Winner of Three Awards! 2013 United States Literary Award for Fine Art Photography, "Gold Award Sappi Printer of the Year" for outstanding reproductions and "Best of Category" at Printing Industries of America Show. "Roman Loranc is spiritually alive and poised as one of the few romantics commanding attention today. In serious art photography it is rare that a contemporary photographer continues with the time-tested techniques of chemical/optical processes, but such is the case with Roman Loranc who pursues his work with exceptional technique and style" Peter C. Bunnell McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art Emeritus, Princeton Former Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Roman Loranc draws upon cultural tradition and profound emotion to create a timeless legacy of beautifully crafted photographs of Europe. Loranc immigrated to California in the early 1980's. During the 1990's, he received acclaim for working with the Nature Conservatory to document the fragile beauty of the vanishing wetlands of California's Central Valley. Nearly twenty years after his arrival in California, Loranc began returning to Europe to visually explore both the unique countryside and architecture of his homeland,including the atmospheric interiors of its churches and sacred spaces. Absolution is a collection of the haunting results of Loranc's return to his native land and the visual journeys made over the ensuing decade. The essay is contributed by Dr. Anthony Bannon, who served for sixteen years as the Director f the George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House and continues as its Senior Scholar and Honorary Trustee. Loranc's award-winning monograph, Fractal Dreams: Photographs from Two Decades was published by Photography West Graphics in 2009.

Roman Loranc: Absolution

Arts & Photography

Anthony Bannon

Photography & Video

Photography West Graphics, Inc.

[ [ [ Steve McCurry[ STEVE MCCURRY ] By Bannon, Anthony ( Author )Jun-13-2011 Hardcover

Phaidon Press Incorporated

50 in 50: Fifty Works for Fifty Years

Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo

"[Katzman’s photographs] are as striking and powerful as anything brought back from a Vodoun ceremony in Haiti, or a primitivist church in Sicily. Yet they make no pretense of the documentarian’s ethnological distance; they’re snapped right there in the midst of the action—in the center of the mosh pit, let’s say—and convey a raw, uncensored passion clearly indicating that the photographer himself has felt something of the experience that has swept these people up.” —New York Press Responding with intrigue to a newspaper ad that pleaded, “Come to the Miracle Tent. Come witness the blind see, the crippled walk, the deaf hear,” photographer Steven Katzman, raised a conservative Jew, began photographing Christian revivals around his hometown of Sarasota, Florida. Katzman was then invited to visit the revival center of Christian America—the Brownsville Assembly of God, in Pensacola. There, Katzman found a pious evangelical community where God’s presence is constantly witnessed in the immeasurable force of the congregation’s expressions of religious ecstasy: the laying of hands, the screams and tears of joy and anguish and love as men and women are purged of suffering and sin. The congregation would rise to the point of collapse, lamenting and praying for those less fortunate in the world, being healed by the ever-present love of the faithful and the Lord. As Katzman peered through the lens of his camera, he also heard the desperate calls of the preacher: “Faith has no religion. Do I hear an Amen?” Katzman found what no one had expected—his faith. With sumptuous black-and-white photographs that recall the religious fervor of El Greco and the anguish of Francis Bacon, The Face of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption takes us inside evangelical meetings across the world and bears witness to the driving emotional faith of Christian revival, where emotion and love pours from the eyes and mouths of the faithful, praying and thanking the Lord.

The Face of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption

Individual Artists

powerHouse Books

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