Considered the most important photographer of his time, Adams once had plans to become a concert pianist. However, he changed his mind after he viewed some negatives of the photographer Paul Strand. Adams was not only a musician but also a teacher, scientist, advocate, writer and conservationist. His prolific body of work spans a career in commercial illustration, architectural studies, portraiture, and his extensive studies of the environment, which have brought him worldwide recognition. Adams was instrumental in the formation of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the first college of photography at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He also helped found the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. When he developed the Zone System for controlling the tonal range of a negative, amateur and professional photographers alike were finally able to have a significant measure of control over the traits of the black and white film. This celebrated American photographer captured nature?s most intimate details in his small and grand studies alike of Yosemite National Park, the Big Sur Coast, the Sierra Nevada, the American Southwest and America?s National Parks. His dramatic black and white photographs of his view of America?s wilderness remain extremely popular today.
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Sunset West Of Limon, Colorado
Aeling received his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and his M.F.A. degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. His works appear in numerous private collections and notable public collections such as the Johnson County Community College and the Kansas City Art Institute. He is the recipient of grants from the Margaret Hall-Silva Sculpture Foundation, the Lowick House of Printmaking and the Autumnal Fund at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Royal Gorge
Allen received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Masters of Fine Arts degree from Fort Hays State University in Kansas in the late 1970s. He has been an instructor of art at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri, since 1981. His works have been in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Great Britain. His solo exhibitions include the Prasad Gallery in New Jersey; the Goddard Gallery on the campus of State Fair Community College in Missouri; and the Karl Oskar Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. Allen was the recipient of one of the four top awards at the juried Missouri 50 exhibition at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1998. In the mid 1990s, Allen co-designed the Fine Arts Studios in the Stauffacher Center at State Fair Community College in Sedalia. Inspired by Peter Voulkos? groundbreaking developments where the platter was successfully established as art, Allen created his own series called the Horn Platter Series. He began this continuing series of platters in 1994 as a tribute to his teacher, Darrell McGinnis, and fellow ceramic artists Peter Voulkos and Jim Leedy. All three of these men had a profound effect on Allen?s thinking as an artist. In enlightening conversations with one another, Allen and Leedy discovered a kindred expressionistic spirit. This dynamic, untitled work by Allen reveals this spirit.
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Gargoyle Oil Can
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Andrews received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1984. In 1988 he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and three years later he attained a Masters of Art degree from the same university. His solo exhibitions include Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; ?Repetitions,? at the Print Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and ?Document Series,? at the University of Minnesota in Morris, Minnesota. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Pollack/Krasner Foundation Award in 1995, an Artist Residence Fellowship at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, and the 1992/1993 Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award. His works appear in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota; and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. This work contains some circles overlapping each other and others floating within this dark, moody composition. Some viewers may contemplate the underlying tensions that exist between the images throughout the composition. Other viewers may take a more light-hearted approach to the work and observe the bubble-like images that remind them of childhood summer days spent blowing bubbles.
City Canyon
from the Water in the West Project (Smelterville, Idaho)
Dawson received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and M.A. degree from San Francisco State University. Currently he is an instructor of photography at both San Jose State University and Stanford University. Over the last twenty years, Dawson has been involved in five major photographic projects, which began with the Mono Lake Series in 1979. Dawson has been the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and several other major grants, fellowships and awards. His works are in the permanent collections of such notable museums as the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Museum, The Center for Creative Photography and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes.
from the Water in the West Project (Smelterville, Idaho) (Diptych Left)
Dawson received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and M.A. degree from San Francisco State University. Currently he is an instructor of photography at both San Jose State University and Stanford University. Over the last twenty years, Dawson has been involved in five major photographic projects, which began with the Mono Lake Series in 1979. Dawson has been the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and several other major grants, fellowships and awards. His works are in the permanent collections of such notable museums as the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Museum, The Center for Creative Photography and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes.
from the Water in the West Project (Smelterville, Idaho) (Diptych Right)
Dawson received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and M.A. degree from San Francisco State University. Currently he is an instructor of photography at both San Jose State University and Stanford University. Over the last twenty years, Dawson has been involved in five major photographic projects, which began with the Mono Lake Series in 1979. Dawson has been the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and several other major grants, fellowships and awards. His works are in the permanent collections of such notable museums as the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Museum, The Center for Creative Photography and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes.