At the same time I was doing the Jennifer Desmond Series, I was the artist
in residence in Yosemite. I lived there, off and on for two years.
The Ansel Adams Gallery published a portfolio of this work in 1993.
In 1989 I also began to study digital printing. I feel that the new
printing styles, especially Iris prints, are a fine compliment to
my platinum prints. The field of digital printing has come a long
way in the last ten years with prints now being completely archival
and rivaling any platinum print in subtlety. I have shown digital
prints side by side with my platinum work in many of my recent shows.
Next came a series of
portraits and figure studies I call Women
in Black Velvet. I have just finished this work and it has been
shown in bits and pieces for the last several years, although I have
yet to show the complete group.
In 1995 I was given the
opportunity to curate a show of Edward Weston’s work. I called the
show Edward Weston at Home‑the Carmel Years.
It was a show of images he had made during his many years in Carmel.
The show was hung in a beautiful hotel space a few hundred yards from
his home at Wildcat Hill. The images were chosen from the collection
of his original work held by the University of California at Santa
Cruz. It was a beautiful show and drew visitors from all over the
world. For me, the exhibit was an opportunity to look closely at Weston’s
photographs and to study his life in detail. This close examination
of Weston’s personal evolution through his photography allowed me
to affirm my own sense of vision.
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