Dominic Rouse - 'Chimera Obscura' (1997)
Auction details
| Start time | 24-9-2026 at 9:29 |
| End time | 4-10-2026 at 18:38 |
Starting bid €85
Buyer's premium : 15%
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| Pick up | No, not possible |
| Location | Bangkok, Thailand |
English - Description
- Dominic Rouse (1959)
| Type of artwork | Photography |
| Year | 1997 |
| Technique | C-Print |
| Style | Surrealistic |
| Subject | Nude |
| Framed | Not framed |
| Dimensions | 46 x 30 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
● Dominic Rouse is an English photographer who began his career as a photojournalist in the mid-1970s. His art is defined by his meticulous attention to detail and a painstaking dedication to the traditional craft of large-format photography. From this unique blend of fine art photography and digital composition emerges a cohesive body of visionary work.
● He would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography as a wide and varied community of folks is a very broad church indeed and his corner of photography has few fellow travelers. Contemporarily Jerry Uelsmann and Joel-Peter Witkin come to mind but his work probably has more in common with the likes of Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch and René Magritte.
● Dominic Rouse does not photograph the world; Dominic Rouse makes photographs of his mind. Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at an Ansel Adams photograph. With Adams one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir. With Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll, or even Freud.
● His images are challenging because the questions he asks in his images are challenging in themselves. In a recent interview he quoted Picasso who said that computers are useless because they only give you answers. Rouse's photographs pose far more questions than they answer and that is likely his intention.
● His work has been exhibited and published globally and he has numerous international awards and accolades to his name. Black & White Magazine (USA) referred to him as a "master of manipulation" and LensWork (USA) described him as "one of the most interesting photographic artists working today" while the venerable British Journal of Photography lauded his photographs as masterpieces when they were first exhibited in London in 2002.
● Hand signed chromogenic print on matt Fuji Crystal Archive paper
● Paper - 18" x 12" (456 x 305 cm)
● Image - 15" x 10" (381 x 254 cm)
● Edition - 250 hand-signed prints
● Catalogue - S-DHR001FU
● Condition - MINT
● Hand signed in black ink to verso
● Numbered artist stamp at verso
● Title below image
● Signed Certificate of Print Authenticity
● *PLEASE NOTE - the edition number of the print you receive may differ from that shown in the listing photographs
● Ships in a large PVC tube with tracking
● He would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography as a wide and varied community of folks is a very broad church indeed and his corner of photography has few fellow travelers. Contemporarily Jerry Uelsmann and Joel-Peter Witkin come to mind but his work probably has more in common with the likes of Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch and René Magritte.
● Dominic Rouse does not photograph the world; Dominic Rouse makes photographs of his mind. Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at an Ansel Adams photograph. With Adams one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir. With Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll, or even Freud.
● His images are challenging because the questions he asks in his images are challenging in themselves. In a recent interview he quoted Picasso who said that computers are useless because they only give you answers. Rouse's photographs pose far more questions than they answer and that is likely his intention.
● His work has been exhibited and published globally and he has numerous international awards and accolades to his name. Black & White Magazine (USA) referred to him as a "master of manipulation" and LensWork (USA) described him as "one of the most interesting photographic artists working today" while the venerable British Journal of Photography lauded his photographs as masterpieces when they were first exhibited in London in 2002.
● Hand signed chromogenic print on matt Fuji Crystal Archive paper
● Paper - 18" x 12" (456 x 305 cm)
● Image - 15" x 10" (381 x 254 cm)
● Edition - 250 hand-signed prints
● Catalogue - S-DHR001FU
● Condition - MINT
● Hand signed in black ink to verso
● Numbered artist stamp at verso
● Title below image
● Signed Certificate of Print Authenticity
● *PLEASE NOTE - the edition number of the print you receive may differ from that shown in the listing photographs
● Ships in a large PVC tube with tracking
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