ETHRIDGE, Roe - Rockaway, New York

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"The mood of the out-of-print photo volume 'Rockaway, NY' by Roe ETHRIDGE suggests a nostalgic depiction of scenes from a coastal village. The snow-covered boardwalk, the cemetery, the shops in town, and a quiet street in late summer all appear at first glance to be genre scenes, revealing his casual application of diverse pictorial modes and themes. The locales blend, imitate and disguise one another. Photographed in disparate geographical sites, from St. Barts to upstate New York, Roe ETHRIDGE plays the roles of both a thematic archivist and a wandering narrator, mapping an uncertain ground in which it is unclear if the representation is a blank image, nothing more than the sum of it's surface, or the fountainhead of some deeper significance. In 2003, Roe ETHRIDGE was given the cover of the October issue Artforum." (© Steidl Verlag, 2007)
"As technically adept as a commercial photographer yet as thoughtful as a Conceptualist about photography's role and meaning in the modern world,  Roe ETHRIDGE believes the ubiquity of the photograph and the instantaneity of its transmission and reception in this age of increasing 'ecstatic communication' is to be embraced rather than mourned. In his work there appears no cause and no ending, no discrimination between editorial and art, between document and construct, between technology and affect." (© Kate Bush)

About US-american photographer, Roe ETHRIDGE (b.1969, in Miami)

Photo books by Roe ETHRIDGE