About The Work
Matthew Benedict stages photographs that look like antique prints, but are in fact contemporary creations that invoke the look and atmosphere of old-time photography. The scene set in The captain—a captain on his ship’s deck, looking out to sea—is really only implied by the rope hanging over a balustrade and the man’s Melville-era visage. The work, a photograph in an edition of 25, displays how entire worlds can be conjured up through a minimum of means, thanks to the transmogrifying power of nostalgia.
About Matthew Benedict
From The Magazine
Photograph
Toned gelatin silver print
9.45 x 8.11 in
24.0 x 20.6 cm
This work is signed and numbered by the artist.
About The Work
Matthew Benedict stages photographs that look like antique prints, but are in fact contemporary creations that invoke the look and atmosphere of old-time photography. The scene set in The captain—a captain on his ship’s deck, looking out to sea—is really only implied by the rope hanging over a balustrade and the man’s Melville-era visage. The work, a photograph in an edition of 25, displays how entire worlds can be conjured up through a minimum of means, thanks to the transmogrifying power of nostalgia.
About Matthew Benedict
From The Magazine
- The quoted dimensions are for the paper size. The image size is 22.2 cm x 18.8 cm.
- Ships in 10 to 14 business days from Germany.
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