The work of Mark Alexander has long been obsessed with time and with the slow fermentation in the cultural imagination of iconic images. For his new series of paradoxically fragile and indomitable portraits, entitled Love Between the Atoms, he used found photographs dating from around the period 1890 to the 1930s. Alexander explores the faces of these men and women, who had no idea of what history was just around the corner. the power of the images magnified the images' generally long gaze, the images were to go on to be reused in the Villa Wasmuth and the Vermillion Sands series.
