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Pure Photography
Robert E. Jackson
5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Perfect bound soft cover
98 pages
60 photographs
Printed & bound in Portland, OR
Edition of 100
Numbers 1-10 are signed & come
with a vintage snapshot hand-selected
by Jackson from his collection.
They are $85.
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Our latest publication features a selection of found photographs curated by Robert E. Jackson from his extensive collection of vintage snapshots. Having been actively collecting for well over a decade, Jackson is a superb example of one who collects not merely to accumulate, but to seek out, arrange & ultimately form the images he finds into groupings that make statements about photography & culture at large. In Pure Photography, Jackson provides visual evidence of the uncanny manner in which snapshot photography isolates aspects of the world in a way the human eye alone cannot. "Some alchemy of chance," Jackson writes, "a misreading of surface detail, a mechanical error within the camera, or emulsion issues have caused these photographs to exist outside the standard notion of what a snapshot is meant to be. Being pure in the sense that they are visually unencumbered by a photographic intent which can be easily understood, one must approach the photos from a personal point of view. As aesthetic objects which cannot be read in the traditional sense, they steadfastly recoil from interpretation & exist simply to be experienced."
Coinciding with this publication, our winter exhibition in the back gallery features a selection of original snapshots & pigment print enlargements from photographs featured in the book.
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Robert E. Jackson has collected snapshots since 1997. In the fall of 2007, his collection was the subject of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. & a catalogue entitled The Art of the American Snapshot:1888-1978. In early 2008, the exhibition traveled to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Jackson actively collects all types of found photography, including cabinet cards, tintypes, photomatic portraits, arcade photographs & photo-collages from the 1870s through the early decades of the 20th century. Jackson has a MA degree in art history from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a MBA from the University of Texas, Austin. He has lived in Seattle since 1991.
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