Irwin Karnick
Contemplation
11×14
Silver Gelatin AGFA Baryta Glossy
$ 1,500
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Irwin Karnick is a celebrated photographer and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited, and published globally. Karnick has dedicated over six decades to creating evocative images that drive social and environmental activism. His career began first in Manhattan and then Toronto in the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s, quickly gaining recognition for his distinctive black-and-white photography. It was not long before his work took on a more worldwide focus. Karnick’s work, renowned for its compelling portrayal of the human condition and the natural world, also carries a profound and passionate message about our global environmental crisis. With a consistent focus on climate change and ecological preservation, Karnick’s photograph’s reach deep inside and reflect his strong commitment to highlighting urgent sociopolitical and environmental issues. His images transcend mere documentation.
To quote Irwin Karnick from a 1980 exhibition of his photographic work with transportation as the central focus. “I consists in just looking at people and things as themselves – neither as useful, nor moral, nor ugly, nor perfect, nor anything else; but just as being. Al least that is a philosophical description of it. What happens is that I suddenly feel the extraordinary value and importance of almost everything that I encounter and everything that I see. I roam about places and sit in trains and see the essential glory and beauty of all the people I meet. I am so much occupied with their presence and the people being there at all that I don’t have time to think about it differently in the moment.”
Irwin Karnick feels and reflects the sensuality and tranquility as he captures this moment in time. From his series of photographic work in Portugal in the 1990’s.
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