Federico

"Pensavo di non essere tagliato per la regia. Mi mancavano il gusto della sopraffazione tirannica, la coerenza, la pignoleria, la capacità di faticare e tante altre cose, ma soprattutto l’autorità. Tutte doti assenti nel mio temperamento. Da bambino ero un tipetto chiuso, solitario, aggredibile, vulnerabilissimo fino allo svenimento. E sono rimasto, checché ne pensi la gente, molto timido. Tutto questo come si poteva combinare con gli stivali, il megafono, l’urlata, le armi tradizionali del cinema? La regia di un film è sempre il comando sulla ciurma di Cristoforo Colombo che vuol tornare indietro."

Federico Fellini | January 20, 1920 — October 31, 1993

spooky action at a distance

"Using a variety of camera formats to affect perception and plane, Jan Groover creates complex, abstract spatial arrangements in her still-life, portrait, and landscape photography. Untitled #1308, a platinum/palladium print on luminous vellum-like paper, aptly demonstrates her craftsmanship in the darkroom with its finely-wrought delicacy. A painter by training, Groover makes reference to art history in her photographs, from Renaissance perspective drawings to Cezanne’s tabletops.

Groover was born in New Jersey in 1943. She received her BFA in 1965 from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and her MA from Ohio State University in 1970. Her work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is also the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation."

taken from here : http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/groover_jan.php