Kirk Pedersen Tradeoffs Kirk Pedersen James Scarborough 9780982246115 Books
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Cloth with paper jacket, 12 x 12, 93 plates from Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong and several cities in China. James Scarborough writes... It's an intriguing project, Pedersen's attempt to anthropomorphize demographic data. It correlates with past work he's done, spending large blocks of time living and teaching, observing and photographing, the roil and boil of the urban Far East, where (or anywhere, for that matter) the detritus of advertising morphs into the collaged shards of a fragmented reality. That the people he photographs are emotionally and sociologically neutral is precisely the point. Pedersen works on the fringe of microeconomics and the behavior of the people its theories seek to explain. His esthetic folds into the consumption patterns of those he photographs. He walks a narrow line between cynicism and despair, finding unexpected beauty in the precise though fleeting moments each image captures.
Kirk Pedersen Tradeoffs Kirk Pedersen James Scarborough 9780982246115 Books
Kirk Pedersen is a socially involved artist. Not only is he a fine painter and instructor, he is also a superlative photographer, creating large photographs from his travels throughout Asia where he has discovered some pertinent observations about how we as a society function. Why Asia? Part of Pedersen's enchantment with the countries of Japan, Korea, Thailand, and China (as his previous monograph has demonstrated) is the sense of the exotic that once supplied visions of escape for Westerners fatigued with the pace of capitalism, searching for that elusive sanctuary of koi ponds and Zen gardens and vistas of crystalline landscapes. But in his repeated journeys to these 'Edens' he has discovered that with the advent of capitalism the shards that accompany a world of advertising and rushing to met the desire for the new has eroded much of the original beauty. If Pedersen's majestic photographs suggest a man's vision now tainted with disappointment and disillusionment, that only makes these images more personal.In a very beautifully written Foreword, James Scarborough writes 'Boulevards that teem with pedestrians that don't interact with one another; architecture and city planning schemes that discourage interpersonal exchange; billboards whose models engage the photograph's viewer more than they engage the people who scurry past them down the street; foreboding alleyways, demolished building sites, and worn, faded, and shredded posters: these describe the subjects of an urban landscape in which advertising is alive and vibrant while those to whom it's directed are passive and robotic.' This description of the photographs that follow is as sensitive as one could imagine. But it is the photography itself that brings the viewer into Pedersen's vision of sociology. This is an important aspect in appreciating the motivation for these images, but the images themselves are so impressive that the reader will likely be transformed by the information they deliver in a purely visual form. Here are streets at night - in rain, with pedestrians on bicycles hold umbrellas oblivious to the beauty of the reflected colors of the neon advertising signs, in silence where magnificent feats of architecture seem lonely in the nocturnal neglect of their beauty, in daytime with street cleaners and pedestrians completely ignoring the Asian interpretation of an image of Colonel Sander's of fried chicken fame, walls with remaining shreds of previously pasted photographic elements of advertising, busy crosswalks apposed with block buildings of contemporary housing next to crumbling foundations of yesterdays, industrialization building so sterile on the inside while on the outside polluted with smog - these are the images that Pedersen brings to our attention.
The result is not only a sociological statement but an equally fine artistic one. Kirk Pedersen is in touch with his abilities as an artist and as a shaman. This is a book of beauty and a book or awakening to what we are doing to this planet. Grady Harp, November 10
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Kirk Pedersen Tradeoffs Kirk Pedersen James Scarborough 9780982246115 Books Reviews
Kirk Pedersen is a socially involved artist. Not only is he a fine painter and instructor, he is also a superlative photographer, creating large photographs from his travels throughout Asia where he has discovered some pertinent observations about how we as a society function. Why Asia? Part of Pedersen's enchantment with the countries of Japan, Korea, Thailand, and China (as his previous monograph has demonstrated) is the sense of the exotic that once supplied visions of escape for Westerners fatigued with the pace of capitalism, searching for that elusive sanctuary of koi ponds and Zen gardens and vistas of crystalline landscapes. But in his repeated journeys to these 'Edens' he has discovered that with the advent of capitalism the shards that accompany a world of advertising and rushing to met the desire for the new has eroded much of the original beauty. If Pedersen's majestic photographs suggest a man's vision now tainted with disappointment and disillusionment, that only makes these images more personal.
In a very beautifully written Foreword, James Scarborough writes 'Boulevards that teem with pedestrians that don't interact with one another; architecture and city planning schemes that discourage interpersonal exchange; billboards whose models engage the photograph's viewer more than they engage the people who scurry past them down the street; foreboding alleyways, demolished building sites, and worn, faded, and shredded posters these describe the subjects of an urban landscape in which advertising is alive and vibrant while those to whom it's directed are passive and robotic.' This description of the photographs that follow is as sensitive as one could imagine. But it is the photography itself that brings the viewer into Pedersen's vision of sociology. This is an important aspect in appreciating the motivation for these images, but the images themselves are so impressive that the reader will likely be transformed by the information they deliver in a purely visual form. Here are streets at night - in rain, with pedestrians on bicycles hold umbrellas oblivious to the beauty of the reflected colors of the neon advertising signs, in silence where magnificent feats of architecture seem lonely in the nocturnal neglect of their beauty, in daytime with street cleaners and pedestrians completely ignoring the Asian interpretation of an image of Colonel Sander's of fried chicken fame, walls with remaining shreds of previously pasted photographic elements of advertising, busy crosswalks apposed with block buildings of contemporary housing next to crumbling foundations of yesterdays, industrialization building so sterile on the inside while on the outside polluted with smog - these are the images that Pedersen brings to our attention.
The result is not only a sociological statement but an equally fine artistic one. Kirk Pedersen is in touch with his abilities as an artist and as a shaman. This is a book of beauty and a book or awakening to what we are doing to this planet. Grady Harp, November 10
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