SILENT PASSAGE

Photographs of an isolated lake in Sweden
(1985-1988)

Pristine landscape is unformed. It is the photographic act that marks the landscape. By isolating certain elements, playing light against dark, open space against closed, or by isolating a few randomly placed stones into a composition, order is imposed, structure created. That structure exists only in the photograph, not in the place itself.

Project Resume:

Exhibitions:

Twinning Gallery, New York
Centre d'Action Culturelle Granit, Belfort, France
Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany

Publication:

Silent Passage. Hudson Hills Press, New York 1988. Introduction by Andy Grundberg

Collections:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Reviews / magazine publications:

Anderson, Kathy. "Silent Passage" Art Documentation, Spring 1989
Bottroper Volkszeitung. "Fotos zeigen erlebte Natur" Nr. 161 7/13/89
Durand, Regis. "Presence et silence des formes" Art Press #135, 4/89
Loskill, Hans-Jörg. "Zwischen Tag und Nacht" WAZ Nr.186, 8/11/89
Photographie Magazine "Silent Passage" December, 1988
Roegiers, Patrick. "Eaux profondes" Le Monde 2/2/ 89
Sandqvist, Getrud. "Paradisus Terretris" Form February, 1989
Schmidt, Konrad. "Traumhafte fotoreise zu den dusteren seen in Skandinavien"
Ruhr-Nachrichtin 7/26/89
Sturman, John. "Mikael Levin" Art News December, 1988
Westdeutche Allgemeine. "Schnorkellos - aber nichtohne Emotionen" 7/13/89