LIGHT & SHADOW - A Talk by Photographer -Writer Tom Fels

  A Curator and writer specializing in the history of photography, Tom Fels has organized exhibitions in Galleries and Museums in the U.S. and Europe.  He has written many books, among them: O Say Can You See: American Photographs 1839-1939, published in 1989, Sotheby's Guide to Photographs (1998), and Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune, (2012).

 Fels is also a photogrpaher and his show LIGHT & SHADOW: Cyanotypes and Drawings at the Mitchel-Giddings Fine Arts Gallery produced this talk in which he elaborates of how he became interested in the cyanotype process. Cyanotypes are cameraless photographs popularly called "sun prints", or "shadow prints", a process dependent on light and chemistry alone, developed in the 1850s in England.   The results are prints generally of blue color.