Laura Volkerding, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1978.
Laura Volkerding, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1978.
Laura Volkerding, Chicago, 1978.
Laura Volkerding, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1978.
Laura Volkerding.
Laura Volkerding, West Virginia, 1978.
Laura Volkerding has been a teacher of photography at the University of Chicago since 1970. In this exhibition Volkerding shows a wide range of pictures, from lyrical landscapes to modernist gas stations. Most are extreme wide angle shots. Volkerding says of this: “These panoramic photographs are made with a special camera. The distortion characteristic of this camera causes the center of the frame to bulge forward and the two sides to compress into two point perspective. This produces a radical change in scale of spatial elements and it is my endeavor to minimize or maximize those inherent distortions in order to force the focal point into a scale of primary consciousness.”