Artist Post #10 Mark Power

 Artist post #10 Mark Power 

- Why

Because I  am fairly lost I am looking at spaces, and photographers that have also photographed space. Places where humans interact and congregate. He uses spaces to emphasize isolation.  
- Artist Biography

Mark Power has published 5 books The Shipping Forecast (1996) ; Superstructure (2000), The Treasury Project (2002),  26 Different Endings (2007), and The Sound of Two Songs (2010). He does many things as well as photograph landscapes. 

- Quote 1

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Power punctuates his impressionistic visual narrative with portraits of Poles young and old, who stare at the camera without giving anything away. He photographs expansive car parks, shopping malls and blocks of flats: the new Poland, existing in a suspended state, definably east European but slowly being colonised by the consumerist temples of the west. There are hints of an older past: broken-down churches; dense, uncultivated forests.

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"The Sound of Two Songs by Mark Power | Art and Design | The Observer." Latest News, Comment and Reviews from the Guardian | Guardian.co.uk. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/08/sound-two-songs-mark-power>.

- Quote 2  

In talking about his photography when using 4x5 film. particularly the first image below. 

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 I was really amazed by the way photography had transformed the event into something visually very strange. That's why I like this picture so much. Everything is so sharp: the people and the screens have the same clarity, so you're not sure what you're supposed to be looking at. The crowd is darker, which means they appear closer to the camera than the screens – which wasn't the case.

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"Photographer Mark Power's Best Shot | Art and Design | The Guardian." Latest News, Comment and Reviews from the Guardian | Guardian.co.uk. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/09/photographer-mark-power-best-shot#zoomed-picture>.

- 4 images and / or video/sound clips of artwork

- a link to an interview with the artist or a review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRObYFKELY4

- link to gallery representing artist

http://www.amadorgallery.com/Mark%20Power.html

- link to artist website

http://www.markpower.co.uk/Projects