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Provincetown :: Saturday, March 13th 2010
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An Amy Heller cyanotype.
Brown+Black+Blue
An Amy Heller Exhibit at Esmond-Wright
By Kahrin Deines
September 25th, 2008
When most of us think of photographs, we think point, focus, and shoot, all in a snap moment. But for award-winning photographer Amy Heller, the shot might involve a stroboscope, and processing the photo could mean traveling back in time.
| Heller's work will be on display at the Esmond-Wright Gallery until Oct. 9. |
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Heller, whose work will be on display in an exhibit at the Esmond-Wright Gallery from Sept. 26 to Oct. 9, often creates her photos using processes that date far back from the digital age to the 1800s.
Her upcoming exhibit, titled “Brown+Black+Blue,” features work created through three such vintage production techniques. The resulting images, which run in subject matter from fish to nudes to beach treasures, are tinted brown, black and blue.
|  ''Motion pictures'' made by Amy Heller with a stroboscope. |
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For the brown photos, Heller applied a process known as the “Van Dyke,” named for the resemblance the tint it creates has to the brown used by the Flemish painter Van Dyck.
Black, meanwhile, is represented in a series of gelatin silver prints Heller created using a stroboscope to capture figures in motion. The resulting images, within which female figures seem to transcend their own movements, required unwinding an unexposed roll of film and a whirling stroboscope in synchronicity past an open shutter.
And blue – “+blue” – is brought into the exhibit’s mix with a number of cyanotypes printed on both paper and fabric.
Heller has exhibited widely, and has also worked as a photo editor and researcher for The Discovery Channel, The Washington Post, National Geographic and U.S. News & World Report.
An opening for Heller’s “Brown+Black+Blue” exhibit at the Esmond-Wright Gallery, located at 384 Commercial Street, will take place at 7 p.m. on Sept. 26. Her work will be on display until Oct. 9. To find out more about the gallery or exhibit, call 508.487.4546.
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