USING THE CAMERA NOT TO PICTURE MORE CLEARLY THAT WHICH WE KNOW, BUT RATHER TO REVEAL THAT WHICH WE HAVE NO IDEA EXISTS-SUCH AS LANDSCAPES, CREATURES AND OBJECTS NOT YET SEEN OR PICTURED.
~ David Batchelder
David Batchelder Born 1939 in Titusville, Pennsylvania; College Professor and School Principal-retired.
B.A., M.A. & M.F.A. in Art/Photography.
Group- “Vision and Expression”, George Eastman House; “Light 7” M.I.T.; “Be-ing without Clothes”, M.I.T.; Photovison 72”, Institute of Contemporay Art. Boston; “Private Realities: Recent American Photography”, M.F.A., Boston.
One Man- Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; Exposure Gallery, N.Y.C.; Addison Galery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Beaumont-May Gallery, Hood Museum, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Public Collections: Addision Gallery of American Art, Fogg Museum, Harvard; George Eastman House; M.I.T.; Smith College; Bowdoin College; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; M.F.A., Boston; M.F.A., Houston; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College.
Press release
Stilled Moments – Photographs by David Batchelder and Hazel Ling
David Batchelder
After five years of looking closely through his camera at a small beach, David Batchelder no longer sees the shores as we know them. His vision now is of a private reality within the tideland. In Tideland, Batchelder invites you to join him in his visual journey into a tideland like none that has yet been photographed. Batchelder uses the camera, not to picture more clearly that which we already know, but to discover and capture that which we have no idea exists. He shares with us an inexplicable, ambiguous, imaginative and odd world of magical visions – landscapes, spaces, creatures and curious objects, disfigured and eroded by the ocean. Although Batchelder uses digital processes, his approach to crea...