Stefan Simchowitz | PCS (Petra Cortright)
PCS (Petra Cortright)
84 x 127 cm
C Type Photograph
White Timber frame, archival glass
Signed Verso
Edition of 5 with Two Artists Proofs
$4,400
Stefan Simchowitz (1970-
(born in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Los Angeles-based art collector, art curator, art advisor, photographer, polemicist and film producer. He is a vocal proponent of social media as a legitimate vector for discovering, distributing, and popularising the fine arts outside and alongside the traditional institutional, educational, critical and gallery infrastructures. The Simcoportrait is a self created genre of photography in which he has collapsed documentation of anything and everything into a single thing - this includes still life, landscape, street, self portraiture, and documentation photography. The Simcoportrait is merely a portrait of the subject in whatever genre of photography it may fall. What is unusual about his practice is that it accompanies him everywhere as a live documentation under the seemingly nondescript amateur everyday photographer. There is a formal discipline to his image taking and image making that is reflected in the obsessive compulsion to capture and create.
