The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories, where the every day and the overlooked are elevated to a place of uncomfortable beauty. I see the work like a series of film stills, those f
The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories, where the every day and the overlooked are elevated to a place of uncomfortable beauty. I see the work like a series of film stills, those final scenes of a visual journey that takes the viewer through emotion and place, leaving us with one last look as the music and credits roll by. The work was created by driving 100,000 miles across a network of super highways, a journey that surely must have had it’s own inner narration and sense of altered reality. In the end, these are not ordinary road trip photos, they are a master class in seeing, the kind of seeing that comes from participating in the experience, driving with a heightened awareness to details. His practice of setting up the 4×5 field camera and on occasion an 8×10 camera, then making himself vulnerable under the black cloth, allowed him momentary quiet in a self-created confessional, where his art exists between two states of being, the internal and external.
