RICHARD LEAROYD PRESENCES

This oversized book contains twenty-six powerful and psychologically intimate images. Learoyds minutely detailed, large-scale color portraits do not look like other photographs. Made with a giant camera comprised of two rooms, Learoyds subject occupies the adjac ent camera obscura. Connecting the two rooms is a lens set within a bellowsan accordion-like contraption dating from the mediums f irst century. The direct-positive images are generous in size and have a subtle tonal range that is reminiscent of Dutch Master pain ting, though...[Read more]