{"id":397,"date":"2012-02-02T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraenkelgallery.badfeather.com\/?post_type=fraenkel_artist&p=397"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:41:34","slug":"richard-learoyd","status":"publish","type":"fraenkel_artist","link":"https:\/\/fraenkelgallery.com\/artists\/richard-learoyd","title":{"rendered":"Richard Learoyd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Richard Learoyd\u2019s color images are made with one of the most antiquarian of photographic processes: the camera obscura. Literally translated from Latin as “dark room,” Learoyd has created a room-sized camera in which the photographic paper is exposed. The subject\u2014often a person, sometimes a still life\u2014is in the adjacent room, separated by a lens. Light falling on the subject is directly focused onto the photographic paper without an interposing film negative. The result is an entirely grainless image. The overall sense of these larger-than-life images redefines the photographic illusion. Learoyd’s subjects, composed simply and directly, are described with the thinnest plane of focus, re-creating and exaggerating the way that the human eye perceives, and not without a small acknowledgement to Dutch Master painting.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Untitled Portrait<\/span>, 2023<\/span><\/div>\n
camera obscura Ilfochrome photograph<\/span>, 36-5\/8 x 33-1\/4 inches (framed) [93 x 84.5 cm]<\/span>, one of three unique variants<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n