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Robert Buelteman: Road to Santa Fe
June 1 - July 7, 2007
Opening reception: Tuesday, June 5, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe
1011 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
TEL 505.954.5700 FAX 505.954.5754
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am - 5pm
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The Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by California photographer Robert Buelteman. Buelteman is celebrated for his unique approach to photography, creating vivid imagery using only the most basic tools of his craft: light and film. Exhibiting for the first time alongside these camera-less works, is a series of black-and-white landscapes taken while traveling to and from Santa Fe.
Robert Buelteman has been working in photography since 1974. His first obsession was the land, working with black-and-white media in the tradition of the great Western landscape photographers. After several books and exhibitions across the United States, he chose to leave photographic tradition behind and began imaging living plants directly on film, using neither camera, nor lens, nor computer. These "light paintings,” executed through the careful application of high voltage electricity and fiber optic light have more in common with Japanese ink brush painting and improvisational jazz than they do with the contemporary practices in photography. Each delivery of light, like every brush stroke or note played is unrehearsed, and once released, cannot be undone. Buelteman has recently completed the portfolio entitled <em>Sangre de Cristo</em> while working as artist-in-residence at the renowned Santa Fe Institute.
Paraphrasing Ansel Adams, Buelteman says, “Black-and-white photography is like classical music. The creation of the negative is like writing the musical score, and every time you put it into the enlarger is like a performance of that score.” His new work he likens to improvisational jazz, when the creation and the performance is simultaneous. "This is like dancing. Black-and-white photography is like dictating. There are many, many partners -- the subject itself, the vision I have for the piece in my head, which is often not the way things turn out," Mr. Buelteman says. "This is a process where failure is your partner."
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