David Alexander
Aug. 2019
All images are titled “Confetti”
Ultrachrome Print on Matte Paper,
8” x 8” image on 12” x 12” matt,
Each print is signed by artistArtist's Statement:Confetti I have been focusing on the product scans that online auction sellers use to sell their vernacular photographs. The hundreds of images collected, an image is chosen and I digitally paint over these screenshots using a drawing app on my mobile device. These drawings are my chance to insert myself into the image and merge authorship of the new image that it becomes. It is the moment I celebrate the original image itself with my time and attention. I move quickly to maintain the free flow and spontaneity of my "reading" of the photograph that is in front of me. I respond to it, and hope to add to the image and not take away. It's a dance. The images I create with these screenshots are low resolution by the process in which I come to them and the qualities of the final output are based on the limitations of the original scan. I accept these limitations. I print using an Ultrachrome wide-format printer on enhanced matte paper. I return to the original auction of the scans I have altered and purchase those original prints being sold in the auctions. These original prints are later scanned at much higher resolutions and archived for possible future projects incorporating the same image. The original prints I purchased are left unaltered, I don't draw directly on the original photographs as it is not necessary to my work, they become a part of my resource library, or collection.Bio:David Alexander was born in Sudbury, MA, in 1962. He is a photographer and fine art printer. Alexander is a student of photographer David Freund, Nathan Lyons, artist Joan Lyons, and Mary Ellen Mark. He printed the images for David Freund’s “Gas Stop: Culture” traveling show, and assisted Freund on two photo books due to be released by Gerhard Steidl.

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