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Monday, 06 February 2012 16:56

Written by Diana Nelson Jones

David Aschkenas is a photographer who sees art in broken shards of ice on a lake and the leaves embedded in them. He sees art in crows feeding and flying up from the snow outside his studio.

When he sees it, so do you: the crow photos are astonishingly gorgeous and make me realize the value of watching things for long stretches of time. Nothing is beautiful if you don't stare at it for a while.

His images are exquisite and stunning and I have been a fan since seeing the first ones last year.

I went to his exhibit at Rodef Shalom today, in part see his images of the synagogue (which will remain on exhibit for several months, from 9a to 5p Monday through Friday) but mainly to meet him and to write about him in tomorrow’s page 2 “Walkabout.”

He brought several of his books, one titled “Highland Park,” one titled “Stones.”

There’s a shot of Highland Park in which the colors of a pink-orange-purple sunrise show through a tree of green and yellow leaves that doesn’t look like anything you would ever see in life as we know it. But it did for a short time, and he captured it.

http://www.daschkenasphoto.com/new%20work/index.html

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