George Tatge Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1951 -

George Tatge's photographs are apparitional. They re-vision the objects he selects and that selection, the photographer's syntax, is at once classical and idiosyncratic, their often hieratic compositional order ruptured by surprise ...

Italy's seduction could have diverted a lesser photographer into the precincts of the picturesquely obvious. Instead, Tatge seeks out its secrets, using his black and white palette with a sensitivity to the subtlest effects of light and velvety darkness... The chiaroscuro of Tatge's palette is a kind of breathing. Light glistens almost mystically on branches, on pools of water. Often, light sculpts the tectonics of the man-made structures he isolates. The compound geometries would be dizzying were it not for Tatge's judicious control.