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At the Federal Reserve Board from January 25 to July 9, 2010 Jean-François Rauzier: Hyper-Photo Dreamscapes features six photo-collages by noted French artist Jean-François Rauzier, who is best known for his hyper-real photo montages. His innovative work fuses art, photography, and technology into huge photographs that are intense in detail and surreal in their dreamlike qualities. 
Trees’ Memories (La Mémoire des Arbres), July 2005 Each of Rauzier's pieces is created by digitally combining up to 3,500 high-resolution photographs. Using a telephoto lens, Rauzier spends hours capturing every minute segment of a scene. Then, in the studio and aided by Photoshop, he seamlessly connects each photograph into an enormous hyper-photo scene that is thought-provoking in its message, composition, and scale. Although he removes some man-made elements from the landscape, such as telephone wires, cars, and houses, he always adds an element of the unexpected to suggest mystery and narrative. The photographs in Jean-François Rauzier: Hyper-Photo Dreamscapes contain numerous improbably located objects--picture frames, floating armchairs, hovering balloons, covered sculptures, and abandoned bicycles--that straddle the border between illusion and reality, and create a story for the viewer to unravel. 
Abandoned Bicycles (Bicyclettes Abandonnees), June 2003
Rauzier was born in St. Adressse, Normandie, France in 1952 and attended the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière, the French national school of photography. In 2000, after a successful career as a commercial photographer, he decided to channel his skills and photographic experience into fine art photography and eventually developed hyper-realistic photos. His artworks have been exhibited in France, Germany, Switzerland, England, and the United States. Today, he lives and works in France, where he continues to create his awarding winning photographs.
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