Dweck, Michael (born 1957)
Sonya, Poles (Montauk). Michael Dweck Exhibition Poster
San Francisco: Modernism, 2010. Poster. 81 x 62cm..Michael Dweck's first major photographic work was published in volume form as The End: Montauk, N.Y. in 2004, and was featured in several exhibitions and art fairs that year. The work portrays the old fishing community of Montauk and its surfing subculture. It is an evocation of a real-world paradise lost: the paradise of summer, youth, and erotic possibility - an American version of the Arcadian vision. Blending nostalgia, fantasy, and documentation the photographs present a compelling portrait of a place in time and a way of life at once fading and being reinvented with each new season. The signature photograph of the collection, Sonya, Poles, is an image of ecstatic summer. A beautiful young woman in full naked glory - her blond hair blown back, her breasts aloft, a smile of anticipation - bounds across a glistening beach, a surfboard under her arm, toward the incoming waves. In the far distance - in the upper margin of the picture - waves and dunes, surf and scrub fringe the horizon line which divides her head from her body. Her face is profiled against the great sky, and her dynamic body against the flat expanse of wet sand. All the bliss of summer fun and youthful promise is summed up by her scissor kick, reiterated by her shadow and her reflection, a vivacious "v" form that becomes a faceted diamond cleaved from light. And that bolt of white, her surfboard, like a missile, will carve out the place on the wave that will bear her back over the beating tide like a goddess from the sea. .
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