Untitled: Kids Running Down Hill

Title: Untitled: Kids Running Down Hill
LC Subject: Photography Outdoor photography Photography of children art photography black-and-white photography photography (discipline) gelatin silver prints toning (photography)
Creator: Gilson, Barbara, 1956-
Description: A large, black-and-white photograph of young kids running down a hillside. Barbara Gilson; Untitled #12/15; 3 x 3 feet (1991) Barbara Gilson received a BA in French Literature and in Film Studies from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She has studied photography at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, where she coordinated the film program. During the tenure of her MFA Program in Photography at Arizona State University, she was a graduate research assistant to Mark Klett for the Photography Collaborative Facility, Visual Arts Research Institute. She also organized Editions and Additions: International Bookworks at Northlight Gallery. Awarded a Graduate Student Research Development Program Grant, Barbara and two colleagues have been involved in a collaborative project with the Navajo to document their sacred land and sites in northwestern New Mexico. The Arizona Commission on the Arts awarded this project, Hajiinei Dine'tah, a Visual Arts Travelling Exhibitions Grant. In addition to being selected as a recipient of the Contemporary Forum Artist's Material Fund, Phoenix Art Museum; a finalist in the Ferguson Grant Award, Friends of Photography; and awarded First place in the Tucson Weekly Annual Fiction and Photography Competition, Barbara has shown her work nationally in one person and in group exhibitions, and is represented in many public and private collections. She has also been a co-director of Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, and is an Artist-in-Education in the greater Portland area. The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
Location: University of Oregon Library >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene Oregon
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1993_uo_knight-lib2_18_b01
Accession Number: 1993_uo_knight-lib2_18_b01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Gilson, Barbara, 1956-
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 44 x 44 inches
Material: Photography gelatin silver print RC photograph, archivally selenium-toned
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: University of Oregon Knight Library, Phases I and II 1993_uo_knight-lib2
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: The Knight Library is the largest library facility in Oregon, holding collections with a replacement value of over $100 million. Approximately 1.85 million of the University Library's 2.4 million volumes are housed in Knight, along with microforms, government documents, sound recordings, films, and videotapes. Special Collections contains over 40,000 rare books and 13,000 linear feet of manuscript holdings; much of this primary source material is unique and irreplaceable at any price. The building is named in honor of the family of Philip Knight, President and CEO of Nike, Inc. first floor, by microfilms
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: Like memory, these photographs are about experience rather than documentation. At this large scale, the light splinters the photograph into a myriad of sharp dots which seem to be forming the image as well as dissolving it, elusive as memory itself. (Gilson, 1995).