cellular-grid forms of Tunis, though he never went back there, would always stay with him, as one sees from later paintings, such as the exquisite Picture of a City (Red-Green Accents...