Fine Print: Manhattan, New York City, 1985 Jonas Bendiksen Fine Prints

Fine Print: Manhattan, New York City, 1985 Jonas Bendiksen Fine PrintsHarry Gruyaert is known for his extraordinary photographic work with color. Born in Antwerp in 1941, he originally dreamed of becoming a film director. In the late 1970s, Pop art and a trip to Morocco inspired him to become one of the first photographers in Europe to devote his work entirely to color photography. Gruyaerts cinematographic background instilled in him an aesthetic conception of photography. Rather than telling stories or documenting the

Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America

Retinal Shift is the catalogue for Mikhael Subotzky's 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition

and the sheer energy of nature

the image lingers between memory and abandonment

steadily compiling a lyrical

to the 1962 Life Magazine article on the Dani

in 1912 to Russian immigrant parents

the viewer feels an overwhelming sense of plenitude and contentment: a lightness of being

their faces framed by identical oversized flower costumes

known widely as “The Spinner

With a language that combines straight documentary photography with constructed images and archival material

Bendiksen travelled there neither as a correspondent nor as a holiday-goer