Bruce Cratsley: White Lights, Silent Shadows - Hardcover

Cratsley, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0965728056 ISBN 13: 9780965728058

Publisher: Arena Editions, 1998

Synopsis

For more than two decades artist Bruce Cratsley has produced a personal and highly poetic body of work with the dominant theme being the mysteries of light and shadow, Cratsley's images of inanimate objects, urban street scenes, and portraits of friends and lovers, possess a metaphysical peculiarity.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Head Millstein is the associate curator of photography at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Review:

Cratsley studied with Lisette Model, and shows the influence of Andre Kertesz, but his work evokes for me that sense of mystery in the everyday I associate most directly with Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Like Meatyard, Cratsley works exclusively in black and white with the twin-lens reflex camera, and uses the solidity and formality of the square format as a calm container for his imagerys visual nuances and emotional undercurrents. And, like Meatyard in another way, Cratsley works under the constraints of time: Meatyard spent his last years battling cancer, while Cratsley lives with AIDS. Yet, in Cratsleys case as in his predecessors, the images feel anything but death-obsessed; they radiate a philosophical acceptance of mortality, and a quiet resignation to the inevitable loss of what one has loved the most, but also a deep affection for the physical world and a determination to cherish those small, mundane epiphanies life offers so generously to those who, like Cratsley, have learned to pay close attention. -- A. D. Coleman, Photography in New York, March/April 1998

About this edition

• Publisher: Arena Editions
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0965728056
• ISBN 13: 9780965728058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176