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July 7, 2007
| "Art and Architecture at the Arkley" 7-7-07 |
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The photographs that the nearby Holiday Inn had purchased for their hotel upgrade made a brief stop for Eureka's Saturday Night Arts Alive monthly event, here in the upstairs lobby of the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts.
All event photographs were taken with the Olympus E-330 with 14-54mm lens. Occasionally I used fill and bounce flash with my hot-shoe attached Metz 54. This was the first time the theater was used for an art exhibit. Photographs on display, I took with Leica, Olympus, Hasselblad and 4x5 cameras. |
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Visitors were welcomed in the theater front lobby by "Magnolia", the jazz band in the corner, and by my wife, Joanne, and me. The "Architecture" part of the exhibit was this table of photographs taken during the reconstruction of the theater during my year-long photo documentation project. |
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A visitor checks out the photograph album of 11x14" prints depicting the former Lowe's theater restoration, carried out 2005-2006. The renovated "Arkley Center for the Performing Arts" opened in early 2007. The Saturday evening exhibit attendance of almost 500 people did not quite match the theater Grand Opening day attendance of over 7000! |
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Photographs of architecture and of North Coast aerials and landscapes filled the Arkley Center stage and all three theater lobbies. The largest print, a 40x50 inch LightJet print on Fuji Crystal Archive, was on display here in the downstairs lobby. |
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| Lighting specialists under the direction of theater technical manager, David Kenworthy, spent about three hours on staging the photographs with brackets that I had made, and lighting with two 750 watt lights on each photograph. The fixtures have precise barn doors that allowed perfect framing of each photograph. With powerful lights high above the stage and a darkened theater, the exhibit setup was the most brilliant and reflection-free that I have ever seen. |
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| The matted and framed photographs placed on the thirty-five foot wide stage were at the perfect height for viewing. The nine 40x50 inch or bigger frames were a good proportion for the stage, too. Lighting techs dramatically lit the curtain background and the walkway in front, then precisely framed each photograph with 1500 watts of light on each photograph. A popular band played here just two weeks before, so my photographs have now shared the same stage as The Beach Boys! |
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