Artist Talk: Ron Rosenstock
Sunday, March 31, 2019 – 4 to 5pm
Free & Open to the Public (Donations welcome)
In conjunction with his solo exhibition “Scenes from Iceland & Greenland” VCP is delighted to host an artist talk with acclaimed photographer Ron Rosenstock on Sunday, March 31st starting at 4pm. The talk is free and open to the public though donations are welcome and appreciated. Light refreshments will be served.
“I am not interested in the appearance of things, but the transformational power of my lens to penetrate into the unknown, into the eternal moment.” – Ron Rosenstock
From the Artist:
“My work is a positive statement, affirming the beauty that surrounds us. I find that people get positive energy from seeing my work. In my own little way, by showing my work as often as I do, I feel I’m making the world a little bit better place to live in. I retired from Clark University after teaching photography there for thirty years. I have just published my sixth book of my photographs, and my work has been featured in over 100 exhibitions, both in the U.S. and abroad, the most recent at The National Museum of Iceland. There are permanent collections of my work at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA, The Polaroid Collection in Cambridge, MA, and the International Center of Photography in New York.”
About the Artist:
Ron Rosenstock has been creating images of the world and its people since the 1950’s. His work has had many incarnations from vivid colors to black and white, from the darkroom to digital, from large format cameras to full-frame digital, from early dawn to infrared dusk. His images are real, though real is hardly subjective. Viewed in objective terms, color is far more real than black and white is – if only because color is such a defining element of reality as experienced by the human eye.
His reality is more real than it would be if you were standing next to him the moment he makes the exposure. His view of the world developed from his correspondence with Ansel Adams, his work in study groups from 1967 to 1973 with his teacher Minor White and his time as a private student of Paul Caponigro. Born in 1943, he earned his MA degree in Photography from Goddard College and has been an instructor of photography since 1967 primarily at Clark University. He has exhibited his work in more than 100 shows worldwide and is featured in numerous permanent exhibitions including the Fogg Art Museum, the Worcester Art Museum, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International Center of Photography.
Ron has published six books of his photographs and written numerous articles on the art and craft of photography. We has been featured on the WGBH nightly news with Emily Rooney in Boston and numerous cable programs around New England. Ron still continues to exhibit his work, most recently at The National Museum of Iceland, lectures at camera clubs and professional organizations and serves as a Board member of NANPA (The North American Nature Photography Association). He also leads tours around the world for professional and amateur photographers including Bhutan, Iceland, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Greenland and Cuba.