Casa de Sierra Nevada is proud to exhibit the latest work by award-winning photographer and San Miguel resident Robb Kendrick at its Salon Galleria.
The public is invited to view Kendrick’s photos during the two-week engagement, which started on May 22, and also to hear Kendrick talk about his unusual photographic techniques, which include a historic photo process called tintypes. Kendrick will be speaking at the salon on Friday, May 23 at 6 p.m. and Friday June 6, 2008, also at 6 p.m.
Kendrick, a native Texan, is best known for his work in National Geographic magazine. He has shot 17 feature stories for Geographic that have taken him to over 76 countries around the world. Recently he was the subject of a feature story in the Sunday Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times and was interviewed on the NPR program “Day to Day”. He has given presentations at the Smithsonian Institute and is a regular instructor at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
During his years traveling around the world, Kendrick discovered a passion for making tintype portraits. Tintypes are a type of photography popular 150 years ago that portray a timeless, haunting beauty. The process is labor-intensive and very low-tech, resulting in one-of-a-kind images on metal plate. Low-tech means that Kendrick uses no batteries, no digital camera, or even film. Instead he needs specially made cameras, a portable darkroom and a lot of patience.
"Still: Cowboys at the Start of the 21st Century", is Kendrick’s newest collection of 148 tintype portraits published by the University of Texas Press. "Still" focuses on the lives of those drawn to the cowboying life – women as well as men; Anglos, Native Americans, African Americans as well as Mexican Americans.
The work exhibited at Casa de Sierra Nevada will be available for sale and includes photos from Kendrick’s books, tintypes of mummies in Guanajuato and other images from Mexico.
The exhibition is free, but attendees are encouraged to make a donation to Casa Hogar in lieu of an entrance fee. The show runs from Thursday May 22, 2008 until Friday June 6, 2008. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Entrance to the Gallery is at Recreo 27.
For more information please call Casa de Sierra Nevada at 415.152.7040.
