PAIRS. (a book of photographs)


  • Photographer
    Howard Schatz
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Schatz/Ornstein Studio
  • Date of Photograph
    0 to 30 years

This is an exploration of the relationship between two subjects: visual, graphic, emotional, social, physical and even spiritual dynamic resonating and resulting from such combinations. A search of the electric, sometimes eccentric and compelling connections possible with a combination of two whether dancers, athletes, mothers and newborns, gymnasts and even inanimate objects. Sometimes subtle, sometimes not. Pairings of every sort; both the unexpected and the unusual. A photographic odyssey into the world of twos; a natural outgrowth of my ongoing search for surprise and delight.

Story

From the beginning of my professional career my main interest, my mo- tivating force and passion, has been to explore and experiment, search- ing for imagery that would surprise and delight me in my quest to ex- press 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 compel- ling 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 Shakespear- ean 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 pur- suit of this quest.

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