Worldview

Photographs by Martin Gantman

April 1 - 30, 2015

Physical show extended until May 3 at 4695 Marwood Drive, LA 90065


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PRESS RELEASE

WORLDVIEW ARTIST STATMENT

RESUME

THE ONLINE EXHIBITION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

WORLDVIEW”, Photographs by Martin Gantman  

 April 1 - 30, 2015    -   Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1pm - 4pm


WORLDVIEW” is the first solo exhibition of Martin Gantman’s photographs at Another Year in LA and is being held both as an online show and at our physical location in Eagle Rock.

 

In the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic, Rear Window, a wheelchair-bound photographer Jimmy Stewart, spends his time looking out of his apartment window into a shared courtyard and the backs of the buildings that surround it.  During the course of the movie, he watches a cavalcade of human interaction including a murder that he is convinced has occurred but did not actually see happen.  Watching this movie turns the viewer also into a voyeur just like Stewart.

 

The photographs in Martin Gantman’s WORLDVIEW exhibition feature a similar reverse voyeuristic point-of-view of looking at windows (both open and with curtains drawn) from inside hoping to look out.  And there are lots of those windows.  So many different images that one, simultaneously, begins to wonder about the inhabitants as much as their “world view”.

 

In the opening paragraph of his WORLDVIEW artist’s statement, Gantman asks the following questions: “What do you look at? What do you actually see? How do you choose to see? What is your view of the world outside?

 

Continuing Gantman shares, “During the course of this project, photographs were taken from within the domiciles of various random residents. These images display not only what these viewers look at, but also what they look through, and what they see while looking through.

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Worldview

 

What do you look at? What do you actually see? How do you choose to see? What is your view of the world outside?

 

During the course of this project, photographs were taken from within the domiciles of various random residents. These images display not only what these viewers look at, but also what they look through, and what they see while looking through.

 

There is a parallel in, say, how one chooses to vote. How did you decide to vote that way? How much did you cover up during the process of reaching your decision? How much did light did you let in? Was the possibility that other people might see you naked a factor in your decision?

 

While Apostel and his followers clearly hold that individuals can construct worldviews, other writers regard worldviews as operating at a community level, or in an unconscious way. For instance, if one's worldview is fixed by one's language, as according to a strong version of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, one would have to learn or invent a new language in order to construct a new worldview.

 

Are your windows a projection of your eyes? Or are they separated, like glasses, so that you don’t really see them? Or their frames.

 

According to Michael Lind, "a worldview is a more or less coherent understanding of the nature of reality, which permits its holders to interpret new information in light of their preconceptions.

 

Do your windows transparently reflect your preconceptions?

  

- Martin Gantman

2015

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Norwich Drive

 

                                      

                Worldview Norwich 1, 2014                                                                                          Worldview Norwich 6, 2014                            

                                  Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                          Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                  $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                      $600 (+$50 shipping)

              
                                                                                                                                                                                   

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                            Worldview Norwich 11, 2014                                                                                   Worldview Norwich 9, 2014     

                                              Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                     Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                              $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                  $600 (+$50 shipping)

                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                               

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Sweetzer Avenue

 

                        

                          Worldview Sweetzer 9, 2014                                                                                   Worldview Sweetzer 7, 2014                         

                                          Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                    Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                          $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                 $600 (+$50 shipping

                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                

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                             Worldview Sweetzer 3, 2014                                                                                  Worldview Sweetzer 4, 2014     

                                               Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                    Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                               $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                 $600 (+$50 shipping)

                                          

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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Reservoir Drive

 

                                                                            

                             Worldview Reservoir 10, 2014                                               Worldview Reservoir 3, 2014       

                                               Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                    Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                               $1,200 (+$400 shipping)                                                           $1,200 (+$400 shipping)

                                                   
                                                                                                                                                          

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                            Worldview Reservoir 9, 2014                                                                                    Worldview Reservoir 8, 2014   

                                               Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                     Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                               $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                 $600 (+$50 shipping

                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

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19th Street

 

                                       

                            Worldview 19th Street 1, 2015                                                                                                    Worldview 19th Street 3, 2015     

                                               Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                                        Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                               $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                                     $600 (+$50 shipping)

                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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                Worldview 19th Street 2, 2015                                                                                                      Worldview 19th Street 5, 2015     

                                   Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10                                                                         Archival Digital Print, 11" x 17" (framed), ed of 10

                                   $600 (+$50 shipping)                                                                                                                     $600 (+$50 shipping)

                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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