Die Begriffe Orgie und Ekstase bekommen beim Fotografen Robert Elder ihre ganz eigene und unverwechselbare Bedeutung. Ihm ist es nicht daran gelegen, diese pornographisch oder vulgär zu deuten. Aus seinen Bildern spricht eine ungestüme Lebendigkeit und kreative Aggressivität auf höchstem künstlerischem Niveau. Der Künstler ist bereit, Grenzen – auch die des so genannten „guten Geschmackes“ -  zu überschreiten, ohne dabei ins Geschmacklose abzugleiten. Und genau dieser wichtige Punkt trennt die große photographische Kunst von belanglos billigen Bildchen.

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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