"Masterplaters: Pictures From the Distant Present" Exhibition
Soho Photo Gallery
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The Masterplaters, a photographic collective, will be showing contemporary photographs made with the wet-plate collodion process. These five photographers all examine the modern world from different points of view. Rather than recreating 19th Century style tintypes, they utilize the immense physical beauty of the process to interpret modern questions of place and identity. Daily moments of grace, powerful portraits, modern story telling are all represented here. The collective has been pursuing beauty and truth one image at a time.
As they note on their website,
Although it is a bit odd in the Twenty-First Century to be part of a photographic collective, it was not so in the Nineteenth Century. Groups like the Linked Ring in England (founded 1892) and the Photo-Secessionists in the United States (1902) were a common way that photographers had of associating with other like-minded practitioners.
The group, inspired by these collectives of the past, decided to form, dedicating itself to the exploration of imagery and experience utilizing the wet-plate collodion process.
[Image: Monty McCutchen "Untitled" © Monty McCutchen]
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Schedule
from November 07, 2012 to December 01, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-11-08 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Melitte Buchman, Kym Kulp, Monty McCutchen, David Prifti, Steve Wilson