CPA Members:
You, your family, and friends are all invited to attend my California Missions Show reception, which will be held on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at the Hot Java coffee shop at 17400 Monterey Road in Morgan Hill.
The photographs of the California missions in this show are part of a much larger body of work spanning several years. The earliest photographs in the show were made at Mission San Juan Bautista in 1979. The most recent photographs in the show were made at Mission San Diego de Alcala in 2002.
All of the images were made with either a Hasselblad or Rolleiflex 2¼ x 2¼” roll film camera and printed on traditional silver gelatin photographic paper. Archival processing techniques and materials were used to produce the prints.
The techniques used to produce the prints are described by Ansel Adams in his book “The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging”, originally published in 1968 by Morgan & Morgan, Inc. Ansel also provided personalized instruction and darkroom demonstrations during his workshops, held at Yosemite in the early `70s.
The process of making a fine art B&W print is very labor intensive and time consuming. For this reason the number of prints made from each negative is very limited. The individual print number for each of the prints in this show is provided on the signed Certificate of Authenticity attached to the back of each print.
The show will be on display from January 4, 2010 through January 31, 2010. I hope that you will be able to attend the reception on January 16th. I shall look forward to seeing you!
Steve Soult