Benno friedman biography definition
Courtesy of the photographer, Benno Friedman.
At the peak of his career he was a successful commercial photographer, showed in the Whitney Biennial, and was represented by the most respected..
Berkshire Photographer Benno Friedman
From Wet to Dry
By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 24, 2013
Benno Friedman.
Giuliano photo.
Drawing outside the lines.
He is a Pole in the prime of life, a graduate of the famous racing stable at Vienna of the late Leschetizky.Combing a camera and pencil.
Constantly experimenting.
“If you look at an image of a rock and the shadow that it casts what happens when you remove the rock and focus on the shadow?
Or remove the shadow and leave the rock,” Benno Friedman was trying to explain the essence of the digital images he has been working on for the past ten years.
She seeks to avoid the distraction of facts and images from the life of her subject which lodge in the mind with no meaning.
“Or back when we were doing wet work photography, and used to spot out the dust, the blemishes in a print, what happens if you remove everything but the dust marks? What is the integrity of the result and can you still consider that in any sense to be a photographic image?
I am not so much interested in taking the image, the decisive moment, as what I can do with the image.”
In the early phase of the work in the late 1960s and 1970s, the manipulation o