Visionary Photographers Featured In Hatton Gallery Exhibition
Friday, January 17, 1997
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FORT COLLINS--The work of four 20th-century American
photographers will be featured in an exhibition in the Hatton
Gallery at Colorado State University. The exhibit opens with a
reception 7-9 p.m. Jan. 27 at the gallery.
"Light Tracings: Photographs by Francesca Woodman, Clarence
John Laughlin, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and George Woodman" looks at
the work of four photographers who use the camera
unconventionally to achieve layered, blurred and fleeting images.
The exhibition will remain open through March 7. The Hatton
Gallery is located in the Visual Arts Building and is open from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays. All
programs are free and open to the public.
Meatyard's work is represented by four series of photographs
from the 1950s and 1960s, which are on loan from the Visual
Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. Meatyard trained and worked
throughout his life as an optician and considered himself an
amateur photographer. Yet, critics say he produced some of the
most elusive and compelling images of our time.
Spurred by interests in Zen philosophy, surrealism and
photographic experimentation, Meatyard pursued his belief that
photography was suited for metaphorical communication. Meatyard's
photographic techniques involve purposefully photographing parts
of his images out of focus, achieving affects that have been
called visionary and surreal.
Laughlin also is considered a visionary photographer. A
longtime resident of New Orleans, Laughlin is best known for his
haunting images of Louisiana plantations. His approach to
photography was extremely personal and involved the use of
multiple exposures and theatrical arrangements to create a
fantastic world.
Photographs included in the Hatton Gallery exhibit feature
some of Laughlin's most famous work and some lesser known
examples, dating from the 1940s through the late 1970s. The
photographs are on loan from the New Orleans Historical
Collection.
Light Tracings also includes work by Francesca Woodman, who
used her own body as a subject and relied on nontraditional uses
of the camera. Woodman's work in this exhibit includes
photographs from several series produced in Rome in the late
1970s.
The exhibition also looks at contemporary examples through
the work of George Woodman, professor at the University of
Colorado-Boulder and father of Francesca Woodman. Woodman used
overlapping multiple images and experimented with a large,
unconventional scales in recent photographs.
George Woodman will lecture on his work as well as his
daughter's work at 7 p.m. March 4 in Room F-101 of the Visual
Arts Building.
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