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Email PageThe Seaweed Pictures
April 20, 2006- June 22, 2006
Alyson Denny
Alan Klotz Gallery
511 W 25th St Alyson Denny Seaweed Picture #3 |  Alyson Denny Seaweed Picture #18 |
There are many things to like about Alyson Denny’s photographs – the two big ones are color and a focus-defined space. Most color photographers seem to be afraid of color; their colors are drab, inoffensive, unremarkable. Denny revels in it, worships it, ramps up the saturation and lets it sing. In the era of milky Euro-color this is a significant difference.
Ms. Denny’s images at first glance might seem like flattened abstractions, but are actually shallow, carefully crafted, 3-dimensional “landscapes”. Shooting with a tele-macro lens wide open will do that for you. The shapes and colors all have volume which can be placed in a world you could walk through… although admittedly it would be a short walk. How little selective focus seems to be employed these days, which is a pity since its selectivity allows us to simultaneously define with certainty and to suggest vaguely what is or isn’t there.
If you study these photographs you will see that the color only partially comes from the objects in focus (the seaweed); the rest comes from the adjacent unresolved ambiguous space. Is it more seaweed? the water? the rising sun? reflections? Irrelevant. The point is that delineated objects merge with those merely suggested to create a color saturated pictorial harmony rather than a literal taxonomy of seaweed.
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