Tiny Figures is a series of photographs that appear as graphic silhouettes, cave paintings, figural archetypes.  They are images mined from a two dimensional world, rich in the back stories of the forgotten and unnoticed.  The culmination of a multi-year search, they are exquisitely interpreted and printed in the hand pulled photogravure process by Mike Counahan in Mexico City.

Eric Taubman (b. 1952, USA) is a photographic artist, educator, technician, and researcher. His work explores the subjects of ordinary mysteries, character and personality, and the nature of the urban wilderness. He works primarily in large format, though he has also adopted the style of 35mm street photography. As a technician, Eric studied and created methods and systems for producing photographic imagery involving print and film and founded and ran a worldwide group of photo labs producing work for exhibition and reproduction. A collaborative project with the Penumbra Foundation in New York, which Eric helped found, is the collection and archiving of a library of books primarily composed of 19th and early 20th-century photographic manuals and monographs.

Specifications / Credits

Series: Tiny Figures
Title (left image): Untitled (The Ordinary)
Title (right image): Untitled (Chasing)
Artist: Eric Taubman
Year: 2022
Process: Hand-pulled photogravure
Photogravure: Miguel Counahan
Paper size: 22in x 26 in
Image size: 15.5 in x 19 in
Edition: 20
Collection: Eric Taubman