#Non ephemeral code
A digital photograph "Baked Goods and Books" (July 2011) shows a storefront bakery within a yellow brick building which also boasts a sign advertising a Polish bookstore and "Garage Gallery." A 718 area code in the sign locates this building in Brooklyn and so one infers the neighborhood is Greenpoint, with primarily Polish residents. His work is currently exhibited in the show, “Coming to Brooklyn,” at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists' Coalition, as well as on the website. This timelessness is not only seen but more importantly felt by a viewer. And although it takes mere seconds to lift a camera and press the shutter, Hyon's many years of making art and his wide-ranging knowledge of art history inform each momentary image. Each of his photos evidence the patience required to get things just right and his attention to craft and detail is what holds a viewer's attention. Hyon's range of subjects is vast and he seamlessly moves back and forth between digital and film photography, yet no matter what subject he chooses or which method he selects, he creates with a painter's eye for composition. And so an exceptional photographer - and Eugene Hyon is exactly that - teaches us what is immutable about our world and ourselves. In this way we redeem what is random and pronounce it worthy. Art, though, is an interpretation of the world and not simply a capturing of cascading reality. The artifice inherent in all great photographs, then, is the discovery of what is timeless in what is momentary. When we "take" a photograph, we essentially snatch a single moment, a single image from the infinite number of moments and images that eternally pass us by. Still photography more than any other art form is all about time. “Coming To Brooklyn,” an exhibition of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists' Coalition Reviewed by Susan Scutti
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