2/16/2023 0 Comments Brave writer wand![]() Then Geertsen came along, found staid old photographs, began mixing photographic and painterly techniques, illusions, and began to magically rescue people, with extreme dramatization, play-acting, and calling on the power of fairy tales. “Bird Apprentice,” digital photo collage, 31 x 25 in. Clothes which look stifling, overdone, people trying too hard to look like more than what/who they are. What once were miraculous proofs of existence, now seem black and white and sepia squares and rectangles of almost preposterous, unsmiling, stiffness and loneliness. But we’ve become used to photographs in so many ways, we’ve forgotten their once-miraculousness. Technology, but a magic trick (as all inventions are, but photographs, exceedingly so). Photographs themselves are a magic trick, a magic trick of light and shadow, and preservation. They contain ghosts of the photographed past, people wearing clothing time has almost forgotten - derby hats and waistcoats, huge hats covered with flowers, children in proper attire - people, largely, in awe of being photographed, whom we now find funnily over-dressed, over-posed. Corinne Geertsen’s many-layered art images, which begin as photographs, are magic tricks. “The Board of Directors Takes Up the Cat Problem,” digital photo collage, 21 x 25 in.
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