Snow Fence, Point Pleasant, NJ by Brian Lav Photography
Blog by Jamie Ogrodnik – July 8, 2014.
Since 1969, Brian Lav has been photographing the world around him. He is recognized as a prominent contemporary photographer, a master printer, as well as an exceptional educator. He has had over forty one-man and group exhibits. His work is also in permanent collections, such as The International Center for Photography, The Rochester Institute of Technology, The New Jersey State Museum, The Newark Museum, and the Museum of Art and History in Fribourg, Switzerland. Brian has been published in many books and magazines and has been teaching at Parsons the New School for Design in NYC since 1974 when he received their prestigious Teaching Excellence Award.
Originally Brian Lav’s primary photographic focus was working with a large format camera to produce breath-taking images in black and white. He felt that without color to distract, the black and white image revealed more clearly his feelings, and the large negative conveyed all the visual details. Recently, Lav has succumbed to the wave a new technology and purchased a Nikon digital camera, a printer, and several software programs. By engaging in the new technology, the digital process has opened creative doors.
Brian Lav’s subjects range from classic landscapes to haunting and foreboding depictions of the world in abstract and surreal fragments, to portraits of friends and family. Lav was born and raised in New Jersey and has developed a special rapport with its landscape. Most of his images, including the one featured here, Snow Fence, are taken in that state. This archival pigments add subtle surrealism and beautifully relaxing color to Brian’s portfolio, and I am positive, would add nothing but brilliance to your own gallery collection at home!
Dimensions:
10 X 14 in (25.4 X 35.56 cm)
Medium:
archival pigment print
Creation Date:
2010
Signed
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