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Barney Kulok - Compositions Photographique

April 5th - May 13th 2008

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Photographic Compositions by Barney Kulok

Barney Kulok has termed his photographic compositions “Simple Facts.” This is an apt description. The facts are indeed simple, but they lose their simplicity through the process of being photographed, only to find a new simplicity, in the best sense of the word. Kulok uses his lens like a painter’s brush, transposing his subjects into visual compositions, which are first formed in the mind’s eye, as is the case in all art.

The lens can be a reporter, but it can also be used to bring various elements together in one work. Kulok’s black-and-white prints, color prints and lightboxes tell us stories, as well as sensuously appealing to our vision. Details of city scenes dominate. Kulok shows us the beauty of ugliness, bringing the paintings of Edward Hopper to mind.

Kulok’s facts are simple visual stories, which say a lot. Barney Kulok has found a marvelous way of relating, without uttering a word.

Herbert Kuhner, writer/translator,
Vienna/New York