'THE PHILOSOPHER'S TOMB'
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF DOMINIC ROUSE
"Dominic Rouse would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography, as a wide and varied community of folks, is a very big tent indeed and his corner of photography has few fellow travellers. Contemporarily Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind. But when I think of his work, I think more of the painters Breugel, Hieronymus Bosch and Rene Magritte. Rouse does not photograph the world, he makes photographs of his mind. Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at, say, an Ansel Adams photograph.
With Adams one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir, with Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll or even Freud. His images are challenging because the questions he ask in his images are challenging themselves." (From Brook Jensen's introduction to Dominic Rouse's photography included on 'The Philosopher's Tomb' DVD)
'The Philosopher's Tomb' is a professionally produced DVD which plays on computers and home DVD players. It runs for 35 minutes and has a soundtrack of music selected by the artist who provides detailed narratives for eight of his images. It provides a fascinating insight into the creative mind, revealing techniques which have more in common with painting than photography.
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