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Tuesday 26 May 2009 photo 2/2
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För er som inte har en sådan bra skärm:
”In Alexander Bergström’s last gallery for us, I teased him that many of his figures, beautiful as they were, looked potentially deceased-yet still sexy.
Clearly he sought to silence me with this gallery, brimming as it is with vitality--and only a few images of the questionably living...
All jesting aside, in those photos and these, Bergström creates an intense communion between his subjects and their backgrounds, a kind of perceptible palpable interchange, like seeing siblings side by side, their similarities and differences of each other’s proximity.
Bergström’s staging, scenery, colors, paterns and textures all work as gentle reminders that the body contains these things as well, and by looking at his backdrops, we see his fleshy foregrounds with greater clarity.
I love these photos, love how three-dimensional they feel, like I’m gazing into a theater, not looking at a screen or a print.
The dichotomy makes me think again how curious it is that photography often shares language with hunting, and how too often the analogy, for in ”shooting” images, they can still the life like a fur trapper, leaving little more than a flattened pelt laid out to dry.
The virtual diorama of Bergström’s images do the opposite, demonstrating that though the photo is always in 2-D, beauty is invariably a thing of depth, and that’s what makes it fascinating.”
”In Alexander Bergström’s last gallery for us, I teased him that many of his figures, beautiful as they were, looked potentially deceased-yet still sexy.
Clearly he sought to silence me with this gallery, brimming as it is with vitality--and only a few images of the questionably living...
All jesting aside, in those photos and these, Bergström creates an intense communion between his subjects and their backgrounds, a kind of perceptible palpable interchange, like seeing siblings side by side, their similarities and differences of each other’s proximity.
Bergström’s staging, scenery, colors, paterns and textures all work as gentle reminders that the body contains these things as well, and by looking at his backdrops, we see his fleshy foregrounds with greater clarity.
I love these photos, love how three-dimensional they feel, like I’m gazing into a theater, not looking at a screen or a print.
The dichotomy makes me think again how curious it is that photography often shares language with hunting, and how too often the analogy, for in ”shooting” images, they can still the life like a fur trapper, leaving little more than a flattened pelt laid out to dry.
The virtual diorama of Bergström’s images do the opposite, demonstrating that though the photo is always in 2-D, beauty is invariably a thing of depth, and that’s what makes it fascinating.”
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