lafilleblanc: “ Patric Dreier IffBe, 2014 “…In his series ‘IffBe’, Patric Dreier is playing with the contrasts between urban and rural architecture. He focuses on distinctive elements, stripping the picture down to an accumulation of lines and forms,... lafilleblanc: “ Patric Dreier IffBe, 2014 “…In his series ‘IffBe’, Patric Dreier is playing with the contrasts between urban and rural architecture. He focuses on distinctive elements, stripping the picture down to an accumulation of lines and forms,... lafilleblanc: “ Patric Dreier IffBe, 2014 “…In his series ‘IffBe’, Patric Dreier is playing with the contrasts between urban and rural architecture. He focuses on distinctive elements, stripping the picture down to an accumulation of lines and forms,... lafilleblanc: “ Patric Dreier IffBe, 2014 “…In his series ‘IffBe’, Patric Dreier is playing with the contrasts between urban and rural architecture. He focuses on distinctive elements, stripping the picture down to an accumulation of lines and forms,...

lafilleblanc:

Patric Dreier

IffBe, 2014

“…In his series ‘IffBe’, Patric Dreier is playing with the contrasts between urban and rural architecture. He focuses on distinctive elements, stripping the picture down to an accumulation of lines and forms, creating a fictional space.
The series aims to depict the conformity of our habitat and raise questions about the putative idyll of the single-family home as we know it…”

All images © Patric Dreier

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Constraints Journal: Saul Leiter made 60 years of photography within a couple block radius of his apartment.

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Discipline: Photography

Saul Leiter grew up in a religious family in Pittsburgh. His father was a Rabbi and a Talmudic scholar, it was anticipated that the young Saul Leiter would follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Rabbi. He’d attend theology school, but his pull toward art kept getting stronger. Leiter had a deep interest in painting, specifically abstract expressionism. Leiter would drop out of theology school against his family’s wishes, pack up and move to New York at the age of 23. He’d become friends with the abstract expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart. Poussette-Dart was experimenting with photography, and Leiter decided to switch mediums and befriend other photographers such as the photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. He would continue to paint throughout his career. It was no longer his primary or sole medium of expression (1).

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