30 x 40 inches

c print

edition of 3

2007

1. Rodriguez, Dominic N., 2. Montpetit, Michael J.,3. Gamble jr., Carter A., 4. Duplantier II, Arnold, 5. McCaffery, Patrick R.

This body of work explores the limits and inadequacies of photographic and moving images as representational modes, while simultaneously considering how these media inform our understandings of extreme factual realities.

Using appropriated cinematic imagery, these images engage with the social function and visual aesthetics of War Cinema, within the static articulation of a color photograph. The work intends to situate itself in the mode of documentary war photography, but the image making process is marred by a set of removals from the work's acute subject matter: the activities of war.

Views: Domestic Realities confronts issues relating to reportage, cinematic representation, duration, locality, and the vehicles in which representations of war are created and consumed.