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Jeffrey ConleyCypress Tree Sunbeams - Black & White Landscape Photographc.2006
c.2006
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Beautiful black and white photograph of cypress trees with light radiating through by Jeffrey Conley (American, b. 1969), c.2006. A first tier, silver gelatin test print (one of one) by Jeffrey Conley. Signed & titled lower right and on verso "A Silver Gelatin Test Print". Unframed. Artists label and initials on verso. Image size, 7.5"H x 7.5"W. Date of photograph is estimated based on contemporary examples of his work.
Originally from New York State, Jeffrey received a BFA in Photographic Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1991 he moved to Yoesmite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. There he photographed extensively and taught photography at The Ansel Adams Gallery.
Jeffrey is a fine art landscape photographer who is well known for his meticulously crafted black and white prints. His prints are made utilizing traditional darkroom processes of gelatin silver as well as hand-coated platinum/palladium. Conley's work has been internationally exhibited and is included in museum collections worldwide.
Through his photography, Jeffrey Conley strives for a balanced simplicity that evoke his sense of wonder and reverence for the natural world. Scale and palette vary, from small, intimate and subtle, to large, grand and dramatic. In all he seeks to capture a meditative spirit that is unique to his approach to landscape photography.
Permanent Collections:
Museum of Art, Nanao, Japan
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Museum of Fine Art, Huston, TX
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA
Salzburg College, Salzburg, Austria
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
- Creator:Jeffrey Conley (1969, American)
- Creation Year:c.2006
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:Rare test print.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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Jeffrey Conley
Jeffrey Conley describes his crisp black-and-white photographs of natural phenomena as “meditative” experiences. In the meditation world, one of the most common metaphors used to characterize a human being’s relationship to consciousness is that of waves on the ocean: Consciousness itself is the ocean, and every thought, sensation, emotion and even the idea of a stand-alone self is a wave, still part of the vast body of water yet minuscule in comparison to it.
Conley’s contemplative 2001 photograph Figure and Tide is, indeed, an image of a sparkling, wide-open Pacific Ocean as well as gently undulating waves. But something even smaller grabs the viewer’s attention here: a tiny female figure standing where the water meets the shore. It is reminiscent of Chinese Taoist and Chan Buddhist ink paintings, in which lone monks or sages are dwarfed by the surrounding landscape to show that humankind is a part of nature, not separate from it.
To get the shot, the Oregon-based photographer perched on one of Big Sur, California’s famous cliffs on a sunny afternoon, aiming his Hasselblad 500C down at the sea below. “I was captivated with the play of light on water and the rhythmic patterns of the wave sets,” he has recalled. “As I was looking through the camera, I noticed a beach walker come into the scene. At first, I was not happy to have a person in there. Then, it all happened very quickly. Just as the white surf encircled her, she turned in perfect profile to gaze out at the ocean.”
Decades after Conley captured this perfect moment, a platinum-palladium print of Figure and Tide went on view in 2023’s “A Beautiful World: The Power of Nature,” at Peter Fetterman Gallery, in Santa Monica. The exhibition brought together striking, monochromatic landscape photos by such pioneers of the form as Ansel Adams, Charles Scowen, Isaiah West Taber and John Edward Sache, alongside contemporary masters like Sebastião Salgado, Pentti Sammallahti, Cig Harvey and Conley.
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