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Special Event
Event
Art in the Park explore Pinhole Photography
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Time:
10:00 AM
Duration:
4 hours
Type of Event
Cultural/Craft Demonstration
Exhibition/Show
Performance
Description
ART IN THE PARK: This Sunday, October 20 join us and photographer Eric O’Connell to learn and explore Pinhole Photography!
From 10am-2pm at Mission San José, immerse yourself in a camera obscura and the beginnings of photography. Camera obscura is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light pass through a small hole forming an image––inverted and reversed––where they strike a surface, resulting in a
projected view of the outside.
Eric is an educator, having taught for seven years at Northern Arizona University, and will be part-time faculty at the University of the Incarnate Word this spring. His work is housed in the permanent collections of the 911 Museum in New York, the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, and the Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe. And his groundbreaking Cowboys: East Germany is Texas Folklife Museum’s longest-running solo show. He holds an M.A. in visual anthropology from the University of Southern California, where he focused his lens on the social and psychological undercurrents of everyday life as told through a sub-culture in the former East of Germany. There’s a tension in Eric’s work between truth and mystery, beauty and emotional intensity, cultural curiosity and commercial know-how.