Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/06/2020 - 03/21/2020
12:00 am
Location
Bowen Arts Center
Categories
Brian Osgood is our featured member display artist for March, 2020. We are honored to have his reflective collection of 60 years of photos on display. Please join us March 6th from 5-7pm for Brian’s Opening Reception to welcome his art of altered photography. This display continues until March 21, 2020. Don’t miss it!
Brian has been making photographs for six decades. His first camera was a Polaroid Swinger, given to him by his father, who also enjoys photography. Brian still owns the camera, part of a rather large collection of cameras from many eras. He started out taking vacation pictures, neighborhood kids riding bikes, and eventually motorcycle races and concerts became his subjects.
Brian really got turned on in 10th grade in his graphic arts class, learning different processes and developing film. His teacher set up an interview with a professional photographer in Brian’s senior year and he was hooked. He decided to go to The Art Institute of Atlanta because that’s what he knew he wanted to do with his life.
At the Art Institute, Brian developed his eye (pun intended) for architectural photography. He purchased a 20mm wide angle lens and that’s when he started to see light and shapes in new ways. He spent a lot of time in downtown Atlanta capturing his new vision. While at AIA, he met his future employer, Bob English, owner of E-Six Lab of Atlanta, the premierprofessional processing lab for commercial photographers. Brian worked closely with the elite photography community of Atlanta, as well as top photographers from all over the world, for twenty five years, honing his skills with color and exposure. These were the days before digital, when you took a photo without instant results. And Brian experimented, helping the photographers to test their film and alter the processing to achieve the optimum results. He did beta-testing for Kodak and Fuji and got to try out all the cool new film.
This is when he discovered many alternative methods of photography. Examples are cross-processing and using out of date film and toy cameras to create his very unique brand of art. His images are very sharp and graphic from this period, even his landscapes. Brian seemed to be able to bend light in his photographs. This was all pre-digital. Brian was a purist and didn’t begin to embrace digital technology until the late 90’s. Fifteen years ago Brian retired from E-Six Lab and moved to the mountains. He joined the Big Canoe Photo Club. He continues to explore his art.