{"id":42789,"date":"2016-12-15T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=42789"},"modified":"2016-12-15T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T14:07:10","slug":"rodney-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/rodney-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Smith: 10 of His Best Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FeaturePhoto-e1481798895507.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Smith\" width=\"1265\" height=\"540\" \/> Rodney Smith<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Rodney Smith, whose work was characterised by a gentle surrealism, passed away at 68 on 5 December 2016\u00a0 at his home in\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Snedens Landing, NY. Inspired by Belgian painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=Magritte&amp;submit=Search\">Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, he grew in notoriety for his photographs, often in black-and-white, featuring businessman placed\u00a0into unusual settings. In the 90s he moved into the fashion world of his father, shooting for publications such as\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The New York Times and W Magazine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jonathan Stuhlman, who curated Smith&#8217;s show in 2003 at the University of West Virginia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/artmuseum\/downloads\/reverie_and_reality-rodney%20smith.pdf\">wrote of his work<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn Smith\u2019s enchanted world, balance produces beauty, laughter and whimsy dance hand in hand, and things are not always what they seem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In honour of his life work, we have compiled a selection of his best photographs below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Edythe-And-Andrew-Kissing-On-Top-Of-Taxis-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Smith\" width=\"691\" height=\"691\" \/> Edythe And Andrew Kissing On Top Of Taxis, New York. 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Car-Smith-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Smith \" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" \/> Massimo and Saori Holding Hands, Amalfi, Italy. 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WomaninWindow-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Woman in Window, Hancock Shaker Village, MA. 2005. \" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" \/> Woman in Window, Hancock Shaker Village, MA. 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zoe-Balancing-Teapot-on-Head-Burden-Mansion-New-York-NY-2006.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe Balancing Teapot on Head, Burden Mansion, New York, NY. 2006\" width=\"689\" height=\"688\" \/> Zoe Balancing Teapot on Head, Burden Mansion, New York, NY. 2006<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rodney-Businessman-600x600.jpeg\" width=\"689\" height=\"689\" \/> A.J. Looking Over Ivy Covered Wall, Harriman, NY. 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rodney-Woman.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Smith\" width=\"687\" height=\"687\" \/> Zoe on Water with Armchair, Sherwood Island, Westport, Connecticut. 2004<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rodney-Smith-Hay-Bale-600x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Rodney Smith\" width=\"685\" height=\"685\" \/> Don Jumping Over Hay Roll No.1, Monkton, Maryland. 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shears-Rodney--759x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Smith\" width=\"686\" height=\"542\" \/> Three Men With Shears No. 1. Rheins, France. 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rodney-Smith-Samuel-From-Behind-No.1-Reims-France..jpg\" alt=\"Samuel From Behind No.1., Reims, France. 1997. \" width=\"689\" height=\"689\" \/> Samuel From Behind No.1., Reims, France. 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CM4VrARVAAAjQG3.png\" alt=\"Rodney Smith\" width=\"682\" height=\"668\" \/> Woman Holding Up Dress Walking Through Vineyard, Napa Valley. 1998.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney Smith Has Died At 68: A Selection Of His Best Work<\/p>","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":42810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[7173,38,7174,154,6287,7175,1006],"class_list":["post-42789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-american-art","tag-art","tag-jonathan-stuhlman","tag-photography","tag-rene-magritte","tag-rodney-smith","tag-surrealism"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rodney Smith: 10 of His Most Iconic Photographs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In honour of Rodney Smith, who died at 68 on 5 December, we have selected some of celebrated photographers most famous pictures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/rodney-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rodney Smith: 10 of His Most Iconic Photographs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In honour of Rodney Smith, who died at 68 on 5 December, we have selected some of celebrated photographers most famous pictures.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/rodney-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-15T14:07:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Redmond Bacon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1\u00a0Minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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