17 posts tagged “black and white photography”
Whole Earth Library Presentation by Charity Vargas
Thursday, December 11
12:30 to 1:30p
Pacific Room at Tides
www.presidiobook.com
Whole Earth Library at Thoreau is pleased to kick off its first literary event with a presentation by Photographer Charity Vargas. Charity will present images from her new photography book The Presidio: Portraits of a Changing Landscape and discuss the evolving nature of the park throughout it's 200 plus year history.
Thursday, December 11
12:30 to 1:30p
Pacific Room at Tides
www.presidiobook.com
Whole Earth Library at Thoreau is pleased to kick off its first literary event with a presentation by Photographer Charity Vargas. Charity will present images from her new photography book The Presidio: Portraits of a Changing Landscape and discuss the evolving nature of the park throughout it's 200 plus year history.
The countdown is here (finally)! The Book will be onsale at photo-eye, Books Inc, and Golden Gate Parks Stores in early December. If you want a peak at it now and if you like what you see you can pre-order a copy from my fabulous new book site PresidioBook.com.
Just got my advanced copies of my photography book on the Presidio from the printers. So excited. Quality is beautiful. I've sent the OK to ship the full inventory and can't wait to get them. Just in time for the holidays so please bear me in mind when looking for that must have coffee table photography book. For now I've put an electronic version on the issuu website (mini-viewer below). Please check it out and let me know what you think.
War and Dissent: U.S. in the Philippines 1898-1915
October 22, 2008 to February 22, 2009
Opening
Wednesday, October 22, at 7 pm
Wednesday to Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm
Presidio Officers’ Club, 50 Moraga Avenue
The Seed Gallery of Photographic Art is pleased to exhibit
"Presidio: A New Light--from Army Base to Community Space"
Black and White Photographs by Charity Vargas
Opening reception: June 19, 2008 5:00 to 7:00pm
Exhibition date: June 19 through August 15, 2008
The Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Presidio Building 1014
at Lincoln Blvd. & Torney Ave.
The Presidio of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA 94129
"Presidio: A New Light--from Army Base to Community Space"
Black and White Photographs by Charity Vargas
Opening reception: June 19, 2008 5:00 to 7:00pm
Exhibition date: June 19 through August 15, 2008
The Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Presidio Building 1014
at Lincoln Blvd. & Torney Ave.
The Presidio of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA 94129
All winter I waited for fog. Brilliant winter daylight fog, luminescent and thick. There was image I wanted and I needed fog. Now I wait for clarity. A night dark and deep, star filled, full mooned - fog free. As the moon wanes I wait in hope and see what I see.
Right after we got back from Greece I went to a Photo Alliance sponsored weekend at the National Historic Life Boat Station in Point Reyes, CA. The feedback to the work was very interesting and the location stunningly beautiful. The low fog, clouds and absence of artificial lighting made night photography uneventful, but the daylight was even, diffused and very bright - all great conditions to create my kind of high contrast images.
Delos was the religious center of the Cyclades, before it was sacked so many times it was abandoned. On vacation to the islands we took a short boat ride to this uninhabited archaeological site. It was cold, rainy and windy everything you don't expect in the deep blue of the Mediterranean. Despite that we forged on, exploring and making images on the tiny island. What I found most interesting was the presence of all the everyday things like homes along alley ways with amazing mosaic floors, fountains and grinding stones. After too much rain we took shelter in the small museum where this sculpture is on display. I was taken with the sort of extreme supports holding up the reconstructed sculpture and waited out the many visitors to make an image of it alone.
