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Richard Mosse

In Richard Mosse’s Infra series, he documents conflict in the Congo using a discontinued infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. As you can see, the film turns the leaves and grass in Mosse’s images fluorescent pink and otherworldly. The arresting neon color palate has a way of making me look more closely and lengthily at the images than I might otherwise, and of carrying some of the emotional undertones of the conflict that viewers may be inured to by having seen many more traditionally-made war photos. It is perhaps controversial because it is portrays the real through use of imaginative and almost impressionistic techniques. Writing for Aperture, Aaron Schuman notes, “Mosse… [has] a penchant for the staggering, the allusive, the historical, and the Sublime...[and is] intent on challenging the orthodoxies of documentary photography,” Photographer Raul Gutierrez concurs, concluding: “ultimately Mosse does what good photographers always do, he forces us to look closely and reexamine what we think we know.” 

Picasso Light Paintings

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The Gillian Welch show last weekend was lovely.

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