Robert Silvers and the medium of Photomosaic™

Robert Silvers is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in Media Arts and Sciences. Silvers is the creator of Photomosaics™ that have graced the covers of Life, Newsweek and Wired magazines. His work has also been the focus of national media attention on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America Sunday, CNN and MSNBC as well as notable publications as Fortune, USA Today, and The New York Times. Robert has co-authored and published two books on his work, one in 1997 entitled Photomosaics, and another in October of 2000 entitled Photomosaic Portraits.

Photomosaics™ combines art, photography, and computer graphics, creating composite pictures using a myriad of individual images, often from a reservoir of many thousand, which are assembled as two-dimensional matrix to form a new tiled image that typically features an intrinsic theme of the components. For instance, Silvers’ Anne Frank is made up of 2,304 photographs of the holocaust while Marilyn Monroe is made up of 4,608 photographs taken by Bruno Bernard from all stages of the actresses’ career.

Although the overall work is appreciated with moderate distance, usually an arm’s length away or more, upon closer inspection each and every individual photograph or image is readily perceivable. Silvers ability to choose images based on their clarity, content, color and brightness permits him to fabricate larger images without resorting to digital manipulation of the composites.

Each Photomosaic is produced in a small worldwide edition of 10 with the artist reserving the right to exercise the production of 2 artist proofs. Each Photomosaic is first printed on to Professional Fuji Digital Gloss Photography paper before being mounted/adhered to aluminum. The surface is then lacquered for protection and glare control.

Excerpts from:

 -Rohde, Dr. Russell A., APSA, PPSA; PSA Journal – Pixel Corner “Photomosaics: A Neoteric Artform of Pictures Within Pictures”, June 2002.

Exhibitions:

2005 Scott Richards Contemporary Art – Art Santa Fe/ Art Toronto

2004 Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach

2003 Russeck Gallery, San Francisco

2002 Art Palm Beach, Fabien Fryns

        FIAC, Paris, Galerie Punto

        TIAF, Toronto, Fabien Fryns

        Art Chicago, Galerie Punto

        ARCO, Madrid

        Art Miami, Fabien Fryns

2001 National Portrait Gallery, London

        TIAF, Toronto, Fabien Fryns

2000 ART BASAL, Studio Trisorio

        MIART, Milan, Fabien Fryns

        Velge and Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels

        Photography Triennale, Milan

1999 ARTISSIMA, Turin, Fabien Fryns

1998 European Academy, London
 

Collections of Note: 

Agfa Europe                                  Audi

AXA Courtage                              Coca Cola

CNN                                               DGZ DekaBank

Disney                                            Ferrari

Fortune Magazine                        GEO Magazine

Hewlett Packard                           IBM

Library of Congress                     Lucasfilm Ltd.

Mastercard International              National Geographic

Newsweek Magazine                   Maeght Foundation

Paramount Pictures                     Playboy Enterprises

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