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For Immediate Release
11/19/13
L.H. Horton Gallery
4th Annual Photography Exhibition & Awards
Inventing Perspective, Nov. 21 - Dec. 13
Reception: Nov. 21, 5 - 7 p.m.
(Stockton)
Delta's Center for the Arts L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery presents the 4th Annual National Photography Exhibition & Awards Competition: Inventing Perspective, Nov. 21 - Dec. 13, 2013.
Scale and perspective are pervasive issues in the realm of fine art photography. The exhibition presents experimental works using photographic mediums that challenge our ideas of relative scale and perspective, as well as integrated use of other media in unique and creative ways. Epic panoramic, pinhole and photogram, 3D photographic works, double exposures, high speed and time-lapse images, are just some of the means photographers used to create dynamic works for this exhibition, featuring 34 images by 20 photographers.
"Inventing Perspective" Exhibiting Artists
Stephen Albair |
Sita Mae |
The exhibition juror is Corey Keller, Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Keller joined SFMOMA in 1999 and held a number of positions before she was promoted to her current role in 2012.
Keller organized the critically acclaimed exhibition Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840–1900 (2008), which explored the use of photography in 19th-century science, considering in particular the representation of phenomena invisible to the naked eye. Accompanied by an award-winning catalogue, the show traveled to the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria. With SFMOMA curators Janet Bishop and Sarah Roberts, Keller co-organized the large-scale exhibition celebrating the museum’s 75th anniversary in 2010. Keller oversees Picturing Modernity, SFMOMA’s presentation of its photography collection.
Most recently, Keller organized the major retrospective exhibition of photographer Francesca Woodman (2011), which traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2012). In addition to her SFMOMA publications, Keller has contributed scholarly essays to the exhibition catalogues Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change (Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2010) and Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2012). Keller has also frequently lectured on photography as part of SFMOMA’s educational program and has taught at Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of the Arts.
Juror’s Statement by Corey Keller:
Photography not only records the world but also changes the way we see it. The artists whose work was selected for this show have all embraced this fundamental property of the medium. Though working in a wide variety of formats and styles, ranging from traditional black-and-white photographs to imagery that is heavily digitally manipulated, each artist has explored the transformative possibilities of the photographic image. In some cases, the simple choice of an unusual physical perspective is enough to jolt the viewer into a new mode of perception. In others, the image’s metamorphosis has been so profound as to nearly eradicate all evidence of the work’s photographic origins. Most importantly, however, each artist offers a distinctive point of view as well as an invitation to see.
At no other time in history has such a range of tools been available to the creative photographer. They are powerful, and seductive. Yet the desire, and the ability, to manipulate the photographic image is as old as the medium itself. Since the nineteenth century photographers have simultaneously embraced and rebelled against the photograph’s tenacious ties to reality, creating provocative images that consequently help us understand the cultural ideals and fictions with which we have invested the photographic medium. Even a so-called straight photograph, one that appears to have described its subject without inflection, is an abstraction: a translation of a three-dimensional reality through the optics of the lens and the chemistry of the photographic process. The choices a photographer makes – where to stand, when to press the shutter, what to include within the frame, what to exclude, whether or not to use color, the format of the camera – all shape a perspective that is decidedly subjective. Extreme close-ups, multiple or long exposures, and digital manipulation are simply more extreme manifestations of these perhaps more traditionally accepted artistic choices. In making these choices, the artists included here draw attention to the photograph’s relationship to place, time, narrative, and memory. By pushing at the limits of the medium, they also consider and complicate the very definition of photography itself.
Stephen Albair - Night Journey
Andrew Klc - (Untitled)
Corey Davis & Maria Denzler - Route 66
The L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery is located on the ground floor of Shima Center, and is wheelchair accessible. Admission is free and open to the public. Recommended parking is available in the Shima lot for a fee of $2. Tours are welcome and gallery talks may be addressed by contacting gallery director, Jan Marlese, at: (209) 954-5507, or jmarlese@deltacollege.edu.
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