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Photo by: Brooke Shaden
Digital Darkroom
Exhibit
Dec 17,
2011 - May 28,
2012
Digital Darkroom featured the work of 17 artists from around the world, exploring the intersection of art and technology. Each artist is a master of different types of digital techniques: compositing highly layered imagery, working in 3D and lenticular imaging, meticulously stitching together images, using lighting in highly inventive ways, and so on.
The exhibit presented an interesting juxtaposition of young artists immersed in digital work against Jerry Uelsmann, a master of darkroom compositing techniques. The artists came from a range of backgrounds, each specializing in fine art, commercial art, portraiture, still life, fashion, architectural or other types of photographic and illustrative expression. Many of these artists cross genres and combine multiple techniques to create their unique work.
Digital Darkroom was comprised of an 80-image print show with 2-6 images contributed by each of the featured photographers. Hundreds of additional images from Digital Darkroom‘s photographers were also be showcased on two high-resolution screens in the Photography Space’s Digital Gallery.
Digital Darkroom was also featured at the Art Museum of South Texas.
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Featured Photographs
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Claudia Kunin
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Bonny Pierce Lhotka
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Bonny Pierce Lhotka
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Brooke Shaden
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Brooke Shaden
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Jean-François Rauzier
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Jean-François Rauzier
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Jean-Marie Vives
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Jean-Marie Vives
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Jerry Uelsmann
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Jerry Uelsmann
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Joel Grimes
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Josef Astor
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Josef Astor
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Khuong Nguyen
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Khuong Nguyen
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Khuong Nguyen
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Maggie Taylor
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Maggie Taylor
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Martine Roch
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Martine Roch
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Pierre Beteille
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Pierre Beteille
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Stanley Smith
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Ted Grudowski
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Mike Pucher
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Christopher Schneberger
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Maggie Taylor
Stories Behind the Photographs
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After living with Miss Aniela for a week, it somehow seemed like second nature for us to wake up when the sun was still down, trek out into a cold, wet field in the fog, put on our nightgowns, and take a photo.
Brooke Shaden
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Featured Photographers
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Stanley Smith
Stanley Smith has exhibited his work widely in galleries and museums all over the United States, most recently in the 2008 exhibition Smoke and Mirrors at the Seattle Art Museum and in 2009 at the University Art Gallery at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
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Claudia Kunin
Photographer Claudia Kunin launched her career in 1976 when she was first published in Rolling Stone magazine.
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Jean-François Rauzier
As a former advertising photographer, and one of the first users of numerical assembly in photography, Jean-François Rauzier created the concept of “hyperphoto,” a term that essentially means putting together many high resolution images into a collage.
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Josef Astor
In 1985, Josef Astor opened his studio in Carnegie Hall and launched his theatrically staged, historically informed photography.
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Brooke Shaden
Brooke Shaden began to create self-portraits for ease and to have full control over images and has since grown into a self-portrait artist.
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Joel Grimes
Joel Grimes has been working as a commercial advertising photographer for nearly 30 years.
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Ted Grudowski
Ted Grudowski has been working with 3D photography for nearly 25 years.
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Bonny Pierce Lhotka
Bonny Pierce Lhotka has made a name for herself by printing her compelling work on extraordinary surfaces, from glass to acrylic to aluminum, and even on more experimental surfaces such as drywall, bamboo and rusty tin.
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Chris Levine
Chris Levine is a light artist who works across many mediums in pursuit of sensory experience through image and form.
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Jean-Marie Vives
Jean-Marie Vives was one of the first matte painters for films in France, working on acclaimed movies by Alain Resnais and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
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Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972.
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Khuong Nguyen
Khuong Nguyen comes from the demanding world of French advertising photography.
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Maggie Taylor
Maggie Taylor became a towering figure in photography in the 1990s when she learned Photoshop and began creating her unmistakable artistic fingerprint.
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Martine Roch
Martine Roch has pursued an artistic style that reflects her love of animals.
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Pierre Beteille
Pierre Beteille is a self-taught talent in Paris who has an unbridled and witty sense of humor.
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Mike Pucher
Inspired by classic still life photography, Mike Pucher uses 3D photography as a way to explore composition and influence the viewer’s experience.
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Christopher Schneberger
Christopher Schneberger is an artist/photographer in Chicago, IL.
Iris Nights Presenters
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Doug Rickard
Doug Rickard is the founder of American Suburb X and These Americans, aggregating websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives.
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Nadine Boughton
Nadine Boughton has worked as a fine art photographer and collage artist for decades.
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Todd Baxter
Prior to his photography career, Todd Baxter worked mostly in painting and collage, both of which continue to influence his current approach to fine art and commercial photography.
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Richard Ehrlich
Photographer Richard Ehrlich’s goal comes from a desire to express internal feelings rather than to depict simply what is seen and as such provides an avenue for heightened awareness and self expression.
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Stanley Smith
Stanley Smith has exhibited his work widely in galleries and museums all over the United States, most recently in the 2008 exhibition Smoke and Mirrors at the Seattle Art Museum and in 2009 at the University Art Gallery at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
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Andrea Galluzzo
She began experimenting with the digital darkroom four years ago after working extensively with medium and large format cameras.
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Douglas Prince
Douglas Prince’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and is held in many private and museum collections.
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Claudia Kunin
Photographer Claudia Kunin launched her career in 1976 when she was first published in Rolling Stone magazine.
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Jean-François Rauzier
As a former advertising photographer, and one of the first users of numerical assembly in photography, Jean-François Rauzier created the concept of “hyperphoto,” a term that essentially means putting together many high resolution images into a collage.
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Jodi Cobb
Jodi Cobb has spent three decades as a staff photographer with National Geographic magazine and has worked in more than 60 countries.
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Josef Astor
In 1985, Josef Astor opened his studio in Carnegie Hall and launched his theatrically staged, historically informed photography.
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Greg Downing & Eric Hanson
Greg Downing specializes in image-based 3D technologies and computational photography techniques. Eric Hanson is a visual effects designer specializing in the creation of digital environments.
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Connie Imboden
Connie Imboden has spent more than 30 years using photography to examine, distort and redefine the human body.
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Brooke Shaden
Brooke Shaden began to create self-portraits for ease and to have full control over images and has since grown into a self-portrait artist.
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Joel Grimes
Joel Grimes has been working as a commercial advertising photographer for nearly 30 years.
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Julie Blackmon
Julie Blackmon was named American Photo’s “Emerging Photographer of 2008” and one of PDN’s “30 New and Emerging Photographers” in 2007.
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Lauren Marsolier
After studying Economics and graduating from the Grande École Sup de Co Lyon, Lauren Marsolier decided to pursue her early passion for photography.
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Angela Bacon-Kidwell
Angela Bacon-Kidwell is an award-winning photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Texas.
Slideshow Night Photographers
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Allison Hunter
Allison Hunter is a visual artist who over the past twenty years has worked in photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and installation.
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Ari Salomon
Ari Salomon was born in Israel, raised in San Diego and now is based in San Francisco.
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Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman
Barbara Ciurej is a Chicago-based photographer and graphic designer. Lindsay Lochman is a Milwaukee-based photographer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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Barbara Parmet
Barbara Parmet builds photographic constructions.
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Brad Carlile
Tempus Incognitus is Brad Carlile’s series of photographs depicting hotel rooms in which time and space fade into one another.
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Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known for his innovative explorations of alternative photographic processes including historic 19th Century printing techniques, mixed media, and hand made books.
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Brigitte Carnochan
Brigitte Carnochan’s photographs have been shown, collected, and published internationally.
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Catherine Nelson
Visual Poetry, nature photography and digital design come together in the transcendent landscapes of Catherine Nelson.
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Daryl Thetford
Daryl Thetford’s digital photo collage provides a means to reflect and express the tension between our fragmented struggle for understanding and to simultaneously articulate the beauty that can emerge from disorder.
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Ellen O’Connell
Ellen O’Connell’s photographs explore the poignant moments in which the dichotomy between innocence and the weight of the unknown is revealed.
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Eric Lawton
Eric Lawton is an award winning fine art photographer, writer and visual artist whose work has been exhibited and published throughout the world.
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Erik Madigan Heck
Though he’s just 28 years old, Erick Madigan Heck has collaborated with many of the world’s most exclusive fashion designers, from Valentino and Gaultier to Rodarte, Ackermann, and Katrantzou.
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Heather Kadar
Natural outdoor environments influences Heather Kadar’s art, drawing upon everyday scenes that are somewhat unfamiliar and filled with life.
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John Eakin
John Eakin is the pixelwrangler John has worked professionally in photography for 30 years.
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John Eder
This work is from John Eder’s project “Florida House”, about growing up in south Florida in the mid-1970s.
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Julie Brook Alexander
Julie Brook Alexander transforms original medium format photography into collages and montages assembled and painted by hand.
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Kamil Vojnar
Kamil Vojnar likes to create texturally satisfying objects by constructing images out of multiple layers of photographed elements and later, on the print itself, applying multiple layers of wax based varnish and oil paint.
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Lisa Gizara
Lisa Gizara has been a freelance photographer for over 30 years. Her work has been published in magazines and newspapers.
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Lucia Loiso
Lucia Loiso is a Romanian photographer currently living in Los Angeles.
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Neil Krug
Neil Krug is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles. Together with his wife, Joni Harbeck, he founded Pulp Art Book, a collection of photography and commercial work in limited edition prints, books and films.
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Ryan Obermeyer
Ryan Obermeyer is an internationally acclaimed American artist working in photography, drawing, sculpting, and painting.
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Sarolta Ban
Born in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary, Sarolta Ban is originally a jewelery designer.
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Susan Goldstein
Susan Goldstein layers steel with glass, transparencies and damaged antique paper, to create images.
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Tom Chambers
Tom Chambers was born and raised on a farm in the Amish country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Tom Leighton
Tom Leighton is a photographer and printmaker, born and based in London.
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Trey Ratcliff
Trey Ratcliff’s site StuckInCustoms.com has become the #1 Travel Photography Blog on the Internet.
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Carol Ring
While driving around Los Angeles, Carol Ring photographed colorful signage, graffiti, rust stains, peeling paint and other elements of urban blight.
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