Library Book - Riley Duda

Riley Duda 

Eric Roman 

Photo 100

13 July 2018

Kristin Capp was born in Seattle, Washington and lived there until 1994 when she decided to move to New York City. While she was trained as a classic violinist at a young age she eventually discovered photography when studying Russian and French literature in Quebec, Canada. There she discovered a photography and learned to photograph using dark room technique. She continued to educate herself in photography when she moved to New York. Kristin now mostly photographs using a Rolleifex twin lens camera. She has photographed all over the word including, the United States, Africa, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and Brazil. As a result of working across the globe Capp now has multiple publications of her work, Hutterite: A World of Grace (1998), Americana (2000) and Brasil (2016). Along with these books she has also had multiple exhibitions across the country including, The Whitney in New York, Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut, and the Harvard Museum of Art. 

Kristin enjoys taking on in depth photography projects that are able to engage her for a year or longer so that she becomes familiar with the subject or place she is photographing. Her work usually represents the place she is photographing in and shows off varying aspects of where she is photographing. The picture I am looking at was taken in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This photo depicts a horse standing in the distance in what seems to be a large body of water. Along the horizon you can also see a mountain range in the distance. The range of mountains almost look foggy and out of focus. Since the photo is in black and white there is emphasis on the texture of the water that the horse is standing in. Despite the texture of the water being so vivid there is also a bit go grain in the picture which I think ads a little bit of character. Personally, I enjoy the contrast between the water and the sky. I also think that without the horse the photo would be boring. However, by placing the horse in the photograph it ads perspective and gives the viewer an idea of how large the body of water is and how small the horse can look compared to it.