Caleb Cain Marcus

American, born 1978

BiographyCaleb Cain Marcus’ various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of color. He uses the print as a midway point in his process instead of the end result by applying translucent layers of hand painted or drawn color over sections of the photograph. The photographs become a kind of slow-moving performance between the light rendered in the print, the hand applied color and the ambient light. The finished print is situated at the intersection of what a photograph is.

Caleb’s childhood was spent observing the perpetual change of light and natural forms that moved across the Rocky Mountains. He studied poetry before moving to photography which landed him in New York where he now resides in Brooklyn near a group of trees known as Prospect Park.

He has exhibited, in recent solo exhibitions or as a featured artist at the Ross Museum, the National Academy of Sciences in DC, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, the Houston Center for Photography, Tufts Art Gallery, and Palm Beach Photo Center.

His work is held in many significant museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the High Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

His work has been published in contemporary photography journals such as PDN, Musée, American Photo and Professional Photographer and mainstream magazines Conde Nast Traveler, Orion and Audubon as well as online journals such as Feature Shoot, Fraction, F-stop, Slate, Lens Culture, Smithsonian, My Modern Met and Hyperallergic. Caleb is the author of six books including A Portrait of Ice (2012), A brief movement after death (2018) and Iterations (2019).

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