{"product_id":"untitled-from-the-series-the-accidental-theorist-2007","title":"Edgar Martins: Untitled, from the series The Accidental Theorist, 2007","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Returning from a shoot, late at night, I came across a nearby beach and was struck by an arrangement of poles in the sand. I didn’t know how I wanted to photograph them or what they meant, but I liked the idea that my perception of that space, at the time, seemed to enter a different register. In that place where sea meets land and where both dissipate into nothingness if felt as though I were having a glimpse of the edge of the universe.”—Edgar Martins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so began Edgar Martins’s work on one of his most acclaimed series, \u003cem\u003eThe Accidental Theorist\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he was awarded the best fine art photography series at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. Here, long-exposed images of beaches at night challenge the viewer’s perceptions. This previously unpublished photograph from the series features artful composition and rigorously controlled framing; Edgar Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often un-beautiful sites. Minimalist nighttime beach scenes, forests ravaged by drought-fueled fires, and Iceland’s stark terrain have all served as subjects for his large-scale color photographs. Certain themes recur throughout Martins’s work: a sense of place and a sense of alienation from place, a sense of mystery, and a sense that something unsettling has just happened or is about to happen. As he states, “My work is a journey of recognition: space, as our object of understanding, is changing and because of this one needs to find a new critical language that supports it, and a new system of knowledge from which to derive our glossary of life. In my work, there is a permanent ambivalence between poetic failure and the promise of success.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514067292294,"sku":"L0145","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-L0145-1_ac4df145-f037-4cba-8a48-6acb31d40459.jpg?v=1763775527","url":"https:\/\/store.aperture.org\/products\/untitled-from-the-series-the-accidental-theorist-2007","provider":"Aperture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}