Visit To Fort Mason Open Studios Essay

Recent, I had a marvelous opportunity to visit an exhibition at the Fort Mason Centre. The exhibition took place on October 22-23, 2011. The name of the exhibition was “Nocturne”; subsequently, the main theme of the represented photos was depiction of life by night. Most of the pictures showed various city sites by night, but there were also those who depicted a couple of landscapes. Most of all, I liked works of four photographers. Greta and Manu Schnetzler had depicted an incredible image of a snackbar in the evening mists. The vagueness of the focus and warmth of red and orange lights remind about autumn in the air and need for something warm. Charity Vargas preferred strict focus and concentration on details in his photo of “Harvest Moon, Crissy Field, 2011”. He managed to capture the contrast of natural twilight and lights of the modern city. Linda Fitch is famous for her black and white works of the evening theme. The photo I liked the most was depicting an angle of an old, dilapidated building and a street featuring it. A cobbly street was lit by a distant lantern’s light; the ground was shinny since it had rained before. The impression of the whole composition is a light melancholy of the past and grandmother’s home. Another photographer I liked was Amanda Tomlin, who specialized on evening landscapes. The one I preferred was a mountain site in twilight motives – very calm and positive. Overall, I had a very good time at that exhibition and gained some creative inspirations for myself. On the same day, I also visited a bay printmakers’ exhibition, which was entirely different from the first one, but also very interesting and informative. The most notable were works by Jack Jacobson. He is famous for his printmaking works of various modern buildings. Although there were lots of works in modern themes, one work had attracted the most of my attention. It was the work named “Prague Puddle”. It was made in interpretation of color, in black/white technique and showed an undistinguishable reflection of something in the puddle. It might have been an ancient building or a person or anything else. The charm of this work is in its interpretive nature and that it requires creative participation of the viewer in its comprehension.