Keith Carter

I love the distorted realities that Carter creates with his work. His images have a surreal effect despite the fact that they take place in ordinary settings and of ordinary subject. The way he uses shadow, blurring, and vignetting creates a new world. I find this is an interesting approach to distorting reality in comparison with how my series' interpretation.


Biography from website:
"Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1948,he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of the Lange-Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and The Texas Medal of Arts. In addition Keith Carter has been the subject of an arts profile on CBS Sunday Morning, and Anthropy Arts produced a documentary DVD of his work. He is the Lamar University Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, as well as being named the 2010 TSUS Regents Professor."


Quotes:


"I don’t think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities.  I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work" - Keith Carter


"I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking.  But I’m not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don’t think there are any rules in art. It’s not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it." - Keith Carter

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