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Alexander LowryAlexander Lowry has been making personal and professional photographs since 1957. He has explored several parallel paths thoughout his fifty years of making photographs, including wildlife, landscape and abstract images but has always photographed people and life going on around him in the documentary/ journalistic tradition. He found his photographic interest directed not to major events, trends or fads but mostly to the little things of life—real people doing real, everyday things.
In the 1960s and 1970s he did a great deal of wildlife photography, much of it in black and white. His approach was the same as photographing people. He says it is a matter of patience, perseverance and being in the right place at the right time with the right equipment.
The role of the photographer as printmaker always interested him. In the 1970’s he began to explore more complex printmaking techniques for some of his work on a separate but parallel path from his documentary work. His landscapes in the Rock Series contain images from that effort. These gelatin silver prints were produced in small editions using a variety of paper and toner combinations to find the right look and feel for each image.
In the 1980s and 1990s photographic materials began to disappear so he devoted time to making a few archival silver prints, usually six to eight, of each of his best negatives as well as a few formal editions. He closed his darkroom in 1999 and began a new era in image making.
Going forward he is excited by the possibilities of using the new electronic imaging technologies in creating new images and especially in the realm of printmaking. His recent work is produced in small editions utilizing the fine inkjet printers on the market today, as well as the archival papers available for use with these printers.
In 1920 Edward Weston wrote, “Peace and an hour’s time—given these, one creates. Emotional heights are easily attained; peace and time are not.” Lowry says, “Living in Mount Shasta affords me the peace and time to work on my photographs nearly every day.”
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Contact by email at info@alexanderlowry.com
Phone/Fax: 530.918.9080
Mailing Address: Alexander Lowry
PO Box 35, Mt. Shasta, California 96067