May 12
The Index
1 result(s)
- Newer Topographicshighlight
1- Eric Curry, Airstream Trailer: Home on the Range, 2007, archival inkjet print, 40” x 60”, courtesy of the artist
2- Eric Curry, Cropduster and Blooming Trees, 2007, archival inkjet print, 40” x 60”, courtesy of the artist
3- Eric Curry, DC-3: Workhorse, 2007, archival inkjet print, 40” x 60”, courtesy of the artist
4- Eric Curry, Corvette: A Coke and A Smile, 2007, archival inkjet print, 40 x 60", courtesy of the artist
5- Jeremy Kidd, Exploratorium 1, 2005, chromogenic print on aluminum panel, 30” x 84”, courtesy of the artist
6- Jeremy Kidd LACMA 1, chromogenic print on aluminum panel, 53,5 x 108", courtesy of the artist
7- Jeremy Kidd Chrysler 2, 2006, chromogenic print on aluminum panel, 36” x 108”, courtesy of the artistNewer Topographics echoes a key exhibition in American photography history: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, that took place in 1975 at the George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), one of the world's oldest photography musems. Back then, the photographers wanted to distance themselves from a romantic tradition perceived as oppressive in landscape photography, and advocated a detachment and coolness that left little room for emotions.
Newer Topographics stems from the opposite impulse. Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, with their special effects, saturated colors and unlikely sceneries, re-interpret their environment with great passion.
Jeremy Kidd is fascinated by the magnitude of contemporary urban architecture. He deems it worthy to sustain the comparison with the rocks and canyons of Western America, and depicts it with a majesty that borders on the epic. Made from an assembly of digital photographs "developed" with the help of Photoshop, his landscapes are manipulated, dramatized, anthropomorphic. With their distorsions and aberrations, these giant panoramas are almost expressionistic in the way they transcribe Jeremy Kidd's impressions when faced with the sublime right in the heart of the city.
As to Eric Curry, he manipulates his photographs digitally to better glorify his culture. He picks his subjects among the symbols of the American spirit: there is the Corvette, the jet fighter, the telescope, the tank, the monster truck... So many emblematic objects, which he stages with immense meticulousness in images saturated with bright colors and artificial lighting, and filled with elements that feel more real than life itself. Eric Curry's photographs open up on a kind of hyperreality. Almost myth.
Newer Topographics - Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes, UCR California Museum of Photography
Eric Curry - American Pride and Passion, April 26 through July 05, 08
Jeremy Kidd - Hyper Architectural Typologies, April 26 through July 05, 08
