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David Emitt Adams, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, CA, 2015, Wet Plate collodion on 55-gallon steel drum lid, 23.5 inches in diameter, Unique, $7,500 ready to hang

photo-eye Gallery is pleased to present Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment, an exhibition of photographs by Jamey Stillings and David Emitt Adams. This exhibition observes the transformation of land due to the extraction of natural resources from the earth. This exhibition also highlights a selection of images by Bremner Benedict that explore natural springs in the Southwest, many of which are currently being threatened.

Jamey Stillings, #24916, 20 July 2017, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 31x44 in, Editon of 10 plus two artist's proofs, $3,400 unframed

Jamey Stillings, #39386, 29 August 2022, 22x28 in, Editon of 15 plus two artist's proofs, $2,000 unframed

Jamey Stillings' stunning color, aerial photographs record rapidly growing large-scale renewable energy projects that incorporate wind, solar, hydro and mining projects in the Atacama desert of Chile. The landscape of the Atacama desert has a long history of being altered by humans due to the region's abundant natural resources such as lithium, copper, gold and iron ore.

David Emitt Adams, LA Harbor Oil Tanker, Wilmington, CA, 2017, Wet plate collodion tintype on 55-gallon steel drum lid, 23.5 inches in diameter, Unique, $7,500 ready to hang

David Emitt Adams uses historical photographic techniques to explore his subjects, sparking conversations about the past and present. His "Power" series features images of industrial landscapes from the American oil industry, captured using a custom-built camera and printed directly onto 55-gallon steel oil drum lids using wet plate collodion chemistry.

Bremner Benedict, Pinto Hot Springs, NV, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 16x24 in, Edition of 4, $1,200 unframed.

Benedict's "Hidden Water" project documents springs in the Southwest, including the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave deserts, the Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau. The project raises awareness about the loss of these vital ecosystems that have long been essential to human survival but are overlooked in our modern world.

About the artists:

Jamey Stillings is a photographer based in Santa Fe, NM. Jamey’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally. His work is in the permanent collection of the United States Library of Congress Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Los Angeles County Museum of Art Nevada Museum of Art, and Center for Art + Environment Archive Collection among others. His monographs include ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile, Steidl, 2023, The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar, Steidl, 2015 and The Bridge at Hoover Dam, Nazraeli Press, 2011.

David Emitt Adams is a photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. David’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally including museum exhibitions. His work is in the permanent collection of The Center for Creative Photography, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The George Eastman Museum, and The Worcester Art Museum as well as numerous private collections.

Bremner Benedict is a photographer based in Concord, Massachusetts. Bremner's photographs have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collection of Fidelity Art Boston Collection, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, New Mexico Museum of Art, George Eastman International Museum of Photography, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. In 2023 Benedict was the recipient of Center's Project Launch Grant.

Also on display is a selection of work by gallery artists, including Mitch Dobrowner, Michael Kenna, Steve Fitch, and Beth Moon.

Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment is on display through January 6th, 2024. An Artist Reception and Booksigning for Jamey Stillings will be held on Saturday, December 2nd, from 3-5 p.m.

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Steve Fitch, Pueblo, Colorado; June 1980
Michael Kenna, Railway Lines in Snow, Quarto Santa Chiara, Palena, Abruzzo, Italy
Maggie Taylor, The Companions

This fall, I was granted the opportunity to peruse our flat files to gather a collection of images for our annual "Put a Bow on it!" series, and I can confidently say that photo-eye Gallery has many, unique, ready-to-wrap gifts—perfect for the collector, photographer, or art lover in your life!

We are ever so grateful for our devoted clients and talented artists who inspire us every day, and the following works in this post are a tiny fraction of what we have hidden in our flat files for under $3,200. I have ordered these lovely prints from low to high, and they range from one-of-a-kind and/or not available on our website, by artists such as Cig Harvey, Pentti Sammallahti, Mark Klett, Chaco Terada, Christopher Colville, and Julie Blackmon.

If you are unable to visit the gallery, please know that we are here to help! We are happy to search for a special request in person or virtually, and also offer domestic and international shipping for those that can't make it into our gallery here in Santa Fe, NM.

Once again, our thanks for all your interest, support, and enthusiasm this year.

Enjoy the collection!

Steve Fitch, Pueblo, Colorado; June 1980, Archival Pigment Print, 12x12", $450

Laurie Tümer, Laurie as Desert Bird of Paradise, Archival Pigment Print, 10x7", Edition of 20, $600

Tom Chambers, Fetch, Archival Pigment Print, 23x8.5", $750

David H. Gibson, Sunstreams Reds Canyon, Silver Gelatin Print, 8.94x23.3", $800

Reuben Wu, XT2011, Archival Pigment Print, $950

Pentti Sammallahti, Kemio, Finland, Silver Gelatin Print, 8x7", $1,300

Chaco Terada, Little Fox, Sumi Ink & Pigment on Silk, 10x7.5", $1,800

Mark Klett, 5 Minutes at Glacier Point, Silver Gelatin Print, 7.375x9", $2,000

Cig Harvey, Wisteria, Camden, Maine, Archival Pigment Print, 16x20" $3,000

Michael Kenna, Railway Lines in Snow, Quarto Santa Chiara, Palena, Abruzzo, Italy, Toned Silver Gelatin Print, 8x8" $3,000

Julie Blackmon, Night Windows, Archival Pigment Print, 22x29", $3,100

Maggie Taylor, The Companions, Archival Pigment Print, 15x15", $3,200

Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change.

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Spanish Summer. By Gerry Johansson.

Spanish Summer
Photographs by Gerry Johansson

MACK, London, UK, 2021. 320 pp., 6¾x9½".

The first time I met photographer Terri Weifenbach was at a woodfired pizza place deep in the woods of Alleghany County, New York. I was teaching at the Alfred Ceramics College at the time, and Terri flew in from Washington DC to work with my students as a visiting artist. Terri had just completed her second book with Nazraeli Press, Hunter Green, and I was so enthralled I had to find a way to meet her. We drank elderberry wine in the luscious hardwood forests of Western New York while Terri convinced me that in the right hands, inside a truly complex and insightful artist, beauty is always a ruse. Beauty, she said, should just be a way to tempt the viewer, and once they enter the picture with you, you can show them that beauty is both band-aid and confessional, and can share something profound about the most complex layers of our being.

I must confess that I find photographer Gerry Johansson very difficult to write about, but I do think this experience with Terri is the right place to start. Johansson’s newest book with MACK, Spanish Summer, all photographed between 1992-2021, is intoxicatingly beautiful. Each page reveals an exquisitely composed photograph, full of rich, poetic, and complex tones and perfectly proportioned and balanced frames. There is a lush proficiency that feels a bit like Michael Kenna. There are hundreds of photographs in this book, 320 pages with no text and often two pictures per spread. As I repeatedly delve into the book, I keep coming back to Terri’s comment, that beauty is a ruse, just a device to tempt the viewer into the photograph. I am still not sure how to understand these photographs, but I think dissecting their beauty can show us more.

Balisa by Gerry Johansson.

The book has a rich linen cover, dyed brick red with a print mounted in an embossed frame, photographed in Castellanos de Villiquera, Salamanca, Western Spain in 2021, depicting a crossroads in a rural landscape (a lovely metaphor). The pages that follow are on a luscious bright white paper that somehow balances the best of both glossy and matte printing (perhaps a varnished matte paper?)¹. Each page has one square photo on a classically weighted page — top, left and right margins all the same with a deeper white space beneath the print — and captioned only with the location, printed in a clear, sharp font. There is no essay or accompanying text to guide our understanding of the pictures, and the colophon only provides the most basic information. All that we have to understand the pictures are the pictures themselves.

The exactitude of each photograph is astonishing, rendered with a clarity and precision that I can only compare to the Bechers for the remarkable discipline and proficiency they display (make no mistake, Johannson is more of a romantic than the austere German duo). And like the Bechers, going through this book you will see hundreds of perfectly executed photographs of landscapes and basic architecture, but never a human being. There is a chilling emptiness to Johansson’s photographs, equally proportioned to the level of warmth in his prints. Perhaps this is what Terri meant by the ruse?

Aguilafuente by Gerry Johansson.

Villaflores by Gerry Johansson.

The emptiness expressed in Johansson’s photographs poses some interesting questions. Whether in or Spain or elsewhere, his photographs describe places full of quaint, banal, ephemeral, and timeless lives, and yet always without human bodies. I know most critics like to think of the Bechers as conceptual artists, but I prefer to think of them as German existentialists, showing the most utilitarian of lives in the most rigid of manners. Johansson offers a similar kind of existentialism, depicting both an incredibly precise and loving view of the world, but also a profound longing for something different.

Trying to put too many words on Johansson’s pictures seems like a mistake, and I did begin by saying this is difficult work to write about. It is another in a long list of gorgeous books from the juggernaut MACK Books. I have seen other books by the photographer, and I might prefer Pontiac and Deutschland to the newer Spanish Summer, but when you look at the prices these earlier books are fetching among collectors, it is hard not to recommend you pick it up now. It’s clearly the work of a master photographer, lusciously produced, and accessible to lovers of classical photography and book collectors alike.

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¹ If interested in this kind of thing, check out the great interview with MACK Book designer Morgan Crowcroft-Brown with Sasha Wolf.

Brian Arnold is a photographer, writer, and translator based in Ithaca, NY. He has taught and exhibited his work around the world and published books with Oxford University Press, Cornell University, and Afterhours Books. Brian is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and in 2014 received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation/American Institute for Indonesian Studies.

Brad Wilson signing copies of his newest book, The Other World: Animal Portraits, at photo-eye Gallery on the occasion of his exhibition opening.

At photo-eye, the staff motto is short and simple. "At photo-eye, we're always learning!"

This mantra has felt particularly resonant as we have figured out the most effective ways to navigate the turbulence of the Covid-19 pandemic. How do you maintain a functional gallery when it isn't acceptable to let people inside? As a traditional fine art space, we have had to adapt how we think about and present photography in ways that feel both true to our mission and safe for our community.

Luckily, we had the tools at the ready as VisualServer X's online exhibition capabilities were further and further developed. Throughout the year, as things opened up, closed back down and opened up again, we harnessed both in-person and hybrid methods of showing work. The series of photo-eye Conversations, spearheaded by Gallery Director Anne Kelly, offered artists opportunities to share their current process with our audience; from learning about NFT's with Reuben Wu to hearing the tales of Mitch Dobrowner's storm-chasing exploits, sharing these videos was a way to bring a much-needed dose of creative excitement into all of our lives!

Our series of online shows that began in the fall of 2020 carried over throughout all of 2021, bringing us incredible collections of work from gallery artists such as Michael Kenna, Steve Fitch and Richard Tuschman. The fall then finally offered us an opportunity to share work at an official (and masked!) opening with Brad Wilson's The Other World.

Take a walk down memory lane with a recap of all of the beautiful shows we had the pleasure of curating and presenting this year, beginning with the two that we were able to host in our physical space, below!

Physical Exhibitions

Brad Wilson, Mandrill #2, Los Angeles, 2014, Archival pigment print, 20x29",
Edition of 15, $2000

The Other World

by Brad Wilson

The Other World, featuring prints from Brad Wilson's Affinity series is both an online and physical exhibition in celebration of Wilson's title, The Other World: Animal Portraits from Damiani Press. For this show, which officially opened on November 20, 2021, we were able to have people in the space to view these stunning animal portraits in real life. This body of work is focused on an "authentic" encounter between the artist and animal, with the goal of bridging the inevitable interspecies divide.

View The Other World: Animal Portraits in the photo-eye Bookstore here!

View images of the exhibition opening below

The first masked opening at photo-eye Gallery in celebration of The Other World!

Maggie Taylor, The Logic Within, 2020, Archival pigment print, 15x15",
Edition of 15, $2800

Recent Works, 2019-2020

by Maggie Taylor

In September of 2021, we were lucky to install some recent work from gallery artist Maggie Taylor! Though this exhibition wasn't able to have a "formal" opening, these images are indicative of Taylor's signature complex and painterly style. Working intuitively, the allegorical compositions provided plenty of food for thought. Whether about issues around climate change, feminism or teamwork, Maggie Taylor approaches each and every picture with a delicacy and cleverness that set her apart from her peers.

Online Exhibitions

Richard Tuschman, Five O'Clock Shadows, 2019, Archival pigment print,
14.5x21.5", Edition of 5, $2000

My Childhood Reassembled

by Richard Tuschman

"This project reflects my experience... as a young child trying to make sense of his world and his family relationships. I photographically recreated selected vignettes from my childhood. I constructed a replica of portions of the interior and exterior of my childhood home. I then directed and photographed an ensemble of actor-models who resembled my family members."

— Richard Tuschman, January, 2021

View Richard Tuschman's photo-eye Conversation + exhibition walkthrough here!

Michael Kenna, Ponti di Spagna, Bondeno, Ferrara, Italy, 2018, Gelatin silver
print, 8x8", Edition of 25, Price on Request

Il Fiume Po (The River Po)

by Michael Kenna

"The Po is ancient and I am only a fleeting visitor. I have always loved the Heraclitus quote that says 'No man ever steps in the same river twice; it is not the same river and he is not the same man... Nothing, including myself, is ever the same. The river flows whether I am there or not, but I think there is some sort of energy exchange in every encounter."

— Michael Kenna

View the book, Il Fiume Po in our bookstore here!

Steve Fitch, Las Vegas, NV, March 22, 2002,
Archival pigment print, Open edition, $650

American Motel Signs, 1980 - 2018

by Steve Fitch

This exhibition was created to celebrate Steve Fitch's new book published by The Velvet Cell entitled American Motel Signs II, 1980-2018. American Motel Signs II was shot over a period of 28 years and is a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary American culture, which is American roadside culture. American Motel Signs II is like a road trip through the many faces of everyday America that have become so ubiquitous in mainstream visual culture today.

View Steve Fitch's photo-eye Conversation + exhibition walkthrough here!

Cig Harvey, Black Velvet Petunias, 2020, Archival pigment print, 16x20",
Edition of 10, $3000

Blue Violet

by Cig Harvey

Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in every day life... Blue Violet is a compendium of beauty, color and the senses. Plants, flowers and our experience of the natural world...tie this unique [collection] together. Exploring the five sense, Blue Violet takes the reader on a journey through nature and a range of human emotions.

Watch the exhibition walkthrough of Blue Violet with Cig Harvey and Anne Kelly here!

View Blue Violet from Monacelli Press in the bookstore here!

If 2020 felt like a year of scrambling, 2021 has been a year of adjustment and adaptation, setting the stage for a bright, flexible and engaging 2022.

Thank you all for supporting photo-eye, and we look forward to seeing you next year!

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Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent all of the artists included in this article.

For more information, and to purchase prints or books by any artists listed above, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

Michael Kenna, Snow Parfait Tree, Wakoto, Hokkaido, Japan, Gelatin-silver print, 8x8″ image in 16x20″ mat, $3000

The word "tradition" is one that gets thrown around left, right, over and beneath all things lumped under the category of "Christmas." Baking (any kind)? Christmas tradition. Hitting the Chinese buffet after a long day at the movie theater? Christmas tradition. Getting tipsy on whipped together milk and eggs? Christmas tradition. Walking in the freezing cold through burning candles housed in paper bags? Christmas tradition (at least in New Mexico, shoutout to the annual Faralito Walk!).

Though the household that I’m from is mostly Jewish and secular, I can rattle off dozens of unifying Christmas traditions, which is why it’s still a time that I love. In celebration of the spirit of warmth, contemplation and community that the holidays have the potential to strike in us all, we at photo-eye Gallery have put together a selection of prints that ignite the spirit of the holidays.

Take in the following images in all of their snowy, chilly, glory, and take a trip through photo-eye’s Winter Wonderland!

Julie Blackmon, Snow Days, 2021, Archival pigment print, 22 x 29″, Edition of 10, $4000

>> Listen to Cig Harvey's photo-eye Conversation with Gallery Director Anne Kelly! <<

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Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Michael Kenna, Julie Blackmon, Tom Chambers and Cig Harvey. Edward Bateman and Michael Lange are Photographer's Showcase artists.

Michael Kenna, Ratcliffe Power Station, Study 18, Nottinghamshire, England, 1984, Gelatin-silver print, 6x9″ image in 16x20″ mat, $2500

Michael Kenna, though now known internationally as a master photographer and darkroom printer, once wanted to be a priest. The artist spent seven years in a Catholic seminary boarding school while growing up in Northwest England, and though a career in the clergy wasn’t what Kenna was destined for, the discipline and reverence that he was surrounded with as a young boy are still legible in his photographs today.

Formally stunning and masterfully printed, Michael Kenna’s images present themselves with a simplicity that allows them to criss-cross over time and space. Each subject of Kenna’s lens, whether it be in France, Italy, Japan, or his own Northern England, is granted the same level of intense time and attention.

In general, Kenna’s images are exposed for an hour or more, completely erasing the presence of individual humans passing through, while the marks they make and the structures they build remain as defining features of the landscape. Through his brilliant compositional eye, the viewer is able to see straight through Kenna’s image-making process, literally. All that the viewer is left to interpret are the visual features of the landscape that captivated the photographer, with all other noise having been erased by strategic shutter speed.

There are few photographers working today who utilize minimalism and the compositional motif of the line so effectively as Michael Kenna, who drags the viewers' eyes up and down the crags of a city skyline with the same intensity as a gently sloping fence covered in winter snow. Through the simplification of man-made intervention on a landscape to that of an approachable line, or series of lines, Michael Kenna has tapped into a universal sense of elegance that he has been stoking for almost three decades.

View images from Michael Kenna below, and make sure to take a look at his most recent monograph, Northern England 1983-1986, in our bookstore for a view of never-before-seen photographs from the artist’s early work!

>> View Northern England in the photo-eye Bookstore <<

Michael Kenna, Skyline, Study 3, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2009, Gelatin-silver print, 8x8″ image in 16x20″mat, $2500

Michael Kenna, Hillside Fence, Study 4, Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan, 2002, Gelatin-silver print, 8x8″ image in 16x20″ mat, $7000

Michael Kenna, Moss Landing Power Station, Study 2, California, USA, 1987, Gelatin-silver print, 8x8″ image in 16x20″ mat, $3000

Michael Kenna, Seven Trees, Castello di Canossa, Italy, 2007, Gelatin-silver print, 8x8″ image in 16x20″ mat, $2500

Michael Kenna, Yuanyang, Study 1, Yunnan, China, 2013, Gelatin-silver print, 8x8″ image in 16x20″ mat, $3500

>> Purchase Northern England 1983-1986 by Michael Kenna! <<

>> Purchase the 2022 Michael Kenna wall calendar! <<

>> Learn about how Michael Kenna thinks about his amazing images <<

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Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Michael Kenna.

For more information, and to purchase prints by Michael Kenna please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

Hiroyasu Matsui, Labyrinth #6 , gelatin silver print, 12" x 15," edition of 15, $900

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Space and place play such a significant role in photography that we often want to know where a photograph was taken.

Since its inception, photography has proved to be an ideal medium through which to convey the unique characteristics of a particular site. The idea of space and place remains a rich subject for contemporary photographers, who sometimes use unconventional approaches to investigate it.

This week we are thrilled to explore this exciting subject by taking a look at some of our favorite photographs from our flat files and sharing them here with you. Please contact us if you would like more information about the featured images.

Maggie Taylor, Cloud 9 , 2019, archival pigment ink print, 8" x 8," edition of 15, $1500

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Michael Kenna, Dawn Mist, Mont St. Michel, France, 2014, gelatin silver print, 8" x 8," $3000

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Tom Chambers, Transfiguration / Transfiguracion, 2010, archvial pigment ink print, 19" x 22," edition of 20, $1200

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Pentti Sammallahti, Estonia, 2004, gelatin-silver print, 6.5" x 8," $1300

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David Trautimas, When the Place You Know isn't the Place You Know, 2016, archival pigment ink, 34" x 34," $1800

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Thomas Jackson, Kool-aid #2, Montara, California, 2018, archival pigment ink, edition of 4, 20" x 25," price on request

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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

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