Nick Brandt
dal 6/7/2005 al 27/8/2005
Segnalato da
6/7/2005
Nick Brandt
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa. Lions, cheetahs, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and chimpanzees populate large-scale images that appear both timeless and fleeting, solidly real and other-worldly, silent but eloquent, nearly human and yet distinctly, undeniably primal. Brandt is an artist and a skilled technician, using the light and the sky to tell his story and visual effects to enhance the emotional depth of each image.
On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
"The photographs of Nick Brandt are both beautiful and haunting. They come
upon you in a flush of abundance that's almost hard to recover from...
You are about to enter a world of the imagination, where all the animals are
real, both fragile and full of grace." ‹Alice Sebold, author of "The Lovely
Bones"
Stephen Cohen Gallery announces Nick Brandt - "On This Earth: Photographs
from East Africa." Brandt's images capture the beauty, the grace and the
souls of these majestic wild animals in an elegant, romantic elegy to an
enchanted Africa.
Nick Brandt studied film and painting at St. Martin's School of Art in
London then built a career as an award-winning director of music videos and
commercials before he embarked on his passionate quest to document one of
the earth's most beautiful and haunting of vanishing worlds. Inspired by a
lifelong love of animals, the photographer insists on never using a
telephoto lens in portraying them. It is his desire to reveal the essence
of each animal, (the soul), that demands his approach be as close as
possible without interference.
"Nick captures the hidden magic of the wild things he photographs, so
stunning and spiritual as to take the breath away," says Kuki Gallmann,
author of "I Dreamed of Africa."
Lions, cheetahs, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and chimpanzees populate
large-scale images that appear both timeless and fleeting, solidly real and
other-worldly, silent but eloquent, nearly human and yet distinctly,
undeniably primal. Brandt is an artist and a skilled technician, using the
light and the sky to tell his story, using visual effects to enhance the
emotional depth of each image, sometimes using blurred and faded borders
that recall the look of antique photographs. His work is emotionally
resonant, leaving the viewer with a longing for this pure wilderness that is
all too rapidly disappearing.
Nick Brandt has exhibited his photographs worldwide in cities including
Berlin, San Francisco, Munich and New York. His work can be found in
numerous private collections as well as in the corporate collection of Dow
Jones, Inc. The Stephen Cohen Gallery is located at 7"58 Beverly Boulevard
and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and by
appointment.
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 7, 7-9pm
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Inc.
7258 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
Hours, Tuesday  Saturday, 11am-5pm