Photography Exhibit - "A Way of Seeing" The Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach Community College is pleased to present exhibition, A Way of Seeing. A series of breathtaking contemporary images from four exceptional phtographers. John Paul Caponigro - Refelctions; Nancy Hellebrand - Appearances; Howard Rubenstein - Nature's Unearthly Facts; and Diane Tuft - Ephemera. This exhibition presents wondrous and otherworldly abstracted and symbolic images of nature using traditional, vintage and digital processes and will be on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography from August 24th through October 16th.

John Paul Caponigro - Reflections

The images in this exhibition are drawn from Reflections, Caponigro's first major solo museum exhibition. John Paul Caponigro is recognized as a pioneer and master practitioner of digital photography and printing.

"In all of my work, there is an obsession with looking at, through, and into surfaces," said Caponigro. "A fortuneteller might divine meaning from the world by reading tea leaves, bones, runes, or entrails scattered across a surface. Reading the face of nature is an overwhelming process. It fills one with wonder. There is a highly psychological element to this work. Rorschach patterns lend themselves to interpretation; they encourage a rich upwelling of association. Yet every interpretation--the very act of memory and the foundations of identity that underlie knowledge--relies on association. And images, in many ways--like texts--rely on an interpretive process."

Nancy Hellebrand - Appearances

Nancy Hellebrand's photography has ranged over many different styles and techniques during her career. During the 1980's she photographed handwriting, crumpled napkins and organic substances blotted onto tissues. Her subject matter has become ever more abstracted with a consistent orientation towards refining and simplifying her subjects to their essence. Her more recent cloud and ocean images are initially recorded on color film. From this film image a scan is created and Nancy works digitally to enhance, alter, edit and compose. She uses a Roland archival ink jet printer with a subtlety of color palette that enables a gamut suited to each image. The prints are usually large in order to degrade the realistic and descriptive quality of the image details with a granular print surface and a more energetic, abstracted gesture.

Howard Rubenstein - Nature's Unearthly Facts

About Antelope Canyon
"I have many different styles of work, which reflects my continual evolution as an artist. Some of my work is soft, some hard, some literal, others more abstract. I am moving toward the latter. The canyon pieces are literal and at the same time abstract, presenting sensual, fluid images with great depth and power. They take the viewer into a place that is in our world, but not of our world. We are in a photographic reality, in black-and-white, with illuminated forms that are both spatial and mysterious, full of convoluted contours that move from wave-like expanses to small light filled apertures. These forms were captured photographically on the Navajo Indian reservation in north central Arizona; the lower Antelope "slot" canyons. These narrow fissures formed by the erosion of flowing water over thousands of years are sixty to one hundred feet below the earth's surface and six to ten feet wide, accessible only with an Indian guide." Howard Rubenstein

Diane Tuft - Ephemera

This exhibition features photographic prints representing four separate series by Diane Tuft. Distillations is a series comprised of photographs of snow and ice formations in Colorado; Tunisian Fantasy is a reflection upon the mutable and shifting forms and textures of sand dunes; Iceland brings images of glacial ice forms; and, her most recent work, prints produced in the Gum Bichromate process. Tuft prints her images using a platinum solution painted onto the surface of Arches palatine paper. This process creates a richer tonal range than the more common silver gelatin print.

Exhibition Opening & Reception:
5:30 - 7:00pm, Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Museum Open House - Meet the Artist - John Paul Caponigro
5:30 - 7:00pm, Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Museum and Event Location
Unless noted otherwise, all museum exhibitions, receptions and events are presented at the museum on the Daytona Beach Campus of DBCC at 1200 West International Speedway Blvd, three miles east of I-95. The museum is located in Building 100. Admission is free. Visitor parking is available.

Museum Hours
The Museum is open seven days a week as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. tWednesdayWednesday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Weekends, 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving Weekend, Dec 24th - Jan 1st, Daytona 500, Memorial Day, and July 4th.

View Slideshow: 'A Way of Seeing'

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