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May 2004: Dan Long and William Field |
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Both Storrs resident Dan Long and William Field of Chaplin practice
their
individual photographic styles from unique perspectives and with unique
results.
Dan Long thinks of photographing anyone as a kind of collaboration, and
the
pictures he takes of his own children are a kind of intersection
between
their childhood and his own. But these days, his pictures are filtered
and
softened by time and an inexpensive camera that visually articulates
what a
memory looks like.
 His exhibit at the Windham Art Collaborative
displayed
images which fuse fact and fiction, past and present, and the ordinary
and
unusual into a magical realist stew of images.
While studying photography at Bennington, the Rhode island School of
Design
and Purdue University where he received a Masters of Arts, Dan was
drawn to
the personality of portraitures and broadened his interest into an
autobiographical view of personal and social relationships. His images
now
explore the quiet and chaotic, and often undignified and sometimes
circus-like world of the family. Noticing the poetry of every day life,
Mr.
Long all the while works collaboratively with his subjects to record
the
significance of a point of time or to capture personality in a single
expression or gesture.
Mr. Long has exhibited around the nation in solo, group and juried
shows
from New Haven to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and earlier this year in
Artworks
Gallery in Hartford.
William K. Field¹s photographic interests started when he was a child
as
became a companion as he pursued a career in animal science at the
University of Connecticut. His long-standing interest in nature
photography
progressed along with his career, while experimenting with the practice
and
art of hand developing black and white prints. He then brings them
alive
with selective coloring using oils, acrylic and/or pastels utilizing
varying
contrasts. The resulting effect is a painterly or ³antiqued² look.
Each hand
colored photo is an original.
Mr. Field comments, ³For someone who has always had a desire to paint,
I
fell into hand coloring by accident and have not looked back. Hoping to
blur
the lines between photography and painting, I strive to show
photography as
art, in the careful use and presentation of color, and the beauty that
surrounds us daily that too often goes unnoticed.²
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