Photographer Terry Falke featured at Afterimage Gallery

Written by Ben Breard Tuesday, 23 November 2010 19:39

Dallas, Texas - Our latest show of the photographs of Terry Falke will be of work never before exhibited or published, from various projects. His images can be found in many museum and corporate collections. Mr. Falke has photographed various aspects and issues in the American landscape for 40 years. After meeting Ansel Adams in the early 1970s, he moved from his native Texas to California to be at what was the epicenter of landscape photography at that time. There, he joined The Friends of Photography in Carmel, a group founded by Adams and others, and met many of the most significant figures in the history of the medium. On view April 17 to June 8, 2010.

His personal history in landscape photography reflects the evolution of the genre itself. Influenced by the paradigm-changing 1975 exhibition, The New Topographics, his work grew from a somber modernism in black & white, to the culturally aware color photography of the present. Earning first a bachelor's degree in scientific photography in California, his education continued in New York at Bard College. There, he earned a Master of Fine Arts, studying with pioneer of color photography and original color "new topographer," Stephen Shore, as well as other prominent figures in contemporary landscape and conceptual photography. Mr. Falke now makes his home in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
 
Falke's work is quintessentially American in both subject matter and significance. He is an observational artist who is attuned to details, incongruities and sometimes unlikely beauty in the civilized American terrain.

Described by prominent museum curators as "One of the best and most underrated landscape photographers in the U.S." and as one of America’s finest photographic colorists, he has traveled extensively with the same custom-built Deardorff 8x10"camera for 30 years. Preferring to keep technical details within his control, he has always made his own prints; b&w, color, and now digital. His photographs have been featured in more than 60 solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. A partial list of the museum collections holding his work includes: the Dallas Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Houston Museum of Art, Harry N. Ransom Center in Austin, International Museum of Photography in Rochester, NY, the U.S. Library of Congress, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, Nevada Museum of Art, Palm Springs Museum of Art and others. Corporate collections include: the Microsoft Art Collection, Polaroid Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Pacific Telesis, Texas Instruments, and many others. His book of contemporary landscapes, Observations in an Occupied Wilderness, was published by Chronicle Books in 2006.
 
He is currently working on a portfolio on the topic of "shelter," and a new monograph to be titled, AMERICAN STUDIES. This exhibition is composed of previously unpublished images from those projects.

Afterimage Gallery - (Thirty-eight years of fine photography)
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