510
heretofore invisible, inexpressible, or immutable. The gaze might conjure “last
refuges on the planet” as in the case of the exquisite and under-the-radar photographs of Finnish artist Pentti Sammallahti.
23
Or similarly astonishing images of ice and rock, explosive, dismal, gorgeous
nuances of the earth’s polar regions, by American photographer Thomas Joshua
Cooper in his collection, True.
24
Combining endlessly rich diversions of sight and
sound, one fixates on two sets of two walkers on a sullen desperately remote beach,
created by Thomas Wrede (“Beachwalkers, 2004”). It is the end of the world, the
beginning of the world, the last four humans on the planet, and they are removed
and moving further yet from each other, as two and two, a numerical riddle lost
within the print, which, upon close examination yields at least seven other minutely
23 See here far away – photographs from the years 1964–2011, Edited By John Demos In
Collaboration With Mario Peliti, Preface By Finn Thrane, Bibliography By Kristoffer Albrecht.
Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, UK, 2012, p. 6.
24 Thomas Joshua Cooper, True, with “Gazing at the Void – Some Notes on Thomas Joshua
Cooper’s Polar Pictures,” An Essay by Ben Tufnell, Haunch of Venison Publishers, London, UK
2009.
Fig. 54.2 Charles Darwin
in 1880, two years prior to
his death. (Public domain)
54 The Unfettered Gaze
heretofore invisible, inexpressible, or immutable. The gaze might conjure “last
refuges on the planet” as in the case of the exquisite and under-the-radar photographs of Finnish artist Pentti Sammallahti.
23
Or similarly astonishing images of ice and rock, explosive, dismal, gorgeous
nuances of the earth’s polar regions, by American photographer Thomas Joshua
Cooper in his collection, True.
24
Combining endlessly rich diversions of sight and
sound, one fixates on two sets of two walkers on a sullen desperately remote beach,
created by Thomas Wrede (“Beachwalkers, 2004”). It is the end of the world, the
beginning of the world, the last four humans on the planet, and they are removed
and moving further yet from each other, as two and two, a numerical riddle lost
within the print, which, upon close examination yields at least seven other minutely
23 See here far away – photographs from the years 1964–2011, Edited By John Demos In
Collaboration With Mario Peliti, Preface By Finn Thrane, Bibliography By Kristoffer Albrecht.
Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, UK, 2012, p. 6.
24 Thomas Joshua Cooper, True, with “Gazing at the Void – Some Notes on Thomas Joshua
Cooper’s Polar Pictures,” An Essay by Ben Tufnell, Haunch of Venison Publishers, London, UK
2009.
Fig. 54.2 Charles Darwin
in 1880, two years prior to
his death. (Public domain)
54 The Unfettered Gaze