Weekend Portfolio: Huger Foote
I am entranced by Huger Foote's new images. It's as though everything he has done up until this period has prepared him for where he is now. I admit to becoming something of a classicist in my old age, but I so love the clarity and immediacy of these pictures. It is not easy to turn photographs that are so apparently straightforward into such highly evolved, replete, works of art. No gimmicks, no editorializing. I love that among the images in the group, there is so much variation. At first look, I thought I had favorites (of course the holly is such a stunner!) but the more I looked, the more each one spoke to me. They have a successively pungent way of describing a place or a moment... it isn't so much a distillation, as a penetratingly lyrical recognition. There's not one of them that doesn't have depth and power, but it's so great to see them together. The range is wonderful, each so singular, and together they really are a knockout. I haven't seen work I like so much for ages -- Jane Livingston, 2021, curator and author.
