4689.85 degrees kelvin: Roe Ethridge

Roe Ethridge's images, many of which are currently at the New Photography 2010 exhibit at the MoMA, represent both an editorial and stylistically minimalistic approach to common images. These photographs are clearly from film, which not only adds to their appeal, but sets a sort of 'age' to the images. These images as art depend highly on the film-like quality. But even more, their compositions are often wide angles and vivid colors (a product of 35mm and a wide angle lens) and are characteristics that appeal to me.

I am inspired by Ethridge's simplistic yet masterful use of form and functionality of seemingly unrelated images. Photography suffers, I believe, from often being an image-to-image art form, and, though Ethridge's images are so very different, they seem connected by their four corners- and their frames. Everything within the four corners are meant to be there.