In this new book by renowned photographer Howard Schatz, every turn of a page reveals surprising connections and unexpected relationships in the pairing of images. This remarkable work, spanning 30 years and 365 photographs, is Schatz’s exploration of the relationship between two subjects or images. Couples or colleagues; actors or acrobats; fighters or friends; lovers or dancers; newlyweds or newborns: the photographs in this book reveal the passionate and dynamic, subtle, or obvious, and always compelling, mystery of relationship.
Howard Schatz’s motivating passion is to explore and experiment, searching for images that surprise and delight. This remarkable new work is an exploration of the relationship between two subjects and the visual, graphic, emotional, social, physical and even spiritual dynamic that results from the pairing. The connections are sometimes subtle, sometimes not. This is a photographic odyssey into the world of pairs, an adventure into free-association. Shatz writes :
From the beginning of my professional career my main interest, my motivating force and passion, has been to explore and experiment, searching for imagery that would surprise and delight me in my quest to express what’s deep inside. One of many areas of my on-going interest has been the exploration of the relationship between two subjects: the visual, graphic, emotional, social, physical and even spiritual dynamic resonating and resulting from such combinations.
I am in search of the electric, sometimes eccentric and always compelling connections possible with a combination of two whether dancers, athletes, mothers and newborns, gymnasts and even inanimate objects. Sometimes they were brought together intentionally: I’ve found other images that speak to each other in ways I had not previously noticed. The connections are sometimes subtle, sometimes not.
I’ve scoured for pairings of every sort. Not necessarily the Shakespearean form of heroic couplets, but couplets nevertheless. I have tried to look for both the unexpected and the unusual in my art. A photographic odyssey into the world of twos is a natural outgrowth of my ongoing search for surprise and delight.
I continue to make new images in pursuit of this quest.
Howard Schatz, New York
Pairs
by Howard Schatz & Beverly Ornstein
Publisher : Lawrence Richard Publishing
Language : English
Perfect Paperback : 403 pages
ISBN-10 : 0971021066
ISBN-13 : 978-0971021068
Item Weight : 2.4 pounds
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