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Passing Times and Places opens Friday, June 3 at 1448

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Gallery 1448 presents: PASSING TIMES AND PLACES: Photographs by Ed Worteck and Ben Hoke

Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 2011, 6-9 pm
Through Sunday, July 10, 2011
Regular Hours: Saturday / Sunday, 1-5 pm

These two photographers from different generations both create works that bring to light the effects of time, nature and society on specific and evocative places. They both shoot their subject matter on film, simply and directly with an emphasis toward detail, form and composition. Their investigations infuse the photographs with a stillness and an elegiac sense of time passing.

Ed Worteck was born in Baltimore in 1948. He has been a professor of photography at Goucher since 1980 and a teaching fellow and faculty member at Yale University College of Art from 1996-1997. He has exhibited regionally and nationally, published two collections of photographs, and curated numerous exhibitions. He currently lives in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania with his family.

Of the photos in this exhibition, he says: “These photographs are organized around a working title – “The Unmaking of America”. This phrase refers to steady loss of American centers for making things from steel to clothing; and the cultural, economic and political consequences of this unmaking of an American way of life. They are a lament and an elegy for a landscape and world that is disappearing.”

Ben Hoke grew up in Catonsville MD and learned photography mostly on his own, with the help of friends and books. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States, focusing on landscape photography. He recently traveled through Northern India with his field camera, and the majority of his photos in this exhibition are from that trip. While Ed makes traditional black and white prints in the darkroom, Ben scans his color slide film to make digital c-prints.

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