Bram Tihany's "Of The Expanse" At Keyes Art (PHOTOS)

Bram Tihany's photographs don't go in for close-ups. His latest exhibition, "Of the Expanse," recently shown at Keyes Art Project in New York City, was devoted to contemplating space as an object in its own right, not just a context for arranging objects. The ostensible "subjects" of the works in the slideshow below -- a shack, children swimming and so on -- appear as details of the wide frames in which they appear. Tihany doesn't just show the river the children swim in, he shows the route they might take to walk back home and the bends in the stream behind them. In depicting his subjects within the systems of their Rajasthan, India environment, he adds a narrative element to the almost motionless scenes. In Dwelling with Figure, the title would seem to draw our attention to the tiny rectangle in the center, but our understanding of the image is incomplete without imagining how the mountain in the background might affect the lives of the people living in the home beneath it.

Bram Tihany, Keyes Art, 551 West 21st Street, Studio 410 A, New York, NY 10011, closed.