Watching Tree Bark Grow

by Chris Burns | September 6th, 2009

Yes tree bark, the most interesting of all tree coverings. Or not! What we’ve got here is a re-imagining of nature. Photographer Bobby Neel Adams has a project here called Re-Skinning Nature, and he’s got wood patterns on lock.

Much of Adams’ photographic work addresses the transformation of the human body by aging and circumstance. In the late 1980s he began using a photomontage technique he termed “photo-surgery,” in which photographs were altered through manual excision, collage, and sometimes defacing of the subject.

I like the stripies best. I’d also like some leopard print trees to show up, too.

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Demetrius

I don’t get it? Is he just photoshopping textures onto the bare spots? Or, is he applying texture to the actual trees then photographing them? …The latter would be infinitely cooler.
Chris Burns

Oh ya, it’s not photoshop at all. You’ll see in a post by this same photographer I’m about to make, he’s not into the whole photoshop world at all. It’s cool, I assure you.
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