Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days.  Does anyone 
know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?

(I will not be in Carmel.)

Thanks,

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

Paul,

Be sure to check out Gallery 291 in San Fran. The current show is Beth  
Moon. She has the current cover of Camera Arts Magazine. Great show  
and a great, brand new gallery.

www.gallery291.net

Mark Nelson
www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com
PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
 From my iPhone


On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:47 AM, "pr_roark" <pr_roark@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days. Does anyone
> know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?
>
> (I will not be in Carmel.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
> 


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I forgot to mention Beth Moon's prints are Platinum/Palladium prints  
from digital negatives.

Mark Nelson
www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com
PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
 From my iPhone


On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:47 AM, "pr_roark" <pr_roark@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days. Does anyone
> know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?
>
> (I will not be in Carmel.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
> 


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A big Friedlander show at SFMOMA till May 2008. I know his work is
very different from yours Paul, but I've often found inspiration in
his original viewpoint of land and cityscape. Cheers,
Jim




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark"
<pr_roark@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> 
> I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days.  Does anyone 
> know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?
> 
> (I will not be in Carmel.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>

Looks like some interesting and very nicely done stuff.  When I saw the
front page image I was very impressed.  However upon digging deeper to find
that it was not some kind of candid or even semi-candid "hill tribe" woman
with a hunted catch strapped to her back but actually was a posing model
with a variety of stuffed animals on her back it sort of took something away
for me.  Maybe it shouldn't....but it did.

Richard S.


On 3/24/08, Mark Nelson <Ender100@...> wrote:
>
>   Paul,
>
> Be sure to check out Gallery 291 in San Fran. The current show is Beth
> Moon. She has the current cover of Camera Arts Magazine. Great show
> and a great, brand new gallery.
>
> www.gallery291.net
>
> Mark Nelson
> www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com<http://www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com/>
> PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
> www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com <http://www.markinelsonphoto.com/>
> From my iPhone
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:47 AM, "pr_roark" <pr_roark@...<pr_roark%40yahoo.com>>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days. Does anyone
> > know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?
> >
> > (I will not be in Carmel.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
> > www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>
> >
> >
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> 
>



-- 
Richard S.
San Francisco

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Paul,

 

In San Francisco there a number of great Galleries all with great show.    

 

Make it to 49 Geary street and you will find the Scott Nichols Gallery,
Stephen Wirtz gallery and a number of others.

 

Also there is the Annie Leibowitz show at the place of fine art.

 

I also believe that Michael Kenna is having a show at the Stephen Wirtz
Gallery at 49 Geary.  His show is from March 26 - April 26, 2008 and I think
there is an opening or reception on April 3rd.

 

Here is a link

 

 
<http://www.wirtzgallery.com/exhibitions/2008/2008_04/kenna_2008_frame.html>
http://www.wirtzgallery.com/exhibitions/2008/2008_04/kenna_2008_frame.html

 

Enjoy

 

Paul

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Subject: [Digital BW] B&W exhibits in SF and Santa Cruz

 

Hi,

I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days. Does anyone 
know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?

(I will not be in Carmel.)

Thanks,

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 

 



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Friedlander. SFMOMA....was there last weekend.

Exceptionally fine prints (I'd not expected that), and an eye-opener
about the range of his photographic theme projects...including for me
the fact that he photographed with individual books in mind.

Somewhere on Geary St there's a group of photo galleries, one of them
featuring newer Friedlander work...I'm told.





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark"
<pr_roark@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> 
> I'm off to Santa Cruz and San Francisco for a few days.  Does anyone 
> know of B&W photo exhibitions in those areas that I ought not miss?
> 
> (I will not be in Carmel.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "djon43" 
<djon43@...> wrote:
>
> Friedlander. SFMOMA... 

Also not to be missed at SFMOMA is Gabriele Basilico. One of the 
masters of contemporary urban landscape.

Dario

Interesting...I found Basilico's work an empty, cynical pose that
fastidiously ignored the fundamental character of the region, which is
human in more complexity than any other place on earth. She would have
made the same photos anywhere, reducing each place to
hack-photographed commercial real estate. 

> 
> Also not to be missed at SFMOMA is Gabriele Basilico. One of the 
> masters of contemporary urban landscape.
> 
> Dario
>

>
> >
> > Also not to be missed at SFMOMA is Gabriele Basilico. One of the
> > masters of contemporary urban landscape.
> >
> > Dario
> >
>
>On 3/26/08, djon43 <djon43@...> wrote:

> Interesting...I found Basilico's work an empty, cynical pose that
> fastidiously ignored the fundamental character of the region, which is
> human in more complexity than any other place on earth. She would have
> made the same photos anywhere, reducing each place to
> hack-photographed commercial real estate.


Yeah, but what a great name she has...

<djon43@...> wrote:
>
> Interesting...I found Basilico's work an empty, cynical pose that
> fastidiously ignored the fundamental character of the region, which is
> human in more complexity than any other place on earth. 

Silicon Valley is human in more complexity than any other place on 
earth ???? Is this spoken in jest? Really what's so human, or 
distinctive, or richly complex about Mc. Mansions, Office buildings, 
strip malls and whatever else makes up contemporary suburbia? 
I agree about Basilico's coming across as cynic at times (btw he's a 
He: Gabriele is a male name in Italian) but many consider it a sign of 
honesty, true to the nature of the place photographed. Similar to the 
lack of sentimentality exhibited by Friedlander next door in many of 
his images of the same subject btw. The main difference being a 
quintessential American sensibility versus a European one. All of this 
IMHO of course. 

Dario

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "met.graphix"
<metgraphix@...> wrote:
>
> <djon43@> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting...I found Basilico's work an empty, cynical pose that
> > fastidiously ignored the fundamental character of the region, which is
> > human in more complexity than any other place on earth. 
> 
> Silicon Valley is human in more complexity than any other place on 
> earth ???? Is this spoken in jest? Really what's so human, or 
> distinctive, or richly complex about Mc. Mansions, Office buildings, 
> strip malls and whatever else makes up contemporary suburbia?

Silicon Valley suggests McMansions only for one who destructively
seeks them out, avoiding the fine elegant and humble homes and offices
that are more typical.

Silicon Valley is, more than anything else, a place full of creative
individuals and large families, for recent decades especially from
India, China, and Vietnam. Basilico's shallow.  

Friedlander sees people, Basilico sees himself (so his gender doesn't
matter)... and he sees people he can rip-off, such as the museum
committee that paid him to produce hack real-estate snaps.

 
> I agree about Basilico's coming across as cynic at times (btw he's a 
> He: Gabriele is a male name in Italian) but many consider it a sign of 
> honesty, true to the nature of the place photographed. Similar to the 
> lack of sentimentality exhibited by Friedlander next door in many of 
> his images of the same subject btw. 


Freedlander sometimes sees others the way he sees himself (his self
portraits). He doesn't always like humanity, but does intensely love
it sometimes: see his nudes, visually new and beautiful. Freedlander
can be attracted to the most raw beauty ("Stems"), is not frozen in
cynicism. 

Freedlander can be intentionally cynical, or recognize corn-ball
trivia: Photographing Half Dome through a tangle of brush made a
"statement" something like Basilico's, but with honesty. 

Basilico intends to degrade viewers by attributing significance to
inferior commercial architecture. He ignores the beautiful
architecture, the homes, schools, public and commercial buildings and
parks that have been been built so consistently ever since Silicon
Valley was populated by immigrants (eg. the Gold Rush). Not only did
he ignore Stanford University and Sand Hill Road, he missed Hanger
One, which has dominated much of the landscape for sixty years:
http://www.savehangarone.org/

>The main difference being a 
> quintessential American sensibility versus a European one. 

Basilico's "sensibility" is fascist or soviet, grey, oppressive: He
represents East Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Gorky. 

There is no "European sensibility" in any sweeping sense, nor
"American." The very idea brings Dick Cheney to mind. 

IMO, of course :-)

I quite enjoyed the contrast between the two shows of Friedlander and  
Basilico.  Basilico's work is definitely of a different sort, far less  
intimate, more about first impressions.  After all, he was only there  
a month.  I was in Italy in December for two weeks and I'm sure I shot  
far more stereotypical classical-Tuscan-Italian images than if I lived  
in the country and knew it better.

I skimmed through Basilico's book, and it seems he doesn't claim to be  
anything but a modernist.  He has training as an architect, I believe,  
and that definitely informs his work.  Not that the older structures  
in the area aren't wonderful examples of architecture, but I can  
understand his wanting to show the expanse and impact of the  
contemporary built environment -- which definitely is dominated by the  
freeways, arterial streets, and business parks.

On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:39 AM, djon43 wrote:
> Basilico intends to degrade viewers by attributing significance to
> inferior commercial architecture. He ignores the beautiful
> architecture, the homes, schools, public and commercial buildings and
> parks that have been been built so consistently ever since Silicon
> Valley was populated by immigrants (eg. the Gold Rush).

Just to be fair, there was at least one shot of an older, non- 
corporate building -- perhaps a city hall in one of the Valley towns?   
It did look mighty out of place next to the other images.

> Not only did
> he ignore Stanford University and Sand Hill Road, he missed Hanger
> One, which has dominated much of the landscape for sixty years:

My memory of the show (saw it a couple of weeks ago) was that there  
was an edge of the hangar -- or perhaps it was another hangar  
altogether.

--John

John, I appreciate your perspective...a fine photographer and printer,
with me when I viewed those prints, said something similar.

However, that Basilico's "an architect" doesn't elevate his
photography. Other architects have, for decades, made a point of human
factors and sensibilities (eg Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard Maybeck). 

JK


-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, John Labovitz
<johnl@...> wrote:

>
> I quite enjoyed the contrast between the two shows of Friedlander and  
> Basilico.  Basilico's work is definitely of a different sort, far less  
> intimate, more about first impressions.  After all, he was only there  
> a month.  I was in Italy in December for two weeks and I'm sure I shot  
> far more stereotypical classical-Tuscan-Italian images than if I lived  
> in the country and knew it better.
> 
> I skimmed through Basilico's book, and it seems he doesn't claim to be  
> anything but a modernist.  He has training as an architect, I believe,  
> and that definitely informs his work.  Not that the older structures  
> in the area aren't wonderful examples of architecture, but I can  
> understand his wanting to show the expanse and impact of the  
> contemporary built environment -- which definitely is dominated by the  
> freeways, arterial streets, and business parks.
> 
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:39 AM, djon43 wrote:
> > Basilico intends to degrade viewers by attributing significance to
> > inferior commercial architecture. He ignores the beautiful
> > architecture, the homes, schools, public and commercial buildings and
> > parks that have been been built so consistently ever since Silicon
> > Valley was populated by immigrants (eg. the Gold Rush).
> 
> Just to be fair, there was at least one shot of an older, non- 
> corporate building -- perhaps a city hall in one of the Valley towns?   
> It did look mighty out of place next to the other images.
> 
> > Not only did
> > he ignore Stanford University and Sand Hill Road, he missed Hanger
> > One, which has dominated much of the landscape for sixty years:
> 
> My memory of the show (saw it a couple of weeks ago) was that there  
> was an edge of the hangar -- or perhaps it was another hangar  
> altogether.
> 
> --John
>