Photographs are the devices most people use to capture memory. Just as our own memories fade, so do the countless photographs and slides stuffed into shoeboxes across the world. The materials from which these images are made, even though considered permanent in their use as mnemonic devices, erode, bleaching out into fields of fuzzy magenta and ragged edges. Gregory Schaffer examines these deteriorating memories and explores the state of the medium of photography itself. In this new digital age, when photographs no longer need to be produced in physical form, the artist asks whether the art of photography itself will survive the demise of modernity.

Gregory Schaffer received a BFA in Photography from Arizona State University. His work has been included in the exhibitions: Summer, Rick Gayle Studio, Phoenix, AZ; Car, Modified, Phoenix, AZ; The Candy Show, Elenaís House, Tempe, AZ; The 110+(Plus) Show, 828 Space, Phoenix, AZ; BA/BFA Photography Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ; Park/Swap Schaffer/Melchi, Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ; Photography at Modified, Modified, Phoenix, AZ; Transformations, Barlow and Straker Gallery, Phoenix, AZ; and ASU Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ. He has curated numerous exhibitions in the Phoenix area.

Contact artist Gregory Schaffer with questions about his work for
nooks and crannies by e-mail at gregoryschaffernooksandcrannies@hotmail.com

John D. Spiak
Curatorial Museum Specialist
Arizona State University Art Museum