BSHAPIRO PHOTOGRAPHY: Silver Falls

Thursday, April 4, 2013

SILVER CREEK

These two images were taken on a cold January 18, 2013 in Coolidge-McLean Park in Silverton. To me, they cannot help but recall some of the photographs of June Drake that I have been exposed to. Mr. Drake was a local commercial photographer in the early 20th century. He took portraits, photographs of events in town and what I imagine were his personal images, of Silver Creek and, most importantly, the area that was to become Silver Falls State Park. It was his photography that singularly helped sell the idea of the park to the state. With myriad trails and ten dramatically different waterfalls, it is the largest state park in Oregon. Silver Creek is fed by those falls...

Monday, September 3, 2012

10 Little Images

I am exhibiting the following images at the last installment of Project Space 2012, in Salem. I refer to them as "10 Little Images" because, due to the limited space afforded me, I printed the images each about 5"X8" on Moab Entrada Bright Rag 190 gsm Archival fine art paper.

This is from the artist statement: The theme for Project Space 2012 is “Works in Progress.” The 10 images exhibited here were all taken during 2012, with most taken prior to June, when I had surgery. Two were taken as recently as two weeks ago. I deliberately use the word, taken,in the spirit of Minor White and his writings on “found photography”: The photographs were there, I simply found them... and “took them.” For the most part, these images display an absence of human artifacts or influence. There are no people in them. With the exception of the two images from August (”Prayer with Shroud” and “Bouquet Remnant”) the images were taken exactly as I found them.

(August 20, 2012)