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| SUSAN FENTON: HAND COLORED PHOTOGRAPHS |
| From 1991 through 1994 Fenton taught in Japan. While living there Fenton assembled a |
| series of visual metaphors that address the quiet strength of the Japanese people, as well as the fetishistic and ritualistic iconography of their culture, both traditional |
| and contemporary. In her photographs, Fenton assembles visual metaphors that she hopes |
| will address the quiet strength of the Japanese people as well as the fetishistic and |
| ritualistic iconography of their culture, both traditional and contemporary. |
| Fenton's images involve a shallow and tightly composed space with solitary models who |
| remain anonymous. Appropriated headgear, body treatment or props are her own creations, |
| made solely for the sake of the photograph with primary concern for composition and |
| esthetic impact. Fenton's photographs are printed on fiber-based paper. They are then |
| brown-toned and finally hand-painted with photographic oil pigments. |