Joe Deal, a Landscape Photographer of Disquieting Images, Dies at 62
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Wind, Osage Cuestas, 2006
Robert Mann Gallery
Watering Phillips Ranch, California, 1983
Robert Mann Gallery
Colton, California, 1978
Robert Mann Gallery
“In making these photographs I attempted to make a series of images in which one image is equal in weight or appearance to another,” he wrote in an artist’s statement for the exhibition catalog. Believing that “the most extraordinary images might be the most prosaic,” he deliberately kept formal decisions to a minimum, preferring to manipulate the images as little as possible and eliminate, as far as possible, “personal intrusion.”
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