STUART ALLEN
Pixels
All photographs are 16 x 16 in. on 30 x 24 in. paper
Pigment based digital prints
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These images are extremely low-resolution photographs. More specifically, they are small sets of pixels, extracted from full resolution images. Their titles provide additional information about the location and subject matter of the source photograph. They are straight photographs. They have not been altered, manipulated, collaged or retouched. The color has not been modified, the contrast curves have not been reshaped, and the pixels have not been re-arranged. They are, essentially, heavily cropped versions of the source photographs.
As the photography industry rushes to reach the next mega-pixel plateau, these images move in the opposite direction. They address the underlying architecture of digital photography (a far more rigid structure than its chemical antecedent.) And while a nine-pixel photograph may render a decidedly abstract version of its subject, it remains a photograph: a record of light, in one place, in one time. - Stuart Allen, Artist Statement
