CONCURRENT: SHELLEY ADLER & BRENT MCINTOSH
Shelly Adler
Brent McIntosh
Brent McIntosh
Shelley Adler and Brent McIntosh: The Nude
Polaroids
Following a
discussion in 2006 about attitudes surrounding “the nude” in contemporary a2rt,
Shelley Adler and Brent McIntosh began The Nude Polaroid Project to
delve into the different ways in which men and women view the opposite
sex. In this project, Adler has
photographed the male nude, and McIntosh the female nude. The two artists each
have a longstanding affection for the soft grain images captured through the
Polaroid camera, which offer a special kind of warmth and colour. The uncropped images in this series are high
resolution scans of Polaroid 600 photographs that have been generated as
archival digital pigment prints.
The original, small prints become sumptuous
enlargements in which nuances have burgeoned into bold features statements of
sensuous observation and delight. The
nudes are lone, central images against single colour backgrounds. In each photograph, the shape of the body is
positioned by the artist to make a declarative, abstract composition within the
frame. Yet, within the undulating
contours, we sense the human body’s curves and bends, and the breathing
pliability of healthy, bare skin. – Bryce Kanbara
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