Swing
Artist
David Ottenstein
(b. 1960)
Date2007
MediumPigment ink photographic print
Dimensions16 x 20 in.
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Artist
Object number2010.49
DescriptionBorn in State College, PA, David Ottenstein began taking photographs at the age of 14. He has worked as a freelance photographer in New Haven, CT, since 1982 after graduating from Yale University. Ottenstein states that “[m]y photographs, first and foremost, are about beauty. In structures that most people agree are ugly, I see the opposite: surfaces rich in texture and patterns, bold forms molded by light.”Swing is one of Ottenstein’s images of struggling farms in Iowa and was published in his 2017 book Photographs of Iowa: The Vanishing Architectural Landscape of the Midwest.
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