NOSTALGIA 4, 2012 33 x 27 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
Nostalgia
NOSTALGIA 11 framed photographs, text based work «Phantom Hills at Lancaster Sound», approx. 3000 words Read full text based work «Phantom Hills at Lancaster Sound» here. The narrative text based work «Phantom Hills at Lancaster Sound» tells the story of a failed British naval expedition of 1818 led by Sir Captain Ross. Captain Ross set out to locate the mythical and sought after Northwest Passage, but failed when he headed back to England after seeing what he believed to be a mountain ridge where the actual opening of the passage is located. The mountains were later proven to be a Fata Morgana or a Mirage, an optical phenomenon common in cold waters during periods of midnight sun. The photographs are object studies of antique Bohemian crystal prisms and copper plates. The prisms are scientific tools constructed to refract light, and separate its constituent spectral wave lengths, and historically prism dispersion has played an important role in understanding the nature of light. The prism also served as a repeated subject for Czech pictorialist-turned-modernist photographer Josef Sudek (1896 - 1976). With the story of the Captain Ross and the mirage as a point of departure, the photographs and text based work aims to explore the materiality of light, refraction and reflection, representation and interpretation and the interplay between the concrete and non-figurative. Generously supported by Arts Council Norway and Norwegian Photography Fundhttp://www.espengleditsch.com/pdf/phantom_hills_at_lancaster_sound_web.pdfshapeimage_3_link_0
NOSTALGIA 1, 2012 27 x 33 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA 8, 2012 33 x 27 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA 3, 2012 27 x 33 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA 6, 2012 33 x 27 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA 5, 2012 33 x 27 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA 2, 2012 27 x 33 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA 7,2012 33 x 27 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed ed. 5+2
THE JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN JOHN ROSS, 2012 39 x 50 cm silver gelatin print on baryta paper, selenium toned framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
READING JOSEF, 2012 24 x 30 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
VEGA NOR BY VICTOR VASARELY, 2012 75 x 60 cm silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
PHANTOM HILLS AT LANCASTER SOUND, INSTALLATION VIEW, HAUGAR ART MUSEUM, 2014, DETAIL Text on 7 sheets of cotton rag paper ed. 5+2 READ FULL TEXT HEREhttp://www.espengleditsch.com/pdf/phantom_hills_at_lancaster_sound_web.pdfshapeimage_14_link_0
NOSTALGIA, INSTALLATION VIEW, HAUGAR ART MUSEUM, 2014, DETAIL silver gelatin prints on baryta paper, selenium toned text on 7 sheets of cotton rag paper ed. 5+2
NOSTALGIA, INSTALLATION VIEW, FOTOGALLERIET, 2013, DETAIL
NOSTALGIA, INSTALLATION VIEW, FOTOGALLERIET, 2013
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