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Nice series of tree portraits by Myoung Ho Lee from 2009. Myoung builds a huge white background behind some pretty big trees.  Any photographer who has tried this knows a small puff of wind can tear your shoot to pieces.. This is not easy and the artist needs a big crew (and a crane) to pull it off… but the results are really wonderful.

“Myoung Ho Lee photographs solitary trees framed against white canvas backdrops in the middle of natural landscapes. To install the large canvases, which span approximately 60 by 45 feet, the artist enlists a production crew and heavy cranes. Minor components of the canvas support system, such as ropes or bars, are later removed from the photograph through minimal digital retouching, creating the illusion that the backdrop is floating behind the tree.”

 

via the Yossi Milo Gallery

The Photographs of Myoung Ho Lee

With echos of some of Vilem Kriz’s images as well as Man Ray & Joseph Cornell, Heidi Kirkpatrick constructs mysterious, surreal boxes that transport you into her beautiful interior world.

 “I live with a substantial amount of physical pain and have for many years. In my continual search for an answer, as well as my way of dealing with the unexplained, I dissect my Gray’s Anatomy book. The pages find their way into my work, layered under images of those closest to me. The illustrations bind, clothe and wrap the body. Putting the inside on the outside, I wear my heart on my sleeve”.

via http://www.photolucida.org

The Surrealist Photo Constructions of Heidi Kirkpatrick