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"ORIGIN"1999-2003
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E questa la nuova frontiera della creativita? Artisti, critici e studiosi dicono di si. E intanto, prima San Francisco e poi New York, gia la celebrano. Nei grandi musei e su Internet. Di Gian E. Mazzoleni / CARNET (Italy) TRANSFORMAZIONI. Daniel Lee e nato in Cina nel 1945, ma vive e lavora ormai da anni negli Stati Uniti. Questo suo lavoro, "Origin", e del 1999 ed e stato esposto alla O.K. Harris Works of Art Gallery di New York. Sono fotografie elaborate con il computer. Per Daniel Lee la tecnologia sta rivoluzionado il mando della fotografia. "Penso che la fotografia tradizionnale esistera sempre" dice. "Ma il futuro sara digitale, e non solo perche cosi vuole il mercato. Anche a noi fotografi i nuovi mezzi offrono maggiore liberta rispetto a quelli tradizionali". |
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Origin in sequence (click individual thumbnails for larger image)
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AMERCIAN PHOTO: D I G I T A L S P O T L I G H T
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DANIEL LEE / A photographer's art of evolution in 12 digital steps / by Kathleen Seiler
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| Daniel Lee is not an expert in evolutionary theory, but he's got ideas about where we came from. He certainly doesn't try to pass them off as scientific truth; instead he makes his ideas into anything-but-primitive digital images intended as provocative art. His familiarity with the coelacanth, an endangered species of fish that has survived since prehistoric times, gave Lee a starting point for his most recent series of photographs, titled Origin, which he completed just in time for the dawn of the new millennium. The series, which in 12 photos depicts an evolutionary trail from a coelacanth to something of a reptile and on to an ape and then a human, required three photo shoots-using three different cameras-before Lee began working in Photoshop. He first photographed a dead bluefish he picked up from an Italian market in New York City using a Kodak DCS 465 digital camera. Next, Lee photographed a male model in various crouching and squatting positions, with traditional tools: a Hasselblad 500CM and Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus film. Finally, wanting to photograph an animal-like furriness, Lee's nearly hairless model was substituted with a more hirsute one for the third photo session, in which Lee used a Phase One LightPhase digital back on his Hasselblad. Over the course of a year, Lee, 54, worked with Photoshop at his New York studio combining various pieces of the photos and concocting whole new parts (like tails) to create the series. He says that because all the images had to transform smoothly and work together, rejiggering was constant. The images were recently on display at New York City's 0. K. Harris Gallery. Lee's previous work, which has appeared in publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, and Wired and on book jackets for novels by Tom Wolfe and Will Self, has mostly entailed altering human faces. "I wanted to take the challenge to work on body changes," Lee says of Origin. The new work and many of Lee's other photographic projects are featured on his well-designed Website, wwwdaniellee.com, which he says receives over 6,000 hits a day. / |
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Recent Article / HYBRID: "Daniel Lee" by Helen Ferry |
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Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo. 3 5501-3203 / East Gallery, Taipei. (02) 2711 9502 / Pata Gallery, Beijing. (10) 6433 5120/ Gallery Now, Seoul. (822) 725 2930/ Tangram Art Center, Shanghai. (21) 6299 9868 |
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