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Paul Levack’s artistic work stands for a contemporary photography that breaks with the analytical coldness of the Becher school and the distancing tendencies of digital imaging processes. Levack instead takes up a stunted strand of photographic history and draws directly on photography techniques associated with the early Pictorialists. Levack takes a marvelously undogmatic approach to finding images; on the one hand manipulating his lenses until the desired blurring is achieved, but on the other hand also digitally expanding his motifs if this is conducive to the images. The result is an indulgent kind of photography that does not for a moment take seriously the fear of contact with painting that has been practiced for decades.
In his first institutional solo exhibition, Levack is showing works whose subjects break with the soft, romanticized subjects that he has primarily shown recently. Here, his soft-focus visual language encounters subjects that stand in a certain...More
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Paul Levack’s artistic work stands for a contemporary photography that breaks with the analytical coldness of the Becher school and the distancing tendencies of digital imaging processes. Levack instead takes up a stunted strand of photographic history and draws directly on photography techniques associated with the early Pictorialists. Levack takes a marvelously undogmatic approach to finding images; on the one hand manipulating his lenses until the desired blurring is achieved, but on the other hand also digitally expanding his motifs if this is conducive to the images. The result is an indulgent kind of photography that does not for a moment take seriously the fear of contact with painting that has been practiced for decades.
In his first institutional solo exhibition, Levack is showing works whose subjects break with the soft, romanticized subjects that he has primarily shown recently. Here, his soft-focus visual language encounters subjects that stand in a certain...More
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