This Analog Life

Subterraneous, Charles Grogg (2010)

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“Charles Grogg’s photographs are hauntingly beautiful.  And they are strange.  But they are strange in a way that most “strange” photographs are not.  There is no violence, no brutality, no shock, except the shock of authentic art, that shock that forces a viewer back again and again to look at them and keeps them as fresh on the one hundredth viewing as they were on the first.  But they are, indeed, strange, strange in a way the work of absolutely no other photographer I have seen is strange.  Strings and wire are often an integral part of a Grogg photograph, and though that is interesting and connected to their strangeness, it is not at the core of it.  The strangeness lies in their tetherings.”

— James Wood

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