Photography, Prints, Photo Notecards
Ron Reimer
My work is intended to facilitate a shift in the collective human spirit, towards a kinder relationship with our physical and social environments. The human species seems bent on creating one huge spherical megopolis out of the biosphere. I believe that our inability to perceive and recognize beauty in our surroundings has a lot to do with the flagrant destruction and desecration of our habitat that we are witnessing. But amidst the ugliness left behind by human industry, there is still beauty to remind us of the way things were, and how they could be again, if we could learn to worship Beauty instead of Power.
My role as a nature photographer is to put a frame around the Beauty I find, to the exclusion of power lines, fences, trash, and other artifactal litter, to give us a vision that can restructure our priorities.
My role as an artist is to communicate how it feels to perceive Beauty so others can look for it and be moved by it to reduce visual pollution. How a negative is printed or how a print is displayed can imbue an image with the emotion that the photographer had at the moment of exposure. At times my the interpretation can go beyond “reality” to explore how my original image capture might be enhanced to more effectively communicate the experience of Beauty.
I also find Beauty in the human personality as well as in nature. The ability of a photographer to capture the essense of a personality makes portraits intensely satisfying to look at. Photographs give us a socially acceptably way of staring at people. They stir our fantasies about the stories that lie behind the faces and postures of the subjects at the moment chosen by the photographer.
My photographic prints are fairly traditional presentations of my visualizations. I consider the visualization to be the predominant aspect of my creativity. I make every effort to make my prints as archival as possible and still make them affordable. My black and white silver gelatin prints are hand pulled by me in my own wet darkroom, using almost exclusively fiber based papers. I dry mount with acid free tissue and use archival mounting and matting materials in presenting them.
My color prints are printed under my direction by various outlabs that use quality Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper, and I mat them using acid buffered mats and mounts, to insure optimal longevity. The black and white prints, of course, have a lifetime rating several times as long as the color prints, up into the hundreds of years, and as thus the best choice for those who seriously collect photography.
Ronald G. Reimer
Ettrick, Wisconsin
My role as a nature photographer is to put a frame around the Beauty I find, to the exclusion of power lines, fences, trash, and other artifactal litter, to give us a vision that can restructure our priorities.
My role as an artist is to communicate how it feels to perceive Beauty so others can look for it and be moved by it to reduce visual pollution. How a negative is printed or how a print is displayed can imbue an image with the emotion that the photographer had at the moment of exposure. At times my the interpretation can go beyond “reality” to explore how my original image capture might be enhanced to more effectively communicate the experience of Beauty.
I also find Beauty in the human personality as well as in nature. The ability of a photographer to capture the essense of a personality makes portraits intensely satisfying to look at. Photographs give us a socially acceptably way of staring at people. They stir our fantasies about the stories that lie behind the faces and postures of the subjects at the moment chosen by the photographer.
My photographic prints are fairly traditional presentations of my visualizations. I consider the visualization to be the predominant aspect of my creativity. I make every effort to make my prints as archival as possible and still make them affordable. My black and white silver gelatin prints are hand pulled by me in my own wet darkroom, using almost exclusively fiber based papers. I dry mount with acid free tissue and use archival mounting and matting materials in presenting them.
My color prints are printed under my direction by various outlabs that use quality Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper, and I mat them using acid buffered mats and mounts, to insure optimal longevity. The black and white prints, of course, have a lifetime rating several times as long as the color prints, up into the hundreds of years, and as thus the best choice for those who seriously collect photography.
Ronald G. Reimer
Ettrick, Wisconsin