2004:
"New Works: Jack Spencer"
Stephen L. Clark Gallery, through May 10
"Jesus"
Unless you're face to face with one of Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer's images, you're not seeing the full picture. Spencer, who has selections from the 2003 series "This Land" and from his ongoing "Apariciones" at the Stephen L. Clark Gallery, is such a maestro in the darkroom that the print he creates – the actual photo paper in its frame – is as much a part of the image as the subject matter.
After he has cut, creased, nicked, and possibly burned the paper, Spencer exposes it, then dips the black-and-white image in a selenium tone bath to add a coppery sepia hue to the light and shadows. After the whole process – and goodness knows, there's far more that goes on inside his laboratory than we are privy to – he has created the mysterious, almost shrouded look of a 19th-century, Old West silver tintype enlarged to at least 27 inches square…
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase ... d%3A203809
Photo Box:
Jack Spencer
Somewhere along the back roads of small towns dotting the Louisiana and Mississippi landscape is Jack Spencer, a self-taught photographer, searching for beauty. Driving through forgotten towns, lush bayous, overgrown cotton fields and visiting weathered porches filled with the sound of authentic country blues, Spencer watches and listens, always looking for that one moment, interaction or ray of light that inspires him to take a picture. His photographs illuminate a singular mood, person or place, exposing us to the raw beauty etched into the faces and landscapes in the South, as he returns time and again to his subjects, peeling away layers, offering us a glimpse at another facet of their character.
Текст далее, иллюстрации:
http://photo.box.sk/about.php3?id=136
Большая статья:
Narrative and the "Gift of Vision":
The Photography of Jack Spencer
Southern Quarterly, Summer 2004 by McDonald, Robert L
IN HER INTRODUCTION to his first book, Native Soil, Ellen Douglass remarks that 'Jack Spencer's photographs-the faces, the stances, the staged presences-invite me first to think about stories" (1). Thus, she maintains, Spencer's photographs are rightly viewed as rt works in the same way that stories or songs or sculptures are art works. What the photographer has done in the darkroom to form his finished picture ranks at the same level of intensification as his choice of frame and image at the moment of snapping the shutter. Everything (at least to my untutored eye) seems as planned-as made-as a novel or a short story or a painting or a piece of music…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... i_n9431629
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Выставки в 2005-м:
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun valley, Id
Oswald Gallery, Jackson, Wy.
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Galleria Filon, San Miguel de Allende, Mex.
SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass.
Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin, Tx.
http://www.jackspencer.com/
"New Works: Jack Spencer"
Stephen L. Clark Gallery, through May 10
"Jesus"
Unless you're face to face with one of Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer's images, you're not seeing the full picture. Spencer, who has selections from the 2003 series "This Land" and from his ongoing "Apariciones" at the Stephen L. Clark Gallery, is such a maestro in the darkroom that the print he creates – the actual photo paper in its frame – is as much a part of the image as the subject matter.
After he has cut, creased, nicked, and possibly burned the paper, Spencer exposes it, then dips the black-and-white image in a selenium tone bath to add a coppery sepia hue to the light and shadows. After the whole process – and goodness knows, there's far more that goes on inside his laboratory than we are privy to – he has created the mysterious, almost shrouded look of a 19th-century, Old West silver tintype enlarged to at least 27 inches square…
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase ... d%3A203809
Photo Box:
Jack Spencer
Somewhere along the back roads of small towns dotting the Louisiana and Mississippi landscape is Jack Spencer, a self-taught photographer, searching for beauty. Driving through forgotten towns, lush bayous, overgrown cotton fields and visiting weathered porches filled with the sound of authentic country blues, Spencer watches and listens, always looking for that one moment, interaction or ray of light that inspires him to take a picture. His photographs illuminate a singular mood, person or place, exposing us to the raw beauty etched into the faces and landscapes in the South, as he returns time and again to his subjects, peeling away layers, offering us a glimpse at another facet of their character.
Текст далее, иллюстрации:
http://photo.box.sk/about.php3?id=136
Большая статья:
Narrative and the "Gift of Vision":
The Photography of Jack Spencer
Southern Quarterly, Summer 2004 by McDonald, Robert L
IN HER INTRODUCTION to his first book, Native Soil, Ellen Douglass remarks that 'Jack Spencer's photographs-the faces, the stances, the staged presences-invite me first to think about stories" (1). Thus, she maintains, Spencer's photographs are rightly viewed as rt works in the same way that stories or songs or sculptures are art works. What the photographer has done in the darkroom to form his finished picture ranks at the same level of intensification as his choice of frame and image at the moment of snapping the shutter. Everything (at least to my untutored eye) seems as planned-as made-as a novel or a short story or a painting or a piece of music…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... i_n9431629
*
Выставки в 2005-м:
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun valley, Id
Oswald Gallery, Jackson, Wy.
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Galleria Filon, San Miguel de Allende, Mex.
SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass.
Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin, Tx.
http://www.jackspencer.com/
