The first major commemorative exhibition honoring the prolific 58-year career of master landscape photographer Philip Hyde will open Saturday November 7, 2009 at Santa Monica College. A new retrospective portfolio of archival pigment prints will contain a selection of color photographs and for the first time ever unveil a selection of new black and white archival pigment prints. This exhibition will revive the controversial Hyde tradition of exhibiting color and black and white photographs together.
Born in San Francisco in 1921, Philip Hyde was a pioneer of the West Coast tradition. He made his first backcountry fine art photograph in 1942 and gradually lost his eyesight 1999-2000. Hyde’s photographshelped protect such national treasures as the Grand Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument, Canyonlands, the Coast Redwoods, Pt. Reyes, King’s Canyon, Big Sur and many others. Hyde trained under Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Minor White and other definers of the medium at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute. Two of the most noted images on display will be Hyde’s 1964 color photograph “Cathedral In The Desert, Glen Canyon” named by American Photo Magazine as one of the top 100 photographs of the 20th Century and “The Minarets,” a black and white from 1950. Ansel Adams wrote that he liked Hyde’s photograph of the Minarets Peaks better than his own.
David Leland Hyde, Philip's son, will be speaking on his father's work and life,
Saturday November 7th, 4pm in room HSS-165 on main campus.
November 7 - December 11, 2009
Santa Monica College
2nd Floor Dresher Hall
1900 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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