Kevin Cooley Shoots the Night
Cooley reminds me of a morph of Todd Hido and Sarah Pickering…. beautiful nightscapes with perfectly placed interventions. I ran into Ofer Wolberger at Cooley’s show, and he was delighted with the press release for the show, entitled At Light’s Edge. I thought it was rather nice, too. So here are some of Cooley’s images, paired with the text.
Badlands 2, Lyman, Wyoming
Return to Nature has always been a distress signal of mankind,
signifying the need to take care of ourselves and to get back to
basics. Be it the classical or neoclassical Arcadia, Jean Jacques
Rousseau’s return to our primitive being, William Wordsworth or Samuel
Coleridge’s search for solitude, or Caspar David Friedrich’s discovery
of landscape as the representation of God, Nature has always been our
mother and one of our ultimate refuges.
Kevin Cooley’s new photographs plunge directly into this
Romantic tradition of landscape, and he enriches it with contemporary
concerns.
Grand Tetons, Driggs, ID
Nature is the muse, and man is the explorer. Breathtaking
night views of American landscapes are illuminated by eerie distress
signals, possibly messages coming from above or vice-versa. Light
shooting through the sky highlights an endangered beauty and at the
same time represents a divine or extraterrestrial phenomenon.
Taking photographs, for Cooley, is a lonely job, infused
with silence and meditation. This contemplative mood, along with a
sense of wonder and fear, permeates the entire new body of work.
Planes Landing LAX runway 24L
Landing Pattern LGA
See Cooley’s site, here. There are even daytime pictures.
Cooley’s new work brought to mind a Wired article I just saw about Trevor Paglen’s photographs of spy satellites. http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2008/06/secret_satellites
and Nico’s images of police helicopters circling over squatter camps during the xenophobic violence in South Africa – http://www.flickr.com/photos/aquilaonline/2508880431/
the pictures from the airplanes reminds me the “time” being capture in Michael Wessely´s open shutter photographs…a german photographer who make long exposures that could take years!
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amazing photos! Really stunning! I really wish I could take a picture of something like these. Natur is indeed beautiful.
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Stunning photos! Thank you for sharing these.