JML NYC 02-23
JML NYC 02-23
The photographs in JML NYC 02-23 were taken over two decades
during which Joseph Michael Lopez walked the streets of
boroughs of New York. Devoid of the visual tropes associated with the city,
Rather, the images present a vision of New York as it was experienced.
Each image is carefully composed of an untold story, which unfolds
before and after the frame. They show details of the city: a man
slumped on the floor of a train, the jet of a fountain, a bird in flight, a flash
of light on the gates of a park, a crying child carried on the steps
of the subway and couples lost in each other. The people photographed
seem to be constantly moving, moving in and out of the frame on the canvas.
static background of the city's angular details and architectural canyons.
Collectively, the photographs in JML NYC 02-23 convey not the appearance
of the city, but what one feels there. Lopez sees and uses light as a
liberator....to free the darkness of death, to give to the light the
mystery that she commands as a force of nature and to illuminate her
vast and deep emotional concerns about being alive and
on the vision itself. Larry Fink
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