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In Motion: Photographs by Hal Eastman and Jim Kasson

Amanda — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:24:25 +0000

The dates and images for the dual exhibit of Hal Eastman’s and Jim Kasson’s work at the Center for Photographic Art have been announced. The exhibition, titled ‘In Motion,’ will be open March 9 through April 27, 2013 in the CPA Gallery. Co-curators of the exhibit are Marty Manson and Ilene Tuttle.

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Dancessence image selected in B&W Magazine contest

Amanda — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:13:10 +0000

Dancessence #38 was chosen for the Black & White Magazine Special Issue February 2013. We are pleased to be a part of this publication.

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Eastman to speak and sign books, 6 December 2012

Amanda — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:50:51 +0000

Please join us at Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. 8th Street, Boise, Idaho 83702, on December 6th at 7pm for a book signing and speech titled “Cameras Don’t Take Pictures.” Two prints from Natural Dance and two prints from Dancessence will be available, as well as the Dancessence book and Natural Dance book.

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Slow Curves

Amanda — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:42:17 +0000

The Slow Curves limited edition photographs were initially inspired by the line, “the slow curve of a woman’s cheekbone,” from Mitch Rainey’s poem Wedding by the Sea. This, in turn, inspired me to write the following poem, Slow Curves, which has guided me throughout the creation of this work:

slow curves . . .

song of Gaia’s visual voice:
winding stream, swept cypress, cresting surf,
spiral shell, cursive rose, arched spine,
pelvic sculpture, rounded hip,
all in her essential, female form.
strong, subtle, sensual, flowing.

slow curves

The limited edition photographs employ unusual studio lighting and processing techniques to create soft, ethereal, tasteful, nude female photographs. They are printed on slightly textured paper and resemble ethereal drawings.

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Exhibition at Center for Photographic Art

Amanda — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:01:07 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Hal Eastman’s photography will be included in a dual exhibition with photographer Jim Kasson at the Carmel Center for Photographic Art in the spring of 2013.

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Butler Institute of American Art carrying Eastman’s books

Amanda — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:34:18 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Hal Eastman’s books, Natural Dance and Dancessence, can now be purchased The Butler Institute of American Art’s Museum Shop.

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Museum store to carry Dancessence and Natural Dance books

Amanda — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:18:12 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Hal Eastman’s books, Natural Dance and Dancessence, were recently available at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Store.

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Eastman’s Dancessence available at The Art Institute of Chicago

Amanda — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0000

The Art Institute of Chicago (second largest museum in the U.S.) recently placed Hal Eastman’s book, Dancessence, in its Main Museum Shop. We’re excited to be a part of this prestigious museum store, and we hope the books sell well.

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Eastman wins Platinum award from Graphis for 100 Best in Photography 2012

Amanda — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:00:05 +0000

Hal Eastman is one of only six ‘Platinum’ winners in Graphis’ 100 Best in Photography 2012. This prestigious award is for Hal’s work in Natural Rhythms. The book features some of the most visually captivating images selected from thousands of entries submitted worldwide. It is available online at the Graphis store.

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New ‘Slow Curves’ image wins Merit Award from B&W Magazine in the 2012 Single Image contest

Amanda — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:00:27 +0000

Hal Eastman’s work-in-progress project entitled Slow Curves is garnering recognition prior to official release. One of the images from the project, tentatively titled ‘Kelsey 1,’ was recognized with a Merit Award by B&W Magazine in their 2012 Single Image Contest. The image was shown twice in the February 2012 issue, on pages 22 and 69. Four other images from the Slow Curves project are available for viewing on B&W Magazine’s site.

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Dancessence

todd — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:45:30 +0000

The Dancessence fine art dance photography book contains thirty-two images exploring the pure heart of feminine dance and the exquisite sculpture of the dancers’ bodies: soft, strong, subtle, powerful, fluid, cursive, rhythmic, and elegant. The images were made in a studio in Carmel, California with dancers from the United States and Europe. The dancers were choreographed in stationary, sometimes horizontal positions, but imagined themselves in full movement, suspended in time and space. The images were made on a light absorbing background in total darkness using a manual 35mm SLR camera with a fine-grained, slow-speed color film. The camera shutter was held open in a long exposure while the dancers’ bodies were “painted” with a hand-held light source developed in collaboration with a fiber optic scientist from New Jersey Bell Laboratories. The film was scanned to a digital format, converted to black and white, and retouched, but not digitally manipulated. This process creates a softer, more painterly look to the images than is possible with conventional flash photography of moving dancers.

Dancessence won the 2010 Independent Publisher award for Best Book Arts Craftsmanship. It has also been favorably reviewed by leading dance photographer Lois Greenfield; recognized photographers Howard Schatz and Joyce Tenneson; legendary dancer Anna Halprin; and choreographers Carolyn Carlson and Trey McIntyre.

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The book was designed by Takigawa Design, Monterey, CA, and printed by Hemlock Printers in Vancouver, Canada, as a quintone in a 10-micron stochastic process on 65# uncoated cover paper. The book’s slipfolio cover paper was handmade in Khandbari, Nepal. The free-sliding slipfolio was hand fabricated in Phoenix, Arizona, using bamboo wood, a magnet, and a tipped-in print, and then screen printed.

High-quality limited edition digital pigment prints of the book’s images are available and made in collaboration with printer R. Mac Holbert.

Reviews of Dancessence

“With an original voice and a sensitive eye, Hal Eastman has managed to capture the ephemeral. In Dancessence we experience a distinctive calm in action that reminds us of the beauty in the in-between. This is beautiful work.”

—Trey McIntyre, Artistic Director, Trey McIntyre Project

“Hal Eastman’s photographs in Dancessence, are more than exquistite. He penetrates to the heart of ‘the feminine’ in dance. His images create a dance of their own – the way he uses light to illuminate the shapes that the female body can make in motion open up a whole new world of sensual beauty for us!”

—Joyce Tenneson, leading American photographer

“I first met Hal Eastman as a beginning student attending a dance photography workshop I gave in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1999. He was an unusual student, because instead of pursuing the art and technique of stop action photography, one of my specialties, he experimented with taking longer, blurred exposures of the dancers.

“This poetic vision eventually developed into his first book, Natural Dance, published in 2003. It depicts magical images of nymph-like dancers playing in natural settings. Now Eastman has moved into the studio, refining this technique to emphasize only the essential contours of the dancers’ movement and bodies in a softened, ethereal way.

“In this pursuit, it is interesting to note that he has utilized a technique for photographing dance that was necessary before modern strobe lights could stop the action. Like earlier photographers, Eastman places the dancers in static positions that connote movement. However, he then uses very long exposures and “light painting” to create a softened effect. The dancers’ faces are obscured, thus they become pure forms, floating in a sea of black . . . abstract, graphic and illusory.

“Critics have often maintained that very sharp literal photographic renditions of dancers ‘frozen’ in flight don’t fully express the emotional aspects of their movement. However, in Eastman’s work, we get a synthesis of the literal and emotional, spawning a whole new vision.”

—Lois Greenfield, leading dance photographer

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Natural Dance

todd — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:29:36 +0000

Natural Dance is an exceptionally high quality fine art dance photography book. It includes 65 photos of women dancers freely expressing intuitive movement in natural settings, unbounded by choreographic constraints. They are accompanied by nature images showing the synchronicity of dance and nature, as well as quotes from famous historical dancers. The book is of unusually high quality, using a stochastic printing process of 10 microns on 115# Utopia Premium Silk text paper. It has been favorably reviewed by leading dance critic Janice Ross, recognized photographers Sam Abell and Ruth Bernhard, and legendary dancers Lori Belilove and Anna Halprin.

Reviews of Natural Dance

“Hal Eastman’s vision stimulated my desire to go even deeper into my own understanding of dance in nature. To know that what he was seeking was so close to the root of what Isadora Duncan’s dance is all about…and to be able to help him explore this was one of the most invigorating experiences of my career.”
—Lori Belilove, Artistic Director, Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, and Natural Dance dancer

“I believe anyone who loves women, and who loves nature will love Hal Eastman’s dance photographs. They are presented with great respect, sensitivity, unique imagination, and stunning craftsmanship.”
—Anna Halprin, dancer, author, and teacher

“Hal Eastman’s ethereal images in Natural Dance capture the very essence of the relationship between dance and nature, and the intuitive in dance.”
—Ruth Bernhard, photographer

“These images come to my mind unbidden; the beautiful flowing tone of them, the high and consistent tone of them.”
—Sam Abell, National Geographic photographer, teacher, and author

“Truly extroardinary, celebratory work—nature in flight.”
—Margie Gillis, Margie Gillis Dance Foundation

“Stunning photographs of formally trained dancers, dancing free form in natural settings. Superbly designed and printed, it is in the top three of the perhaps thousands of books of photography I’ve seen.”
—Roderick MacIver, Heron Dance

“A woman letting go—what an unusual concept in many present-day cultures! Leaving the world of precision and technique behind, whether due to wild abandon or simply uneven ground beneath her feet, the result is exciting, wild.”
—Juliet Kerr, National Dance Institute New Mexico, Santa Fe Artistic Director

“These images portray more than dance or nature. The photographer has captured the essence of an energetic exchange between the dancer and the landscape, created by her complete presence and unconscious moment of being.”
—KT Nelson, Co-Artistic Director, ODC Dance, and Natural Dance dancer

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Natural Dance

Amanda — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:07:54 +0000

Natural Dance is a celebration of the power of women dancers breaking free in natural settings.

These archival digital pigment dance photography prints are available for sale in a limited edition signed by the artist. Some images have a slightly impressionist feel.

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Dancessence

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:43:51 +0000

Dancessence represents the pure heart of feminine dance and the exquisite sculpture of its instrument; soft, strong, subtle, powerful, fluid, cursive, rhythmic, elegant, i.e., female.

The high-quality signed limited edition prints from the Dancessence dance photography book are available for sale. The prints have a soft, sensual feel and resemble charcoal drawings.

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Dream Riders

todd — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:06:02 +0000

Photographs of magical moments where Native American-trained bareback riders are moving in total harmony with their horses in a dreamlike state.

Signed limited edition archival digital pigment prints are available for sale. The horse photography prints have a feeling of impressionist paintings due to photographic and printing techniques used.

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Venice Dance

todd — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:57:12 +0000

Signed limited edition prints from the Venice Dance series are available for sale. Some images resemble impressionist paintings due to the photographic and printing techniques utilized.

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Dream Riders wins Merit Award in COLOR Magazine portfolio contest

Amanda — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:00:11 +0000

Hal Eastman’s work in Dream Riders received a Merit Award from COLOR Magazine. Three of the five submitted images were featured in the November 2010 special issue on pages 114-115.

Note: at the time of contest submission, Dream Riders was known as Pegasus Dance.

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Natural Rhythms

Amanda — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:32:17 +0000

Exquisite photographs of simple rhythmic forms in nature.

The signed limited edition archival digital pigment prints are available for sale. These nature photography prints have a slightly impressionist feeling.

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Dancessence featured in Communication Arts Photography Annual 51

Amanda — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:00:42 +0000

Communication Arts has announced the winners of their 51st Annual Photography Competition, and five selections from Dancessence are to be included in their Photography Annual in the Book category.

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Dancessence wins Gold Medal for Best Book Arts Craftsmanship

Amanda — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:00:39 +0000

Hal Eastman’s Dancessence book was awarded a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best Book Arts Craftsmanship. The high-quality production of the book included design by Takigawa Design, printing by Hemlock Printers, and cover paper that was handmade in Khandbari, Nepal. The free-sliding slipfolio was hand fabricated in Phoenix, Arizona, using bamboo wood, a magnet, and a tipped-in print.

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Venice Dance image receives Silver Award from B&W+Color Magazine

Amanda — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:00:31 +0000

An image from Venice Dance was acknowledged with a Silver Award by B&W+Color Magazine. The image was featured on page 128 of the May 2010 Special Issue. Additional images from Venice Dance are included on the B&W+Color site.

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Dancessence book wins Summit Creative Award

Amanda — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:00:31 +0000

Thanks to Takigawa Design, Hal Eastman’s Dancessence book was a Gold Winner in the 16th Annual Summit International Creative Awards.

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2nd Place for Dancessence #38 in B&W photo contest

Amanda — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:00:28 +0000

ViewBug announced that Hal Eastman’s photo, Dancessence #38 won 2nd place in their Black and White photo contest. A cash prize and placement in AmericanPhoto magazine, March/April 2010, pg 64 [PDF] were the awards.

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Eastman receives Merit Award in COLOR Magazine Portfolio Contest

Amanda — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:00:47 +0000

COLOR Magazine recognized Hal Eastman’s Natural Dance with a Merit Award in their November 2009 special issue. Three images from the series are featured on pages 128-129.

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Dream Riders

Amanda — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:29:09 +0000

The Dream Riders fine art horse photography book depicts magical moments where bareback riders trained in Native American riding techniques are moving in total harmony with their horses in dreamlike states. The book is finely designed by Takigawa Design and produced by Hemlock Printers. It contains twelve highly unique horse photography images with accompanying text. Dream Riders is an attractive item in itself but also functions as a catalog for the accompanying high-quality limited edition digital pigment fine art prints.

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Photographs from Natural Dance featured in Art Idaho Magazine

Amanda — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 07:00:48 +0000

Several photographs from Hal Eastman’s Natural Dance appeared in the Winter/Spring 2004 issue of Art Idaho Magazine. The cover, the index, and a multi-page spread beginning on page 26, feature Eastman’s work.

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