Issa Mª Benítez Dueñas ///

BLEDA & ROSA. The horizontal gaze

It has been only recently that photography entered the realm of contemporary art championing its very own strengths and qualities. It’s not that photography wasn’t there, it’s just that so far it had been considered a minor art practice, its close relationship to technology and its inherent multiplicity making it suspicious. It was also commonly assumed that its function was mostly documentary thus setting itself in clear opposition to the purely aesthetic inclination of Art.

Today however, we find many photography-based images that put the stress on a formal vision and on the subjective gaze and that have trespassed the boundaries of Contemporary Art by way of replicating the grand scale and spectacular dimension of recent art. Parallel to this process, and in no minor stance due to the art market flows, documentary art photography has been vindicated.