Nadia Mattis
Bill Arnold, Dennis (Car)
1969, Gelatin Silver Print
"I
stopped to look at where I was." This simple observation has informed
and crystallized Bill Arnold's approach to making pictures for nearly
forty years. He believes there is poetry in prosaic everyday
occurrences, and that his role as an artist is to find and fix those
moments into pictures. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Arnold
pursued photography as a means of creating personal documents where
atmosphere, gesture, and mood were prized over the recording of facts,
or the investigation of a particular subject or theme.
