i saw James Balog's exhibit, "ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers", at a small
non-profit gallery in Denver Friday night; i had previously mentioned his
documentary, Chasing Ice, as a photography adventure story (among other
things); the Ice show consists of largish prints from Balog's book of the same
name, very beautiful pictures of ice and its loss from many locations - more
locations than those in the movie, and some shots are more recent than the movie's
many of the photos are very abstract; some are interesting for the unusual
locations that few of us will ever visit; others are loaded with meaning, such
as a shot of a tiny glacier remnant in Glacier National Park, a park which will
"need a new name"
Balog calls himself an "environmental photographer", but prior to this show i
had come to think of Balog in comparison to Galen Rowell, telling adventure
stories through photography; as we were browsing through the book, which is
very well-printed, someone asked if he'd used lights for a shot … he hadn't, he
described how there were "skylights" in a crumbling ice wall that produced the
backlight in the photo, and how he had moved in for a few seconds to get a shot
then retreated to recompose and repeat, so as to avoid the falling chunks
well worth seeing if you are in Denver; i did not get the impression this
exhibition will travel; the book is good too
<http://www.cpacphoto.org/2013/10/james-balog/>
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