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"Focal points"
By Richard Huntington
The Buffalo News
Art Review
3-4-2005
CEPA Gallery annual members' exhibition
"CEPA exhibition
features photography
from several categories"
This year the CEPA Gallery annual members' exhibition is, as it tends to be, a fair survey of the multiple approaches and varied techniques that currently rage through the field of photography. The show gives a good idea of how photographers today work synthetically, combining digital technologies with traditional photographic techniques or cross-fertilizing with ideas borrowed from painting, assemblage and even sculpture and installation art.
Although the inkjet print is rampant here, there are probably some entirely digital-free examples—but then I can only guess on that. Artists will naturally take advantage of the wealth of digital effects, electronic aids and shortcuts, even when their aim is to produce the serene look of an old-fashioned in-the-camera photograph. When it comes to collage effects, as many examples in the show attest, there is hardly much point any longer in dragging out the scissors and glue pot.
In this wide-open world, the once-hemmed-in photographer is free to head in any direction he likes.
... Take any category —abstraction, say— and you will find multiple instances here.
... Ordinary found-in-nature abstractions are here and so are those oh-so-tricky Adobe-made abstractions that are a plague on the art of photography.
(Above text is excerpted from art critic Richard Huntington's 3-4-2005 review in The Buffalo News)
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