Jeremy Cowart - Photographs London Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | Phillips

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  • “A Lightograph ultimately reflects our own humanity because we are more than a still-life. We are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional.”
    —Jeremy Cowart

    In 2014, Jeremy Cowart’s (b.1977) 15-year career as a celebrated portrait photographer and his long-term experimentation with various mediums culminated in the creation of his first Lightograph, an interactive digital work. Using Profoto strobes and Canon DSLRs, the artist captures the same subject in the same pose in rapid succession through multiple lightings. In the artist’s proprietary Lightograph portraiture technique, only the light moves and the subject remains still. ‘There are no 3D or AI effects or any post-work in general,’ Cowart notes. ‘A Lightograph is achieved with analogue methods and studio lighting.’ Minted as an NFT, the featured digital artwork Houston in Red, Lightograph IV illuminates and darkens as light moves across its varied surfaces: the subject’s skin, the high-shine fabric of his jacket and the many pearls adorning his necklace. Resembling a 19th-century cased photograph, the striking portrait is displayed within a leather-bound case with velvet borders and a passe-partout. In this unique work, which oscillates between light and shadow, analogue and digital, and historical and contemporary, Cowart invites the viewer to experience his portraiture for the 21st century. His photographs have been published in Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Nylon and his digital series Block Queens and Lightographs have been featured across NFT collecting platforms.

     

    Jeremy Cowart working in his studio with his lighting set.

     

    Stills from portrait shoot for Houston in Red, Lightograph IV.

     

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Houston in Red, Lightograph IV

Token ID4
Contract Address0x48a5...df4f
Non-Fungible TokenERC-721
PNG: 909 KB (931,499 bytes), 697x872 pixels; GIF: 39.2 MB (41,197,359 bytes), 768x960 pixels
Minted on 27 October 2022, this work features the artist's proprietary Lightograph portraiture technique.

To View the Interactive NFT Please Click Here

This work is unique.


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Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

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London Auction 22 November 2022