Untitled (from the series, Uranium Robots), 1976 vintage gelatin silver print (Kodalith) 11 x 14 inches
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Les Krims: Uranium Robots
31/10/2020 - 02/01/2021
Joseph Bellows
7661 Girard Ave
CA 92037 La Jolla
www.josephbellows.com
While teaching a workshop for Eikoe Hosoe‘s Tokyo School of Photography in 1974, Les Krims was inspired by the Japanese cartoons and popular robot toys. The Uranium Robot series, was the result of two robot suit-building contests assigned by Krims to his students at SUNY, Buffalo. The entrants wore their respective robot suits and stood in the same corner of the room, an otherworldly space invader trapped in a quotidian classroom. Krims documented the entrants using an 8x10 inch camera. The resulting vintage contact prints were developed on either Portriga Rapid or Kodalith Ortho paper.
31/10/2020 - 02/01/2021
Joseph Bellows
7661 Girard Ave
CA 92037 La Jolla
www.josephbellows.com
While teaching a workshop for Eikoe Hosoe‘s Tokyo School of Photography in 1974, Les Krims was inspired by the Japanese cartoons and popular robot toys. The Uranium Robot series, was the result of two robot suit-building contests assigned by Krims to his students at SUNY, Buffalo. The entrants wore their respective robot suits and stood in the same corner of the room, an otherworldly space invader trapped in a quotidian classroom. Krims documented the entrants using an 8x10 inch camera. The resulting vintage contact prints were developed on either Portriga Rapid or Kodalith Ortho paper.