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From the Flat Files: Staged Photography

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Staging a photograph is similar to the process of composing a canvas. Rather than capturing a fleeting moment, artists make specific choices when constructing their images — by intentionally placing elements and arranging compositions, they stage the environments and events.

Julie Blackmon, Snow Days, 2021, archival pigment ink, 22 x 29 inches, edition of 7, $4000

 
With or without snow (and yes it's melting), it seems like we’ve had 350 snow days in a row. I have so much respect for the parents who have spent months upon months nonstop with their kids underfoot. It’s unnatural and next to impossible.

The thing is, too much together time is hard, but too much alone time is, too. The simultaneous desire to connect and disconnect. They're such primal needs — the need to draw close and then to retreat.

— Julie Blackmon

 
Staging a photograph is similar to the process of composing a canvas. Rather than capturing a fleeting moment, artists make specific choices when constructing their images — by intentionally placing elements and arranging compositions, they stage the environments and events. The photographer, in addition to his role as an image-maker, also becomes a director, stage and costume designer, make-up artist and, occasionally, a performer as well.


This week we are thrilled to explore this exciting genre by taking a look at some of our favorite staged photographs from our collection. We start with Julie Blackmon's most recent image, Snow Days (pictured above). Enjoy!

 

Ernie Button

Ernie Button, Cheeramids #3, 2005, archival pigment print, 11 x 14 inches, edition of 20, $300

 
As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly interviewed Ernie Button about his photographic practice and his most recent work from the Vanishing Spirits series. Watch their conversation on Vimeo.

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Richard Tuschman

Richard Tuschman, Pondering Life at Age 4, 2016-2020, archival pigment print, 14.5 x 21.5 inches, edition of 5, $2000
 
photo-eye Gallery is currently showing Richard Tuschman's My Childhood Reassembled, an online solo exhibition by the New York-based photographer. Be sure to check it out!

 
To learn more about Carla van de Puttelaar's work, check out the interview she did with photo-eye.
 

Anne Kelly interviewed Carroll about her photographic practice and her book Domestic Demise. This fabulous book comprises the fourth part of Carroll's ongoing photographic series “Anonymous Women.” Watch their amazing conversation on Vimeo.
 



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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

 
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