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Lot Essay
In his influential 1913 essay, The Filling of Space, Max Weber, mentor of the Clarence White School, proposed that:
Photography...lies within the domain of the plastic arts to reorganize forms, to reconstruct and interpret nature...[The photographer] may shift objects [and] vary the spaces between moveable objects...
The doctrine that photography should be used to create a more abstract reinterpretation of the visible world was embraced by Bernard Shea Horne, student and, later, teacher at the School. Design itself was the subject of one of Horne's most celebrated images, in which he placed a a glass plate negative against a backlit railing in order to create a pattern of light and shadow.
Horne's striking Rooftop study is another exercise in abstraction. With its aerial viewpoint, odd cropping and differential focus the subject is no longer merely a collection of rooftops, but also a series of overlapping shapes and shadows.
Photography...lies within the domain of the plastic arts to reorganize forms, to reconstruct and interpret nature...[The photographer] may shift objects [and] vary the spaces between moveable objects...
The doctrine that photography should be used to create a more abstract reinterpretation of the visible world was embraced by Bernard Shea Horne, student and, later, teacher at the School. Design itself was the subject of one of Horne's most celebrated images, in which he placed a a glass plate negative against a backlit railing in order to create a pattern of light and shadow.
Horne's striking Rooftop study is another exercise in abstraction. With its aerial viewpoint, odd cropping and differential focus the subject is no longer merely a collection of rooftops, but also a series of overlapping shapes and shadows.