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Stan Bowman

WHAT WE SEE IS NOT WHAT WE SEE Photographs are my old friends as I started taking/making photographs in the late1950’s, almost a half century ago. Taking a camera with me to grab still pictures of the real world was the most exciting and satisfying thing I had ever done. The darkroom was magical and the photographic print completely fascinating and astounding.

When digital processes came along in the mid1980’s it took me by storm. I found myself drawn into a new and expanding world of experience as an artist. Not only could I digitally create still images but I could move into the exploration of new media: video, animation, music, etc. All of these held a fascination as suddenly I could do new artistic things that had never before been available to me. Since 1990 this exploration has been my passion.

Recently I have revisited my old first passion, still photography. But now the straight unmanipulated image is not the focus of my interest. With this group of pictures I am intending to show something different, my puzzling and fascinating world, my memories, and my visions of the exciting new century. Does Savannah really have two moons, why is there a bird hovering over my studio skylight, and of what significance is my high school prom memory? Digital processes allow me to create seamless montages of places, times and people. These happenings are expansive and multifaceted, pleasingly characterized by the blurring of time and space as opposed to capturing single moments as was/is the usual case with still photographic images.

Stan