Richard Learoyd "Unique Photographs"
Mckee Gallery
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This is the artist's first exhibition in the United States. After graduating in photography from the Glasgow Photography School of Art in 1992, Richard Learoyd has taught and lectured in various art schools, all the while experimenting in unconventional technique based on the principles of the ‘camera obscura’. The extraordinary results are best described by Martin Barnes, chief curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in his 2007 essay “Reverie and Presence." "I am reminded of the haunting thrill particular to looking at nineteenth-century daguerreotypes, the very first types of photographs introduced in 1839, on which the image is fixed on a highly polished and silver metal plate. In daguerreotypes we come face to face with the dead, seemingly resurrected through the act of looking at them in the surface of a mirror. Learoyd’s photographs feel uncannily similar. But where monochrome daguerreotypes fit in the palm of the hand, Learoyd’s over-life-sized color works have impact on the wall. His processes of production, subjects and sitters are modern; yet the feelings his images evoke seem to beckon from the dawn of photography. Learoyd rekindles something of the marvel of this creative collision of science and art that so captivated and bewitched the Victorians."
[Image: Richard Learoyd "Agnes in Striped Dress" (2007) unique Ilfochrome print 68 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from September 24, 2009 to October 31, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-24 from 18:00 to 20:00