Clifford Prince King: RASPBERRY BLOW continues through the end of August. "RASPBERRY BLOW draws from seven years of his work, underlining the range of gestures with which he has reanimated the documentary-style image. AIDS-era photographers put a ragged kind of snapshot realism to radical ends; King subverts the idiom with a dreamy, narrative sensibility, rooting his work in the place where politics becomes psychological. Meanwhile, with his exclusive use of film, and his proclivity for antique, large-format cameras, the self-taught King invokes the tinkerers who pioneered the medium, perhaps especially the Pictorialists of the late 19th century. For them, the evocation of atmosphere took precedence over the description of subject matter, and like King they often experimented with composites and multiple exposures. The goal was not to launch the work into surreality, but to inflect reality with a skepticism that might make it credible. " #CliffordPrinceKing #StarsGallery