Proposition One: Only The Ephemeral
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10.75" x 7.5" | Pages: 20 | Photographs: 17
Proposition Three: Touch Me Not
Edition 100 $25
10.75" x 7.5" | Pages: 20 | Photographs: 17
"Since the events after 9-11 the powers of economic globalization and the two greatest monotheist religions have taken over the world’s ideological leadership. The world that abandoned modernity as its meta-history was an easy prey to nihilism or dogma. It is in the context of the secular struggle between civilization and barbarism that we should consider current events. The civilized is insecure and skeptic, contradictions being both his greatness and weakness. In contrast the barbarian is slave to a belief felt with integral and exclusive passion and driven by totalitarian ambitions.This elegy is in essence a vindication of doubt as a crucial ethical value. Unsurprisingly deprecated today, it is the prime source of tolerance, progress, creativity and civilization. Doubt is arguably the origin of rebellion against darkness".—Max de Esteban
"The Explorers Club, named after the New York organization founded in 1904 to promote scientific expeditions and research, brings together the work of photographers Paula McCartney and Lex Thompson, each investigating environmentally polar opposites, from ice and snow to tropical islands. Utilizing different means of investigation, each artist asks the viewer to reconsider the way in which they perceive the photographic image in relation to the subjects it portrays".—Schaefer Gallery