Luke Fowler
Subtitle: two-frame films 2006-2012
By: [texts by Harvie Ferguson and Toshiya Tsunoda]
Contributors: Ferguson, Harvie, writer of added text; Tsunoda, Toshiya, writer of added text
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: MACK
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781907946271
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Artistic Photography
Other titles: Two-frame films 2006-2012
Description: Primarily known for his film work, Luke Fowler?s Two-Frame Films explores the relationship between the artist and the still-image. Fowler uses a half-frame camera whose obsolescent format forces the printing of two images in one standard 35 mm frame. Considered as a whole, the paired images reveal an event unfolding ? a meaningful narrative posed by photographic sets, sometimes close in temporal proximity (the blink of time passing, perhaps), while at other times, the intervals are more expansive, challenging the viewer to connect visible terminal points in a satisfying way. Fowler experimented with different film stocks, subjects and framing, and the images are inextricably linked to his filmmaking as evidenced by the elements of montage, colour and reflectivity that permeate the series. In both still and moving image, Fowler considers how an event might be abstracted by the camera apparatus in a subjective ordering of reality that is emphasised by the dialectic between paired images. The photographs are a means of personally testing the ability of the camera to authentically bear witness to an event, and its fallibility as a medium of representation.