NO SUCH PLACE - Sydney
Apr 26 – Jun 23, 2012
Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, AU
In order to understand that large-format photographs of American artist Jay Mark Johnson (*1955) it is crucial to grasp their underlying paradox: while the images are created purely photographically, without digital manipulation or staging of a scene, and therefore depict actual events, the still create a perfectly illusory world.
Johnson employs a modified camera which over a set period of time keep recording the same narrow vertical strip in front of the camera lens and combines the successive photographs into an uninterrupted image that flows evenly from left to right.