Rangefinder Magazine
October 2005
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Insight/On the Cover by Bill Hurter
The fine art issue of Rangefinder is one of our favorites. It gives us a chance to
show you some cutting-edge work and present some new photographers who may
not yet be household names. One of the most important articles in this issue is
Jeremy Sutton’s “Harnessing Digital Art Media” (page 14), which investigates how
digital media is presently regarded by the fine art community. Even though digital
prints are now in the collections of prestigious museums, art galleries and private
collectors throughout the world, still many questions remain about the use of digital
tools in creating fine art. It’s fascinating reading.
A number of wonderful photographic artists are featured in this issue: Marshall
Sokoloff (page 22), whose images of industrial beauty are hauntingly beautiful;
Joyce Wilson (page 8), who has spent a lifetime immortalizing the female form;
Richard Nortnik Jr. (page 28), an illustrator who composes intricate other-world
creations reminiscent of Salvador Dali; John Isaac (page 40), who strives to capture
spirituality in the natural world; Chuck Henningsen (page 32), a master technician
who has excelled in three very different areas of fine art printing; Dick Arentz
(page 62), a world-renowned innovator in platinum/palladium photographic
processes; Art Levit (page 92), an artist who discovers the compressed energy of
everyday things that have been compacted; Brigitte Carnochan (page 80), whose
hand-painted black-and-white prints are captivatingly beautiful; Theresa Airey
(page 52), whose fine art Photoshop techniques emulate the Impressionist masters;
Victor Schrager (page 69), a highly acclaimed fine artist whose series on books and
other planar subjects captured with microscopic levels of depth of field inspire a
new perspective on the three dimensions; and last but not least, Thomas Kellner
(page 100), a German fine artist whose reconstructive architectural frames are
metaphors for a culture in fragments.
Bill Hurter, Editor
ON THE COVER:
ARTIST: Jeremy Sutton
TITLE: Groovin’ (2005), mixed media on canvas
(pigment print with acrylic)
SIZE: 38x50 inches
CAMERA: Canon 20D, ISO 1600
LENS: Canon EF 50mm
EXPOSURE: 1/60 at f/5.6
HARDWARE: Macintosh G5 Duo (2 Ghz dual
processors, 512MB RAM, 150GB hard drive),
Wacom Intuos3 6x8 tablet with 6D Art Pen
SOFTWARE: Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Corel
Painter IX
COMMENTS: This painting is based on a photo I
took of two Lindy Hop swing dancers, Manu and
Kim, at a weekly dance in San Francisco, the 9:20
Special (which Manu co-organizes). I enjoyed playing with the brush strokes on the
canvas, both in Painter and with acrylic paints, treating the brush strokes as extensions
of the dance. I like the shapes their arms carve out in the air, complementing the motion
of their dance. The brush strokes I added follow these lines of motion. “Groovin’ ” is part
of a series of dance images I’ve worked on for the last year, paintings that reflect my passion
for dance and music. You can view the series at www.jeremysutton.com/. My dance
paintings were exhibited at an art show earlier this year in which dancers performed in
front of the paintings in which they appeared: Life imitating art and art imitating life.
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