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 henry carroll 'american places'
 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Imaginary landscapes. With their minuscule details, Henry Carroll’s photographs are successfully deceptive. They exist between reality and film-set, wanting to play with and question our perceptions. You feel as if you could be standing within his created environments, looking out over a dusty canyon or wading through a damp swamp until you realise the fluffy clouds lit with golden hour sunlight are in fact made up of manmade fibres. Working closely with a model-maker, Carroll is able to recreate his imagined images of grand vistas and forest clearings through clever lighting and manipulated perspective. Once shot, the models are destroyed, leaving only photographic evidence of what may or may not exist. There is the eeriness of a thriller film mixed with Ray Harryhausen’s creations and a splash of Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, which really gives life to Carroll’s homage to the sublime landscape artist and his unique vision. Henry Carroll – American Places is at Wyer Gallery, London, until 02 June 07.
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comment by nemone
Jun 18, 2007
The guy who made the models is called Nigel Howlett. The photographs are beautiful, but it's the realism, detail and intricacy of the models themselves which really make this show so astounding.
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