费季穆(Jim Fitzgerald): 鲁滨逊式的摄影师
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Artistic Vision…..Traditional craftJim Fitzgerald is an artist who draws his inspirations from the masters, past and present. Master photographers and printers Ansel Adams, Edward and Brett Weston, Per Volquartz, Gordon Chapple, Vaughn Hutchins, Sandy King, Bruce Barnbaum and Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee, have influenced Jim’s personal and unique style.
Jim currently resides in Ventura, California. A California native, Jim began his photographic career 30 years ago. A self-taught photographer and camera builder, Jim’s first visions were color 35mm images of the world, people and landscapes around him. In 2000, Jim began using large format cameras and developing and printing his own black and white photographs. “I needed total control over the process to complete my vision.” Workshops, conducted in the field and the darkroom by respected photographers by Per Volquartz and Vaughn Hutchins, have inspired Jim to create some of his best work. His images are in private collections, and Jim was one of the artists selected to show at the prestigious Yosemite Renaissance XXIV in 2008.
The tools of choice for Jim are his 1904 Seneca 8x10 camera and hand-crafted Walnut 11x14 and 8x20 cameras.
A traditional photographer Jim specializes in Carbon Transfer and Silver Chloride contact prints. Carbon Transfer, a process from the 1860’s, is a highly labor intensive process that yields prints of the finest quality. The photographer has total control of the image tonality due to the blending of pigments and manufacturing of transfer tissue unique to the artists’ vision. Carbon prints require 3 days of work to produce one finished print. Currently there are about 150 actively practicing carbon printers in the world.
Jim’s fine art prints are hand printed on the finest materials available; Kodak Azo Silver Chloride contact paper is used for most of Jim’s contact prints. His Carbon Transfer images are printed on the finest fiber papers, as are their final supports. Silver images are fixed twice, selenium-toned to archival standards, and both his silver and carbon prints are mounted on Alpha Rag museum quality boards.
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