P.F.White

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Re. As they come/As they go

Images of people as they rounded the corner, past a fence that held in a thicket of buddleia. The shutter fired as they crossed a plane that extends from the fence panel diagonally into the left side of the picture. There is nothing before or after the moment they cross this line. It is the converse of the mirror in Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée that both gods and mortals step through to travel backwards and forwards between life and death.

Photography is a structurally liminal medium and physical and temporal thresholds are always potent. These may be seen as portraits of people on the street, but the point at which their appearance becomes image and floats its analogue into a future which is not theirs, and only contingently yours, is decided by nothing but the crossing of a line.

Across the plane of existence
As They Come/As They Go (detail).
2011, from images made 1975.

Across the plane of existence
As They Come/As They Go (detail).
2011, from images made 1975.

Across the plane of existence
As They Come/As They Go (detail).
2011, from images made 1975.

Across the plane of existence
As They Come/As They Go (detail).
2011, from images made 1975.

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Images and texts by P.F.WHITE (Peter Frankland White). ACTIVE: 196Os to the present. LOCATION: Europe (United Kingdom). SUBJECTS: vision, perception, location, time(s), class, power, rhilopia. STYLE: exploratory, aggregative, aleatory, attentive, punctum averse.

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