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Carl Kotheimer Biography
My first "serious" camera was a time-weathered 2 1/4" twin lens Rollie my father handed down to me when I was 15 years old. It wasn't long before I took over the "fruit celler" in the basement of our home as my first darkroom. I didn't have an enlarger yet, so I contact printed the 2 1/4" negatives there among the jars of strawberry preserves and stewed tomatoes. Using the Rollie and a hand held light meter, I learned a lot about exposure by making every mistake in and out of the book.
Like many of my photographic generation, I grew up admiring the work of Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray and, of course, Ansel Adams. Like many, I was awestruck by Adams' work and hoped some day to make photographs and prints that approached his level of technical quality and creative insight. I wanted to learn as much as I could from the great man's own words, so I totally immersed myself in his trilogy, The Camera, The Negative, and The Print, which became my classroom. After completing a series of zone system measurements and tests, I began shooting with the Hasselblad, which I used throughout the 80's and 90's. The distillation of my work during that period was featured in an exhibit called Shadows Distinct in New York City in 2001.
After 35 years of chemical darkroom work, I began transitioning to "the digital darkroom" in the late 90's, and began working exclusively in the digital domain with the start of the new millennium. The culmination of my life's photographic passion is represented at Goldeneye Gallery in Savannah and on the web at www.goldeneye-gallery.com where I sell framed and unframed, limited edition artwork
Like many of my photographic generation, I grew up admiring the work of Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray and, of course, Ansel Adams. Like many, I was awestruck by Adams' work and hoped some day to make photographs and prints that approached his level of technical quality and creative insight. I wanted to learn as much as I could from the great man's own words, so I totally immersed myself in his trilogy, The Camera, The Negative, and The Print, which became my classroom. After completing a series of zone system measurements and tests, I began shooting with the Hasselblad, which I used throughout the 80's and 90's. The distillation of my work during that period was featured in an exhibit called Shadows Distinct in New York City in 2001.
After 35 years of chemical darkroom work, I began transitioning to "the digital darkroom" in the late 90's, and began working exclusively in the digital domain with the start of the new millennium. The culmination of my life's photographic passion is represented at Goldeneye Gallery in Savannah and on the web at www.goldeneye-gallery.com where I sell framed and unframed, limited edition artwork