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The Taube Museum of Art will be hosting a photography exhibition of sixteen nationally recognized photographers. Each of the photographers has submitted three photographs, for a total of 48 photographs on display throughout the entire Museum space.

The exhibition will be open from September 1 – October 9, 2010. The artist reception will be held on Thursday, September 9^th from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm. It is free and open to public. Refreshments and cocktails will be served.

Don Kirby will be in attendance and will give a thirty minute artist presentation at 6:30 pm. It will include a book signing of his recent book, Grasslands.

Triple Exposure photographers included in this exhibition include the following:

Don Kirby Don has excellent work in hill and farm country. His series in wheat farming in Washington is wonderful. His newest book on the Prairie will be out shortly. Some of the work in the new book is from North Dakota. A description is below Grasslands It is difficult to imagine scenes more politically relevant at this very moment than these photos from America’s great grasslands. The pivotal period for most of these places occurred in a time that is a close parallel to our own, so grasslands stand as living, breathing records of an age of upheaval, economic depression and well-meant policy gone wrong. That they persist is testimony to a unique American strength: an evolved and evolving commitment to conservation. Yet they are at the same time not so much a recollection of the past, as they are an exhortation of what we must do to honor this legacy. -From the Introduction by Richard Manning.

Eight years ago, Nazraeli Press published Don Kirby's first book, Wheatcountry, to wide critical acclaim. We are pleased to announce Kirby's second monograph, Grasslands, which serves both as a companion book to Wheatcountry, and as stand-alone monograph of this important and timely series of photographs. The new Grasslands includes images taken in North Dakota. They are on display in this show. In 2005, Kirby began a major study of the National Grasslands in the United States. The resulting monograph comprises 47 duotone plates, sequenced geographically from America's heartland of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas and Oklahoma through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, to the Oregon and California coastlines. Printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies, Grasslands opens with an introductory essay by Richard Manning, and concludes with Jay Dusard's insightful and feisty afterword. Hardcover, 12 x 12, 82 pages, 47 duotone plates.

Tillman Crane Tillman works in Platinum/Palladium. Contact prints only. He has a new book out, his 4th or 5th, on the Jordan River in Utah.

Bruce Barnbaum Bruce works in traditional silver B&W. Great images. His work from the slit canyons in Utah/Arizona is what he will send. Take a look. Lyrical and mysterious and the print quality is excellent. Deep rich blacks and whites to knock your socks off. Tonal range that is beautiful.

Kerik Kouklis He works in wet plate(1800's process) these days with gum over platinum. Really good work, somewhat esoteric and each is unique.

Sandy King Sandy works with Carbon prints. A three dimensional image all hand done. He is a College professor by trade and a photographic craftsman and artist by avocation. He writes and tests photo methods extensively. He has come up with unique developers used by photographers worldwide. His work will be shown open, no glass, so the relief and full richness of the image can be seen.

Bob Herbst Bob works in Carbon also. He has perfected Carbon mounted on Aluminum. A stunning print method that showcases the relief and tonal range of his prints. Really good work that has to be seen up close. His work will be shown open, no glass so the relief and full richness of the image can be seen.

Adam Jahiel The Western Cowboy is a major theme of his. He has spent a lot of time on working Western Ranches photographing cowboys at work.

Chuck Kimmerle His latest show was at North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks. He is a North Dakota photographer and produces images with clarity and stark beauty.

Michael A. Smith & Paula Chamlee Michael and Paula are a husband and wife team. They work together and produce images and books that are the very definition of perfection. They started their own book company when they could not find one to print their work to the high quality they demand. They commissioned their own printing paper after Kodak discontinued the paper they used for the past 25 years. Their work is excellent.

Barry Parsons Has been in a number of shows over the past decade. Has an MFA in Photography from Utah State University. Will be showing Infrared images of Great Salt Lake.

Dan Smith Will be showing work from either Prisons and Jails or my work from Silver City, Idaho which I am editing and getting in line for a book.

David Fokos David photographs metaphors of time. Using long exposures to average out the small, temporal and ephemeral events his images evoke a peace one gets with familiarity. Good work well printed.

Ray McSavaney Excellent work. Co founder of the Owens valley Photography Workshops, he teaches and photographs.

Craig Law Head of the Photo program at Utah State University and formerly head of the Art Department. His current work on petroglyphs and pictographs in the Barrier Canyon country of Utah is excellent. Featured in Smithsonian magazine and currently on traveling exhibit, these images are more than documentary records. Craig brings an artists vision to his work.