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DomPost article on Jac Lynch's exhibition 'Butch on Butch' at Photospace Gallery, Wellington

27/1/2015

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This article - published 26th January 2015 in the Dominion Post, Culture section - was not published online on Stuff, so here it is. The top image is just the text, the other shows the page layout. Click on images for bigger versions.
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Chris Corson-Scott - Photospace Gallery exhibition, 14th Feb-2nd April 2015

23/1/2015

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CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT

The photography of Chris Corson-Scott is masterly in a very quiet way.  At twenty-nine, he already has a serious body of work to his credit -- not a large body, that would be asking too much, but work of an extremely high level as regards that elusive marker, "quality."  Take for example a recent photograph, "Rain Over a Development on the Whanga­paraoa Peninsula" (2014).  Everything about it seems exactly right: the viewpoint, which brilliantly includes the red and white traffic cone at the left, effectively nailing down the left-hand margin of the image (important, because the drift of the image is to the right); the regis­tration of the light (suggesting late afternoon, though in fact it is earlier, following a rainstorm, with a drizzle still falling), the clouds, the surface of the water to the right reflecting roseate sky (more water beyond the right-hand edge, of course, but the need to include the traffic cone meant that it had to be elided); the choice of dis­tance, neither near nor far, from the cerulean excavator anchoring the composi­tion even as it sits temporarily aban­doned just below the centre of the image; four mysterious dark fences run­ning across the grass beyond the exca­vator from left to right, far to near (slow to declare themselves but pro­viding an element of structure that turns out to be indis­pensable); trees, houses, a fur­ther develop­ment (a town or suburb), low irregular hills along the horizon; and in the near foreground the sharp-focus clarity of the road-in-the-making waiting for its tarmac as well as of the ungra­ded earth to the right. The sense of detail, too, is sup­erb, yielding a wealth of visual and textural informa­tion that somehow never swamps the sense of a calm and confident formal imagination organizing the picture as a whole simply by the power of an intelligent, refined, and mature art­ist's gaze.

- Michael Fried
Michael Fried is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He is a contributor to Artforum, and the author of numerous books including Art and Objecthood; Absorption and Theatricality; Manet’s Modernism; Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before; and Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon.
Rain Over a Development on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. Photo: Chris Corson-Scott, Photospace Gallery Wellington New Zealand 2015
Rain Over a Development on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. Photo: Chris Corson-Scott
Mark Adams Retouching Photographs at Studio LaGonda, 2013. Photo: Chris Corson-Scott, large foramt colour fine art photograh print, Photospace Gallery Wellington New Zealand 2015
Mark Adams Retouching Photographs at Studio LaGonda, 2013. Photo: Chris Corson-Scott
Land Development Beside Waikumete Cemetery, 2014. Photo: Chris Corson-Scott, Photospace Gallery Wellington New Zealand
Land Development Beside Waikumete Cemetery, 2014. Photo: Chris Corson-Scott
ARTIST INFORMATION

Chris Corson-Scott lives and works in Auckland New Zealand. He has exhibited widely in Auckland, and internationally. Selected exhibitions include Kinder’s Presence (2013-14) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; History in the Taking: 40 Years of PhotoForum (2014) at The University of Auckland’s Gus Fisher Gallery; My Place (2013) at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Recent Auckland Photography (2013) at North Art; and solo exhibitions at Trish Clark Gallery, New Photographs (2014-15); the artist-run space Snake Pit, New Photographs (2012); and Photographs (2011) at Wallace Art Centre. With art historian Edward Hanfling, he is the co-author of Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography (Photoforum, Auckland: 2013).
Chris Corson-Scott. Photo: James Gilberd
Chris Corson-Scott. Photo: James Gilberd

And here is an excerpt from my own review of 'Pictures they want to make: Recent Auckland photography':
"Chris Corson-Scott’s images are the highlight for me so far. The quality! I have alas not seen the exhibition that this book accompanies (I'm only reviewing the book here), but I would really like to view these photographs full scale. They are like German objective photography but with warmth, population, and tons and tons of South Pacific light. Great photographers such as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff might blanch at such contrasty conditions, but Corson-Scott has harvested the light and served it to us as a banquet. The works have a melancholy that is more subtle than Gregory Crewdson’s (currently on show at the Wellington City Gallery, and which are also large-scale prints of the highest photographic quality). Bring this show to Wellington, too, please!"
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