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Elijah Cobb: 'Nature Morte' |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: A.D. Coleman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,437 Words, 8,679 Characters |
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Mortality has long been a subject of art; indeed, since some of the earliest known artifacts are connected to burial ceremonies, death may be art's first subject. But while artists in all media address mortality, photographers (and, through their eyes, we who contemplate photographs) confront it.
One of photography's unique aspects is its ability to evoke the presence of its subjects; another is its capacity to seize and render specific moments in time. Nowhere are these manifested more powerfully than in photographs of the dead and dying--whether the subjects are human or animal. This is certainly the operative issue in the suite of images by New York based photographer Elijah Cobb that, collectively, he titles Painting with Light.
In point of fact, while that title precisely de...
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...roject in black and white, and experimented with cyanotype prints; but this color imagery is the first resolved on this theme so far," he explains. " I expect to be working with this general technique and subject matter for some time to come." For as long as he chooses to do so, nature will do its part--replenishing, in its implacable way, his cast of characters, filling in his dance card. vbcrlf
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