"O" #74

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Once a professional dancer, Stivers turned to photography after a serious back injury forced him to retire. Stivers’s images are conceptually based. He believes “it is the true nature of photography not necessarily to document, but to alter or transform the scene or event – whether contrived or not – into a personal alternative reality.” The artist’s soft-focus, artfully toned and stained images are mysterious, romantic and sensual. He often depicts objects “floating” in a pitch-black ambiguous space, eliminating any context for the image.

Keywords

Abstraction
United States
Photography
Circle
Gelatin Silver
Contemporary Art