Isaac Layman

(Isaac Layman: Tools)

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Isaac Layman (U.S., b. 1977)

Tools. 2008

Pigmented inkjet print

53 5/16 x 71 1/4 in. visible image size

Henry Art Gallery, purchased with funds from Joseph and Elaine Monsen, 2008.179

Isaac Layman makes photographs with a high-resolution digital 4 x 5 camera, often stitching together multiple images and perspectives in a single image. Layman also photographs from the same viewpoint many times, focusing the camera at different depths, bringing multiple areas into focus in order to heighten or confuse the sense of space inside a given scene. While the high resolution and accurate focus adds to a sense of space and realism, the photographs ultimately fail (as photography always does) at being the “real” thing.

Excerpted from: http://www.lawrimoreproject.com/lp/Artists/Pages/Isaac_Layman.html