Paul Kozal

詳細 2018年12月30日 00:09更新: Paul Kozal

American photographer

Paul Kozal moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 1996, but his admiration of the western landscape dates back to his first road trip in 1989. Up to that time, he had done little in the way of landscape photography. After 1989, however, Kozal, a self-taught photographer, was inspired to travel west as often as possible, taking trips that often lasted up to six months. During these trips, he amassed a large number of studies, often of the same dunes and buildings, photographed each year in an effort to capture the constantly shifting values of light.

Asked for an influence, he cites the work of self-taught painter Maynard Dixon, who, in the 1920s, painted Southwest desert scenes in a stark, highly rhythmic style, itself influenced by Cubism, but also references the work of contemporary photographer Paul Caponigro...

With regard to his artistic intent, Kozal remarks that "each of us, at some time, has encountered a person or a place that at once disarms our senses, seemingly transcending reality [and] forever altering our perspective. Capturing the essence of that moment, and embodying it in a photographic image, is my primary desire."

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