Barbara Van Cleve (b. 1935)
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Title:
After the Calving
Date:
2003
Size:
19 5/8 x 29 inches
Medium:
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed:
L/R
Artist Statement:
Clouds fascinate me, and rightfully so, for clouds and photography are related in my mind. Clouds appear solid, but I can move into and through them to whatever is hidden within them or that is obscured on the other side of them. With photography I can reach through the physical world of the “thing seen”, like clouds, to reveal through my photography the essence of the “thing seen: or what is “behind it”. Photography is a kind of marriage between reality and imagination to reveal the truth of the “thing seen.”
Clouds fascinate me, and rightfully so, for clouds and photography are related in my mind. Clouds appear solid, but I can move into and through them to whatever is hidden within them or that is obscured on the other side of them. With photography I can reach through the physical world of the “thing seen”, like clouds, to reveal through my photography the essence of the “thing seen: or what is “behind it”. Photography is a kind of marriage between reality and imagination to reveal the truth of the “thing seen.”