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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Murray Fredericks: early work « Previous | |Next »
June 24, 2013

Prior to the Greenland and Lake Eyre projects Murray Fredericks produced three large volumes of work from the Himalayas, Patagonia Andes and Southwest Tasmania made over seven or eight years. These traditional and picturesque images were made on medium format cameras and an Hasselbald X-Pan.

FredericksMGreenland.jpg Murray Fredericks Iceberg, Antarctica

The SALT series---the Lake Eyre project consisted of 16 trips starting in 2003 -- was a complete departure from the mountain landscapes to vast empty space of Lake Eyre in central Australia. The bulk of the still images of Lake Eyre were shot on an 8-by-10-inch Toyo view camera. In the final year of the project Fredericks started experimenting with a medium format digital back on a digital view camera to employ stitching as a method of capturing a wider field of view.

Fredericks saw the flat and featureless Lake Eyre as empty visual space in which nothing happens. His photographs were minimalist landscapes with few familiar visual elements - except for an occasionally discernable horizon.

FredericksMLakeEyre.jpg Murray Fredericks Lake Eyre, The Salt Series

In concentrating exclusively on space and colour Fredericks’ photographs reduce a landscape to its most elemental level ---allowing light, colour and form to construct the picture.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 1:02 AM |