A photo series
by
James Teitelbaum
by
James Teitelbaum
James is an artist, an author, an engineer, an educator, and an archivist.
He uses combinations of new and vintage media (text, photo, sound, video, etc.) to examine some of his primary concerns: human destruction of the natural world; deep time, shallow time, and our relationship to the near and distant past and future; aging in a society with a viciously capitalistic and criminally corrupt health care system; the curation and use of archives as tools for art and history; and the line between technology that helps us and technology designed to exploit us.
After more than fifteen years of gestation, his Blue Skies series is being unleashed in 2023.
He recently selected the sixteen of the best images, and debuted the first half of them (a series of eight) within the context of a larger installation piece called
A Place of Great Tranquility and Unsurpassed Scenic Beauty.
The second series of eight will make its debut soon.
Blue Skies is a meditation on travel and tourism, an attempt at rest in a restless world, and a response to selfies and the banal lure of "scenic views" in tourist traps all over the world.
Every one of the photos in Blue Skies was indeed made on the date and in the place indicated by the title. As wondrous as these places all are, the comforting and consistent familiarity of a clear blue sky binds them all and keeps us grounded to the only place that matters.
While assembling the Blue Skies series, James also collected more than fifty versions of the Irving Berlin song of the same name, and suggests using any version that you may have access to as your personal soundtrack to this art.
Each image has been printed on 18" x 24" archival paper in an edition size of three, plus one artists' proof.
Preview images are featured below.
Prints are $200 each, plus a $30 per order shipping fee (in the U.S.). To order prints, please contact the artist directly.
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| 160520 Koricancha |
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| 110604 Beijing |
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| 100707 Denali |
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| 150728 Thingvellir |
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| 210519 MesaVerde |
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| 190818 36,000 feet |
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| 180607 Budapest |
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| 190828 Stockholm |