Pair of photographs, by Les Klug. Interior with Figure, 7.25 x 8.5 in. Figure in Forest, 10 x 40.5 inches. Both mounted on board, silver gelatin photographs are Gallery stamped and notated en verso. Circa  1990’s.

V light abrasions to surface. V light soiling to verso. Pinholes to corners.  See images.

Les Klug (1930-1988) was a visionary who influenced the art world through his unique approach to photography. What distinguished him as an artist was that unlike other photographers, a picture was not his final product. Rather, it was the starting point from which he developed the hybrid images for which he is known. Remarkable was his ability to manipulate images before the age of digital photograph.

Les Klug used photography in unconventional ways to manipulate the visual content in his black and white photographs. Using analog processes such as solarization and double exposures, he created imaginative compositions, often combining multiple images that play with one's sense of reality and create various visual illusions. In the mid-1980s, Les Klug was among the early artists to experiment with digital technology.

Les Klug attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he majored in chemical engineering, before putting his studies on hold during a tour in the Army. After returning to Madison, he began a job managing the darkroom at the University of Wisconsin Union and eventually dropped out of school. He was also hired by the university's Department of Education to construct a slide library, and during this period he began to use the darkroom facilities regularly and to spend time around the students and faculty of the Department of Art. In the early 1970s he moved to Chicago, where he devoted himself fully to photography and began teaching at Northeastern Illinois University. A substantial body of Klug's work is held in the Wisconsin Artists Collection at Carroll University.

Mr. Klug was a Wisconsin native whose work we proudly display as part of the Carroll University Wisconsin Artists Collection.  His work is also in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

 From the estate of artist John Schachter.

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