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gary
duehr
photography
Gary
Duehr
9 Oliver Street
Somerville, MA
617-628-1021
gary@garyduehr.com
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recastings
These images of
debris are created using a version of a photogram. Instead of exposing
objects on photographic paper, they have been placed directly on the
bed of a scanner. Then they are imported into Photoshop, printed with pigments
on watercolor paper, and embedded in beeswax.
The things I’ve chosen are quintessential found objects: litter
from the street,
collected on my walks through the city. I look for scraps of writing,
torn edges, and layers of grime—for something transformed by time
and weather.
The printing process changes them further—restores them, in a
way—by presenting them at close to 100% like trompe l’oeil,
encased in luminous wax that amplifies their depth. The objects become
both more than what they were and less, eerily present and somehow absent.
As Jean Baudrillard notes: "Every photographed object is simply
the trace left behind by the disappearance of everything else."
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