Joanne Dugan / Turning Point
Photos That Make Light A Subject
“As a fine artist, I only work in analog,” the New York-based photographer Joanne Dugan says. “To me, photography is film, and the alchemy of silver and light and chemicals is still really important.” And like analog photographs themselves, her “Turning Point” series was born in the dark. Dugan began the project in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, while she was sitting in her apartment at the edge of the blackout grid — the view out front was lit, but out to the sides it was dark. “There was an odd peacefulness that that came over me as I roamed around the city in a state of wonder,” she says. “I had this epiphany that it is okay to turn my lens only to the light itself, rather than the subjects.” The fragility of light became her focus as she traveled the city, often by bike, layering her images with up to 20 multiple exposures. “The work is an homage to the traditional process,” she says, “but brings a modern viewpoint.”
By Betsy Horan
New York Times Magazine
Published July 30, 2015
Image: Joanne Dugan, Corner of Pearl and John Streets, facing Northwest, 10:16pm, New York City, 2013, Archival handmade silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 inches, Edition of 20.
Available to view at Black Box Projects.
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