Mary Ellen Bartley. STILL BOOKS

10.06.2016 - 20.08.2016

Anzenberger Gallery, Wien / Österreich

In her poetic, minimalistic photographs, the American artist Mary Ellen Bartley focuses her camera on aspects of material culture related to the printed word and image. Often, these take the form of still-life arrangements of books, ranging from beaten-up remaindered paperbacks to antique volumes. The images which reveal a tendency toward abstraction, are the result of slow, careful observation in the studio, and their compositions and depth of field emphasize the tactility of her well-worn subjects.... In her series 'Standing Open', Bartley delved into the interior spaces of familiar photography books by artist she admires, including Uta Barth, Alec Soth and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others. Standing each book up so the pages would gently fan out, Bartley photographed the edges to reveal narrow strips of printed information as well as the dark voids between.

[Quelle: https://www.anzenbergergallery.com/ ]