ARTIST GALLERY

Photography by Art Rogers
Artist Reception March 2nd from 2-4pm at Point Reyes Books

Exhibit through June 2008

With his personal vision and intimate style, Art Rogers has been photographing the lives and celebrations of families in the Bay Area for over 35 years. A Guggenheim Fellow and NEA recipient, his photographs are among the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, the Center for Creative Photography Archive, Tucson, Le Musée de l'Elysee, Switzerland, and the deYoung Museum, San Francisco. Art Rogers is well known for a series of portraits entitled “Yesterday and Today”, where he returns to photograph the same subjects after a period of years. He is now producing a new series of photographs utilizing 100-year-old antique wooden view cameras. Contact prints are made from negatives as large as 14 inches by 17 inches. This large, wood camera and film process is “an exquisite 19th century technology” that allows him to "express phenomenal tonality" in his images. The process of making a portrait with these tools is an event and “of itself is a joy”. By engaging such an archaic technology as a contemporary photographer, Art Rogers is able to revive and celebrate the tradition of black and white, gelatin silver photography. His collection of beautiful, tranquil and dynamic images captures the intimate relationship of humanity with the land and animals. A collection of these prints will be exhibited at the Point Reyes Bookstore Gallery, 11315 Highway One, Point Reyes Station.