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Listing Church - Randsburg, CA - Limited Edition 2 of 20 Photograph

Osceola Refetoff

United States

Photography, Black & White on Paper

Size: 24 W x 35 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Infrared Exposure with Natural Lens Flare First printed: 2012
 Santa Barbara Catholic Church was built between 1898-1904, after the first church was destroyed by a fire. Some say planks used to construct the building were originally from a dance hall adjoining a bar with brothel 'cribs' out back. In a story replete with potential allegorical interpretations, the structure was relocated to Burma Road, where the converted church is sinking into the ground because of prior mining activity below. The building is being propped up with wood recovered from a shuttered mine. Pinholes & Infrareds – Chungking Studio – Los Angeles, CA – 2016 Uniting the World Though Art - LA Art Show/Arts District Alliance - 2015 Open Show curated by Rebecca Morse (MOCA) - Gallery 825 - 2012-13 Each print is titled, signed, dated and numbered on verso. There is an approximately 3" white border around the image area. Prints are manufactured in-house at Chungking Studio in Los Angeles Chinatown. Papers include Hahnemuhle Fine Art Museum Etching, Museo Silver Rag, and Moab Entrada Rag Natural, and are selected based on exhaustive tests to determine which material best suits the interpretation of each individual image. These museum-quality, 290-350 GSM-weight papers are exceptionally robust and render outstanding detail. After a successful print is inspected and approved, a protective seal is applied using a three-step process that increases moisture, dirt, fingerprint, and UV resistance; extending the already significant color-fastness of modern archival inks approximately 3x the length of untreated prints. Note: Image area is approximately 18x27" on 24x36" paper. Each print is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

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Photography:

Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

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Size:

24 W x 35 H x 0.1 D in

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Osceola Refetoff’s interest is in documenting humanity’s impact on the world – both the intersection of nature and industry, and the narratives of the people living at those crossroads. His images exist within traditional means – landscape, portraiture, travel, editorial – and are variously produced using film, digital, infrared, and pinhole exposures. Thus, despite his documentarian impulses and the fact that his images deliberately depict ordinary, even mundane, subjects; he trains on them a nuanced vision, often yielding surreal, even dreamlike images. His process generally happens “in camera,” at the moment of capture, in a kind of alchemical reaction that transforms the external world into something both realistic and magical. Refetoff’s early influences were the great mise-en-scène directors Lang, Welles, Kubrick, and Melville. Today, his motion picture background informs his approach to constructing visual narratives. Framing meticulous compositions in depth, he uses the many cameras he carries to render not only how a place looks, but how it feels to be there. As he shifts between stylistic modes to build layered, multidimensional histories, what links all aspects of his eclectic practice is a commitment to capturing “what the picture requires.” Refetoff holds a B.A. in Film & Mass Communications from Duke University (1985) and an M.F.A. from New York University's Graduate Film Program (1991). His photography has been featured in Artillery, Palm Springs Life, Arid, Boom, Hemispheres, and WhiteHot magazines, among others. His work is widely exhibited including at the San Diego Art Institute, the Palm Springs Art Museum, The Main Museum, Photo LA, Porch Gallery, and numerous solo exhibitions covered in The LA Times, Huffington Post, CBS, LA Weekly, and other publications. "High & Dry," a long-term collaboration with writer/historian Christopher Langley, is syndicated on KCET's Emmy-winning program Artbound, receiving the Outdoor Writers Association of California’s 2016 award for Best Outdoor Media.

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