Ellipsis: Dual Vision

by Alexandra Posen (Author), Colin Cheney (Author), StephenPosen (Author), EssaybyZacPosen (Author), Forewordby Colin Cheney (Author), IntroductionbyScottIndrisek (Author), PrefacebyAlexandraPosen (Author), StephenPosen (Author)

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2015
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New York artist Stephen Posen photographs the everyday world with a painter's eye, capturing compositions that often blur the lines between realism and abstraction. The 174 images compiled in his first book of photographs, Ellipses: Dual Visions, represent a broad range of locations and subjects - ranging from Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia to a flea market in rural Pennsylvania, a vending machine of rubber balls to a contorted Barbie doll, all culled from decades of photographs in Posen's archives. The artist has arranged these images, taken in very diverse places and disparate times, in pairs, based on form, content, or some obscure magnetism, leaving the viewer to conjure a bridge between the two. The elliptical space between the images, like the series of dots that represents an omitted piece of text, becomes a third entity, pregnant with possibility. As art editor Scott Indrisek writes in the introduction to the book, -2 distinct photographs are made into strange bedfellows, and that's the joy: Finding connections where many see only a random chaos of image.- The photographs collected here are playful, poetic, and endlessly compelling. They demonstrate the mastery and intuition of Posen's eye, both as a photographer and an editor, teasing elusive connections from the visual glut of the modern world.

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New York artist Stephen Posen photographs the everyday world with a painter's eye, capturing compositions that often blur the lines between realism and abstraction. The 174 images compiled in his first book of photographs, Ellipses: Dual Visions, represent a broad range of locations and subjects - ranging from Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia to a flea market in rural Pennsylvania, a vending machine of rubber balls to a contorted Barbie doll, all culled from decades of photographs in Posen's archives. The artist has arranged these images, taken in very diverse places and disparate times, in pairs, based on form, content, or some obscure magnetism, leaving the viewer to conjure a bridge between the two. The elliptical space between the images, like the series of dots that represents an omitted piece of text, becomes a third entity, pregnant with possibility. As art editor Scott Indrisek writes in the introduction to the book, -2 distinct photographs are made into strange bedfellows, and that's the joy: Finding connections where many see only a random chaos of image.- The photographs collected here are playful, poetic, and endlessly compelling. They demonstrate the mastery and intuition of Posen's eye, both as a photographer and an editor, teasing elusive connections from the visual glut of the modern world.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Publisher: Glitterati Incorporated
Published: 25 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 099038084X
ISBN 13: 9780990380849

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The result is Ellipsis, which consists of 174 paired, unedited images, culled from an archive of several thousand. Individually, the photos might seem ordinary; juxtaposed, they play with perception and negative space, transcending the dailiness of their subjects and approaching the realm of metaphor and optical illusion.--Susan Kirschbaum -T Magazine, March 30, 2015 -
Strands of blonde hair over the shoulder of a cherry red sweater, the zig-zag of an airplane pillow wedged between woman and window: this is all we see of the passenger seated in the row ahead. Yet the photographer of this image, New York artist Stephen Posen, thickens the plot by pairing it with something completely different in his new book. This airplane shot was taken somewhere over the Atlantic in 2013 and he couples it with one he took a year earlier and thousands of miles away at a mosque in southern Turkey, where a chain-link curtain disappears behind a golden door. Juxtapositions such as these, at turns enchanting, amusing, enigmatic, and sobering, fill the pages of Ellipsis: Dual Vision, Posen's first monograph.--Stephanie Murg, Wallpaper -May 21, 2015 -
The photographs collected here in various categories like humor, violence, absurdity, war, dream, structure, chaos, stasis, history, pop culture, nature, theater and the urban existence are endlessly compelling. They demonstrate the intuition of Posen's eye, both as a photographer and an editor, teasing elusive connections from the visual glut of the modern world.--Peter Nitsch -Get Addicted To, June 29, 2015 -

Author Bio

Stephen Posen received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA from Yale. Some of his solo and group exhibitions include Jason McCoy Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, and O.K. Harris Gallery in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, the Philbrook Art Center in Tuscon, Arizona; and the Chicago Art Institute. His work is in the collection of The Guggenheim Museum, NYC; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia; Chase Manhattan Bank; J.B. Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, among others. He lives and works in New York City with his wife, Susan.