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...three-dimensional quality of Hofer's work is brought out in the closing triptych of the "Kunsthalle Karlsruhe." In this photograph, a room is portrayed from three different angles. There are barely sufficient points of commonality to establish that this is indeed a single room. As we make the identification, the room, flooded with light, springs out in what must be every realtor's dream; we are transported from the empty room we stand in to the empty room that is being sold...
...piece: a series of three photographs shot in one room. In the first photograph of this tryptich, a woman with dark brown hair and glasses sits on a bed, only the head of which is visible behind her. The center photograph presents another angle of the same room. A dresser is visible as well as a doorway, through which a portion of a darkened room can be seen. Through the doorway, a portrait of a mother and daughter is just visible. The last photograph depicts the same scene as the first, but the woman in this photo, although she looks...
...invent surfaces and how that's in a sense inventing ourselves. In a way, it's hard to say there's anything more than surfaces, that kind of manifestation of fantasy in the surface. "The idea of fantasy is a recurring theme in Wang's work. In another photograph, a young girl in a ballerina dress sits on a counter in the middle of a kitchen. "It's about fantasy," says Wang "the fantasy of femininity...
Some of the photographs depict breathtaking landscapes rendered with great artistic flare and attention to aesthetics. One landscape of a pyramid taken by Francis Frith depicts the subtle beauty of the pyramids of Saqqara. His use of light and shadow rivals many Ansel Adams landscapes. The printmaking is of such high quality that the footsteps and the tracks of the cart Firth was pulling his camera equipment in can be seen snaking through the photograph. In spite of these few photographs made with great artistry, most of the images in display seem to be staged, trite, commercialized depictions...
...quarter of a million South Africans died of AIDS last year, but that figure could soon be dwarfed: By some estimates, half of the current population of 15-year-olds will be killed by the disease. As many as half of the people in the frame of any photograph in a public setting in South Africa today may be doomed...