gershon hepner - frame a cropped motif

FRAME A CROPPED MOTIF


More that visual memory device,
a photograph can frame a cropped motif
that memory can’t hide from, or disguise
the recollection of the joy or grief.

Tom L. Freudenheim writes about a Courbet exhibition at the Walker Gallery in Baltimore (“Less About Nature Than About Paint, ” WSJ, November 28,2007) :

The contrast between delicacy and weight constantly informs these works as they veer from nuanced bits of water or snow or foliage to gutsy geological outcroppings and brash wooded forests. Like many painters of his generation, Courbet was fascinated by photography. Aside from the convenience that photographs provided as visual memory devices (in the sense of supplementing drawings) , they also served as models and even tools for framing, cropping and selected use of motifs.

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