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John Divola
Dogs chasing my car
HC, 29 x 31 cm., o.pp.
Nazraeli 2004
"From 1995 to 1998 I worked on a series of photographs of isolated houses in the desert at the east-end of the Morongo Valley in Southern California. As I meandered through the desert, a dog would occasionally chase my car. Sometime in 1996 I began to bring along a 35mm camera equipped with a motor drive and loaded with a fast and grainy black-and-white film. The process was simple; when I saw a dog coming toward the car I would pre-focus the camera and set the exposure. With one hand on the steering wheel, I would hold the camera out the window and expose anywhere from a few frames to a complete roll of film. I'll admit that I was not above turning around and taking a second pass in front of a house with an enthusiastic dog. Contemplating a dog chasing a car invites any number of metaphors and juxtapositions: culture and nature, the domestic and the wild, love and hate, joy and fear, the heroic and the idiotic. It could be viewed as a visceral and kinetic dance. Here we have two vectors and velocities, that of a dog and that of a car and, seeing that a camera will never capture reality and that a dog will never catch a car, evidence of devotion to a hopeless enterprise." ? John Divola, 2004
Edition of 1000 copies. Exhibition in Rencontres de Photographie Arles.
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Ausstellungen von/mit John Divola
» Check: John Divola @ Photography-now.com 13.10. - 16.10.2011: Frieze Art Fair - Photography , Frieze art fair, London, GB
01.10. - 13.02.2012: UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN - CALIFORNIA ART 1974-1981 , Geffen Contemporary at MOCA - , Los Angeles, USA
01.10. - 31.12.2011: Aftershocks - The Western Landscape Today , UCR / California Museum of Pho, Riverside, USA
02.09. - 25.09.2011: Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography 2011 , Journées photographiques de Bi, Biel Bienne, CH
26.07. - 04.12.2011: In Focus: The Sky , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
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