Jorg Sasee: Lehmann Maupin. (New york).(Brief Article)

Jorg Sasse has refined the role of artist as technician. He scans photographs of architectural forms and prosaic landscapes taken by himself and others--friends and strangers--into his computer and manipulates them by reducing and enlarging scale, shifting focus, and playing with tones and hues.

In the process, the found photograph is drained of all sentimental, souvenir, in some cases even deictic value, and the final product, a glossy print bluntly titled with a random four-digit number followed by the year of completion, yields only a trace of its ancestor. Yet some formerly muted ...

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