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 9th 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.