Black & White Juror Results
The Mpls Photo Center is pleased to announce the juror's selection for "Black & White: The Absence of Color" Call for Entry. Congratulations to all the photographers whose images were selected for this exhibit.
Juror Selections
Black & White: The Absence of Color
Photo: Donna Pinckley - Little Rock, Arkansas
On Exhibit: March 9th through April 22nd, 2012
Opening Reception: March 9th, 2012, 7:00 to 10:00 PM,
Mpls Photo Center 2nd Floor Galleries
Bevin Bering-Dubrowski, Juror Statement:
Photographers do not simply take the world in and snap a photo—they are constantly constructing, observing, framing, and editing with intention. The photographers in the exhibition Black and White: The Absence of Color chose to work within a palette that is inherently unreal. The world does not exist purely in black and white and shades of gray, but many photographers anticipate and expect this palette.
Today, the majority of photographs begin as a digital color file, therefore at times making the black and white image a reference to the past and in other instances a tool to relay the artist’s vision. This vision can be nostalgic or dream like and also very current and concrete. Photojournalism has deep roots in the 35mm black and white format, and photographers continue to find this medium a classic way to tell a story of a place, time, or group of people. Artists also use black and white as a way to pare the composition down, to eliminate the color and to focus on the shape, form, and line of a subject. Line becomes increasingly important.
The varied history and use of black and white photography lends itself to a range of subjects and concepts within this exhibition. Street photography, crafted with an artist’s eye, becomes a symbol of modern urbanity and the layered yet distinct relationships amongst city dwellers. Portraits dig into a deeper exploration of an individual, while constructs represent a mental state or a play on identity. The landscape is taken not from a simple observation, but from willful formulation of a vision. From wet plates to iPhones, artists in this exhibition are choosing their tools carefully to craft black and white images that tell the story of a modern experience. A vision of a moment that was distilled, silenced, captured in a moment that oscillates between bright whites, deep blacks, and rich shades of gray.
Exhibit Juror: Bevin Bering Dubrowski
Bevin Bering Dubrowski is Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography, a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 offering year-round exhibitions, workshops, publications, outreach programs, lectures, and classes. HCP's mission is to increase society's understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture, and produces 15 - 20 exhibitions annually on and off-site, balancing work by regional and internationally acclaimed emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Bevin curates exhibition for HCP and is also editor of spot magazine, a bi-annual journal of photography that includes artist portfolios, interviews, exhibition and book excerpts, and highlights on HCP members' work.
The complete juror results can be found in this 2012 Black & White Juror Selected Images.
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Woman Walking
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Tim
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Stretch |
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Girls Laughing |
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Paranoia 1 |
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Mick from the woMENS's |
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