The Photographer's Shadow by Patrick Pound

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The Photographer's Shadow

The Photographer's Shadow

Artist

Patrick Pound
Production Date

2012
Medium

inkjet print on archival paper
Size

1200 x 2580 mm
Credit

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2013
Accession Number

C2013/1/16
Accession Date

11 Oct 2013
Department

New Zealand Art
Classification

Print
Collection

Chartwell
Description

Patrick Pound is an Australian-based New Zealand artist who often reuses everyday snapshots to make ‘new’ historical tableaux. Over many years Pound has collected photographs and in the process produced an archive and image library from which he is able to present found photographs in new and novel groupings. As he has said: ‘To collect is to gather your thoughts through things.’

The Photographer’s Shadow, 2012 gathers images taken with raking daylight behind the photographer, so that often by chance their shadow has been included in the snapshot. When gathered together the photographs act like a group portrait, connecting people whose lives were once separate.