BARBARA PARMET
INTRODUCTION
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Barbara Parmet has been combining imagery with a camera for over 30 years. Her affinity for telling a story with pictures was galvanized by her first ten years as a photojournalist. Even after she left the newspaper and magazine world, she continued combining photographs as a way of telling stories that went deeper than the daily news. The unifying element of Barbara Parmet's photographs is the meditative quality each one invokes. Whether it is the Levitation series with small natural objects hovering in distinctive out-of-focus landscapes, or the earlier Other Worlds series with the human body as aperture into alternate realms, the images share the quiet tones that allow the eyes to rest and the mind to turn inward. Parmet uses any and all technology that suits her purposes. At times she uses a camera obscura with no lens. At other times she uses a 4x5" Linhof or a 21/4" Hasselblad. She has printed and painted on gelatin silver and platinum emulsions. Digital scanning and carbon-based inks on watercolor paper have also been employed as tools for arriving at the desired effect. She always works with the most archival methods available. Barbara Parmet - March, 2007 Santa Barbara, California USA info@barbaraparmet.com www.barbaraparmet.com |
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