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Bay Area Photographers Collective "Landscape Revisited" show, CA, US

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Erin Malone writes:

Bay Area Photographers Collective
November 4–November 18 [2007]
Landscape Revisited
Mendocino Art Center
A BAPC Members’ Exhibition

Reception: Saturday, November 10, 5–8pm.

Mendocino Art Center’s Main Gallery
45200 Little Lake St. (downtown)
Mendocino, CA 95460
(707) 937-5818 | (800) 653-3328

Photographers:
Rebecca Chang, Tom De Carlo, Adrienne Defendi, Alan George, Beth Kientzle, Eric Larson, Deborah D. Lattimore, Thomas Lavin, Art Levit, Donna Levreault, Erin Malone, Charlotte Niel, Heather Polley, Ari Salomon, Angelika Schilli, Kirk Thompson, Kay Taneyhill, Gloria Upchurch

(photos on postcard: Beth Kientzle, Deborah Lattimore, Kirk Thompson, Eric Larson)

Seeing with long lenses

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Yesterday started out beautifully. It was almost 80°F in the sun, which was a welcome change from the cold New York winter, and I went to Peach Hill Park, which is an old apple orchard. I haven’t fixed the light leak in my one particular copy of a Spartus that’s my favorite landscape camera (it’s not the cool kind of leak, it washes out the whole frame), and I didn’t have time to load film holders, so 4×5 was out, too. Instead, I reached for my Hasselblad 501C/M and noticed the 350mm lens that I’d only ever shot maybe 3 frames with. (For the record, I inherited both from my father; I’m not in the habit of buying Hasselblad lenses only to leave them in the closet for years.)

I’m not a big fan of long lenses. Not that I hate them or anything, but they don’t do much for me unless I physically can’t get close enough to what I want to shoot, like at a show or a wedding. I tend to go for normal to moderately wide, even finding the standard "normal" 50mm on 35mm film to be a touch long. 350mm is generally outside of my visual consciousness. I figured I’d give myself a challenge and took only the one camera and lens to see what I could learn.

I walked around and shot for about an hour and half and packed it in when it started raining. I took my time, shooting only 24 exposures, framing probably five shots for every one I took, really trying to get a feel for what this thing lends itself to. I think I failed. Other than being unweidly—the camera, lens, and hood together are longer than my forearm—I had no grand epiphanies. I don’t feel like I even got my foot in the door, but I’ll keep at it for a bit longer. For better or worse, it sure is different.

UPDATE: photos are here.

Mark Stetler "Nature Without Glass" pinhole landscape show, NY, US

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Nature Without Glass is the first exhibition of fine art photography by Mark Stetler, a resident of Olive, New York and a successful commercial photographer in Manhattan. While his NYC career has focused on fashion and portraiture, this new body of personal work builds on his affinity with nature and combines it with his fascination with the pinhole camera to presents his own unique viewpoint.

Mark hikes into the woods or along the coast or in the mountains near his home and returns with images that reveal hidden places and give us a glimpse of a rare moment in time, not typically seen. The enigmatic color landscapes are shot "without glass", using a pinhole camera to capture those mysterious moments just before dawn or the obscured vision in stormy weather.

Mark Stetler moved to New York in 1994 to pursue his life long interest in photography and worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon, which further fueled his interest in the photography industry and in portraiture, in particular. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through his recognition as a Mamiya Emerging Photographer and through publication of his images of September 11, shot from the rooftop of his apartment near the World Trade Center.

The show runs through February 12, 2007 at Galerie BMG, 12 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, NY, US. Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm, or other times by appointment.

As I lived in Woodstock and the surrounding area for years, I’m excited to see his view of a landscape I know well.

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Michael McCarthy landscape pinhole show, Paris, FR

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Michael McCarthy will be exhibiting a collection of pinhole photographs entitled "from below" [preview at the artist’s site] in the Combes Gallery at the American University in Paris from January 18 through February 6, 2007. Selections from this project can be seen at Michael’s website, listed below.

"My photographic work has always been interested in issues of perception, analyzing the way we look at and see the world around us. Recently, this has led me to work with pinhole cameras. These lensless cameras which require exposure times ranging from several seconds to several minutes lead to a transformation of the known world around us into something which seems at once familiar and foreign…"

Continue reading at Pinhole Visions

Pinhole cameras seem to end up on the ground far too often, but you can tell that McCarthy did it on purpose, not just because he couldn’t find anyplace else to put the camera. This really is a beautiful series of landscapes from an unusual perspective and I wish I could see the real show. Rawk.

Sebastião Salgado’s Antarctica

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Check out legendary Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado‘s gallery of photos from Antarctica at Rolling Stone’s Web site.

Salgado’s photojournalistic rendering of the landscapes and animals in high-contrast black and white is refreshing and effective. It’s not often that you see great landscape work that goes for the throat while still expressing the character of a place and isn’t obsessed with tonal range. I’ve been wanting to shoot Antarctica for a while now and this has only added fuel to the fire.

View photographs at Rolling Stone

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