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December Issue 2006
Points of View Photography Gallery in Raleigh, NC, Features Group Exhibition
Points of View Photography Gallery in Raleigh,
NC, is presenting the exhibition, Finding the Ethereal in the
Real, featuring works by Diane Amato, Billy Barnes, David
Bibb, Diana Bloomfield, Carson Boone, Gene Crumpler, Karen Curran,
Paul Dagys
.Maia Dery, Peter Filene, Victor Friedman, Robert Vance, Ron Ward,
and Bruce Watson. The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 11,
2007.
Some pictures show what the camera's lens saw. Some show what the photographer's inner eye was seeing. A major exhibit at Points of View Photography Gallery puts the emphasis on the photographers' passion to transform the physical image into an expression of emotion. The exhibit includes 40 works by 15 photographers which go beyond the ordinary. Two examples are images by Tucson, AZ, photographer Stu Jenks, and Raleigh's Diana Hooper Bloomfield.
Stu Jenks' image Solstice Rock, Arizona is a picture that makes you wonder. Jenks doesn't say exactly how it was done, but there is a hint, he's been quoted as saying: "F:5.6, 15-minute time exposure, full moon, Zippo lighter." The 48" x 48" image is printed on soft fabric rather than the usual photographic materials.
Diana Hooper Bloomfield has been honored for her work with pinhole cameras, which have no lens, but form an image through a tiny aperture. Making an image requires a long exposure time but produces amazing depth of field.
Bloomfield says "the pinhole camera, with its long exposures and unusual perspectives, plays with the notion of time and space and offers a fluidity that one doesn't often find in still photography. Sometimes, the sharpest lenses and 'best' cameras, while offering the ultimate in print clarity, still fail at clarity of vision. I love the dream-like quality and timelessness of pinhole imagery, not to mention the sense of freedom and liberation - the element of surprise - that I rarely experience when using a 'regular' camera."
For further information check our NC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919 829-1000 or visit (www.povgallery.com).
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