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October Issue 2000

DownTownes in Greenville Features Works by Amy Holmes George

DownTownes in Greenville, SC, will be showing Sogni d'oro: Photographs from Italy by Amy Holmes George from Oct. 19 - Nov. 30.

In the fall of 1999, George traveled to Genova, Italy, where she lived for four months to continue graduate studies in photography. During that time, George trekked through 10 European Countries while documenting her travels with a camera. She composed an archive of images which are now her only memories of the time past.

Sogni d'oro, the Italian expression for "golden dreams," seems fitting to George when she thinks about her photographs of Italy. George says, "These images are my only visions of the places I visited as well as my memories and experiences not forgotten, yet not perfectly remembered. Golden, because they are treasured in the true sense of the word, and also because they embrace an ethereal timelessness."

The images are sepia toned so as to recall the look of an antique print. The photographs are also printed full frame to reveal what could be seen through the viewfinder at the moment the image was made. For George, this selection of photographs allows a glimpse into her perception of the Italian culture, as if peering through a portal in time to a past world so beautiful that not even the printed image could bring it justice.

For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 864/232-4403.

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