RIO BRAVO FINE ART: 4 PHOTOGRAPHERS

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FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS

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"JESUS MERMEJO,
PICURIS PUEBLO, AGE 93"
silver print, 20 x 18 inches
©DOUGLAS KENT HALL

Douglas Kent Hall

There is nothing provisional about Hall's enterprise; it is both broad and, in individual photographs, scrupulously resolved. His pictures have an edge, a magical certainty about them that not only justifies but honors their subjects, no matter how odd or how exploited.
Mark Strand, Vogue

Douglas Kent Hall is a photographer of international reputation and author of more than twenty books.

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"MEN KISSING:
RICHARD & CHARLES"
silver print, 7.25 x 7.25 inches
©HERBERT LOTZ

Herb Lotz

"I take only the photos I'm courageous enough to shoot."

Herb Lotz

Of his recent body of photographic work, Men Kissing, Lotz says: "There's a combination of things that made me do the work. I became so scared and shocked about the AIDS epidemic and the idea that a sexual disease could kill you. I just shut down on an intimate level. What eventually became important to me was the power and simple intimacy of a kiss, that sensuality that wasn't a part of my life. It was a powerful experience I wasn't having. I wanted to show what men looked like when they're intimate, but not erotic."

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"THE WINGED AVENGER"
silver print, 8.25 x 7 inches
©CHARLES RUSHTON

Charles Rushton

For nearly six years the focus of Charles Rushton's photography was portraits of artists. There are now 80 such prints in the collection of The Alburquerque Museum.

Ellen Landis, Curator of Art at the Alburquerque Museum, describes Rushton's photographic portraits:

" You really get the essence of the artist and the essence of their art."

Rushton's photography is not limited to portraiture. Shown here is a moment captured while photographing the Church at Ranchos de Taos, NM.

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"LA IGLESIA DE PILAR"
SX-70, 3 x 3 inches
©H. JOE WALDRUM

Waldrum: Anemone

H. Joe Waldrum

The Polaroid SX-70 monoprints began in the late 1970s. I was finishing my summer in Taos, New Mexico and it ws time to return to my studio on 2nd Street Between One and A in New York City. I hadn't had time to make drawings for a pinting of the church at Las Trampas that I intended to work on in New York. I needed informational details, and it's a long way from 2nd Street between One and A to Las Trampas.

It was late in the day and I ws packing for my flight that was to leave Alburquerque the next morning. Chatting with my assistant who was remaining in Taos for the winter I got the idea to use a Polaroid camera. I hopped into the car, drove quickly to the Safeway, and purchased a Polaroid One-Step and four packets of film, thinking I would never need more that those four packets.

A month later in my studio in New York, I recalled the wild dash to Las Trampas; I had needed to get there before sunset. I arrived just as the sun was arriving at the horizon line. I had quickly snapped all forty prints and driven home, watching them develop on the front seat of the car.

H. Joe Waldrum

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