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Current Exhibition

Timothy Duffy New Exhibition

A beautiful collection of 12 photographs by photographer Timothy Duffy.

“Southern literature and music have long defined the cultural landscape of the South. Today, they increasingly share that landscape with photography. My recent books Blue Muse  and Hanging Tree Guitars  and my new work in progress  Sacred Soul is an opportunity to reflect on how the intersection of music and photography defines our region.

I am a folklorist, a musician, a photographer, and a producer, I view photography as an essential part of my work with Southern musicians. My goal is to both bring out the best in the musicians I work with and help protect their legacies.  Photography and music- the visual and the aural- are inherently sympathetic worlds because they resonate with both our eye and our ear. Together, photographs and music harness the power of memory and sense of place in powerful ways. They work together to deepen our understanding of the American South and its musical roots.

Musicians and photographers are like sorcerers who conjure past moments and sounds to enrich the present. These photographs capture the emotional power of the musician.

My photographs transport us into the artists’ emotions and allow us to occupy their worlds. We enter an imaginative space where we can hear the sounds of survival from an ironing board, a one-strand guitar, or an unaccompanied voice as we travel through time. Images of deeply lined hands and faces hover in this timeless realm that might be this day of a century ago.

My photographs remind us that the porous membrane between the South’s past and its present- in which the past is never dead, not even the past is never dead, the past-is constantly shifting. We are defined by our past, and each generation is forced to relive its glories and its nightmares, photography allows us a new perspective as both we and the artists float within a liminal space and time.

The photography and music in my current work is a powerful reminder of how southern place and memory both hold and liberate us. Challenging us to look anew at music and photography with my exploration of Southern musical communities.” – Timothy Duffy

States of Grace Wendi Schneider

Wendi Schneider: States of Grace
March 10, 2022 – August 1, 2022

A Gallery for Fine Photography is pleased to present, States of Grace, a collection of twenty-four gilded pigment prints by contemporary artist Wendi Schneider. This work is rooted in the serenity Schneider finds in the sinuous elegance of organic forms.

Artist Statement
States of Grace
States of Grace is a celebration of the senses anchored in the visual — an exploration of my spiritual connection to our vulnerable natural world and the transcendence I find in its beauty. In those magical moments when my eyes and essence are engaged, I photograph what I feel, as much as see. The images are layered digitally with color and texture to manipulate the boundaries between the real and imagined, inspired by my background in painting and art history.

I follow intuitively where each image takes me, honoring the variations within the edition to elevate the ephemeral. Printed on translucent vellum or kozo, these ethereal illusions are gilded with precious metals on the verso, creating a luminosity that varies as the ambient light transitions. My process infuses the artist’s hand and suffuses the treasured subjects with the implied spirituality of the precious metals – echoing the moment of capture and ensuring each illuminated impression is a unique object of reverence. My work is testament and tribute, adoration and obligation.

Within States of Grace are collections that can be curated by subject, theme or treatment.

The Patina Collection
The Patina Collection is an assemblage of gilded prints from the States of Grace series paired with antique frames – the synthesis of 40 years of collecting turn of the twentieth-century art and objects and creating images inspired by the sinuous elegance of organic forms. The serpentine shapes are echoed in the subjects I photograph and the curves of the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts frames that house these works.

Evenings with the Moon
In this collection of images in  the States of Grace series, I contemplate the power of universal experiences to unify and find transcendence, engaging the moon as muse. These impressions of the night draw on the metaphor of darkness and light to express our shared longing for love and harmony amidst the chaos of the world. The shimmer of the gilded prints echoes the luminosity of their celestial inspiration. This synthesis of form and content encourages the viewer to consider the commonalities in our collective consciousness.

We all live under the same moon.

Imaginal Stage

Ben Depp: Imaginal Stage
December 4, 2021 – March 4, 2022

A Gallery for Fine Photography is pleased to present, Imaginal Stage, a collection of eight pigment prints by contemporary artist Ben Depp. This work is part of Depp’s ongoing project documenting the rapidly shifting landscape of southern Louisiana. To make intimate landscape photographs, he learned to fly a powered paraglider. The paraglider allows him to spend hours aloft, waiting for light and searching for compositions to memorialize this place.

“My photographs capture South Louisiana in its imaginal stage – the moment between its emergence as solid ground and its disappearance.”
-Ben Depp

Ben Depp’s Imaginal Stage will be on through March 4, 2022.

“Ever the river has risen and brought us the flood,
the mayfly floating on the water.
On the face of the sun its countenance gazes,
then all of a sudden nothing is there!”
– Epic of Gilgamesh

“When I first encountered a cloud of mayflies on a summer flight in Plaquemines Parish, I was moved by the parallel between the ephemeral insect and the South Louisiana wetlands. In the final stage of its metamorphosis – called the imaginal stage – a mayfly molts and emerges from the water to live for a single day. On a geologic time scale, South Louisiana’s lifespan seems just as transitory. South Louisiana is the youngest part of this 200 million year-old continent, built from sediment carried down the Mississippi River over the last six thousand years. It is also the first swath of the continent now reverting to open water.”
-Ben Depp

 

Joshua Mann Pailet Price Increase

16 x 20’s increasing to $3500 and up

20 x 24’s increasing to $6500 and up

Editions of 30

About Joshua Mann Pailet
Joshua Mann Pailet was born in New Orleans and raised in Baton Rouge. After graduating from Rice University in 1972 and 1973 with a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Accounting, he founded A Gallery for Fine Photography to create a venue to collect, display and sell 19th and 20th century photographs on Chartres Street in the French Quarter.

In addition to his career as a gallerist, Pailet has established himself as a well-known documentary photographer with work in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Polk Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), and the Wallis Annenberg Collection.

Ben Depp Price Increase on September 1

Ben Depp Price Increase on September 1:

Paper Size 24.5 x 32 

Editions #1- 5 /10 : $2,000

Edition #6 /10: $2500

Edition #7/10: $ 3,000

Edition #8/10: $ 3,500

Edition # 9/10: $4,000

Edition #10/10: $5,000

Paper Size 30 x 40 

Edition #1/5: $6,000

Edition #2/5: $7,000

Edition #3/5: $ 8,000

Edition # 4/5: $ 9,000

Edition # 5/5: $10,000

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