Daniel Canogar
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Daniel Canogar's artistic use of light in photography can produce images of ghostly beings that symbolize the haunting spirits born when technology broke down the barriers between the real and representational. Human psychology can produce ghosts. Nature can produce ghosts. Technology can also produce these ghosts. Photographers can produce images of these beings that hint at their haunting natures.
Publication Name: Aperture
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0003-6420
Year: 1999
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Joan Fontcuberta
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Photographs in Joan Fontcuberta's series, "Hemograms," are of blood drops from friends. The blood is dropped on film and Fontcuberta immediately makes a photographic enlargement. Blood can carry troubling connotations in the age of AIDS, and it also carries the deepest significance of human identity, passion, birth, and death. The enlargements create diverse images of imprint.
Publication Name: Aperture
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0003-6420
Year: 1999
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Pablo Genoves
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The subject of Pablo Genoves's photographs can be as fleeting as a point of paint on a surface or the the question implicit in a woman's smile or dress. The photographs themselves can be of different textures and tones. However, after the process is complete, the photographs may stare back at the photographer as strangers to the person who made them.
Publication Name: Aperture
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0003-6420
Year: 1999
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