Terry Hayden
11-Sep-2008, 08:11
Hello to all from beautiful Fresno -
An Evening with Master Photographer John Sexton
Lecture by John Sexton
When: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008, at 7:00 pm
Where: Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner Auditorium, 2233 N. First St., Fresno, Ca.
Spectrum Art Gallery is hosting John Sexton for an educational, informative, and entertaining audio-visual presentation, as he shares his images and insights covering his more than 30-year photographic career.
Known for his elegant, finely crafted, large format black and white photographs, Sexton prefers to photograph the quiet message of the natural environment. This all-new presentation will include many images from John’s most recent book, Recollections: Three Decades of Photographs.
The talk will also include examples and anecdotes drawn from his six-year close working relationship with Ansel Adams as Adams’ Photographic and Technical Assistant, and later as his consultant. Images by both Sexton and Adams will be transformed on the screen from the negative to the final print, progressing through the various creative steps in the evolution of an expressive photographic print. . Sexton will be available to sign copies of his book, Recollections, following the lecture.
This event will take place on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at the Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner auditorium at 7:00 pm. The Fresno Art Museum is at 2233 North First Street in Fresno.
The presentation is being sponsored by Spectrum Art Gallery as a special part of the grand re-opening celebration for our new location in Fresno’s Tower Arts District. Spectrum Art Gallery is a registered non-profit corp. dedicated to photography. The Saturday following the talk Spectrum will hold it’s annual print auction fund raising event. Admission to the presentation will be $10.00.
John Sexton and Anne Larsen have generously donated one of his original photographs to the auction.
As an added bonus, Each attendee at John’s presentation will be issued a drawing ticket. On the night of the auction one lucky attendee will win an original John Sexton print ( there will also be one in the auction ). The ticket must be present at the auction to be eligible to win the drawing. The auction will be at our gallery – 608 East Olive Ave. in Fresno ( 559) 266-0691.
For more information, go to the Spectrum website:
http://spectrumphotogallery.org/featured-auction.html
Click on the highlighted “more details” line under John’s name.
Feel free to contact either myself or the gallery for more information.
Terry Hayden
www.terryhayden.com
An Evening with Master Photographer John Sexton
Lecture by John Sexton
When: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008, at 7:00 pm
Where: Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner Auditorium, 2233 N. First St., Fresno, Ca.
Spectrum Art Gallery is hosting John Sexton for an educational, informative, and entertaining audio-visual presentation, as he shares his images and insights covering his more than 30-year photographic career.
Known for his elegant, finely crafted, large format black and white photographs, Sexton prefers to photograph the quiet message of the natural environment. This all-new presentation will include many images from John’s most recent book, Recollections: Three Decades of Photographs.
The talk will also include examples and anecdotes drawn from his six-year close working relationship with Ansel Adams as Adams’ Photographic and Technical Assistant, and later as his consultant. Images by both Sexton and Adams will be transformed on the screen from the negative to the final print, progressing through the various creative steps in the evolution of an expressive photographic print. . Sexton will be available to sign copies of his book, Recollections, following the lecture.
This event will take place on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at the Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner auditorium at 7:00 pm. The Fresno Art Museum is at 2233 North First Street in Fresno.
The presentation is being sponsored by Spectrum Art Gallery as a special part of the grand re-opening celebration for our new location in Fresno’s Tower Arts District. Spectrum Art Gallery is a registered non-profit corp. dedicated to photography. The Saturday following the talk Spectrum will hold it’s annual print auction fund raising event. Admission to the presentation will be $10.00.
John Sexton and Anne Larsen have generously donated one of his original photographs to the auction.
As an added bonus, Each attendee at John’s presentation will be issued a drawing ticket. On the night of the auction one lucky attendee will win an original John Sexton print ( there will also be one in the auction ). The ticket must be present at the auction to be eligible to win the drawing. The auction will be at our gallery – 608 East Olive Ave. in Fresno ( 559) 266-0691.
For more information, go to the Spectrum website:
http://spectrumphotogallery.org/featured-auction.html
Click on the highlighted “more details” line under John’s name.
Feel free to contact either myself or the gallery for more information.
Terry Hayden
www.terryhayden.com