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Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel is a well known photographer who uses his photographic talents to focus and showcase the irony and behaviors of American life. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1966 with a Bachelor's degree as well as a Masters Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His work is mainly focused on Western culture, which is noted in the prelude to his photographs in “Nightwalk”. The photos in this book were taken around residential Los Angeles. In this book Henry takes photos of the shapes and objects created by the lights in residential areas. At night the shadows and contrast created by the lights form interesting shapes making the world seem different. The feeling portrayed by these photos is one of dramatic ambience that opens your eyes to man-made light and its effect on the environment around us. These photos were taken with film and produced in a manner that made the light more prevalent and the dramatic atmosphere more extreme. Henry's main goal in the collection was to make the shadows of a normal LA neighborhood turn into a stage “with its implied drama."

George Pusenkoff

A photographer and artist who primary focuses are on acrylic painting, silk screening, and computer science, George Pusenkoff aims to merge both the cyber-world and that of real life into the same composition. He was born in and raised in Moscow, Russia where he studied art as wells as computer science at the Moscow Academy of Polygraphic Design. He  focuses on playing with his viewers minds and help them contemplate the emergence of digital technology. In his paintings and computer renderings he creates compositions based on the 8-bit look of computer windows. “Mona Lisa Travels” focuses on one of silk-screened pieces on Mona Lisa, where Pusenkoff travels around the world taking photos with a framed canvas print of his silkscreen somewhere either in the foreground or background. These photos were taken all around Moscow and St Petersburg in every environment one can think of. Similar to work he has done in the past, symbolism that brings emotional feelings and opinions are the primary focus.  

Eric Maillet

Eric Maillet is a still life photographer who focuses on close-up photos of recognizable objects from afar, but not so recognizable when magnified. Maillet moved to France in the 1970s to pursue a career in photography at the age of 24. There he created his own studio in Paris where he is now and where much of his work can be seen. This book focuses on the world’s oversaturation of information and images, and how each image wants to be in the spotlight and yet get thrown out of the viewer’s perception from the overabundance of images. The photos are treated like a mirage. They don’t have a familiar shape, but the textures can be seen as familiar if looked at closely. This brings his viewers to contemplate the world around them and what it would look like if only a portion was in view, such as a glass of ice, bark on a tree, wet cardboard a butter knife. The photos aren’t as easily discernible as one would think since Maillet utilizes either black and white photography or monochromatic color schemes to through the brain into a maze trying to discern the images. Throughout the book the images tell us a story about where they come from, what they do, and why they are there. However, the collection of works has no beginning or end and once you arrive at the last image you’re tossed into a world of deep reflective thought.