SE Center for Photography Abstract Exhibition
March 31, 2019
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The SE Center for Photography has accepted for inclusion in its upcoming Abstract exhibition my photograph Agave No. 1, Scottsdale, 2014. The exhibition opens on May 3, 2019, and closes on May 26. The SE Center for Photography is located at 116 East Broad Street, Greenville, South Carolina.
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Comments by Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum
February 01, 2019
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On the occasion of the INFOCUS photobid auction in November of 2017 at the Phoenix Art Museum, Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography, commented on Storm Cell Over the House Range, Utah, 2016:
[Stephen Ashley's] direct photographic style eloquently conveys the grandeur of the views he selects.
Ashley made this photograph, Storm Cell O...
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INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks
December 06, 2016
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I am pleased to report that my photobook With Beauty Above Me was selected for inclusion in the Phoenix Art Museum's “Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks.” The exhibition explores the range of technologies that artists today are using to share their work in book form. It runs from December 2, 2016, until April 9, 2017.
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Artist's Statement
March 29, 2016
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In conjunction with my exhibition Scenes of the American West at the LightRoom Gallery in Berkeley, California, in January and February of 2016, I prepared an artist' s statement, set forth below. As a genre, the artist's statement is usually pretty boring. Its primary purpose is to inform the reader that the photographer has been passionate about...
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Johannes Gutenberg and the Advent of Digital Photography
November 24, 2015
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In Issue No. 121 of LensWork, editor Brooks Jensen contributed an article of his own, “Lessons from Gutenberg,” in which he commented on the similarity between two historical transitions: the transition from illuminated manuscripts to printed books in the 15th century and the move from film to digital photography in our time. Before Johannes Gutenb...
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