Magruder Series #1

Title: Magruder Series #1
LC Subject: Photography Photography, Artistic art photography black-and-white photography photography (discipline) Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (R) concept scheme gelatin silver prints toning (photography)
Creator: Kornberg, Dianne
Description: This black-and-white photograph depicts a view of the remains of discarded plastic material on a white ground. Dianne Kornberg; Magruder Series; 14 x 18 inches; split-toned silver print; 1984 In 1989, Dianne Kornberg became a faculty member at the Pacific Northwest College of Art teaching the junior year photography curriculum while also mentoring seniors on their thesis projects. “Many of my students have become lifelong friends,” she says. “It has been a joy to watch their work develop, to celebrate their professional successes, to remain in touch over the years.” (See biography at http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/22/dianne-kornberg) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
Location: General Services Building >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 1225 Ferry St. S. E., Salem Oregon
Award Date: 1985
Identifier: 1985_salem_dept_gen-srvces_07_a01
Accession Number: 1985_salem_dept_gen-srvces_07_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Kornberg, Dianne
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 14 x 18 inches (image); 22 x 28 inches (framed)
Material: Photography split-toned gelatin silver print
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1985 Department of General Services (Salem) 1985_salem_dept_gen-srvces
Art Series: Magruder Series
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: Real Property Division
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: These photographs are two from a still life series that I began photographing at Camp Magruder on the Oregon coast in June, 1984, while teaching an Elder Hostel Workshop. The series was the beginning of my work with split-toning, and the initial split-toned images were printed in April, 1985. For several years I have worked, both on-site and in the studio, with objects found along coastal beaches, estuaries, and inland waters. These borderline environments represent to me a transitional place where boundaries break down and objects can take on a totemic quality. I find the things I collect powerful and evocative. In this group of photographs I hoped to enhance the inherent qualities of the objects by completely isolating them from an environmental context and presenting them in the most pristine and formal manner possible. By split-toning, a chemical process in which selenium is allowed to bond only with the low values in a black and white print, a color change is effected which results in an increase in the illusion of space, giving one a greater sense of three-dimesionality (Kornberg, 1985).