Factory (Male torsos 1)

For over more than thirty years, the American artist Lynne Cohen has photographed inanimate spaces: laboratories, factories, offices, and waiting rooms where human presence is recognized only through objects and decoration – often kitsch, even comic –, and in which it is not a simple task to identify the boundary between what is real and what is staged. The frames, carefully chosen to allow light to bring out the materials and create a marked contrast between colors – despite the fact that the bulk of her career is made up of black and white snapshots – give these images a look that is contrived and enigmatic at the same time...[+]