2008

Giclée prints

Edition of 30

4 1/8” x 11“

 

Sets of all 4 prints presented in custom paper portfolio.

I have photographed the Gowanus Canal of Brooklyn New York and the canals of Venice Italy and  paired them together here so they show a very similar vantage point, forcing them to almost be viewed as one. The Gowanus has been compared to Venice time and again, yet this comparison seems little more than commercially driven optimism. The photographs, made in a style called Orthostereography, popular around the turn of the 19th century are a kind of stereography.  Images presented side-by-side are intended to allow a third image to appear in 3-dimension in the mind’s eye of the viewer.