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My photograph above hardly does justice to the image created by Euphus "Butch" Ruth. But, I still had to share it.
Euphus is a photographer from Greenville, Mississippi that I have long admired. His is a very deliberate craft. The photographs he is exhibiting in this show were created using the wet plate -- or glass plate -- process. It is impossible to do his images justice with a digital replication. What you will see are one-of-a-kind creations. Not prints from a negative. Not prints from a digital file. You will see the plates that sat in his camera. Plates of glass that serve as his finished product.
There is an ethereal quality to these images that, for me anyway, will not let you quickly pass by. The depth of these images commands your attention, and combined with Euphus' choice of subject, they are like looking back at a Mississippi Delta from 100 years ago.
I admire the deliberateness with which Euphus works. And absolutely love the results.
Keep pushing and exploring.
~wj
Labels: artists, black and white, Delta, gallery, Mississippi, personal
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