manifesto of fragility – A World of Endless Promise
Richard Learoyd – Outdoor Swimmer, 2012
Kitty Hung, 2012
2024
Camera obscura Ilfochrome photograph mounted to aluminum
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Metropolitan area
Born 1966 in Nelson, UK.
Lives and works in London, UK.
Richard Learoyd’s large photographs are made using an ancient and complex technical process. Richard Learoyd’s in-studio custom- built camera obscura contains two room-like chambers connected by a bellows with an inset lens. Working with Ilfochrome color- reversal paper, Learoyd uses the camera obscura to render a single positive, unique image with minute detail without film negatives or digital technology. With exposures and compositions reminiscent of Dutch Golden Age paintings, Richard Learoyd’s photographs create narratives that span space and time. His nudes of elderly women poetically evoke the fragility of the human body.
Also on view at the Fagor Factories.
Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery, New York
With the support of Pace Gallery, New York
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