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BECOMING ONE WITH HIS SURROUNDINGS ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN INSERTS HIMSELF INTO THE LANDSCAPE, WITH STRIKING RESULTS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20051023
Author:Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

LINCOLN William Butler Yeats posed one of the most famous questions in 20th-century poetry, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" Arno Rafael Minkkinen has devoted his career to offering a photographic riposte: How can we know the dancer from the dance floor?

The dancer, in this case, is Minkkinen's nude body, and the dance floor the surrounding environment. That environment can be a lake or canyon or even the Bridge of Sighs. The point is that Minkkinen photographs himself in such a way as to merge with his surroundings. He uses hands, fingers, feet, toes, torso, arms, legs, and ...

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