Worldview
Photographs by Martin Gantman
April 1 - 30, 2015
Physical show extended until May 3 at 4695 Marwood Drive, LA 90065
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PRESS RELEASE
“WORLDVIEW”, Photographs by Martin Gantman
April 1 - 30, 2015 - Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1pm - 4pm
“WORLDVIEW”
is the first solo exhibition of Martin Gantman’s
photographs at Another Year in LA and is being held both as an online show and
at our physical location in Eagle Rock.
In the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic, Rear Window, a wheelchair-bound photographer Jimmy Stewart, spends his time looking out of his apartment window into a shared courtyard and the backs of the buildings that surround it. During the course of the movie, he watches a cavalcade of human interaction including a murder that he is convinced has occurred but did not actually see happen. Watching this movie turns the viewer also into a voyeur just like Stewart.
The photographs in Martin Gantman’s WORLDVIEW exhibition feature a similar reverse voyeuristic point-of-view of looking at windows (both open and with curtains drawn) from inside hoping to look out. And there are lots of those windows. So many different images that one, simultaneously, begins to wonder about the inhabitants as much as their “world view”.
In the opening paragraph of his WORLDVIEW artist’s statement, Gantman asks the following questions: “What do you look at? What do you actually see? How do you choose to see? What is your view of the world outside?
Continuing Gantman shares, “During the course of this project, photographs were taken from within the domiciles of various random residents. These images display not only what these viewers look at, but also what they look through, and what they see while looking through.
Worldview
What do you look at? What do you actually see? How do you choose to see? What is your view of the world outside?
During the course of this project, photographs were taken from within the domiciles of various random residents. These images display not only what these viewers look at, but also what they look through, and what they see while looking through.
There is a parallel in, say, how one chooses to vote. How did you decide to vote that way? How much did you cover up during the process of reaching your decision? How much did light did you let in? Was the possibility that other people might see you naked a factor in your decision?
While Apostel and his followers clearly hold that individuals can construct worldviews, other writers regard worldviews as operating at a community level, or in an unconscious way. For instance, if one's worldview is fixed by one's language, as according to a strong version of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, one would have to learn or invent a new language in order to construct a new worldview.
Are your windows a projection of your eyes? Or are they separated, like glasses, so that you don’t really see them? Or their frames.
According to Michael Lind, "a worldview is a more or less coherent understanding of the nature of reality, which permits its holders to interpret new information in light of their preconceptions.
Do your windows transparently reflect your preconceptions?
- Martin Gantman
2015
Norwich Drive
Worldview Norwich 1, 2014 Worldview Norwich 6, 2014
Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10 Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10
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Worldview Norwich 11, 2014 Worldview Norwich 9, 2014
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Sweetzer Avenue
Worldview Sweetzer 9, 2014 Worldview Sweetzer 7, 2014
Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10 Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10
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Worldview Sweetzer 3, 2014 Worldview Sweetzer 4, 2014
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Reservoir Drive
Worldview Reservoir 10, 2014 Worldview Reservoir 3, 2014
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Worldview Reservoir 9, 2014 Worldview Reservoir 8, 2014
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19th Street
Worldview 19th Street 1, 2015 Worldview 19th Street 3, 2015
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Worldview 19th Street 2, 2015 Worldview 19th Street 5, 2015
Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10 Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10
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