Lisa Saltzman : The perfect image doesn’t exist !
In the cities, most encounters on the street are fleeting. People appear and disappear almost before we have a chance to be aware of their presence. There may be a moment when we clearly perceive this fortuitous subject, but the image is already blurred by the previous instant and further degraded by the speed at which this subject becomes a memory never fully known. For Lisa Saltzman, a New York photographer influenced as much by Impressionist painting as by abstract art, this very impenetrability is a bittersweet source of wonder. Her subjects, captured in this way, are rendered extraordinary, unusual, and strangely sculptural.
