David Goldes

Title: Hole in soap bubble film

Artist: David Goldes

Medium: Silver Geletin Print

Year: 2003



Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography?



Using the physical world as a metaphor, David Goldes uses his extensive scientific knowledge to create striking images of such things as water's surface tension. Using water, electricity, air movement, wind, and breath, Goldes manipulates and observes the phenomena to illustrate science's omissions, taking the descriptive aspect as his foundation and invoking metaphor, memory, narrative and emotion



Goldes is currently a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He received a BA in Chemistry and Biology from SUNY at Buffalo, a MA from Harvard in Molecular Genetics and a MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY-Buffalo in Photography. He has received numerous fellowships, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a NEA Individual Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation Art Fellowships, McKnight Foundation Fellowships, residency at the City des Arts in Paris, and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Yale Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His photographs have also been displayed in more than fourteen solo exhibitions and twenty-three group exhibitions.



Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work.



It seems to me a somewhat rare combination, Art and Science, yet Goldes combines the two in amazing fashion. The art in his photographs are of objects that seem to defy science in some ways, and are in many ways exceptions to the rule.





Name: Joe Ulwelling