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Karin RosenthalVortex1997
1997
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Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brief existence on this planet. As I discovered and fell in love with still waters, I began to use their magical and transformative powers to create psychological, metaphysical and surrealistic statements about our lives.
I was drawn to dreamlike and surrealistic images largely because of my family’s history. Many relatives perished in Nazi Germany and those tragedies set much in motion for my life. I realized that we are shaped by factors that may not be within our direct experience, but lurk in the background in a significant way. That which is in front of our eyes is not a complete reality. As I explored ways to express this complex sense of being, I found water to be my ally in creating illusions and simultaneous layers of meaning made up of contradictions and conflicts, conscious and unconscious worlds. I wanted “objective” reality to be countered with several levels of ambiguity and mystery, so that what an image seems to be is stronger than what it is. At the same time, the images are graphic and abstract, with a tension of positive and negative spaces.
After living close to the earth on islands in Greece, a deep body/land connection entered my Nudes in Water quite unconsciously and never left. It expands an enduring exploration of the human life cycle within our habitat that has been part of all series of nudes I’ve created.
- Creator:Karin Rosenthal (1945, American)
- Creation Year:1997
- Dimensions:Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sante Fe, NM
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU134210492282
Karin Rosenthal
Quite unconsciously, a body/landscape motif entered my photographs, a result of living on islands in Greece during a year’s fellowship twenty years ago. I loved to watch the light change hourly on the mountains that joined the sea like giant birds gliding into water. As my photographic vocabulary evolved during that year, those fascinating surroundings rematerialized within my water nudes. Thus began an inspirational dialogue with nature, continued first in Greece and then on Cape Cod, where my settings grew to include woods and dunes. The infrared images, shot in those new environments, further explore harmonious resonances, as the body takes on the character of dune or atmosphere. My desire to photograph nudes was born of the water, of a passion for being in and meditating upon still waters. Wanting to make statements about human nature as I had before in portraits and street pictures, I sought a way to photograph people in water to create images of a psychological, dreamlike, and emotive nature. When I began the Nudes in Water series in 1975, I felt that water, the source of all life, should display an equivalent density to flesh, invoking a cauldron of creation and a visceral visual connection between body and nature. These motivations were to become the foundation for all photographs that followed.
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