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Silent Stages (Hardcover)
Ken Dreyfack; Introduction by David A. Ross
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R816
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The Photographs in Silent Stages are platforms specifically built
as settings for narratives; they are akin to theatrical stages or
movie sets. At the same time, they are artifacts from various
stages of my life, visual traces of the sedimentary layers that
have quietly accumulated over time, each atop its predecessors. As
stage or movie settings, these images aim to spark viewers’
imagination, to spur them to conjure up a story, a narrative laced
with mystery and alienation. That’s why I make the lighting
dramatic, why I shoot in black and white, why some elements may be
too dark and/or fuzzy to see clearly. I generally start with the
background, searching the streets for a suitably dramatic setting.
Then I wait for something to happen, perhaps for players to enter
or exit. Sometimes I arrive too late; the last player has exited.
As artifacts from my own story, the images give voice and body to
times, experiences and feelings I hardly knew subsisted within me.
It was only years after the project was undertaken that I began to
understand how the choices I make – of subjects, settings,
lighting, composition – reflect the particularities of my life
and sensibility. In this sense, these images are relics from a
personal archeological dig, a visual memoir of sorts -- an
unsurprising undertaking perhaps for a septuagenarian. All of the
images were shot over the past five years, either in or around New
York or Paris. This reflects the dual nature of my life and
culture, split between my native home and my adopted one. I have
spent half of my adult life in France and identify as both French
and American. My objective is not to highlight the Franco-American
split but rather to demonstrate the parallels and how they compose
into a single identity.
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