Artist Statement
This work both orders the world and exaggerates its chaos; it is a truthful document and an act of imagination. With the camera on a tripod, I take many dozens of pictures and simply leave the figures I choose and omit the rest. Nothing has been changed, only selected. Above all, my work shows a surprising world that is only visible with a camera.

 

 

Pelle Cass has had solo shows in the Boston area at Gallery Kayafas, Stux Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, and Harvard’s Fogg Museum print room. He has also had solo shows at the Frank Marino Gallery, NYC, and the Houston Center for Photography. His work is owned by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; the Polaroid Collection; the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. He was Winner: Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon, in 2008 and 2009, and was awarded Yaddo Fellowships in 2010 and 2012. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. His show Strangers appeared at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, fall 2012.

 

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