Twin Palms pulished The Art of Ruin by Robert Stivers.
Robert Stivers appeals to the shared history of human experience. All of the objects presented in this series are, to some extent, recognizable. But the psychic experience that Stivers infuses so seamlessly into these photographs transforms them from detritus to desideratum, something for which we feel nothing to something for which we feel desire.
— steven brown
For many of his images, Stivers begins with a sharply focused negative that is then manipulated in the print- ing process causing intentional loss of clarity to achieve sensual, dream-like images akin to early Pictorialism at the turn of the 20th Century. The works exhibit themes of emotional anxiety, memory, time and ruin.
BOOK
The Art of Ruins
Photographs by Robert Stivers
16 x 20 inches
casebound
54 pages
$95
isbn 978-1-936611-08-9
