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John Gossage

John Gossage born in 1946 is an american photographer. He became interested in photography at an early age, dropping out of school at age 16. He4 then took private lessons with Lisette Model, Alexey Brodovitch, and Bruce Davidson."John photographs everyday things. They have no specific provenance or national identity aside from being found in that place, on that day, at that moment. They are something, nothing, and then something else in the involution and inflorescence of life. His pictures are subjective and then objective, only to become subjective again. They pull forward and back, inward and out; stills in the vortex of eternity. Space remains infinite until it is confined; once bounded it grows newly boundless. What is common becomes picture, story" (Marlene Klein, epilogue). The book is called "pomodori a grappolo". I chose to use the exact quotations to describe exactly what the book holds and reflects because it is the clearest and most transparent definition of its content. The photos are all interestingly enough photographed vertically rather than horizontally. One print on each page, utilizing the entire page. Most of the content is muted or natural tones. Everyday items as said before, but photographing the opposite of what is societally welcomed, and challenging it in a strange but simple form. I have a strong connection with this work in that it is something that I can actually do and produce images that will add to the context of the work as a whole.