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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Bret Culp Photography – Winter 2010 eNewsletter

I've completed my Winter 2010 photography newsletter. Included is information about my updated artist statement, photography talks I've been giving, what I'm working on, recent exhibitions and events, my blog, and the revised edition of my book.

Click here for a web version or here for a pdf.

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Steps to Elysium, Skellig Michael, Kerry, Ireland, 2010
archival pigment on photo rag

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Monday, January 4, 2010

Picture of the Week – The Transience of Power

My photograph, The Transience of Power, has been selected as the January 4, 2010 GalleryPrint Picture of the Week.  Click here for the GalleryPrint website.


The Transience of Power, Killarney, Kerry, Ireland, 2008
archival pigment on photo rag

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Framing Photography

The following information about historical photographic framing practices is taken from the wikipedia Fine Art Photography page.  

In light of what is written below, I'm interested in your opinion on what you like in framing – what is gimmicky versus what will stand the test of time, to matte of not to matte, with or without glass, plexiglass mounting, thoughts about printing and mounting on metal, etc.

Until the mid 1950s it was widely considered vulgar and pretentious to frame a photograph for a gallery exhibition. Prints were usually simply pasted onto blockboard or plywood, or given a white border in the darkroom and then pinned at the corners onto display boards. Prints were thus shown without any glass reflections obscuring them. Steichen's famous The Family of Man exhibition was unframed, the pictures pasted to panels. Even as late as 1966 Bill Brandt's MoMA show was unframed, with simple prints pasted to thin plywood. Since about 2000 there has been a noticeable move toward once again showing contemporary gallery prints on boards and without glass.


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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

New edition of my book is available

A revised and updated third edition of a book of my art photography is now available.

A book of haunting and poetic fine art black and white landscape photographs from Italy, Ireland, Canada, the United States, and around the world that focus on themes of resilience, reclamation, and renewal while revealing the beauty of impermanence. Also included is a fitting collection of quotations, proverbs and poetry ranging from the transient to the transcendental.  In addition to brand new work, many of the photographs in the book can be found at www.bretculp.com.



"All that remains of a formidable castle is a crumbling ruin overgrown with vines and moss; sunrise illuminates morning fog drifting silently through a valley in an instant that will exist only once in time; a mountain is gradually devoured by wind and water leaving behind sediment that is already becoming something new. These are photographs that highlight the beauty of each fleeting moment in a world of continuous change – this cyclical and transitory nature of existence binds everything in the material world."
-Bret Culp
Revised and Updated Third Edition: December 2009
Printed on Heavy Weight Premium Paper
ISBN 978-0-9810253-0-8
Published by Bret Culp Photography
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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