The Deep Focus Collection
2023 sees the release of a brand new collection of four limited edition graphics by Bob Dylan, Deep Focus . The new pieces, which feature images taken from films, are ‘Hideaway Woman’, ‘Prize Fight’, ‘Edge of Town’ and ‘Tango Dancers’. “They try to highlight the different predicaments that people find themselves in,” Dylan explains. “Whether it’s James Cagney or Margaret Rutherford, the dreams and schemes are the same – life as it’s coming at you in all its forms and shapes.” Completed in 2021, the Deep Focus series borrows visual techniques from film and photography, and illustrates how cropping and framing can alter the viewer’s perception of any scene. The title of the series refers to a cinematic technique that communicates narrative through the foreground, middle and background, rather than focusing on one visual plane over another. Dylan’s cinematic references result in evocative, often mysterious compositions suspended between life and theatre, while conjuring a distinctly tangible pictorial experience. Although these new works more prominently depict figures and portraits, much of the iconography that was featured in Dylan’s earlier series The Beaten Path is still recognisable – diners, motels, roadsides and city streets.
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