#“Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin”

[sorcadh]

Clarence John Laughlin

https://lenscratch.com/2019/11/strange-light-the-photography-of-clarence-john-laughlin-at-the-high-museum/

spooky surrealism

[mappingthemoon]

Clarence John Laughlin (Strange Light) & Sally Mann (A Thousand Crossings) exhibits at the High Museum in Atlanta, 8 November 2019 | selenographie

Mann & CJL are two of my most favorite photographers. I don’t think I’d seen a Laughlin print in person before this! Especially with photography, I still get the sense that there’s something special about seeing an original print in person. All images are reproductions, proxies, but here is is one selected and touched by the maker himself. I dunno, I came into photography 20 years ago with very basic ideas about what it means to take pictures: framing and freezing the beauty that already exists in the world if we only stop to pay attention to it; translating complex feelings into patterns of light and dark; capturing the true essence of a person by tripping the shutter at the exact right time. Real mystical shit, ya know? Reading Susan Sontag about 10 years into my (more or less uneducated) “practice” upended & complicated all of that, but I still keep returning to images that strike me as haunting, brimming with convoluted metaphor, strangely beautiful on their own even if you are totally unaware of any deeper meaning behind the picture.

The stained notebook is one of Sally Mann’s darkroom notebooks (which, #same, 10 & 20 years ago at least. Some photographers are very neat and tidy in the darkroom. I am not.). And I just really liked the picture of her in the darkroom with her three children. A nice dream I’ve both entertained and lamented depending on my mood & level of financial solvency over the years: making art and supporting a family? In this economy? Heh.

[madforfashiondude]

High Museum Of Art To Mount Largest Posthumous Exhibition Of Southern Photographer Clarence John Laughlin’s Work

High Museum Of Art To Mount Largest Posthumous Exhibition Of Southern Photographer Clarence John Laughlin’s Work

Career-Spanning Exhibition Will Feature more than 80 prints from the Museum’s unparalleled collection of Laughlin’s photographs

Dubbed the “Father of American Surrealism,” Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) was the most important Southern photographer of his time and a singular figure in the development of the American school of photography. This upcoming spring, the High Museum of Art (1280…

[linwhastic]

Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin at the High Museum https://ift.tt/2JHDEkE

[markperryart]

Clarence John Laughlin,1905-1988, from Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin at The High Museum of Art through 11/10/19. (at High Museum of Art, Atlanta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4PmFk9HH0J/?igshid=ru64solhffjf

[joeldarland]

Clarence John Laughlin, The Ghostly Arch (#2), 1948, printed 1949, Gelatin silver print.

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, bequest of the artist.

[360virtualtourgta]

‘Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin’ Review: Snapping Southern Gothic - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/Q5zsHSovzi

‘Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin’ Review: Snapping Southern Gothic - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/Q5zsHSovzi

— 360virtualtourgta (@virtualtourgta) August 26, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/virtualtourgta August 25, 2019 at 03:42PM http://twitter.com/virtualtourgta/status/1165801642673004545

[markperryart]

Clarence John Laughlin, 1905-1985. from Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin at The High Museum of Art through 11/10/19 (at High Museum of Art, Atlanta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4PlnkHnCHY/?igshid=kb4sr0vpfd4j

[markperryart]

Clementine Hunter, 1886-1988. from Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin at The High Museum of Art through 11/10/19. (at High Museum of Art, Atlanta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4PkYzjH4sI/?igshid=xulml9p8mlxk

[360virtualtourgta]

‘Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin’ Review: Snapping Southern Gothic - Wall Street Journal https://t.co/Q5zsHSovzi

‘Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin’ Review: Snapping Southern Gothic - Wall Street Journal https://t.co/Q5zsHSovzi

— 360virtualtourgta (@virtualtourgta) August 24, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/virtualtourgta August 24, 2019 at 01:07AM http://twitter.com/virtualtourgta/status/1165219020192276480