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News
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Image
City Photography Gallery
Newsletter #136 October 12, 2018
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Our Newsletter publishes during each of our
exhibits to pass along information and reviews of the exhibit,
selected images and news of participation opportunities at Image
City. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to
another great year of fine photographs and events. We hope to see you
at each of the 13 shows we produce in 2018.
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Black and White
Invitational
Current Show Runs Through Sunday, October 28
Our current exhibit at Image City Photography Gallery is
a Black and White
Invitational featuring photographs by seven accomplished
photographs with black-and-white media, Bruce Bennett, Lisa Cook,
Michael Gow, Tom Kredo, Pat Luke, Steve Malloy Desormeaux, and
Dick Thomas. Their photographs certainly demonstrate a dynamic range
of styles and interests.
Peter J. Sucy has produced an exhibit in the Neuberger
Gallery of dramatic landscapes of Alaska. Additional Guest
Photographers are Neil Scheier and Camera Rochester
photographers, exhibiting award-winning photographs from their
competitions -- Bonnie Gamache, Jeno Horvath, David Kotok, Al Mosher,
Loni Titus and George Wallace. We round out the show with the
photographs by Artists-in-Residence, Jim Patton, Gary Thompson, and
Phyllis Thompson and Gallery Partners, Dick Bennett, Carl Crumley,
Steve Levinson, Gil Maker, Don Menges, Luann Pero, Betsy Phillips,
John Solberg, and Sheridan Vincent.
With 25 photographers exhibiting their art, you will
certainly find an interesting variety of both subject and style. We
encourage you to visit, enjoy the art, and support the artists by
making a purchase of their fine photography. There is no admission
fee at Image City and the Gallery is accessible to all. Click
Here to see our website listing and a link to a
preview a selection of the superb photographs in the show as
well as picks of our favorites.
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Following the installation of the exhibit, Gallery
Partners selected five of their favorites from the Featured and Guest
Photographers in the exhibit, presented here as our Partners' Picks:
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Jerusalem,
by Bruce Bennett Bruce's goal for his photography is to ".
. . communicate, as clearly as possible the lives and circumstances
of his subjects." His eleven photos in this exhibit plainly
achieve that target. He includes all sorts of people, young and old,
praying, armed soldiers in the street with civilians, a father
reading to his child and a market scene. Three people standing
together in what appears to be a market, caught my attention. Three
is such a wonderful, one might say a perfect number. Possibly a
family, the three are framed by their surrounding; the market wagon
to the left of the photo, the empty space to the right and the shaft
of light from behind. Often, we wish to crop our photos to what may
be the subject of our image. However, Bruce decided to leave the empty
space to the right, thus creating a more powerful effect of the light
shaft through the vaulted ceiling which acts as a line to draw our
eyes back to the family. Whether the family owns the cart of they
just happened to stop at this spot is unclear; the girl looks
curiously at the camera, the woman at the various bird cages on the
cart and the man into the distance. Perhaps he is considering walking
further into the area under the vaulted ceiling where there seems to
be more activity. The light on the people is muted adding to the
mystery. Bruce gives us much to consider about the people and this
place in Jerusalem in this well composed and lighted image.
Dunes Nambia,
Africa, 2015 by Michael Gow When you remove the color from a photo,
magic can happen. A cool composition becomes more bold, more
dramatic. Images gain a timelessness that allows our viewers to focus
on messages that transcends the here and now. Michael's Dunes does
exactly that. If not for the title, I'd think I was looking at an
iceberg with snow lightly blown across the tops of enormous blocks of
ice whose front surfaces were etched when they were forced out of the
frozen water. I expect to see some sort of human existence in the
scrapple of the foreground. Rather, this is the windswept desert
dunes of Nambia. Dry and hot. Just as foreboding as an iceberg and
exactly the opposite. This photograph contains all the advanced
B&W techniques; great contrast, a wide range of tonality, deep
shadows, sensuous shapes, and remarkable textures.
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Path to the Sea by
Tom Kredo It's no surprise to find another beautiful set of Black and
White photographs from Tom, and it's difficult to pick only one. But
this image is particularly striking, inviting us into an
exploration.The immediacy of the stairs and railing at the bottom of
the photograph begins a visual journey down this long staircase
winding down, down, down. Then the sands appear - sands that could on
first glance to be either water or the sky. But as our view continues
to the top of the photograph, there is the sea with the waves flowing
in. That sense of looking down is amplified by the fact there is no
visible horizon and offers a perspective we seldom experience in a
landscape photograph.The image carries a wide range of textures both
at fine level within the many structural elements of the image and
also at a macro level among those very same elements. The surf
rolling in, the smooth sand beach, the rocky edge of that sand, and
then the rough corridor on either side of the stairs extending from
the viewer's location to the shore below. Each element has a shape
and they fit together bounded by a beautiful network of curves. All
these elements, and the A photograph that can offer something new
each time we look at it is a special gift, and this one is such a
gift.
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Night's End
by Patrick Luke Pat Luke is a past president of the Professional
Photographers Society of New York State (PPSNYS). Locally, Pat is
known as the "McGiver of lighting" as he often creates his
own photographic tools. He specializes in student senior and sports
photos, product photography and portraits. As this photo, Nights End
illustrates, Pat is an excellent photographer, period! Black and
white photography is about shape, form, line, texture, and tonality.
This image has all those qualities and it's as crisp and tight as
that little black dress! It takes a master photographer to know when
to break "rules." There is a "rule" that you
should leave space in front of moving subjects. Pat didn't do that,
but by this positioning he lends truth to the title that this is
about nights end, as most of it is being left behind. There is a
"rule" about truncating heads and feet, but here the head
and feet would disrupt the "curve" that makes this image so
strong. The position of the model was carefully determined by the photographer
to create the same curve we would expect a landscape photographer to
make. The dangling shoes help to fill the frame and to indicate where
this person come from and perhaps wants to return. Finally, the soft
white background is not just negative space. You can barely see the
soft door and window in the background. Again, a reference to the
place this person may have been.All of Pat's photographs in this
collection are "clean" and "sharp." No mistakes.
This one, in my opinion is the best of the bunch.
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Town of Paxson
by Peter J. Sucy Peter J. Sucy has chosen to depict the
Alaskan wilderness in an array of stunning panoramic images. The
sunlight playing on the majestic mountain range and glacier
formations drew me into the Town of Paxson image. This image, with
the sweeping horizontal, contrasting lines of lights and darks,
showcases the immenseness of the Alaskan landscape. Peter's technical
and presentation skills are outstanding. The clarity and depth of
field in the image illustrates the incredible distance that exists
between the mountain ranges and the town of Paxson. Interwoven
horizontal and curving lines add to the dimensionality and poetry of
this vast rugged wilderness. The black and white image format draws
out the shapes and texture of the overall landscape. The range of
dark to light tones lends a sense of mystery to this work. As we move
from the snow-covered mountain range and glacier to the undulating
curves of the foreboding land down into the foreground of the image,
we can see the village of Paxson. This remote village is surrounded
by mountains and table-lands that have evolved over time. Peter has
given us the tool to formulate a story about this awe-inspiring yet
formidable and intimidating region. Alaskan natives refer to Alaska
as 'Alyeska', meaning "the great land." Peter's landscapes
capture the breadth and depth of the remoteness of this great land.
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Call for Submissions -- The Magic of
Light 2019
Our Annual Juried Show January 2 - 20 2019
Deadline for entries November 18, 2018
After twelve successful editions of our
annual juried show, we are pleased to let you know that
there will certainly be another. The theme of the 2019 Image
City Juried Theme Show is again titled The Magic of Light. The theme
is open, to give you freedom to create astonishing photographs. The
exhibit of selected photographs will run from January 2 and January
20, 2019 at Image City.
You can find all details and Entry Form for your
submission at the special link: The
Magic of Light 2019 Call Page . The
same information is also available via the Image City
Website. You can also get a hard copy of the entry form at Image
City Photography Gallery. Again this year, you may also enter, pay
the entry fee, and upload submitted images online.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at Dick.Bennett@ImageCityPhotographyGallery.com or by
phone at 585-271-2540.
We very much appreciate the continued participation of Lumiere Photo with our
juried shows. All Gallery Partners look forward to receiving your
submission by
November 18, 2018.
Feel free to forward this announcement to any of your
friends and relatives who might be interested in participating in the
Image City Juried Show, The Magic of Light 2019. There is a
forward email link at the bottom of this announcement.
Dick Bennett, Gallery Partner, Chairman of the 2019
Juried Show at Image City
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Image City Critique Group Meets November 7
The Image City Critique Group is a FREE program
offered to help novice and experienced photographers analyze their
photographs to help them improve their craft. We meet the first
Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is Wednesday, November 7th,
beginning at 6:30 PM. The November assignment is to shoot
"still life" photos. You can contact Don Menges dmenges521@gmail.com with any questions..
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Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Avenue
October 28,
Last Day of Black
and White Invitational
October 30,
Opening day next exhibit, Paris
by Gil Maker
November 2, 5 - 9 pm, Opening
Reception Paris
by Gil Maker
November 7, 6:30 pm
Image City Critique Group
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City Photography Gallery Hours
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where our
mission is to create a quality exhibition and learning
experience for photographers and the art-loving community.
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