" French Impressions "


  • Photographer
    Robert D. Larson
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    R Dean Larson Photography
  • Date of Photograph
    2016
  • Technical Info
    Digital Photographs

The "French Impressions" series began during a trip to southern France. I was struck by the age and history of so much of the architecture there, and wanted to create images that evoked a sense of time and place. Susan Steinhauser, Vice Chair California Arts Council, said of Arle Arch - “This Larson photo conjures up an older, gentler France, reminiscent – to my way of thinking – of Atget and, yet, is more contemporary with its use of pale color and metallic paper.” I began this series by taking photographs of very old places. Using the computer I clean away any evidence of human presence – leaving only the patina of age, empty public spaces and a sense that there might have been some sort of cataclysm. Yet the architecture itself elicits an impression of life, albeit so old that its molecules are barely holding together.

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