Not Sweating the Small Stuff

David Vance - Photographer

These black and white and sepia photographs come from David Vance.

All the photographs have the sense of being studies in form, as opposed to being being 'naturalistic', and this is part of their meaning. This approach is clearly signalled in first photograph, which has the etiology and reference in the following C19 oil painting and van Glodden silver gelatin photograph:

So, the first Vance group is what could be called a reflective 'studio' set, beautiful in their flowing interlocking sculptural forms, particularly in the second photo, where the eye follows the left leg done to the foot and then back into and along the right thigh:

And then a more active set (that makes me feel less than athletic!!!) - muscles taught in a frozen act of motion, rather than the movement itself:



And to finish, an outdoor group, a number of which could have wandered off a large commissioned sculptural group: