2005-01-12
PHOTOGRAPHY | PLACE
detail from Roger Vail's "Zipper" © 2001;
detail from Roger Vail's "Zipper" © 2001;
More richly saturated color shots of mostly night time carnival photo images | The Sacramento Bee wrote of his work that "...Vail uses long exposures to record the movement of light so that one ride resembles a jellyfish and another a bull's eye of light | They are stunning images | Vail, who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1960s, eschews the trendy postmodern fascination with media and advertising to give us good, old-fashioned, traditional photographs | He is a romantic throwback to another era | While his early work was somewhat influenced by Walker Evans, his mature photographs are no one's but his own" | His black and whites are pure luminosity |
THANKS TO JWalk Blog for the link |
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