Eric William Carroll
Eric William Carroll
Enhanced Digital Camera Resolution Chart, 2012/14
Cyanotype
11 x 14 in
Edition of 15
In Enhanced Digital Camera Resolution Chart, Eric William Carroll explores the intersection of photography's historical processes and contemporary technology. Using the nineteenth-century cyanotype process to reproduce a digital camera resolution chart, Carroll playfully examines the tools and conventions of photographic image-making. The work reflects his characteristic combination of humor, experimentation, and an appreciation for photography's history.
Carroll is an American photographer and artist whose practice encompasses traditional photography, alternative processes, and conceptual experimentation. His work challenges conventional ideas about how photographs are made, reproduced, and understood. Carroll's work includes a wide variety of pictures taken, made, invented, and transformed. Present in his work is a keen sense of history, humor, and an intricate, understated aesthetic.
Eric William Carroll explores photography in many forms. His wide-ranging body of work includes pictures taken, made, invented, and transformed. Present in all of his work is a keen sense of history, a sense of humor, and an intricate, understated aesthetic. His work has been exhibited at Fotohof in Salzburg, Austria, the Camera Club of New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and SF Camerawork. Carroll was the winner of the 2012 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer.