| Frank Magalhaes
In his images Frank
Magalhães seeks to derive excitement from the everyday. The images are most often, but not
always, of artifacts and small natural objects, architecture, or
landscapes, and are not usually set up or contrived.
March-April 2008Show: Variations on a Theme
February - March 2007 Show:
I Am a Tree
I Am a Tree: a collection of tree "portraits" in
bronze-tone monochrome.
Magalhães has come to think of a tree as a creature with a personality,
something one can commune with. Thus, in photographing an individual
tree, he has come to think of the result as a portrait, much the same as
he would the photograph of a person.
Point of view and angle of view have been used by the photographer to
enhance the sense of the emotion trees might feel if they were
creatures, and to evoke strong emotion for the trees in those who view
the portraits. He chose monochrome for the images because he felt he
could better work with monochrome tonal values to give the photographs
the gravitas he felt the trees deserved.
'Closeup: A Photographer and His Lady'
In 'Closeup: A Photographer and His Lady,' Magalhães
is both photographer and part of the subject. In each frame he zooms in on a single hand or several hands in
combination, in repose or engaging in various activities. He endeavors in
this intimate way to define the photographed couple, who they are as
individuals, as well as how they relate to each other, while inviting the
observer to conjecture about what lies beyond the frame.
In producing the
photographs for the study, Magalhaes
has attended not only to detail and point of view, but also to texture. To
deliver the desired texture he has chosen black and white for the final
prints and for most of the images has processed them using only the red
component of the original full color image, imparting a translucent
quality to the skin and giving the images somewhat the feel of stone
sculpture.
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