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"How should one read the peculiar, eye-catching photographs of Elad Lassry? A still life of ruby-hued nail-polish bottles standing like minimalist totems atop bright-green pedestals. A head shot of actor Anthony Perkins floating amid a silvery background. Frequently the Israeli-born, Los Angeles\u2013based artist's creations are seen as clever riffs on editorial and advertising photography. But his work is more interesting and complex than just that.\n\nA successor to Pictures Generation artists such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, who made their names referencing and recycling images from movies, TV, and magazines, Lassry makes liberal use of appropriated photographs. But he slyly exhibits them alongside those he shot himself, offering no distinction. He partially obscures some photos and inserts many into candy-color frames. All of which calls attention to the works as art objects while giving \"a new life,\" as Lassry puts it, to images of familiar, even mundane subjects that seem to take on heightened\u2014if elusive\u2014significance.\n\nPinterestFacebook\n\n\"A picture that was shot for a certain purpose gets reactivated,\" says the artist, whose profile has risen sharply among collectors as well as curators since his inclusion in the 2010 edition of the Museum of Modern Art's influential \"New Photography\" series. \"I am especially interested in finding pictures that have fallen between the cracks, that have been destabilized, misplaced, or rejected.\"\n\nLassry's latest show, which opens at New York's 303 Gallery on September 12, features works made from photo negatives he acquired through eBay and other secondhand sources. In a new twist, Lassry affixes silk textiles to some of the frames, covering part of the photograph as if it's behind a curtain at the side of a stage. \"These custom-made blindfolds are almost embarrassingly domestic and craftlike,\" he says. \"On the other hand, they alter the frame in an aggressive way and almost kidnap the images into another arena.\"\n\nPinterestFacebook\n\nSpend time with Lassry's pictures (he also makes short films and has ventured into drawing, collage, sculpture, and performance), and you may well find yourself thinking about perception and the very nature of photographic images. Or, of course, you can always just submit to the visual pleasure of looking at his alluringly enigmatic art.\n\nFor details see September Sources."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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