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Don Freeman Portfolio 3: Branches
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Portfolio 1:
Pompeii
Portfolio 2:
Blue
Notes on BRANCHES view bio

At first glance, Don Freeman's "Branches" portfolio might call to mind the botanical studies of the early twentieth century photographer Karl Blossfeldt. Indeed, the photographers' portraits of flora share a spare, elegant, even decorative quality. But while Blossfeldt's micro-details of vines, buds and stamens are obsessively symmetrical and coolly scientific, Freeman's loosely-placed objects de nature are rendered personal by the photographer. Depth of field is used to create a subtle sense of movement, conveying one of Freeman's favorite themes: the passage all living things make from existence to non-existence. The arid, frangible state of the flora in "Branches" acknowledges this transition without mourning it.
 
 

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