Roy Fridge

"Hog Bayou Ritual" Mixed Media Collage 1982

1982

Black and white photograph of a machine used in the early to the late 20th century to assist people who suffered from diseases like polio and certain poisons. The photograph is frame...

Dark toned photograph of the ocean with piles of wooden debris floating on top. The photograph is framed in a grey wooden frame with a white matte. The photograph is signed by Barer and it might apart of her series titled "When the Ice Melts...

Early historical colored photograph of the New Mexico Museum of Art located in Santa Fe, NM. The work highlights the building's architecture which was create...

Sepia-toned architectural photograph of San Zavier Mission, a historic Spanish Catholic mission located near Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservati...

Charlie Chaplin is a vintage black and white photograph realized during the 1930s. Includes a wood frame. This pretty photograph represents the actor Charlie Chaplin with a woman, probably during one of his famous sketches...

In his latest show, Benjamin Heller invites us to enter a poetic space of echo and convergence. As a photographer, sculptor, and performer, movement is key in this body of work, that is punctuated by self portraits selected from the series "The Long Walk: Analog Narratives". This series features pieces collected over an extended period of time spent traveling. It is a window to the interior landscapes he seeks to find reflected in the world, to contain a sense of this intimate vastness. All of the images can be viewed as variations on a self-portrait. The places of intimacy and sense of vastness contained in the photographs can convey a sense of transport that enhances the viewer's visual experience. The "echoes" we find in the show reside in multiplicities of human and physical forms, rolling natural curves, and animals in flight; all intended to provide a resonance with the contours of earth, water, and wind. The result is an array of images captivating in themselves, but also given new meaning in the context of Robin Rice's skillful curatorial arrangement. Her intuitive placement creates a graphic narrative for the viewer to follow and decipher, encouraged by the convergence of the poetic titles of the works. Traces of poetry, sculpture, the lines of the body, lived experience are also evoked in Heller's photographs, in movement and action. He also finds inspiration in photographer Duane Michals' framing of expressive narratives, and in Sally Mann's felt sense of powerful physical presence. Photographer Miranda Penn Turin, in reviewing the exhibition, said "I can almost hear a soundtrack, and it's the sound of wind". The invitational image is entitled "Fall," a graceful figure, suspended in a glowing arc, light streaming upwards, eyes closed in rapture. This light sits in contrast to the infinite shadow of the black background, conjuring a certain atmosphere. Heller believes that it is shadows that allow the viewer to reside in the experience – this image does just that. These imagined environments speak to our converging lives and the echoed moments we experience, embodying for each viewer, just what Benjamin Heller connects with while photographing. Another view of self portraiture at the front sign in desk, is an image reading, "and the soul wanted to move," between the keys of a typewriter. This show is a mirror of a desire to move. The black & white images capture simultaneously this movement and stillness, asking us to pause between the natural forces that rise and fall. Heller employs multiple-exposure and a fixed 4x5...

Romanian photographer, Dan Er. Grigorescu managed to published over 30 books, many receiving awards in Germany and the United States, while living under the Romanian communist regime...

This piece is a triptych of three original photographs from the original negatives, shot by George Barris in 1962, and printed at a later date. These photographs of Marilyn Monroe...