{"id":6840,"date":"2013-04-23T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:34:50","slug":"show-features-the-edgy-work-of-local-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"Show features the edgy work of local photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Peter-Pan-by-Graham-\"<\/a>

Photographer Jim Graham \u2014 his photo “Peter Pan” is above \u2014 is among six local photographers will be featured this weekend at Hardcastle Gallery in Greenville, Del.<\/p><\/div>\n

‘Close To The Edge’ showing ends April 27<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

GREENVILLE, Del. \u2014 Next time you are feeling a bit overwhelmed with Instagram photos on your Facebook news feed (presumably you even engaged in that forum) , consider how its only been in recent decades that photography has been given the kind of critical attention other art forms have favored.<\/p>\n

An intriguing photography show at the Hardcastle Gallery in Greenville, Del. \u2013 its size and scope will knock your lens cap off \u2013 is a must-see exhibit if you need an attitude adjustment.<\/p>\n

Represented are six area photographers:\u00a0 Steve\u00a0 Boyden, Jim Graham, Michael Kahn, Sam Krisch, David Nibouar, and\u00a0 Alessandra Manzotti.<\/p>\n

According to Graham, who curated the show after having several extremely successful solos at the gallery, the exhibit\u2019s title \u201cClose To Edge\u201d refers to the predominance of seascapes and images suggesting transitions and points of departure such as Kahn\u2019s dramatic black & white photo of a beach path winding thru a field of beach grass.<\/p>\n

Kahn and Manzotti offer what can be done in black & white at different ends of the spectrum \u2013 digitally, and with Kahn, silver gelatin photographs that are hand-processed.<\/p>\n

Manzotti, who says she grew up in Italy, \u201cwithout a color TV\u201d but still imagined things in color, shows work completed in and around her home in Chadds Ford. The issue of color doesn\u2019t even register, in fact, with images that resemble silhouettes such as the photo depicting a pair of riders galloping up a hill, a sole tree perched on top.<\/p>\n

The other exhibitors could be described as traditional landscape\u00a0 photographers who work in color using deceptively simple techniques and approaches.\u00a0 They may produce some computer-manipulated imagery,\u00a0 but they are purists at heart. The digital imagery of\u00a0 Nibouar, for instance, is often focused on colorful water reflections resembling the color field paintings of the American Abstract Expressionists.<\/p>\n

He speaks for many in the group when he says he needs nothing more than a \u201cgood quality digital SLR, one or two lenses, and a tripod.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if you didn\u2019t know an aperture from an armature, the exhibit can be enjoyed from a purely visual perspective in that most these photographers are interested in good old-fashioned narrative or story-telling.<\/p>\n

Considering the range of ingenuity found here \u2013 found \u201chappy\u201d occurrences to photos taken after hours of waiting \u2013 the exhibit might have easily have taken a line or two from Walden Pond.\u00a0\u00a0 Thoreau\u2019s life as both a recorder and a romantic is summed up in the line, \u201cit’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Displayed throughout Hartcastle Gallery, nearly every photo poses a question or mystery.\u00a0 There\u2019s an \u201cabandoned boardwalk inexplicably tossed,\u201d as Boyden calls it, on a rocky edge he discovered in Patagonia.\u00a0 Graham\u2019s photo \u201cPeter Pan\u201d is aptly titled: a figure (is it a child, or Peter Pan?) is shown in a reflection on the ground (or is it the sky?). It takes a moment to realize that the\u00a0 bright crayon-like green hues is actually an edging of moss, and the inky black water is dark from surrounding rocks.<\/p>\n

Characteristic of Graham\u2019s talent for mining drama in every series he undertakes (fox hounds, Iceland glaciers, or weathered Maine outbuildings, to name three),he found his subject by looking underfoot and then letting chance intervene (the figure caught in a reflection). Still, depending on the work, he often does much of the creative\u00a0 work in the cropping and editing phase, discovering elements he might have missed and working much like a painter, bringing out values with every dodge and burn brush stroke.<\/p>\n

Or as Graham puts it, it\u2019s all about the subject and discovering a \u201ctwo-step process\u201d: finding the image and then perfecting it.\u00a0 If these photographers can\u2019t find that unusual perspective close to home, they seek out their subjects as destination\u00a0 photographers. The short list of their travels shown here include Iceland, Utah, Maine, Patagonia, and Antarctica..<\/p>\n

At the exhibit\u2019s opening, Graham observed that much of\u00a0 the work reflects an interest in conservation and environmental concerns. But in the end, photographers such as himself typically have the focus as a visual artist who captures nature according to\u00a0 light, pattern and shape.\u00a0\u00a0 Kahn\u2019s photo “Over the Dunes,”\u00a0 for instance, would have been another path leading the viewer\u2019s eye elsewhere had it not been for the pattern of footprints in the sand and how they seem to echo the cloud formations in an expansive sky.<\/p>\n

Krisch, who lives in Roanake, Va., is apparently both a studious and impromptu photographer (his web site includes examples of the latter,\u00a0 all shot with an iPhone).\u00a0 In the exhibit, his large seascapes of Antarctica might bring to mind the issues of melting glaciers. But as subjects, they evoke what the catalogue describes as \u201ctimeless feelings of solitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you go:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When:<\/strong>\u00a0 The show ends Saturday, April 27th. <\/span><\/p>\n

Gallery Hours:<\/strong> 10 am \u2013 6\u00a0 pm, Mon.-Friday, 10 am \u2013 4 pm, Saturday. Closed Sunday. <\/span>
\nWeb site: www.hardcastlegallery.com<\/a>\/<\/span><\/p>\n

Where:\u00a0<\/strong> 5714 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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