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SF Camerawork

May 4 - July 1, 2012

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1011 Market Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103
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2012 Baum Award: Eric William Carroll Baum Award / SF Camerawork announcement
The Baum Foundation is pleased to announce Eric William Carroll as the recipent of the 2012 Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer. Beginning May 4th at SF Camerawork, he will exhibit a selection of works from the past few years that explore photography’s technological history. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be Carroll’s recreation of a full-scale group darkroom, titled This Darkroom's Gone to Heaven. Lined with shadows of missing equipment and lit with the somber glow of safelights, Carroll repurposes the idea of a communal darkroom from a place of production into a venue for observation and dialogue. During the exhibition’s eight-week run, Carroll, along with several guest photographers, will meet at SF Camerawork to engage in a dialogue about their favorite dead photographers and technologies (on May 24th & June 14th). Carroll says: “The Baum Award could not have come at a better time—the recognition and exhibition come as both a ‘pat on the back’ and a challenge to continue pushing my work and the photographic medium into new and exciting prospects.” While This Darkroom's Gone to Heaven may mirror our own humanity by highlighting the mortality of technology, equipment, and spaces, other works in the exhibition will speak to the fallibility of human endeavors. These include Carroll’s photographs of hand-drawn camera calibration charts, notes for retouching a beauty photograph, as well as a large-format photograph produced using a fogged negative; each work representing a “failed” attempt to perfect photographic technologies or to truly master drawing a straight line. The opening reception is Friday, May 11th from 5PM - 8PM.