Daniel Gordon: Objects at Hand marks a departure within Gordon's practice — his first sustained work in black and white. Stripped of his signature saturated color, the photographs foreground shadow, surface, and sculptural form, their attention trained on intimate domestic objects: glasses, kitchenware, combs, scissors. Gordon's method remains consistent — images printed, cut, and assembled into paper constructions that are then staged and photographed — but the absence of color sharpens the central paradox: constructions that appear translucent in the resulting images are entirely opaque. Pictures of transparency made from opacity; pictures of pictures.
