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www.robertelderphoto.com
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After
an absence of decades from the medium, Robert Elder
returned to photography in 1998, as his business career
drew toward a close. Associates expected that he would be
drawn toward something such as flowers as his subject
matter, and so it has eventuated. The associative link
between flowers and women is a commonplace. But Flora (a
woman’s name, after all, one example of many) are of
great variety, and include those flowers which bloom only
at night, generally have white flowers producing intense
attractive scent, and containing alkaloids that act
physiologically to depress the parasympathetic nervous
system. Well calibrated doses are known to produce
hallucinogenic effects, such as those encountered by the
photographer, as these visions pass before him, during the
deepest hours of a phantasmagoric night...
Exhibitions:
Night
Flowers, Max Fish,
New York City, April 25 through June 1, 2002
New
York by Night,
Gomorrah at Club “True,” New York City, July 18, 2001
Dionysian
New York, New
Century Artists, NYC, February 27 through March 25, 2001
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