April 2010 Archives

Captured Landscapes
This developing series has been created in the Wet Plate Collodion process using a 19th century, Jamin lens and an 8x10 Deardorff camera. 
Collodion plates are such that they must be coated, sensitized, exposed and processed before the photographic plate has a chance to dry.
All original 8 x 10 inch plates from which these were scanned are one of a kind and made either on aluminum or black glass.
Made with natural light in an outdoor setting, these plates are exposed over the course of the day and reflect the movement of the sun as is interacts with the "landscape".


By: Bill Schwab (USA) ©2010



Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1959, Bill Schwab's childhood was spent surrounded by photography. Coming from a family of professional and rank amateur photographers, the equipment and knowledge of it was easily come by. Choosing an educational path with emphasis in the arts, Schwab earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography and graphic design from Central Michigan University in 1983 and has pursued a photographic career both personally and commercially ever since.
Although his style has gradually developed over the years, the common themes that thread through this ever growing body of work are those of the natural and urban landscape.
His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad since the early 1980's and is represented in a growing number of private, corporate and public collections throughout the world. Institutions holding his work in their permanent collections include the George Eastman House, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Dayton Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Two books of his work have been published to date, Bill Schwab: Photographs (1999) and "Gathering Calm - Photographs 1994-2004" (2005).











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Ether (2008 - 2010 ongoing...)
One of the prime motivators for this series lies in the depiction and interpretation of vast, seemingly boundless space. When space becomes the motivating concept, the image moves through a distillation process where only the most primitive elements remain; earth, sea, sky. The delineation of such parameters by transitional lines such as the horizon, or the boundary between shoreline and sea, create a graphic strong point which also interests me. A degree of temporal abstraction is obtained through the use of long exposures allowing the viewer to appreciate the trajectories of the most elemental entities such as clouds, waves and stars. Many of these images include a single sharply defined detail; the horizon. I offer the horizon line as a boundary between the limits of the viewers physical eyesight and an extension of their cognitive state or emotive vision. I invite the viewer to explore this 'boundary' with regard to these limits.


By: Mike Stacey (Australia) ©2010



Mike is based in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney Australia and makes regular trips to locations of vast space such as the Central Australian desert and various coastal locations. He uses a Shen Hao 4x5 and a Toyo 8x10, usually loaded with Kodak colour negative film or Fuji Astia positive film.











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Use without written consent by the author (Mike Stacey) is illegal and punishable by law.