Digital Darkroom at Annenberg Space for Photography
What do get when you cross Photoshop wizardry with a photographer’s imagination? Birds carrying a Rhinoceros island. Kangaroo riding a bouncing ball. An artist’s head as eggs in a carton. A 19th century woman adorned in a dress of a thousand beetles.
A world of fantasy, whimsy and Salvador Dali-like surrealism abounds at the Annenberg Space for Photography’s latest show, Digital Darkroom, opening December 17.
Digital Darkroom exposes the intersection of digital manipulation and art. A group show of sixteen artists stretch the boundaries of what photography can create with the assist of modern technology.
The 17th artist of the Digital Darkroom show, Jerry Uelsmann, is included not for his high-tech computer skills but for being the original pioneer of image manipulation solely though darkroom techniques. His legendary black and white images anchor the show with exquisite craft and quiet splendor.
Don groovy plastic glasses and catch the 3D film in the Annenberg Screening Room featuring the 3D photography artists’ process of Mike Pucher, Chris Levine, Ted Grudowski, Claudia Kunin and Christopher Schneberger.
The other master photo manipulators featured in the Digital Darkroom show are: Josef Astor, Pierre Beteille, Joel Grimes, Bonny Pierce Lhotka, Khuong Nguyen, Mike Pucher, Jean-François Rauzier, Martine Roch, Brooke Shaden, Stanley Smith, Maggie Taylor, and Jean-Marie Vives. Digital Darkroom was co-curated by Adobe’s own Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director.
Annenberg Space for Photography, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, Digital Darkroom Dec 17, 2011 – May 28, 2012, Admission: Free
Also opening in LA on Dec 17: LACMA Rodarte Exhibit.
