PhotoNOLA is proud to present Smoking Log, by Jane Fulton Alt, as our 2018 Collectors Club Print.
Jane Fulton Alt is an American photographer who explores issues of love, loss, and spirituality in her work. ‘Smoking Log’ is from The Burn, a long-term project that she began in 2007 after observing her first controlled prairie burn. In her words: “A controlled burn is deliberately set; its violent, destructive force reduces invasive vegetation so that native plants can continue to prosper. The elements of the burn—the mysterious luminosity, the smoke that both obscures and reveals—suggest a liminal space, a zone of ambiguity where destruction merges with renewal.” The images of regenerative destruction constitute a universal metaphor: the ephemeral moment when life and death are not opposed but are harmonized as a single process to be embraced as one.
“To witness and photograph a controlled burn is to place oneself in the presence of a certain ‘terrible beauty’… Fire and smoke are my equivalents; abstract manifestations of an inner state where the unknowable resides.” – Jane Fulton Alt
The limited edition of 100 (plus five artist proofs) is an archival pigment print, featuring an 8×8” image on 12×10” hot press, cotton rag paper. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist. The Smoking Log is a new addition to Alt’s series, and is being offered for the first time in this exclusive edition for PhotoNOLA.
Price: $100 + $7 shipping & handling*
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jane Fulton Alt began exploring the visual arts while pursuing her career as a clinical social worker. She is living and working on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois, and in close proximity to the Mississippi River in New Orleans. She has authored Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward (The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2009), and The Burn (Keher Verlag, 2013). Alt is a three-time winner of Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 for her Katrina and Burn portfolios, and her Crude Awakening portfolio was printed in multiple publications worldwide. Alt has exhibited internationally and her work can be found in many permanent collections. She is represented by Corden Potts Gallery in San Francisco, California; Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York City; and Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans.
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