Amy Stein: Domesticated
© Amy Stein/Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City.
Roman Candle, 2008, by Amy Stein from her Domesticated exhibit at ClampArt in New York City. In Domesticated, artist Amy Stein explores the archetypal motif of man versus nature. More specifically, her photographs explore the tenuous relationship between man and animals as human civilization continues to encroach upon nature. On view until October 31 at ClampArt, 521–531 West 25th Street, Ground Floor, New York, City.
Tags: Amy Stein, Brian Paul Clamp, ClampArt, Domesticated, Nature
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm EEDT
Good photo. It makes me want to kick the **** out of those brats.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:13 pm EEDT
Just heard this might be posed and the racoon is taxidermy. Anyone?
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm EEDT
What the hell is this picture?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm EEDT
Skye – that’s correct. As I understand it, most (if not all) of Amy’s work in this series is with taxidermied (I know that isn’t a word) animals.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am EEDT
The photographer is like a modern day Weegee, she gets the teenagers to give her a heads-up before they go out to beat a raccoon.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:05 pm EEDT
This photo pisses me off to no end. If the photographer wants to shoot man’s encroachment upon the land, she should look to the Grand Canyon maybe and the not so far off coal-fired power plant. Or houses plunked down in brush-covered hillsides in Southern California. That’s why they burn. Or trophy houses built just outside Yellowstone, fragmenting wildlife habitat. That’s encroachment. That’s why animals die.
September 25th, 2009 at 6:31 pm EEDT
getting people pissed is probably her goal. if this is staged, true events might be more honorable, but i imagine something like this is happening somewhere at this/every moment. the image has power.
“man as monster”
September 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am EEDT
It’s fake, staged, a constructed image designed to communicate her concept of young white males and evoke emotion. PDN might as well have chosen a Cialis, McDonalds or GM ad as POTD.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am EEDT
i m respinding to this because its something thatim choosing for a school project and it is staged im taking photgraphy and this is an amzing good picture well staged
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:50 pm EEST
the photographer should have been chasing off the kids to save ONE being instead of trying to capture a “Cool” shot. this photo pisses me off too.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:21 pm EEST
Artist’s statement:
My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history. Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the “wild” and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals.
The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from local newspapers and oral histories of intentional and random interactions between humans and animals. The narratives are set in and around Matamoras, a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania that borders a state forest.
http://www.amysteinphoto.com/domesticated_state.html
Please do the research instead of jumping to conclusions.