A color photograph of an urban environment at night., Washington H.S.; Ryan Bond; color photograph; 16 x 18 inches; 1986, 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 view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
An historic photogravure print of a Native Ameican man fishing with a long net., Born in 1868 in rural Wisconsin, Edward Sherrif Curtis moved with his family to Southern Minnesota before he reached the age of five. Photography was then a very new technology and an even more nascent art form, and Curtis was fascinated by it from a very early age. By the time he reached his teens he had built his own camera. By his mid-teens, Curtis had spent a great deal of time reading about and experimenting with photographic techniques and ideas. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Saint Paul, where he spent more than a year as an apprentice photographer. In 1887, his father's failing health caused the family to move to the Northwest. This move would later turn out to be a major factor in Curtis' subsequent interest in the American Indian. Thus, although he was large self-taught, Curtis was not only well-versed in the fundamentals of photography, but also was a serious and dedicated practitioner by the time he was twenty years old. During his lifetime, Curtis was widely acknowledged as a skilled portrait photographer, master printmaker, film-maker, lecturer, adventurer and mountaineer. Today, however, Curtis is primarily known as a master photographer and ethnographer of the North American Indian. This is undoubtedly as it should be, for he left us a photographic and ethnographic record unparalleled in the history of publishing. This massively ambitious undertaking entitled "The North American Indian" was the principal vehicle Curtis used to communicate his passionate obsession with recording the image, history, culture and spiritual life of the American Indian. This photo-ethnographic study compresses over two thousand original photographic prints (photogravures) as well as approximately six thousand pages of text. The project ultimately cost Curtis his family, his financial security, and his health. Nevertheless, he single-mindedly pursued his intense and powerful vision with an extraordinary sense of mission and thereby left us with an irreplaceable record which, after decades of obscurity, is once again appreciated as an extraordinary artistic and historical achievement. The fact that Curtis was able to make such an intimate record during the very period when the American Indian's way of life was being destroyed by the White man, makes his accomplishment all the more remarkable. (1987, Christopher Cardozo, Guest Curator for a Curtis exhibition as the Minnesota Museum of Art), http://www.edwardscurtis.com/curtisbio.html, 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 view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This is a long rectangular black and white photograph featuring a mountainous and rocky landscape. In the foreground is a stream flowing around and over rocks, moving towards a fork. The moving white water exhibits soft edges, a sharp contrast to the dark and craggy terrain. In the background are plateau tops and monotone dark clouds., Dallas Mountain Road (sic), http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/105.3/toedtemeier.html, 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 view their website at http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This black-and-white landscape photograph depicts a view from below a complex rock formation., Terry Toedtemeier; Arch in Pillow Basalt; State Office Building Portland (Geology), http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/105.3/toedtemeier.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
This black-and-white landscape photograph depicts a layers of a rock formation., Terry Toedtemeier; Fallen Rimrock Lower Eightmile Creek; State Office Building Portland (Geology), http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/105.3/toedtemeier.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A platinum/palladium-toned photograph centered from inside a "beach cave," which consists of a formation of rocks as an archway. Looking out to the beachfront and sea the viewer encounters more rocks laying in what may be the sand, land-fog or sea waves. The misty faded background makes it difficult to tell which element is in place., Beach Cave; Cannon Beach; 8 x 10 inches; 1982; Platinum/Palladium print, http://www.okartinst.org/gallery/quartzmountain/index.cfm?a_id=17&im_id=40&imx=1, 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 view their website at http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This hand-colored black-and-white photograph depicts a view of neolithic wall art in Moab, Utah., Warpinski; Bear and Hunter Figures in Moab, Utah; UO Science Complex, Terri Warpinski has been a professor of art at the University of Oregon since 1984, where she also served in administrative positions such as Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Community Engagement. Warpinski's images reflect her reverence for the Western Landscape and her interest in the traces of human connection with this landscape. Warpinski invests her images with a strong belief in the environmental movement: "Art, literature and Theater can gather people around an issue in an uplifting way. It's not being irresponsible or ignoring the seriousness of things. Neither is it preaching to the converted. In my experience art can reach the spirit of people in a deeper way than a purely analytical approach..." Warpinski's projects include a series on aboriginal rock art in Australia, works inspired by her field notebooks, hand-colored black and white photographs, and large-format collages which include the Fragments series images that are now a part of this collection., http://www.uoregon.edu/~tlw/; http://www.terriwarpinski.com, 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/
This aerial, color photograph presents an abstraction of the landscape that opens the door to endless possibilities for interpretation., Strawberry field #5; [no.] 6;1993, Mark Abrahamson was born in Seattle, Washington in 1944. He received a BA degree in chemistry from Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. in 1966 and a DDS degree from the University of Washington in 1970. In 1987 he received a grant from the Seattle Arts Commission, in 1991 and 1995 he was awarded GAP Grants from Artists Trusts, and also in 1995 a Washington State China Relations Council Travel Grant. (Unknown, 1995), http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/Mark_Abrahamson.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
This black-and-white photograph depicts an oceanfront, clapboard house with white trim and a proch containing at least four chairs and a bicycle. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to the original source materials., Goodwin Harding; Decoration; State Office Building Portland, http://www.okartinst.org/gallery/quartzmountain/index.cfm?a_id=17&im_id=40&imx=1, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A black-and-white landscape photograph that depicts an arid environment under a tempestuous sky., Edward Vliek; Alvord Desert and Steens Mountain- Eastern Oregon, Born: Decatur, Michigan 1949 Education: Western Michigan University 1967-1972 Photography: Self Taught, My interest in photography began on my 10th birthday when my parents gave me a Kodak Brownie camera. I took pictures of family and friends through high, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/