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Tracey Snelling , Tenement
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Nan Goldin , Jimmy Paulette after the Parade
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Philip Braham , Lumen 56 - Dunsappie Loch on Arthur's Seat above Edinburgh
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Complementary to the extensive Modern and Contemporary print collection which Osborne Samuel stocks, is the photography collection. Photography as a medium has become increasingly popular through the latter part of the twentieth century and highly competitive within the art market. Early twentieth century photography now commands record breaking prices at auction and contemporary artists such as Andreas Gursky and Mark Quinn both of whom the gallery stock, hold blockbuster sell out shows.
The gallery focus is on contemporary photography. Artists have routinely made use of photographic images in their work since the days of pop-art and in many cases the boundaries between photography, installation and print are blurred, as the medium is often used in photo-montage. Osborne Samuel’s photography collection highlights the most international, contemporary and experimental elements of the medium – holding a range of work from photo journalist Nick Danziger’s documentary diaries of world society to German photographer and digital manipulator Andreas Gursky’s enormous images of large anonymous urban spaces, to the American installation artist and photographer Jenny Holzer’s ‘Truisms’.
We work closely with Argentinean photographer, video and installation artist Graciella Sacco who uses heliography, and the chemical action of light on emulsified photosensitive surfaces. She has taken the technique to the forefront of contemporary art, transferring original or appropriated photographic images onto a wide range of supports: from paper and canvas to rubber, leather, wood, glass, stone, cardboard, plastic and metal.
Equally experimental Susan Derges trained as a painter and is concerned with the creative interface between art and science. A period of living and studying in Japan led her to adopt photography as her principal means of expression using sound, light and water. Her images are often formed as photograms directly onto positive photographic paper.
Other artists include Tracey Snelling, who is influenced by film, landscape, books, and architecture and creates sculptures, photographs, and installations of structures. And Tracey Moffat, an Australian artist using primarily photography and video.
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