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Joseph Holmes

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Joseph Holmes

I have been photographing art, prints and posters of wild landscapes, mainly in color, for thirty-five years. I am a native of Berkeley, California, hold a degree in the Conservation of Natural Resources from UC Berkeley, and am a self-described omnologist (one who studies everything). I have spent a great deal of time in the high country of the Sierra and other wildlands of the U.S. and spent four years as a seasonal backcountry researcher in Yosemite during the 1970's. I have extensive river-rafting experience, on some twenty rivers from Maine to Alaska, and have been in all but two of the fifty states. For most of the last twenty years, the camera outfit that I have schlepped all over creation has weighed in at thirty-four pounds.

For thirty years I have been pursuing the ultimate color photographic art, print and posters making process, building darkrooms, a unique, large-format additive lamphouse for the best possible Cibachrome quality, a ton of other custom pieces of exotic lab equipment, and more recently software, and have mastered several difficult printmaking processes along the way. These include silver gelatin black and white, dye transfer, additive Cibachrome, pigment transfer, and finally digital printmaking. After having originally been moved to become a photographer by the books that he produced and edited, I am honored and delighted to have become one of David Brower's three favorite photographers, along with Eliot Porter and Ansel Adams, who were also his friends.

My publications include many art, prints and poster posters, the series of Last Wildlands calendars, produced with Dave at Friends of the Earth for nine years, and three books, including two of the most respected books of landscape photography: "Joseph Holmes Natural Light”, The Nature Company 1989, and "Canyons of the Colorado”, Chronicle Books 1996. My unique, additive Cibachromes were the best-selling artwork at The Nature Company for many years. My prints have been widely collected and have appeared in many exhibits, and I am currently represented by several galleries and art consultants. After many years of distraction once again making a new and difficult way of printmaking work right, I am again back in business making prints for people, this time for good. The old problems that kept color from working right have been solved, and no process of making pictures will ever replace digital imaging. It's just as well.

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