Eddee Daniel

medium: photography

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Alhambra 2008 Photography	Blooms 2007 Photography	Calvary 2008 Photography
Construction Boom 2007 Photography	Ecstasy 2007 Photography	Resurrection 2008 Photography
Revelation 2008 Photography	Totem V 2006 Photography	Totem VI 2008 Photography
Up Against the Wall 2008 Photography

Contact information
2013 Ludington Ave
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Email Address: eddeedaniel@sbcglobal.net
Web site: www.eddeedaniel.com

Artist statement
This body of work, which I call the Icon Series, uses a recognizable formal structure to emphasize iconic themes. The content varies between natural elements within built environments and human impacts on natural environments. The triptych form places a central figure within a context that either magnifies its iconic stature and symbolic meaning or creates an unexpected juxtaposition.

The triptych is achieved two ways: some are pre-visualized on site and shot as three sequential images while others are combined later after examining and rearranging images to establish new relationships.

The central figure in these constructions is often elevated to iconic status despite being an otherwise ordinary subject. It is rarely a subject that would be perceived as iconic and therefore it subverts the accepted definition of an icon. My intention is to make a viewer think about the subject and its relationship to its context in a newly symbolic way. The triptych form also serves to change the way the image is viewed. It emphasizes a narrative and relational view of the world in contrast to a static, singular and referential one.

Biography
Eddee Daniel has been practicing and teaching photography for over 25 years, at schools that include Carroll College, Mount Mary College, University of Wisconsin—Waukesha and Marquette University High School. He has an extensive record of exhibits, from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Wisconsin venues include the Milwaukee Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, Center for Photography at Madison, Wisconsin Union Galleries, Center for Visual Arts in Wausau and the Wright Museum of Art in Beloit. He has received awards from the Wustum Museum of Art, Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, Savannah College of Art and Design, The Photographic Society of America, Upstream People Gallery, Company Magazine, New Mexico Photographer and the Charles Allis Art Museum. His book, Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed, published by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, received the Kodak American Greenways Award from the Conservation Fund.