Jon Pickell Photography –Monday, April 3 through Sunday, June 3, 2012
About Jon Jon is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, where he received his BFA with honors, with a concentration in photography. He frequently utilizes non-traditional photographic techniques — including hand coloring, cyanotype and gum printing, combinations of words and images, and manipulated Polaroid sx-70’s — to create his images. The pieces shown here were originally produced as traditional silver prints, which were then digitized and printed.
Artist’s Statement “I originally began hand coloring photographs as a way to more completely control the environments I placed my subjects in – a means of emphasizing or deemphasizing certain elements of the composition, and drawing attention to the figures or activities. This evolved into actually constructing environments to place my subjects in, including creating ambiguous spaces for them to occupy. Photographs are, by nature, documentary, and have an implied narrative, even if it is completely constructed, not found. The medium lends the image a sense of verisimilitude.
…The use of photographs to describe the unknown or unfamiliar dates to early images of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas.”
Why do I not title my work? It is my hope that each viewer will bring their own meaning to a piece – and that each viewer will see something different. Words have a power of their own, and titling a piece adds another dimension, and fixes the image in that meaning. I have used words in images on occasion, with intent. These images are deliberately untitled.
=Prints available – please contact the artist for more information=
