Well, it's no
Dysonasaurus Rex, but...
By my senior year, Danny Gordon was my favorite thing about the Bard photo department. The first work of his I saw, early junior year, he'd photographed himself learning to fly in various landscapes - leaping so that his body was Superman-horizontal, and triggering the shutter at that moment.
A year later or so, he was playing around with a new idea: he photographed a deck of cards, card by card, actual size, then cut the photographed cards out, so that he had an ontologically unstable product - a photo of a jack of hearts that, use-value-wise, doubled nicely as a jack of hearts, period.
Huffa saw Danny's new stuff at the Armory show and reports that this meme has reached virtuoso heights.
Now he's photographing individual elements - a toe, a scalpel, a hospital dressing gown - printing them out, cutting them out, rearranging them into a collage/sculpture, and re-photographing the result:
There's a great simultaneous motion that Huffa identifies in the operating-room image above - between various forms of representation (photograph, sculpture, collage), various media (chemical, halftone, digital) - and a fragmentary charge that's dramatized nicely by seeing part of a figure bloody, askew and under the knife.
Danny Gordon has a
solo show opening at Zach Feuer May 24. This is exciting.
