Come enjoy the photography of Charles Cramer, Karl Kroeber, Scot Miller, Mike Osborne, and Keith S. Walklet at the opening reception for the exhibit celebrating their book, First Light.
Ansel Adams Gallery, 9031 Village Dr., Yosemite National Park, CA 95389
For more information call (209) 372-4413.
I had a chance to look at a proof of the book a week ago and it is full of lots of wonderful photographs, along with Sierra Nevada stories from all five photographers.
The New York times features a story on photographer Sebastião Salgado and his epic “Genesis” project. The article is accompanied by a series of ten of Salgado’s photographs. A quotation in the article caught my attention:
“There is no difference photographing a pelican or an albatross and photographing a human being,” he said. “You must pay attention to them, spend time with them, respect their territory.” Even landscapes, he said, have their own personality and reward a certain amount of patience.
We accept an image such as “Nashville, Tennessee” (1971) as an instantaneous document of social reality because everyone in it – maybe even Friedlander himself behind the lens – appears taken by surprise. And because it appears to make no assertion about what it records, unless we care about the importance ascribed to highly coiffed hair at a certain American place and time.
But look at a recent picture, such as “New York City” (2002) in the Fraenkel Gallery’s concurrent Friedlander show, “America by Car,” and you realize immediately that his camera has constructed a moment of layered, colliding optical perspectives that the eye unaided could never assemble, let alone fix.
We might see “Friedlander,” the retrospective, as tracking a career-long disproof of any presumed equivalence between seeing the world and seeing the world as photographed. Yet Friedlander works as if he has no ideological stake in this truth, merely a fascination with it, a fascination continually reawakened as different subjects come before his camera.
Darkness, DarknessLance Keimig is curating “Darkness, Darkness“, a huge exhibit of night photography at the Three Columns Gallery at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The show will run from March 18 through April 30. The opening reception will be March 19, at5:30pm. The list of participating photographers is very impressive, and includes Tim Baskerville (of The Nocturnes), Troy Paiva (Lost America), Steve Harper, Joe Reifer, and many others (including myself).
When I was in high school in Danvers, just north of Boston, everybody wanted to get accepted to Harvard. I always knew that someday I would get into Harvard. I never imagined it would be through an art show. – Andy Frazer [Night Photography blog by Andy Frazer]
Take a look at this link – some really wonderful examples of night photography. And congratulations to Andy for being part of the show – his print “Duguot” is among those you’ll see when you visit the link.
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