An excellent showing of photographs from around the county!
Ms. Dubrowski introducing Ms Frieser at the opening of the 28th Annual Membership Exhibitions
Houston, Texas, July 9, 2010
Houston Center for Photography (HCP)
Presentation and opening of the 28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition of photographs.
A fair size crowd arrived prior to 5:30 PM to hear the presentation by the juror, Ms. Hannah Frieser, on the right, Director of Light Work at Syracuse University, NY. Introducing Ms. Frieser was Ms. Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Director of HCP. Behind them is the photograph, “Li Long Street Night, Shanghai, China” by Margaret Stratton of Iowa City, IA.
To this reviewer this exhibit is perhaps the finest presentation of members images at HCP in the past seven years. Selections were made from an extremely large number of photographs put onto CDs for Ms. Frieser to go through. She said it was difficult but enlightening to see the wide subject range and excellence. Images on the walls show the high quality of work, which is superb. Sequencing of images is also very good, that is, as you move along the various walls, there are no major jolts. Images move well, one to the other.
And If I Did No.2 by Cynthia Morgan Batmanis, 2010
There is a good showing of black and white, alternative processes, as well as wet processes. The majority, however, are listed as ink jet prints. Of the total 60 photographs, 8 are silver gelatin; 10 are Chromogenic, that is prints from the wet process or standard Type C prints; 7 are what’s known today as alternative processes of which 5 are palladium/platinum while two are a slightly different palladium known as ziatype That’s 25 non-digitally produced although chromogenics can easily be made from digital files (more…)
Self-made persons?
Thursday, July 1st, 2010So you think you’re a self-made person?
Self-images
Last year the same question was mostly answered by a book received at Christmas from my daughter. My comments then from my nearly daily Ramblings:
July 19, 2009–house sitting a War Horse Farm near Sarasota, Florida
Not many months ago I read a book that described quite well the circumstances that move a person along their pathways to become what they become, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. There is the easily made comment that a person is self-made but Malcolm has shown that many others relative to any self-made person have been the real stepping stones for without them, that person would not, through their own efforts, have become the end product at any particular time.
What or why do events or actions or things, call these what you will, happen to people? For example, there have been many times which I have recognized and some written about that occur in my life, those not-on-purpose happenings that come together at a near single time. Here’s the most recent one. (more…)
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