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Biographical Note
Alan Krauss has been a part-time photographer since the 1960's, but
his formal education is in physics, receiving a Bachelor's degree from the
University of Chicago in 1965, and a Ph. D. in solid state physics from
Purdue University in 1971. Dr. Krauss is currently a senior scientist and
head of the Thin Film Growth and Characterization Group in the Materials
Science and Chemistry Divisions at Argonne National Laboratory, and is an
adjunct Professor of Materials Science at the University of Wisconsin. Krauss
is photographically largely self-taught although he has studied with the
French photographer, Lucien Clergue and attended courses at the Maine Photographic
Workshop and the Midwest Photographic Workshop where he has also lectured
on the use of digital imaging methods in photography of the nude. He has
found that the computer-related aspects of his scientific research have
provided new routes of artistic expression in his photographic work, and
is an ardent advocate of digital imaging as an indispensable tool for the
visual artist. He is the author of an article in Apogee
Photo Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 6 - September, 1996) on the subject of the
relationship between painting, photography, and digital imaging, and is
currently writing for the magazine Art
in Photography. Most of his photographic works are for sale, and a sampling
may be viewed in the Wind Ridge Photography Gallery.
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Statement of Purpose
I have long been fascinated by the concept of fantasy, the depiction
of other worlds in which the rules of human intercourse and indeed the laws
of physics differ significantly from those of our daily experience. The
contemplation of "alternate worlds" frees us temporarily from
the frustrations of daily life, and also provides a framework against which
we can better appreciate the wonders and great beauty of our world, and
perhaps develop the imagination which will help us to improve that world.
The sense of fantasy can be created in the absence of humans, but we
respond strongly to images of humans interacting with their environment.
I am drawn to environments which invoke the universals of human experience,
and you should therefore not expect to find people wearing blue jeans and
a Grateful Dead tee shirt in my photographs. In attempting to portray universals,
it is important that an image not look like "A Day in the Life of John
Doe." I therefore am drawn to photography of the nude, since, with
the exception of certain hair styles, the unclothed body does not immediately
identify the time and place of an image, and lends itself to the potrayal
of myth and allegory.
Although I do not deliberately restrict my work to digitally manipulated
images, I find that some degree of digital alteration almost always improves
the visual effectiveness of my images. A manipulated image may not be quite
"truthful" in the sense of representing a literal rendering of
a scene at the moment I clicked the shuttert, but my goal is to produce
visually effective, evocative, emotionally moving images. If I succeed in
this goal, then I have created a photograph which is a truthful representation
of an image in my mind.
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