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One of the benefits of membership in the Texas Photographic Society is your eligibility to participate in the TPS Collectors' Print Program.
Members joining at the Friend, Patron and Benefactor levels may choose from an exclusive selection of fine prints by prominent, contemporary photographers. Join or renew your TPS membership at the Friend Level or higher and you can select one or more prints from our four artists for $225 or less per print. See the Join TPS page for discount pricing details.
In addition, TPS has initiated Featured Artist Print and Book selections from internationally recognized artists at special prices. Dan Burkholder is this year's Featured Print Artist, his image Hudson River and Catskills from Olana, 1999 is available for $600. You may receive all 5 prints in the program for a special price of $1,400, all prices include shipping and handling. Our Featured Artist Book is the signed, first-edition book A Certain Alchemy by Keith Carter, the membership price is $125. Remember, most print program artists work starts at $500 or more. This is a fine way to enhance your collection and to contribute to TPS programming.
Since the program’s inception in 1994, over 1,200 images have been purchased, raising over $220,000 for TPS. Proceeds from the print program are used to enhance and support TPS programs, most notably funding of TPS exhibition catalogues and numerous exhibits that TPS sponsors. Note, some of the prints are limited edition, you may want to renew or join before the edition is sold out.
We are proud to offer the following items this year from this select group of photographers.
Dan Burkholder – Palenville, New York
Hudson River and Catskills from Olana
10”x15” Mounted and overmatted to 22"x28"
Archival Inkjet print made on premium Museo matte paper
Edition of 25
Price $600
"Olana, the historical estate of artist Frederic Church, is perched on the eastern hills overlooking the Hudson River. Looking south, you see the river winding through the valley; in the distance the gentle Catskill Mountains are silhouetted against the afternoon sky. This image was a classic example of discovering a beautiful landscape in front of the camera but realizing that the scene’s contrast was more than any single capture on digital or film could handle. I made five handheld exposures, bracketing to gather tonality from the deepest shadow to the brightest highlight. Using Photoshop and other software, these five captures were melded together as an HDR file that could be tonally sculpted to best show the amazing light and textures that blanket the Hudson River Valley.
2009 is the quadrennial of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the region, making this image especially timely and poignant."
Dan Burkholder’s photographic pioneering has led him from introducing digital negatives in 1992, to the first creative application of high dynamic range imaging techniques (HDRI). Dan’s new book, The Color of Loss (University of Texas Press, 2008), intimately documents the flooded interiors of post-Katrina New Orleans and is the first coffee table book photographed entirely with HDR methods. Comfortable in both the digital lightroom and the classic darkroom, Dan’s latest work ranges from tonally rich inkjet prints to precious handmade platinum/palladium over gold leaf miniatures.
Since moving to Upstate New York in 2007, Dan has devoted himself to capturing the beauty and intrigue of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley. Located in the heart of the same landscape that inspired the Hudson River School artists, Dan’s most recent work pays homage to 19th century artists Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and Frederic Church, capturing the magical light and rich details of the region.
Dan received his B.A. and Masters in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. His prints have been exhibited internationally and are included in many public and private collections.
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Angela Bacon-Kidwell – Witchita Falls, Texas
Memories of Two
16”x20”
Crane Museo Silver Rag archive print.
Edition of 25
Price $225
"In the image Memories of Two I attempt to create a story and preserve a dream.
My approach to my work is similar to the way my subconscious generates my dreams. As I move through my day, I am keenly aware of my encounters with people, places and things. I mentally record the details of these situations, and the physical or emotional responses that they evoke. These fleeting associations replay themselves in my dreams. The random moments combine to form sleep stories that are rich narratives, ripe with symbolism. With that as my model, I construct sets, use props, layer photographic elements and invite myself and models to perform in a natural, intuitive way. In essence, I attempt to create a waking dream. For me, it is about being in the moment of a planned vision. That is where I'm most connected to my creativity."
In 2008, Memories of Two received an honorable mention award in the fine art/digitally enhanced category at the International Photography Awards. Her photographs have been selected for TPS Members' Only Show and several juried exhibitions. She holds a B.F.A specialization in Painting with a minor in Photography from Midwestern State University and resides in Wichita Falls, Texas with her husband and son.
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Susan Burnstine – Los Angeles, California
Suspend
10”x10”
Archival pigment print hand coated with varnish.
Signed and numbered in pencil on verso.
Edition of 20.
Price $225
Suspend is from the series Between which explores the endless state of living and dying, the fleeting shadows of twilight time and the faint seconds amid now and then that float just above reality. Just as in life, this image reveals that things are never as simple as black and white. What matters is what lies between."
Susan Burnstine is an award winning fine art photographer based in Los Angeles who builds homemade film cameras and lenses primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. Susan’s been widely published throughout the world, Fine Art TV recently produced a documentary on her and her work with homemade cameras and she’s also written for several photography magazines, including a monthly column for Black & White Photography (UK). She’s represented by Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX., Kevin Longino Fine Photographs, Greenwich, CT., Soulcatcher Studio, Santa Fe, NM, and Wall Space, Seattle, WA.
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Laszlo Layton – Gold Canyon, Arizona
Untitled (Saiga, Blue Oval), 2009
Cyanotype
9.5”x7.5”paper size 14”x11”, edition size 20 numbered prints, 3 lettered artist proofs, signed colophon colored pencil on recto, signature in pencil on verso, un-mounted, un-matted
Price $225
As a young boy I spent countless hours pouring over the small collection of nature and science books handed down to me from my Mother. One of my favorites, Living Mammals of the World by Ivan T. Sanderson, was particularly fascinating to me as it contained many photographs of exotic looking creatures that I sometimes had difficulty believing weren’t actually mythical. The naked wrinkled skin and impossibly long teeth of the “Sand-Puppy”, the pine cone-looking Long-Tailed Pangolin, the weird nose and huge claws of the B movie monster-looking Star-nosed Mole, and most disturbing of all, the too-human looking “Orang-Utan” pictured on the title page.
Perhaps because of the influence of the imaginative illustrations of Theodor Geisel, the Saiga Antelope (Saiga tatarica) almost universally brings to mind a creature created from the mind of Dr. Seuss. Its large inflated nasal cavity, which gives the Saiga it’s Seussian appearance, is believed to help the animal survive the harsh environment of the Russian steppes in which it lives. Cold air is warmed as it is inhaled before reaching the lungs in winter, and dust is filtered through the same nasal baffles during the hot dry summer. The Saiga is classified by the IUCN as critically endangered.
For this print I have chosen to present the Saiga as a Victorian cameo. Is this creature real, or mythical? If the viewer of this image finds it a bit unreal or haunting—then you too have shared my experience.
Still with an eye on the past, Laszlo is teaching himself the arduous photogravure printing process while keeping abreast of the digital technologies in photography. This synthesis of old and new tools helps Laszlo Layton realize his vision.
Layston's work is represented at the Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, California; and Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California.
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Christopher Broughton – Carpinteria, California
Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington
13"x19" hinged and overmatted on 20"x28" 4 ply rag
Digital pigment print
Special edition of 25 for TPS
Price $225
"The approaching storm at Ruby Beach was captured during a brief stay in a storm front along the Northwest Pacific Coast. I have always felt a personal magnetism towards the landscape and it's interaction with water, clouds, light and time. Attempting to capture just a little of these interactions through my fascination with photography and how it interpolates these events has been the driving force of my work.
The ocean's timeless encroachment and recession along our coastline over time have reveled beauty from beneath. The earth's delicate ecosystem, always on the verge of destruction, brings forth some of the most beautiful interactions within the landscape. The vastness of all this -the sun, the sky, the silence, and its immense space-engulfs our vision from horizon to horizon. The medium of photography gave me a pallet to paint some of the grandeur and capture time.
The land was here long before us and will remain long after we are gone, but we hold the destiny of its appearance in our grasp preserving this beauty for future generations or ceasing its existence. In attempting to capture some of the beauty our landscape has to offer, a project in celebration of our Earth has become my life's direction."
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Keith Carter – Beaumont, Texas
A Certain Alchemy,
Signed book.
Courtesy of the University of Texas Press
Introduction by Bill Wittliff
Afterword by Pat Carter
Price $125
Praise for Keith Carter's work:
". . . mythic territory, familiar from literature, earlier photography, popular music, and movies, but transformed by Mr. Carter into a freshly exotic land."
—New York Times
"This is lovely, mysterious stuff: welcome to the Carter cult."
—Village Voice
" . . . magic in the mundane, poetry in the commonplace . . ."
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Lauded as "a transcendent realist" and "a poet of the ordinary," Keith Carter is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work has been shown in over one hundred solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. At first finding his subjects in the familiar, yet exotic, places and people of his native East Texas, Carter has since expanded his range not only geographically, but also into realms of dreams and imagination, where objects of the mundane world open glimpses into ineffable realities.
In A Certain Alchemy, his tenth book, Keith Carter explores relationships that are timeless, enigmatic, and mythological. Drawing from the animal world, popular culture, folklore, and religion, Carter presents photographs that attempt to reflect hidden meanings in the real world. Accompanying the images is an introduction by Carter's friend and fellow photographer Bill Wittliff, who describes Carter's artistic journey and the epiphanies he has experienced. Patricia Carter, Keith's wife and muse, also offers her insights into the wellsprings of his work.
In Keith Carter's own words, "A Certain Alchemy is a collection of imperfect observations of the relationship we have to our ideas of place, time, memory, desire, and regret. It is an anthology of oblique angles and awkward pauses that examines the history of photography and our own shared natural histories."
Keith Carter holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and is the recipient of the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of nine previous books: Opera Nuda, Ezekiel's Horse, Holding Venus, Keith Carter Photographs: Twenty-Five Years, Bones, Heaven of Animals, Mojo, The Blue Man, and From Uncertain to Blue. A DVD documentary of his work titled The Photographer's Series: Keith Carter was produced by Anthropy Arts in 2006. Carter's work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the George Eastman House; and the Wittliff Collections' Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection.
Bill Wittliff is a distinguished photographer and writer whose photographs have been published in A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove, La Vida Brinca, and Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy and exhibited in the United States and abroad. With his wife, Sally, he founded the highly regarded Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos, which include the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection and the Southwestern Writers Collection.
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