THE IMAGE |
Title - Hang'er (1996)
Artist - Dominic Rouse (1959)
Hang'er is an elegy to abandoned love - pungent with emotion, it was composed in response to the challenges of a failed relationship.
"Were it not for the pain to be found in the wider world I might not have sought sanctuary in the confinement of my own where I have discovered an endless supply of the raw materials needed to make the images I do." (Dominic Rouse - The Artist's Journal, January 2005)
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THE PRINT
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A hand-made, toned silver gelatin darkroom print from a digitally composed 5" x 4" negative printed onto Ilford warmtone semi-matt paper. The toner used is thiocarbamide which gives the print its beautiful warm tones and also increases the archival qualities of the print by removing most of the silver-halides from the emulsion layer.
Print - Thio toned Gelatin Silver
Paper - Ilford FB baryta coated fibre base semi-matt warmtone double weight (255gsm)
Paper Size - 20" x 16" (51 x 41 cm)
Image Size - 16" x 14" (41 x 36 cm)
Edition - #5/16
Image Date - October 1996
Print Date - May 2000
Catalogue - DHR001BW
Condition - Mint
Hand signed & numbered in pencil front lower right.
Blind stamp front lower left.
Annotations & numbered artist stamp on rear.
Certificate of Print Authenticity.
PLEASE NOTE - this is an auction for an unframed, unmounted toned gelatin silver print edition #5/16.
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THE ARTIST
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Dominic Rouse would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography as a wide and varied community of folks is a very big tent indeed and his corner of photography has few fellow travellers. Contemporarily Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind. But when I think of his work I think more of the painters Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch and René Magritte. Rouse does not photograph the world he makes photographs of his mind. Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at, say, an Ansel Adams photograph. With Adams one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir. With Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll, or even Freud.
His images are challenging because the questions he asks in his images are challenging themselves. In my interview with him he quotes Picasso who said that computers are useless because they only give you answers. Rouse's photographs pose far more questions than they answer and I suspect that is precisely his intention.
(Brooks Jensen, 2007)
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