A Sense of Style, A Sense of Placeme
Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation
July 28 - September 2, 2000
Guest Curator: Paul Paletti
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES
Since the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839, a variety of technological processes have been used to produce photographic images. Although photographs ......( continued)
Dick Arentz is a retired oral surgeon in Arizona. For several years, he has traveled throughout the United State and Europe photographing landscapes with his 12 x 20" view camera.
Phil Borges
Seattle, WashingtonPhil Borges searches beyond the surface into the inner spirit of the people he photographs. His award winning exhibit and book, Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion, focused on the endangered people of Tibet, marginalized by the Chinese occupation of their homeland.
Susan Fenton
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania "My subject matter is directly linked to the cultural or environmental influences of a particular time or place in my life. I work within a staged, shallow space using the figure as the human element while props provide allegorical reference. The resulting images are singular narratives in which the model represents an anonymous persona that is as much about my inner self as an other influences."
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lynn Geesaman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1938. She graduated from Wellesley College and began her photography career in 1970 with a series of photographs she took of her children. This led to a photographic project on identical twins separated at birth (Geesaman herself is a twin). By the 1980s, she began to photograph structured landscapes, while at the same time perfecting the printing technique that distinguishes her work.
Oakland, California
Rolfe Horn was born in Northern California in 1971. His fascination with photography began as a child when he used his father's camera to capture memories of hikes around the trails of the East Bay and Lake Tahoe. When he was 15, he built his first darkroom.
New York, New York
Kenro Izu was born in Osaka, Japan in 1949. He started taking pictures of his native landscape in high school, and then studied photography at the Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo. He came to the United States when he was 23.
Los Angeles, California
A true pioneer in many areas, Pedro Meyer is one of the first photographers to successfully make the transition from analog photography to the world of digital images. A life long innovator, he created the Latin American Colloquiums of photography, now into their twentieth year.
Topanga, California
Madoka Takagi was born into the first postwar generation in Japan. In 1978, she achieved a Bachelor's degree from the Woman's University in Tokyo. Four subsequent years of employment with a Tokyo bank, however, increased Madoka's awareness of the constrictions placed on her by Japanese culture, and awakened in her an urge to explore her independence in America.