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July Issue 2005
City of Charleston Gallery Features Works by Louis Joyner
The City Gallery at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, will present an exhibit of gelatin silver prints by Mt. Pleasant, SC, artist, Louis Joyner. The exhibition entitled, Bastions of brick: Photographs of 19th Century Coastal Fortifications, will be on view though July 18, 2005.
As a photographer, writer, and senior editor at Southern Living magazine for 27 years, Louis Joyner covered architecture and preservation across the South. His photographs also appear in several books, including Southern Places, At Home with Southern Living, and Decorating with Southern Living, which he also edited. Since moving to the Charleston area in 2000, Joyner has concentrated on large format architecture photography. His photographs have been exhibited in many galleries and exhibitions across the south.
Joyner comments on his work: "We see not with an all-encompassing gaze, but in bits and pieces. A detail here, a part there, come together to form our image of the whole. Does a series of significant details give us as true a view as would a sweeping panorama? Can we truly know the forest if we see the trees only as masses of texture and color, not as individual leaves? This series, Bastions of brick: Photographs of 19th Century Coastal Fortifications, focuses on the details of the brick fortifications along the Southern seacoast. The series both documents the gradual deterioration of the forts and celebrates the grandeur and craftsmanship of the structures themselves."
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Office of Cultural Affairs at 843/724-7305 or at (www.ci.charleston.sc.us/oca.html).
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