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I MET A UNICORN
Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC
March 26-April 25, 2010

To say that unicorns have an existence in heraldry, or in literature, or in imagination,
is a most pitiful and paltry evasion. What exists in heraldry is not an animal, made of flesh and blood,
moving and breathing of its own initiative. What exists is a picture, or a description in words.
—Bertrand Russell

Barry Stone employs a wide variety of practices as a means of generating singular images. His approach
includes “straight”photography, rephotographing, computer-rendering, and manually reworking, and does
not value one method above another. Instead, Stone takes an egalitarian view of image-making. At a time
when an explosion of photographic imagery can seem to dilute the medium to an infinite stream of
information, Stone displays a considered selection which exemplifies his varied approaches.

Stone’s photographs deal with the problems of description in photography, and can reflect our perceptions
of reality as we acknowledge the factors which inform their production and interpretation. His aesthetic in
this regard is as indebted to the language of painting as it is to the language of advertising as it is to
capitalist production.

John Ewing’s Review in Art Lies
Interview with Lucas Blalock in The Photography Post