Dominic Rouse

When you purchase this folio you will also receive a FREE DVD, The Philosopher's Tomb, created by Dominic Rouse. It is a professionally produced DVD which plays on computers and home DVD players. It runs for 35 minutes and has a soundtrack of music selected by the artist who provides detailed narratives for eight of his images. It provides a fascinating insight into the creative mind, revealing techniques which have more in common with painting than photography.

$195

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A 15-print folio
from the imaginative mind of Dominic Rouse

Dominic Rouse would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography as a wide and varied community of folks is a very big tent indeed, and his corner of photography has few fellow travelers — a contemporary like Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind — but when I think of his work, I think more of the painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, and René Magritte. Rouse does not photograph the world; he makes photographs of his mind.

Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at, say, an Ansel Adams photograph. With Adams, one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir; with Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll or even Freud.

His images are challenging because the questions he asks in his images are challenging in themselves. In my interview with him in 2007, he quoted Picasso who said, “Computers are useless because they only give you answers.” Rouse’s photographs pose far more questions than they answer. I suspect that is precisely his intention.

Brooks Jensen
from the folio introduction

15 Individual Prints

• Folio is 8x10½"
• Images are approx. 7x9"
• Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag
• Epson Ultrachrome K3 pigment inks
• Embossed, die-cut art paper enclosure

Sequentially numbered, open edition
4-page, folded text signature

• Title page
• Publisher's statement
• List of prints
• Colophon