A new photography exhibit opened recently at Modified Arts on Roosevelt Street. Of the three photographers: Bill Timmerman, John Wagner, and Tim Lanterman exhibiting, it was Timmerman's name that caught my eye, and for good reason. Bill Timmerman is well known in the Phoenix area as an architect's photographer, and some of his work has accompanied articles in Hearsight to show, much more than any words might, what the architect under discussion is really about. Somewhat along the lines of " a painter's painter," or "a musician's musician," a photographer entrusted with documenting buildings for the one who thought them up is under as much scrutiny by his client as is the architect's model making team, perhaps more so.
Though some of Timmerman's photos depict the irregular collections of forms in nature scenes, it is the architecture shots that attract my eye--perfectly composed essays that seem to demonstrate one-point perspective here, and over there, a view utilizing two-point perspective, like so many drawing studies made to explain horizon, vanishing point and always wonderfully rational angles. Though the camera, like the eye, is bound to see the possible arrays of angled structures in expected ways, there is more--and less--to any chance glance at any part of the world. But when the eye is trained to find a shape, that shape, at least for a while, magically fills everything, even pools of dust, roving clouds, and all that takes our dreams through the skies.
Modified Arts
407 East Roosevelt
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Tel.: (602) 462-5516
Web: modified.org
Email: kimber@modified.org
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