Stuart Franklin: Narcissus
Find the online viewing room for Stuart Franklin: Narcissus here.
Stuart Franklin (born 1956), member of Magnum Photos since 1989, has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st Century – from the massacre at Tiananmen Square to the Intifada – as well as producing many personal projects concerned primarily with man and the environment. Franklin’s work is characterised by a direct documentary-style combined with a strong personal vision. Since the 1990s he began to move away from news into documentary photography and has completed over twenty assignments for National Geographic.
The works presented in our online exhibition – Franklin’s second with The Fine Art Society – are part of Narcissus, a long-term project and book on Norway’s landscape first published in 2013 (Hatje Cantz). In 2009 Franklin bought a cabin on the remote island of Otrøya, in the region of Møre og Romsdal on the western coast of Norway. The plan was to spend time experiencing the landscape and take a break after three years as president of Magnum Photos.
Over the following two years, the small island and its surroundings became the focus of Franklin’s investigation into the nature of landscape photography. He came to realise that by photographing the woods, the snow and ice, the reflection of the mountain in the lake, he was in fact documenting his own personal experience of the place. He was seeing his own reflection in the landscape around him. The work in Narcissus examines the way in which we search for our image or identity in nature. It is about the way man and nature are intrinsically connected and how nature – the landscape – can become mediated through photography to settle as an echo of ourselves.
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Stuart FranklinBranches over Hestøyra, 2011signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinGrasses I, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinIce Study I, 2013signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinIce Study II, 2013signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinMask I, 2011signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinRain on Water with Pines, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinRope Like Hair, Skarsheia, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinSleeping Trolls, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinSnow Hill, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinStela I, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinStela III, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinStela in Moonlight I, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinStela in Moonlight II, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinTorso II, 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinTree/man, 2011signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned20 x 16 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinTyre Track I, 2013signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinTyre Track II, 2013signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinWaterfall over Holsvatnet I (diptych), 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinWaterfall over Holsvatnet II (diptych), 2010signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10
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Stuart FranklinWillow and Wire, 2011signed and numbered versosilver gelatin print, selenium toned16 x 20 inchesEdition of 10