Benno friedman biography

From Wet to Dry

By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 24, 2013

“If you look at an image of a rock and the shadow that it casts what happens when you remove the rock and focus on the shadow?

Or remove the shadow and leave the rock,” Benno Friedman was trying to explain the essence of the digital images he has been working on for the past ten years.

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“Or back when we were doing wet work photography, and used to spot out the dust, the blemishes in a print, what happens if you remove everything but the dust marks? What is the integrity of the result and can you still consider that in any sense to be a photographic image?

I am not so much interested in taking the image, the decisive moment, as what I can do with the image.”

In the early phase of the work in the late 1960s and 1970s, the manipulation o