Eyemazing: The New Collectible Art Photography

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allowed it to be used in the media, preferring to have the projects disseminated as exhibitions, books, and on the Internet. Perhaps the fact of their choosing my Anónimos (2011) is a series of self-portraits. An intimate compendium where the figures’ individuality remains hidden. In these pictures, the artist strives to give expression and capture her own self while remaining, essentially, anonymous.

CM: I think that comes through and makes your work different from a regular fashion shoot. Your subjects do seem powerful and, like you said, in charge. There seems to be a respectful intimacy that comes through your images. Most of Rotelli’s photos are made in Landy, which is probably the area the most affected by this phenomenon of demolition and which historically has been at the center of industrial life in the twentieth century Paris. Walking around with his camera, Euro Rotelli has caught succesfully for us to see moments of Nostalgia, the heavy feeling of exile and the anxiety of the newcomers accompanied by their excitement for a new life. Witkin’s well-known dark and troubling work often possesses a beauty that transcends its subject matter. St. Thomas Aquinas, whose thinking about art has not been made obsolete by the passage of centuries, recognised that true art has an expansive radiance, a clarity, which reaches out to and takes hold of the viewer because it radiates the fullness of the form it is expressing. Form is what causes it to be, and its fullness shapes its beauty, its organicism, and its reality. That kind of clarity (claritas) and the beauty-shaping fullness of form (formosus) are, and not to Thomistic thought alone, art’s principal constituents.Art communicates truths or ideas that cannot be described by any other form of language. For this reason, the most stirring art can also be the hardest to write about. Germán Herrera’s work presents such a challenge. Herrera’s captivating photomontages unravel directly into the topography of the psyche. They strike personal notes, resonate deeply, and do not easily resolve into answers or translation. Herrera’s work is striking in how it immediately tugs at the mind on a subliminal level. Below the shadowy, luscious surfaces lurk ephemeral manifestations of philosophical concerns. Many of Herrera’s works seem to be palimpsests of unknown origin, teetering evocatively on the brink of obscurity. Much of my work weaves together an investigation into my own heritage as well as the current social and political issues that the countries face. Even understand that the issues were much more complex. I try my best to approach any given project with an open mind and to bridge the gap between “us” and

Publication: Recent book by Joel Simpson, Playgrounds for the Mind: The Art of Geological Photography (2021) is completely devoted to geological art photography. Many of these images may also be found on joelsimpsonart.com. Samples of such images may also be found in Joel Simpson’s 2019 Nautilus-Gold-Award-winning book Earthforms: Intimate Portraits of Our Planet (earthforms.net). Fazal Sheikh (FS): My work developed in that direction when I was given a Fulbright fellowship in 1992 to photograph the Swahili communities along the SL: I did fashion photography, I did advertising… I tried to earn a living, and was not always successful! I had a studio at 156 5th Avenue for a number of years. And I worked for different people and for magazines. Some of my favourite pictures I did with Soames for Nova, which is an English magazine that I liked a lot. And the Art Director of Harper's Bazaar saw my pictures for Nova and said to me: “Why don't you do something like that for us?” So I gave her an idea a few weeks later and she had forgotten what she had told me and she said: “We can't do that! We're Harper's Bazaar!” and that was it! Sometimes I made some money. Sometimes I was very impractical. I bought prints, I bought certain things. I love the works of Bonnard and Vuillard and owned some. I also had a little collection of Japanese prints. I think that the Japanese explored many ideas long before Western artists ever did. This collision between sight and touch where suggestions of the haptic were bound into the concept of a process (the etched line that the finger traces on the plate), stimulated Soltau to work more three-dimensionally. She wanted her ‘drawing’ to be felt by the person, for the body to become central to the action, to physically ‘feel’ the thread. pictures Saul Leiter, Courtesy Saul Leiter Foundation, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York and Gallery Fifty One, AntwerpOne of Delano’s strengths is that he moves nimbly and gracefully in the worlds he photographs, altering them as little as possible with his presence. Photographing sex workers is a delicate endeavour; not only must Delano have the confidence and calm required to snap a photo in culturally sensitive moments, but he must have the quiet respect needed for people to let you into their worlds, disrupting them as little as possible when lifting his camera.