John Gossage: The Whole Pond and A Little Romance exhibit at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago

The POND is a body of work – vintage silver print photographs taken around and away from a pond situated in an unkempt, wooded area at the edge of a city. The images and the book of the same title present a foil to Henry David Thoreau's stay at Walden. Gossage's photographs reveal a subtle vision of reality on the border between man and nature. His nature is at once at odds with itself and with humankind, but the tone is ambiguous and evocative rather than didactic.<

Robert Adams described the work as " believable because it includes evidence of man's darkness of spirit, memorable for the intense fondness [Gossage] shows for the remains of the natural world." The POND is an integral yet under-appreciated body of work belonging to the "New Topographic" movement, an important part of photography in the 1970s and 80s.  The book is available at the Aperture Foundation.

Also on view will be prints from a series called THE ROMANCE INDUSTRY, a haunting pictorial investigation into the modern day area around Venice, a solemn rumination, incorporating elements of man's indifference and nature's response.