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Tom ChambersNight Light2006
2006
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14 x 14 inches, Edition of 20, $1150
20 x 20 inches, Edition of 20, $1600
28 x 28 inches, Edition of 10, $3500
Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and surreal photomontages. Chambers presents unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of childhood or the delicate transition experienced by a child passing into adolescence and then adulthood. Others express the tension in the uncertain coexistence between man and his environment, a delicate balance too often ignored and damaged. Chambers states: "With digital photography I desire to move beyond documentation of the present, and rather seek to merge reality and dreams in musing about possibilities of the future... In the early 20th century Latin American writers and artists used magic realism to create images, which with a simple twist go beyond the expected into the unexpected. In this series I have constructed images to tell unfinished stories, which initially might seem true and believable, but likely are improbable."
Tom Chambers Process Statement:
I initially sketch a concept or idea which I have for an image. Then, I photograph each piece of the photomontage using a Nikon D700 or a medium format film camera, generally a Mamiya Pro TL or a Fuji Rangefinder. The greatest challenge is in making sure the light intensity and direction are similar in each of these shots.
The process of creating a photomontage may take a month or more, depending upon how quickly I am able to get all the shots and sort through them, selecting the ones which work best together. "Pieces" of the final image may include the landscape or background, often shot in sections, as well as the sky, a human figure, an animal, or another object. The processed film is scanned at a high resolution, approximately 80 megabytes per frame. Then, I use Photoshop software with a Macintosh computer to combine each "piece", thus creating the final image. Lastly, the photomontage is printed with archival pigment inks on cotton rag paper.
- Creator:Tom Chambers (American)
- Creation Year:2006
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:20 x 20Price: $1,60028 x 28Price: $3,500
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- Gallery Location:Sante Fe, NM
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU13424446012
Tom Chambers
Photographer Tom Chambers was raised in the Amish farm country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He completed a BFA in 1985 from The Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida majoring in graphic design with an emphasis on photography. Since 1998, Chambers has exhibited photomontage images from ten photographic series both nationally and internationally in 21 solo exhibitions and over seventy group exhibitions and art fairs. Chambers has received fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Chambers’s photography is held in the collections of the National Museum of Photography, Bogotá, Colombia; California State Polytechnic University; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; Santa Fe Museum of Art, NM; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Bangkok, Thailand; Texas Photographic Society; City of Jacksonville, FL - Art in Public Places; University of Texas; Sir Richard Branson, personal collection; and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Chambers’s work has been published in multiple publications and books. Entropic Kingdom, containing images from five series, was published by Modernbook Editions in 2012. Galerie Vevais published Werkdruck No. 6 in 2015 featuring his Illumination series. A retrospective book, Hearts and Bones, was released in the Fall of 2018, by Unicorn Publishing, London.
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