Our next meeting is on Thursday, November 19th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!
Come early to visit and share with your fellow photographers.
Agenda
- 6:30 Set up and social time.
- 7:00 Welcome and Member News
- 7:10 Quote of the Month
- 7:15 Announcements
- 7:30 Program: Chasing Walls: The Pursuit of Art in Unexpected Places with Robert E. Mace
- 8:15 – Member Photo Share
Program: Chasing Walls: The Pursuit of Art in Unexpected Places with Robert E. Mace
“Painting on walls is an inherent part of humanity with pre-historic examples extending more than 50,000 years ago. Wall painting moved from caves to the built environment by Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, later flourishing as religious and political expression, most notably through the Mexican muralists of the early twentieth century. Beginning in the 1960s, graffiti and street art emerged in their modern manifestations through tags, throwies, stencils, paste-ups, slaps, scribes, and murals. As street art progressed from vandalism to million-dollar evaluations at Sotheby’s and moved from back alleys to storefronts, street art has become more prevalent than ever.
As someone who loves to walk alleys, I’ve documented street art since the early 1990s with a focus on Texas but with hunting excursions across the country and the globe. I’ve followed the movement as it spilled from alleys to main streets and from urban canyons to rural roads. While the art itself is often worthy of admiration on its own, the setting, and often the contrast between the art and the setting, adds to the overall beauty of the moment, creating opportunities for the itinerant photographer to document the work and collaborate, in a sense, with the artist. There is also beauty in the ephemerality of street art, a slow existential fade as time and transgression lead inevitably to loss, leaving behind only memories—and photographs.”
Robert’s first exposure to photography occurred in 4H back in the 1970s with a cheap point-and-click camera using black-and-white film. After blindly following the progression of point-and-click cameras from film to digital, he invested in his first DSLR camera and a progression of lenses. With advances in cell-phone technology, his iPhone 13 Pro Max is his current daily driver. Over three decades, Robert’s camera has focused on street art, early modern architecture, food, and litter. Robert is a hunter on the free app, Street Art Cities (streetartcities.com/), where he records locations and posts photos of street art.
Member Photo Share Theme: Fall
It is a season of course, and one that hosts a diverse array of photographic opportunities. There is nature: fall foliage, bird migrations, cool days for spotting wildlife, all those yellow wildflowers. Fall hosts numerous festivals and holidays with people, food, sporting events, etc. Weather again becomes interesting as cold fronts, stormy clouds, and possibly frosty mornings reappear. Let’s see what a variety of images our members can bring together for the next meeting of HCPC.
Send up to three images to Jerry Sargent at photos@jerrysargent.com
Dues
Annual dues are a bargain at $12 per year. If you haven’t renewed, you may pay at the meeting, or use our PayPal by using this link, or you can mail your check to Winifred Simon at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX 78676. (Only paid members may post on our HCPC Members Facebook page. If you are a paid member and cannot access the account, ask Charlie Kreitler, our admin, to allow you access.
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