Bronx, New York-based photographer Gus Aronson’s, “Eurydice” brings collectively numerous observations from life, decoding the act of photographing by the lens of the Greek fable of Orpheus and Eurydice. As the parable goes, a bereaved Orpheus travels to the underworld in hopes of retrieving his just lately deceased spouse, Eurydice. He strikes a cope with Hades through which Orpheus can information Eurydice dwelling from the underworld, as long as he doesn’t flip again to have a look at her till they attain the world of the dwelling. Overcome by pleasure, he can’t assist himself—when he turns to have a look at her, Eurydice disappears, condemned to the underworld eternally.
Aronson wonders: “Does the eye we pay to the world round us after we {photograph} destroy the inherent reality of it, because it was when Orpheus regarded again at Eurydice? Is our try to grasp the world by preserving it by {a photograph} solely a fleeting try for survival within the face of eschatological thought? Or does images—the act of trying itself—render the opaque right into a dwelling clarified reality by poetic motion?”
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