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Article: Complex vision. (photographers Barbara Ess, Hope Sandrow, John Schlesinger, Michael Spano)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Using the camera to evoke the fleeting, provisional aspects of visual experience, four New York photographers explore private worlds through unconventional images and unorthodox techniques.
As a child, I used to pretend sometimes that my experience - what Al was seeing and hearing - was a movie. I'd hold my eyes rigid as I walked and watch space flow around me. Walls warped, floors buoyed, furniture floated upward. Enthralled, I wondered why they didn't make movies that way, as if from someone's point of view.
Barbara Ess's photographs remind me of that visual epiphany. The peripheries of her images seem to stretch a little, her wide-angle fields seem to ...