By David Pescovitz at 11:31 am Thursday, Dec 23
New York photographer Bill Durgin's figure studies are as beautiful as they are strange. From his artist statement:
The gesture within each photograph is created through exploring my own physical limitations and collaborative improvisation with dancers and performers. Often I will come up with a pose and demonstrate it and then ask the model to repeat or respond to it. Each pose transmogrifies the figure towards abstraction; exaggerating or diminishing the skeletal structure until it approaches an amorphic form. I want the bodies to be recognized as bodies, but also to be detached from common perceptions of the figure. Bound within each singular view, the uncanny figures convey the body as both abject and marvelous.
Bill Durgin: Figure Studies (via Imaginary Foundation)
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