New York is a city of art -- Nobody would deny it. Yet this art collection of photographs focuses on an aspect of the city that ordinarily is complained about or at best ignored.
The series created by New York photographer, Basia Tov, reflects the beauty found in signs of wear and tear of a busy metropolis. A stain, a crack, a corrosion, and even dirt, to name few, are singled out and composed into an abstract "painting". The photographs are printed in large format -- smallest at 30 inches by 40 inches -- which makes the subjects even more removed from their ordinary context, and that much more resembling an abstract composition. They are painterly and as we look at them we forget that it is just a stain on a neglected sidewalk, or a rusted plate on a busy street.
Subject is not the only element of Ms Tov's photographs that is challenging our expectations of art photography. Basia Tov chose to reveal the digital origin of the photographs just as the abstract painters leave the evidence of their paint brush on a canvas. As many photographers put an outmost effort to create a digital photograph that looks just like one made with analog SLR camera or one that is perfectly sharp, Ms Tov relishes in the different dimensions a digital photograph can create. Therefore when you look at her photographs from the distance of six feet the image is sharp, and the object distinguishable, yet when you get closer it all blurs into squares, and dots of colors revealing its medium. She wants you to come close and look at these digital artifacts like you would look at a bold brushstroke on a painting.
In conclusion, instead of digitally crisp photographs reporting state of New York streets we get an abstract, almost romantic at times, "paintings". That unquestionably grounds digital photography within limits of fine art.
The photographic series "Scars and Stains of New York" were taken in late 2000 and early 2001 by Basia Tov, resident of New York City. For more information on Basia Tov visit her website at www.basiaphotography.com
Website: basiaphotography.com
e-mail:basia@basiaphotography.com
The series created by New York photographer, Basia Tov, reflects the beauty found in signs of wear and tear of a busy metropolis. A stain, a crack, a corrosion, and even dirt, to name few, are singled out and composed into an abstract "painting". The photographs are printed in large format -- smallest at 30 inches by 40 inches -- which makes the subjects even more removed from their ordinary context, and that much more resembling an abstract composition. They are painterly and as we look at them we forget that it is just a stain on a neglected sidewalk, or a rusted plate on a busy street.
Subject is not the only element of Ms Tov's photographs that is challenging our expectations of art photography. Basia Tov chose to reveal the digital origin of the photographs just as the abstract painters leave the evidence of their paint brush on a canvas. As many photographers put an outmost effort to create a digital photograph that looks just like one made with analog SLR camera or one that is perfectly sharp, Ms Tov relishes in the different dimensions a digital photograph can create. Therefore when you look at her photographs from the distance of six feet the image is sharp, and the object distinguishable, yet when you get closer it all blurs into squares, and dots of colors revealing its medium. She wants you to come close and look at these digital artifacts like you would look at a bold brushstroke on a painting.
In conclusion, instead of digitally crisp photographs reporting state of New York streets we get an abstract, almost romantic at times, "paintings". That unquestionably grounds digital photography within limits of fine art.
The photographic series "Scars and Stains of New York" were taken in late 2000 and early 2001 by Basia Tov, resident of New York City. For more information on Basia Tov visit her website at www.basiaphotography.com
Website: basiaphotography.com
e-mail:basia@basiaphotography.com
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