Land Forms
ISBN: 978-0-6457151-4-9
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Landforms was the first series of works that Lloyd Godman exhibited. It was the first step in a long and exploitative creative journey.
In an age of the ubiquitous digital images and photoshop historic photographic techniques are intriguing to reflect upon. This is the first series of photographic works exhibited by Godman. It includes a suite of photographs that explore the bird motif and lay a foundation for the wide range of environmental projects that followed. The images were created in an intricate process of photo-montage. In the photographic darkroom sections of the final work were exposed onto the paper from individual negatives in a manner similar to Jerry Uelsmann. The photographs were created in 1983.
In today’s “society visual” we have become a conditioned to consume images - from every side we are bombarded with visual stimuli, to the point where we are indoctrinated to see the “message” almost without consideration for the image: in short the visual image has been reduced to just the vehicle of the information contained within it.
It is the prejudice we have; the no-allowance of no other lifetime to the image, other than the moment of being seen, that is the most perplexing issue facing any artist concerned with the visual art form.
Lloyd Goldman in his recent exhibition of black and white photographs at the Marshall Seifert Gallery Dunedin, has by the use of a number of techniques managed to invest in them a feeling of “evolving”: which after viewing, does allow longevity of image - in that they have a movement backward and forward. Norman Meads 1983
Text by Norman Meads
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