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It and Paint It Green, Yosemite National Park,
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Who is California photographer
Rondal Partridge, and what's he been up to for the
past 80 plus years? Son of Imogen Cunningham, apprentice
to Ansel Adams, and protégé to Dorothea Lange, Rondal
Partridge began helping his mother in the darkroom
when he was five. His unique combination of photographic
skills – learned from his mother, mentors,
and colleagues – and a keen, personal vision,
enabled Partridge to successfully capture three
decades of tumultuous change in California. His
remarkable work provides a rare glimpse of the state's
historic development and a context for who we are
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“From the Byways
to the Highways” is divided into six parts, each of
which is devoted to a key aspect of the first 30 years
of Partridge's career:
- Early Influences features photos
of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange at work.
- California Rodeo documents cowboys
on the local rodeo circuit.
- Rural Depression includes photographs
of migrant farm-workers and makeshift camps, taken
while traveling California's back roads with Dorothea
Lange.
- Urban Pastimes and Pleasures and
Postwar Expansion document the rapid
and uncontrolled urban build-up that took place in
California during and after World War II.
- Prosperity and Pollution illustrate
the impact of the expansion of highways, subdivisions,
and the population explosion on California's landscape.
The “From
the Byways to the Highways” exhibition includes:
- 53 framed black and white photographs, ranging in
size from 12” x 15” to 29” x 23” (runs approximately
150 linear feet)
- Text panels and labels
- DVD, Outta My Light: Photographer Rondal Partridge,
directed by Dyanna Taylor and Meg Partridge
- Exhibition press kit and education materials
- Book, Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal
Partridge available through Heyday Books
Rental fee:
$3,500 plus shipping for an 8-week booking
Security:
Moderate
For information
contact ceraexhibits@earthlink.net
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