A back can contain enough information for a photograph.
Here the figure is reduced to the structure of shoulders, spine, skin and shadow. With the face absent, the small variations across the body become more noticeable: the rise and fall of bone, the transition from light into darkness and the quiet asymmetries that prevent the image becoming purely formal.
Back Study belongs naturally to the Bodyscape series because it sits somewhere between figure and landscape. I am looking at a person, but I am also looking for the shapes created when light moves across a human surface.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: The Human Form — Bodyscape Series
Title: Back Study
Artwork: #0194
Subject: Female human form; back
Medium: Black-and-white photography
Process: 35mm Polaroid instant black-and-white film
Format: Horizontal
Genre: Fine-art figure photography; bodyscape
Themes: Human form, contour, anonymity, light and shadow, abstraction
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
A back can contain enough information for a photograph.
Here the figure is reduced to the structure of shoulders, spine, skin and shadow. With the face absent, the small variations across the body become more noticeable: the rise and fall of bone, the transition from light into darkness and the quiet asymmetries that prevent the image becoming purely formal.
Back Study belongs naturally to the Bodyscape series because it sits somewhere between figure and landscape. I am looking at a person, but I am also looking for the shapes created when light moves across a human surface.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: The Human Form — Bodyscape Series
Title: Back Study
Artwork: #0194
Subject: Female human form; back
Medium: Black-and-white photography
Process: 35mm Polaroid instant black-and-white film
Format: Horizontal
Genre: Fine-art figure photography; bodyscape
Themes: Human form, contour, anonymity, light and shadow, abstraction
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
