Photographer’s Eye Presentation at the Downtown LA Public Library
Osceola Refetoff: “Creativity and the Documentary Impulse”
Osceola Refetoff will be addressing Photo Friends at the Downtown Los Angeles Central Library. The organization’s “Photographer’s Eye” program has hosted speakers since 1995, beginning with John Humble, including luminaries like David Fahey, Paul Kopeikin, and Douglas McCulloh, amongst many others. Refetoff be discussing how digital infrared photographs are produced and the evolution/future of California landscape photography.
Osceola Refetoff’s images exist within traditional means – landscape, portraiture, travel, editorial – and are variously produced using film, digital, infrared, and pinhole exposures, according to what best expresses the character of his subjects. Thus, despite his documentarian impulses and the fact that his images deliberately depict quite ordinary, even mundane subjects, he trains on them a hyper-realistic and nuanced vision, often yielding surreal, even dreamlike images. His process generally happens “in camera,” at the moment of capture, in a kind of alchemical reaction that transforms the external world into something both unchanged and extraordinary, realistic and magical.
Parking is available at the 524 S. Flower Street garage; show your LAPL card for a discounted rate
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