First Th Highlights 49 Geary St SF Photography
The Fraenkel Gallery. 4th Fl. Richard Learoyd,'s "The Outside World". This Englishman's stunning photo images are like grand painted canvasses of his beloved trees, birds, and in this show, a young Irish woman, Agnes. These images absolutely are breathtaking, monumental, and authentic. Having seen so much facile digital images, these are astonishing in their breadth and depth and requiring gazing inward into a tree's bloom, rook's nest in a community, magpies a study in black and white on a high wire.
I walked through with an art consultant, as the director led us on a gracefully conducted tour. She asked for insights into one image of a noble house, with daughter standing proud, with her parents in recessive space, with ivy grown over ancient stone, and when I responded, she commented, "you must be a writer"...These images invite more than a passing gaze, but meditation and time. Included is a photo of the artist's constructed camera Lacock Abbey, as the camera makes images in original negatives equal to the dimension of these life size visual representatives of the artist's work.
The Robert Koch Gallery 5th Fl. Breathtaking photos of Tamas Dezsos "Epilogue" of Romania reminded me of Montegnegro, of Kosovo, of Siberia, so when I read the lists and learned these were in Romania, my perceptions were validated. The landscape and the life carved out there are reminiscent of my own experience in this part of the world. The images bring us information from foresaken territory dignifying the lives of the humanity in these regions. Extraordinarily moving poignant images aestheticized from the photo journalism documention mode into works of art.
Corden/Potts Gallery. Studio Physics and An Experiment in Perspective. John Chervinsky. These interplays of the shifting of reality between the frame and the objects is tantalizing to perception. I met the photographer who lives elsewhere, Boston. He was an engineer in the field of applied physics at Harard's Rowland Institute for Science, originally founded by Polaroid's Edwin H. Land. He is a very affable man, and has not been to China, where he sends the original image to be made in a factory team of artists and then when it returns, he makes it into his final frame incorporating the "mechanical made anonymous frame". My favorite is of a red balloon and a stone.
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I walked through with an art consultant, as the director led us on a gracefully conducted tour. She asked for insights into one image of a noble house, with daughter standing proud, with her parents in recessive space, with ivy grown over ancient stone, and when I responded, she commented, "you must be a writer"...These images invite more than a passing gaze, but meditation and time. Included is a photo of the artist's constructed camera Lacock Abbey, as the camera makes images in original negatives equal to the dimension of these life size visual representatives of the artist's work.
Corden/Potts Gallery. Studio Physics and An Experiment in Perspective. John Chervinsky. These interplays of the shifting of reality between the frame and the objects is tantalizing to perception. I met the photographer who lives elsewhere, Boston. He was an engineer in the field of applied physics at Harard's Rowland Institute for Science, originally founded by Polaroid's Edwin H. Land. He is a very affable man, and has not been to China, where he sends the original image to be made in a factory team of artists and then when it returns, he makes it into his final frame incorporating the "mechanical made anonymous frame". My favorite is of a red balloon and a stone.
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