Ken Rosenthal

Tucson-based photographer Ken Rosenthal’s photography has a somewhat unsettling, dream-like look and feel. He toys with issues of memory, nostalgia, dreams, and the tendency of the mind to half create and half perceive (to mangle an observation of Wordsworth’s). Drawing upon his own photographs and an archive of family snapshots, Rosenthal crops and blurs images into a sort of liquid haze. That’s simple enough these days with PhotoShop, but Rosenthal does it the old-fashioned, analog way: in the using selective toning and bleach. The results are strangely silent but still potent with storiessome no doubt real, and others imagined.