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    Ann Simmons-Myers: Photographs

    Ann Simmons-Myers: Photographs Image gallery

    Presented by Temple of Music and Art at Temple of Music and Art

    October 23-November 24, 2009


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    The Temple Gallery presents Ann Simmons-Myers: Photographs, featuring a selection of landscape photographs of Japan and Sri Lanka from the series Prior Vision. The images were made over two trips to Sri Lanka that documented the effects of a tsunami on the war-torn country in 2005 and a 2006 trip to Japan. During this period Simmons-Myers' studio burnt down, destroying her ability to make photographs, causing her to question her own artistic beliefs, and she stopped working altogether for a brief time. When she returned to work, Simmons-Myers realized that these photographs documented the beauty and idiosyncrasies of daily life, and that these moments formed the continuous thread in her work. As digital technology overtakes film and photo chemistry, Simmons-Myers says she is suffering from "digital distress." An expert in "alternative processes," the 19th and early 20th century methods of making photographs she mourns the loss of making an object with her hands. Not only is sitting at a computer to make images unfulfilling to her, she is too independent to accept the insertion of a virtual world between the artist and the finished photograph. However, in her show Simmons-Myers shows us a range of possibilities by combining these two antithetical ways of making pictures, abrading, over painting and burnishing her straight digital photographs, creating something entirely new.


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        Temple of Music and Art

        330 South Scott Avenue
        Tucson, AZ 85701

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        Dates:
        October 23-November 24, 2009

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        Monday-Friday 10:00am-6:00pm

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