美國藝術家Arno Rafael Minkkinen攝影作品

"A dance of light "by Arno Rafael Minkkinen.

As she states," In 1971,at Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, NY, I stood naked in front of a mirror I had placed in the grass. The following year I am floating an ice surrounded by flames, a performance artist I suppose,but performance art with a purely photographic intent didn't come into full swing until much later".The photographs are arranged in groupings that stress the visual and poetic connections between works from different periods of time. Minkknen's black/white photographs of his own naked body interacting with the physical environment constitute a unique and ground breaking contribution.

Minkkinen用自己的身體各部位和動作介入每個物理環境組合出一個獨特又開創性的當代攝影作品，他所想像的畫面包含他被埋在雪堆裡，在水中沉潛，將身體懸浮在懸崖峭壁，利用手腕姿勢化成一艘小船在靜止的湖裡，將自己埋藏在樹的構造裡，也有芭蕾舞姿勢動作等各部位動作的延伸。從作品裡可以看出Minkkinen展示了人體可以當做一種強而有力的表現形式，然後配合場景／環境轉換成一個突破性的藝術作品。