Chicago
Artist: Alan Cohen (American, born 1943)
Date: 1983
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 15 in. (35.5 x 38.1 cm);
Image: 12 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (31.7 x 34.3 cm)
Medium: Gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Doctors Josef & Ewa Blass
Object number: 1985.114
Label Text:
Alan Cohen is a master photographer and noted photography historian who lives and works in the Chicago area. He began the study of photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology after abandoning nuclear engineering. In the design department of IIT he studied with Aaron Siskind, Arthur Siegel, and Garry Winogrand, among others. Cohen received an MS in Photography in 1972. Cohen is today an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a visiting member of the faculty at Columbia College, Chicago.
These two photographs are related to a body of work that Cohen has named Constructions. “Constructions are the abstracted endpoints of mirrors, plexiglass and prosaic materials injected into the perspective views of quarries, construction sites and public places,” he explains. Of particular note are the strong shadows projected onto the hard concrete surfaces—silhouettes of the imposed hard-edged rulers and hand of the artist.
Alan Cohen is a master photographer and noted photography historian who lives and works in the Chicago area. He began the study of photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology after abandoning nuclear engineering. In the design department of IIT he studied with Aaron Siskind, Arthur Siegel, and Garry Winogrand, among others. Cohen received an MS in Photography in 1972. Cohen is today an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a visiting member of the faculty at Columbia College, Chicago.
These two photographs are related to a body of work that Cohen has named Constructions. “Constructions are the abstracted endpoints of mirrors, plexiglass and prosaic materials injected into the perspective views of quarries, construction sites and public places,” he explains. Of particular note are the strong shadows projected onto the hard concrete surfaces—silhouettes of the imposed hard-edged rulers and hand of the artist.
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