Bill Jacobson's collection of eight shadowy, grey and white photographs is drawn from the artist's early career. The images, originally featured in Jacobson's Interim Portraits series, are among those with which the artist made his name 20 years ago.
Each photograph depicts a man's face, its edges and features blurred and softened in a painterly style that reflected Jacobson's preoccupation with loss and mortality in the early 1990s; themes closely tied to his observations of the AIDS epidemic. The faces are hard to grasp, difficult to discern as they recede into the white field of the photograph. Jacobson hoped to convey the sense of futility in trying to capture a human likeness in memory or portraiture.
These - and other - 'defocused' monochromic images defined Jacobson's early successes as a photographer. They were inspired, in part, by the artist's fascination for early twentieth-century photography and the blurred or obscured subjects of the medium's early pioneers. Collecting anonymous old snapshots at flea markets, Jacobson was interested in the 'layers of time' that these photographs revealed, and by their ability to transport the viewer back to the precise moment of their making, when the people, their lives and their surroundings were 'current'.
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