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Apr022015

Other Nature by Ron Jude

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—01. Published by The Ice Plant, 2008.

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"In his previous book, Alpine Star, photographer and publisher Ron Jude appropriated and recast a collection of his hometown newspaper photographs as a cryptically humorous meditation on the grey area between personal history and collective memory. Jude's next series of photographs, Other Nature, adds a more intimate, diaristic strain to this line of inquiry, combining two separate sets of his own 4 x 5 color pictures (made between 2001 and 2008) to create a subtle and uncanny investigation of the 'slippery threshold of narrative' in still images. Drawing on the concerns of the New Topographics photographers, Jude's depictions of anonymous motel rooms and the stranger regions of the American landscape could, on first glance, be taken for an ecological critique."

Available from The Ice Plant

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