“Big Bend” by Jack Ridley at Photographs Do Not Bend
In the not so distant past, being a photographer required more skills than being able to point and shoot. Beginning in the early 19th century, portrait photographers grappled with metal plates and chemicals and landscape photographers doggedly lugged cumbersome 8 x 10 bellowed cameras, lenses, and tripods into uncharted terrain to capture nature’s most spectacular [...]
Keith Carter: From Uncertain to Blue at PDNB Gallery
PDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) Gallery isn’t letting a few decades sideline its taste in contemporary photography. Keith Carter: From Uncertain to Blue revisits Carter’s eye on the common folk of small town Texas in the 1980s. While Carter is certainly a respected name in the field, the exhibition lacks the improvisational spirit, potency, and range found in more recent [...]