John Chiara: California

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John Chiara: California is a captivating exploration of the state's landscapes through the unique perspective of photographer John Chiara. The book showcases his distinctive large-format images that capture the essence of California's diverse environments. This collection offers a striking visual journey, highlighting Chiara's innovative techniques and artistic vision.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate unique photographic artistry that captures the essence of California's landscapes and urban environments. The author's distinctive technique delivers visually striking images with a dreamlike quality that might captivate lovers of fine art photography and those interested in the cultural richness of the American West Coast.

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John Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes to make unique photographs through the direct exposure of light onto reversal film and paper. Chiara describes his process: "When I'm out shooting, I directly expose the paper, dodge, burn, and filter the light as if I were working in the darkroom." This compression of traditional photographic processes into one event, involving the hauling around of huge, handmade cameras and film backs, results in images that are intuitive, performative, and visually stunning.

Focusing almost exclusively on landscapes and architecture, each resulting photograph is a singular, luminous object that renders each scene with an almost hallucinatory clarity, deploying surreal shifts of colour, light, and skewed perspectives. This book, his first, focuses exclusively on images of Chiara's native California, including images from his hometown of San Francisco and other locations in Northern California, as well as Los Angeles and along the Pacific Coast.

Virginia Heckert's essay situates Chiara's work in the long tradition of the landscape of the American West while also discussing his working methods and the contemporary context of this process-driven work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597114233

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 November 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 280.0mm

Height: 327.0mm

Weight: 1690g

Pages: 162

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About the Author

John Chiara received a BFA in photography from the University of Utah in 1995 and an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. Chiara was Artist in Residence at Budapest Art Factory (2017); Crown Point Press, San Francisco (2006, 2016); Porch Society, Clarksdale, Mississippi (2013–14); Gallery Four, Baltimore (2010); and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2010). In 2011 and 2013, the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco commissioned work that was included in two group exhibitions at Pier 24 Photography: HERE and A Sense of Place. John Chiara received a BFA in photography from the University of Utah in 1995 and an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. Chiara was Artist in Residence at Budapest Art Factory (2017); Crown Point Press, San Francisco (2006, 2016); Porch Society, Clarksdale, Mississippi (2013–14); Gallery Four, Baltimore (2010); and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2010). In 2011 and 2013, the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco commissioned work that was included in two group exhibitions at Pier 24 Photography: HERE and A Sense of Place. Virginia Heckert is photography curator and head of the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; she is the curator of Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography and author of the accompanying catalogue (2015). Her other books include Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments (2013) and Irving Penn: Small Trades (2009), coauthored with Anne Lacoste.