Photographic Records Created as a Celebration of American Material Culture
During an Exploration of Still-Life as Self-Portrait.
Images from this project were included in Time Lapse - Contemporary Analog Photography,
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
TimeLapse at Shelburne Museum
Curiosities
Photographic Records Created as a Celebration of American Material Culture
During an Exploration of Still-Life as Self-Portrait.
These are portraits of the things I live with, objects that have been passed down through my family, items I've used everyday for years and recent finds.
Plus friends doing curious things (often with objects)!
Shot with Tintype or on film and then printed with Cyanotype, these hand-made photographs give the viewer a glimpse into my self-created, pre-modern world, full of vintage objects and intriging stories.
Cabinets of Curiosities are collections of unusual items. They include art objects, antiquities, strange scientific apparatus and natural history specimens. These can be displayed on a shelf, in an literal cabinet or the collection can fill rooms. They started in the 1500's with individual collectors and lead to modern day museums. Throughout my life, I’ve lived inside a series of Cabinets of Curiosities. I keep the items within them alive by grouping them in new ways and then photographing them. I do this to bing their stories to life. This is what drives my interest in objects, these techniques and this body of work: to create portraits of the items, which, if examined closely, are portraits of myself.
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All images and text © 2005-2023 by David Sokosh.