|
|
Article: Visions the eye can't see. (experimental photography, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
An exhibition in San Francisco brought together four British artists whose experimental photographic methods blur the line between realism and abstraction.
"Under the Sun," an exhibition recently at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, dispensed with conventional assumptions about the photographic image and its appearance. Escaping any easy categorization, the four British artists represented here all resist the narrow mandate of historians like Beaumont Newhall that photography forge its identity in a fashion that privileges a realist or "straight" esthetic. Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss and Garry Fabian Miller remain attached to ambiguous or ...