Sand Hills - Near Columbia, SC from the collection of South Carolina Arts Commission

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Willard Barnes
Sand Hills - Near Columbia, SC, 1986
silver gelatin
8 x 10 in
Signature: titled on lower left; signed and dated on lower right

Thomas C. Rollins, staff writer, The Columbia Record. Excerpted from story on Will Barnes, 1988
Barnes follows in the footsteps of two of his favorite photographers, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, using an 8-by-10 view camera (the old accordion type) and producing large format contact prints. That method allows printing without an enlarger, never altering the view that was captured through the camera’s lens. Keeping with tradition, Barnes uses a 20-year old camera and an old, homemade contact printer given to him by a photographer in Rochester. Barnes works wit black and white images because he says they are stable, more permanent and have a beauty that color does not.

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