ARKANSAS MOMENTOS
Working in the Ozarks, Chuck Davis is an independent curator & photographer
— an artist whose reach spans broadly from large format film to 3D Stereo images to Tintypes
A cicada’s song is like a memento
to summer in the Ozarks.
Burning with Desire
Hunter’s Home, Tahlequah OK - Seroco Camera (1904) using historically correct hand-coated, dry plate film on glass, and original film holders.
Giving images impact, outside the camera, has a long history in photography and publication of photographs. By 1991 and the release of Photoshop version 1.0, airbrush, oil paint, litho films, and other retouching tools were crushed by computer rendering and digital manipulation.
Above actor Humphrey Bogart has his hand-bearing cigarette removed for a film still advertising the 1949 Columbia picture "Knock on Any Door".
While composite imagery had been practiced before 1900, and the darkroom mastery of Jerry Uelsman stood almost without equal in the 1970s, influencing the decade of the 1980s was the staged and composited photographs of an Canadian artist named Jeff Wall and Buffalo NY photographer Cindy Sherman.
Ten years later the arrival of Photoshop version number 1 would begin the crush of analogue methods into chemical vapor. Yet for the period of the late 1970s early 1980s, Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman's cinematically derived compositions would be the new contemporary discourse.
