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Modernism is pleased to present its fifth one-person exhibition of photographs by Robert STIVERS.

For Robert Stivers, the subject that he chooses to photograph is only the beginning of his creative journey. The choices of pose, scale, viewpoint, tonality, and focus, followed by his labored darkroom manipulation of the image are as extensive as if he were painting on a blank canvas to achieve his ends. The observable world before his lens are thus transformed into Stivers’s personal figments of his imagination.

Unlike painters and sculptors whose works exhibit a recognizable style, …