Weekly Artist Post- Darsey Renz

Lydia Goldblatt

What are the artist's technical choices?

This particular series of Goldblatt's revolves around the use of light, framing, and color. She frames in her subject of intent, darkening or omitting all other distracting elements. She uses lighting and position for emphasis in her compositions, giving her the ability to show what the photographs are really about. The lighting she chooses to use also create wonderful colors.

What are the artist's conceptual and/or thematic intents?

In this series, Goldblatt's compositions show the realization of mortality. These are pictures of someone going through the process of dying. But there is also an inclusion of love and time. It is about reality and being able to come to terms with it; to soak in it. Life catches up to you, and time is inevitable, and Glodblatt portrays that here.

How do you respond to these choices and intents?

Looking at these photographs and knowing what they are about and what they mean is heart wrenching. But it is mostly beautiful. Beautiful because it is raw, because it is real. This is how someone's life is truly ending. Goldblatt's emotional and compositional abilities are absolutely stunning.