Talk:Marc Atkins

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Uh, come again?[edit]

Here's just one part of one paragraph:

His photographs are intelligent and moving, in varying degrees an onslaught on perception and a subtle glance at an unexpected reality.

-- Sez who? --

His film and video works are quiet and hauntingly beautiful, often inspired by dystopian dreams and invariably underpinned by a highly developed aesthetic faculty.

-- How do we know this? --

It is the skill with which he manages this dichotomous condition,

-- What "dichotomous condition"? --

conflated with

-- Does this perhaps mean just "combined with"? --

subjective and sensual responses to the visual and phenomenological that puts Atkins work into that special categorization of visionary.

How does "categorization" here differ from "category", and either way, how do we know all this? -- Hoary (talk) 14:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


'Quotes' as per article edit summary[edit]

Hi, I cut the "quotes" section from the article - Reads like advertising, doesn't strike me as something that adds anything to the article. As per my edit summary when I cut the quotes section, I have paster it below in case any body want to re-instate it, or reinstate an edited version of it:

===Quotes===
"More haunting are his odd images, reminiscent of Man Ray's, of the human figure photographed in the intimacy of a curtained room. Atkins has worked the light over and over in the darkroom, burning away layers of detail, drawing down a veil that suggests roughed-up archive celluloid, transforming a person into an apparition."
- Tristian Quinn: ‘New Statesman’ Magazine[1] 05 July 1999
"The City Atkins sees is a sort of retro-futurist construct, where ancient, all-consuming impoverishment abuts vulgar post-modern consumerism with no apparent contradiction. These are neither emotional nor social images. They are intended to stir uneasy, rootless feelings. They are not designed to prettify, preach or smooth."
- Melanie McGrath: ‘Evening Standard’ Newspaper May 17, 1999
"Atkins's nudes are always complex: there is a stunning emphasis on sculptural form, but equally there is always a tantalizing - actually more teasing - emphasis on the mysterious narrative or scenario to which they are subtended."
- Rod Mengham, Poet, Author, Arts Writer
"Doors open on rooms in which oblique narrative have played themselves out. The mouth watering precision of Atkins' prints, and the banishment of all unnecessary referents, paradoxically, evoke chambers of imprecision, which refuse to obey the tedium of accepted physical laws."
- Iain Sinclair, Author
"Marc Atkins is a dark-edged photographer of London’s hidden places, secret histories and sinister "characters". Noirish, morbid and dramatizing, Atkins’ photography captures an urban state of mind."
- Jonathan Jones: ‘The Guardian’ newspaper 2 March 2000

Darigan (talk) 15:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Spies Like Us". The New Statesman.

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