Light Falls Like Bits: The Photography of Trey Ratcliff

by Michelle Bogre (Contributor), Eric Davis (Contributor), Jordan Crandall (Contributor)

As modes of display and mechanisms of dissemination continue to undergo rigorous renewals, novel systems supporting the consumption of aesthetic production will be forged. What we see, how we see, what we share, how we share, what we learn, how we learn – these are the critical questions whose answers will come to shape future lives. Imminent updates on web-based interactivity, interface and intercommunication will redefine the social role, and naturally the historical ramifications, of art. Trey Ratcliff, leading practitioner of HDR photography, dwells in this realm where art, technology and social media overlap and where they even, as exhibited on his blog stuckincustoms.com and overall online presence, enhance each other. Light Falls Like Bits will critically consider the work and the enterprise of Trey Ratcliff in art historical and theoretical contexts, in an attempt to contribute to the discourse on the evolution of photography in the 21st century.

120 pages, Hardcover

First published September 9, 2014