A ot of his phtots tend to be blurry, which leaves you as the viewer with only a little amount of information about the image. But that is one of the coolest things about Marc- he lets you decided the rest. Marc has a silly obbesion with clouds.He has many pictures such as Cloud Ball and Cloud No. 10. Another one of Marcs favorite thing to shoot is the city lights, and builings. Most of these pictures are blurry such as
Aren't those brilliant?
Biography time:
Marc Yankus was born in Hempstead on Long Island in New York and grew up in a section of it called Hewlitt Harbor. Eleven years later they moved to moved to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In an Interview he says this about his past and his interest in art : " My mother was very interested in fine art and often took me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was actually close to where we lived. Since the Met is located in Central Park, I loved the combination of art and nature, and I remember constantly delving into this during a schoolteachers’ strike, which lasted two whole weeks. In the Early American Wing at the Met I often escaped into the 1700’s. During such time travels I took sketchbooks and drew. I also liked to draw on the subway and around New York. Later I attended the high school of Art and Design on Second Avenue and 52nd Street where I had to submit a portfolio of my artwork and take a test to get accepted. Even with my love of drawing, it was at this high school that I became interested in photography. I remember being mesmerized while watching an image appear in the developer. Besides darkroom processes, I also learned about 35mm and 4” x 5” format cameras. I was particularly interested in surrealism and the manipulation of scale and remember going up on a roof of a building to distort the scale of some of the images I was shooting."
I feel really connected to MArc for I too started with art. I loved drawing and then when I saw the wonderes of photo, it won me over.
Anyway continuing- He attended the School of Visual Art in Manhattan and majored in fine art meaning painting and drawing.During this time he started making collages which were influenced by those of Joseph Cornell. He states, "In looking at the large body of photographs I had taken to make my collages over a period of time, I realized that I had become a photographer. " He also states that he was very influenced by the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher as well as drawings of industrial scenes.
Marc photographs a lot of children such as James :
I find that his work is not nessacraly meant to find realstic people or views but to see plain and simple aboject and people in a different light, no pun intended.
Picture time :
All of Marc images are perfec and brilliant. I will write more later, but Tah Tah for now, I am off the Lunch.
