Website: http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=34
Contact: No contact avail - artist deceased
Kenneth Josephson has been around long enough to see change, and it shows. Renowned for his conceptual photography, Josephson got his start working for the military, specialising in photolithography and aerial reconnaissance. It was during his work in the latter that one might imagine him beginning to decipher the art in relative distance - gazing upon the ground-based constellations of the world. To Josephson, a haphazard collection of vehicles, buildings and flora came as one into a tangible image - as beautiful as it was practical.
A common theme in Josephson's work is the holding out of an item - a ruler, a photograph, or a makeshift frame - & photographing its interactions within the shot. The effect of this can seem almost parodic, though one can easily see the conceptual genuity behind such pieces. It is one of Josephson's skills to be able to take the mundane or mass-produced objects of the world and incorporate them into his own unique, artistic vision. As a conceptual photographer, his use of distance, shadow and (sometimes jarring) in-shot visual comparison strike me as insightful and provocative - a yardstick to measure by in any similar photographic endeavours.
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