Barn #8

James Cooper on his photograph:

"The work ventures to develop a different visual language for capturing Agriculture: its fields, structures, and way of life. 

Characterized by the reduction of compositions to simple shapes and underlying geometrical structures, with clear outlines, minimal detail, unexpected viewpoints and framing, and an emphasis on the abstract form of the subject, the work is suggestive of the American modernism Precisionism movement. The Precisionist style also showed the influence of work by American photographers such as Paul Strand and the style is evident in Ellsworth Kelly's photographs, from the 1950s through the 1980s of barns, their interlocking forms evoking the planes of his own paintings and sculptures."

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