G.L. Gould
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I differ from most art photographers in that beauty is not my most important value. In fact I'm sometimes suspicious of it because just about any beautiful subject, at this late date in the photographic art, has been captured in still pictures so many times and in so many ways as to become hackneyed. The values I prize most are structure and psychological or mythic suggestion. I am most often trying to share with the viewer something unexpectedly seen through my camera viewfinder, something you may also not have seen in quite the same way before, and which provokes a new insight or unusual state of mind and emotion.
The photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Roy DeCarava have been especially important to the development of my photographic value system, Meatyard (primarily) for his ability to depict psychological states and mysteries in images of the slightly rearranged commonplace, and DeCarava for his lighting.
Although I do not have a great deal of formal training in photography, I was required to take professional photographs with a 4x5 press camera early in my post-college working life, and have studied film photography, including darkroom techniques, with Rachel Banai, and digital darkroom with Jean Miele.
I live part-time in Ithaca, NY, and spend the rest of my time in northern New Jersey, where I am semi-retired from a 25-person marketing company that I founded in 1982. I have also worked in publishing and taught college English, and have a Ph.D. in English literature.
February, 2009
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