LES KRIMS – URANIUM ROBOTS

Posted on 2020-11-09

In the summer of 1974, while teaching a workshop for Eikoe Hosoe‘s Tokyo School of Photography, Krims became fascinated by the animated cartoons and popular Transformer toys, or robots, that had not yet made their appearance in the United States. The series, Uranium Robots, was the result of two robot suit-building contests assigned by Krims to his students at SUNY, Buffalo. The competition offered “generous cash prices” for fabricating a wearable robot suit. Krims provided the idea, the space in which to photograph, and the conceptual method for making photographs. Each student had to fabricate their interpretation. The entrants wore their respective robot suits and stood in the same corner of the room, an otherworldly space invader trapped in a quotidian classroom. Krims documented the entrants using an 8×10 inch camera, and the resulting vintage contact prints were developed on either Portriga Rapid or Kodalith Ortho paper.

Opposite – untitled (from the series, Uranium Robots), 1976

Exhibition runs through to January 2nd, 2021

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
CA 92037

www.josephbellows.com

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SCOTT B. DAVIS – PLACE IN THE SUN

Posted on 2020-11-09

Since the inception of the camera, photographers have been drawn to the majestic landscapes throughout the Southwest, attempting to capture the land’s unimaginable splendor. Scott b. davis is one of these artists drawn to such settings, bearing witness to nature’s beauty and its nuances. His ongoing search for remote places is what sets his work apart. As he states, “I became interested in photography in the early 1990’s and was soon drawn to unremarkable wilderness corridors, the places where maps offered little if any information. These spaces demand research to learn what, if anything, one might find there, and generally benefit those who learn the history of its use in earlier times. Today, my interest in history and place drives the work I do with photography and encourages my taking an active role as a traveler in the landscape.”

Scott b. davis works with large format cameras and 19th c. printing processes (palladium paper negatives and platinum/palladium positive prints) to create one-of-a-kind photographs that are as gentle and meditative as the places in which he photographs. Whether focusing his camera on the copper mountains in Arizona, a small crevasse in a distant peak, a sandbar in the Anza-Borrego Desert, or brittlebush seeds scattered on the ground, scott b. davis’s artwork captures the simple, subtle pleasures of silence.

Opposite – box canyon, anza-borrego desert, 2019

Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2020

Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago
IL 60622

www.edelmangallery.com

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