Jim Klein
Fine Art Photography
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About the Artist
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." - Robert Bresson This is what artists do, to call our attention to facets and ideas and feelings in the world we would otherwise miss, things experienced with the eyes and the mind and the heart. Photographers as artists strive to capture an image that tickles our fancy, that stimulates our brain, that stretches our imagination, that pulls on our emotions. The images we capture should last beyond the present inasmuch as it captures not a passing state of the world, but an idea or feeling, a figment of our own sense of meaning and understanding of reality. To that end, an image need not faithfully represent the material world, but it should push to the edges of the abstract to express our deepest thoughts and feelings about the world. Since recently starting my photography avocation, my photographs have received some noteworthy recognition: |
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- 2011 -- Placer Art League Art Show (including a 2nd place) - 2009 through 2011 -- California State Fair Fine Art (including an Award of Excellence in 2011) - 2011 -- Color Magazine, Single Image Contest - 2011 -- Blue Line/Roseville Arts (including one for an Award of Merit) - 2010 -- Coastal Arts League - 2009 through 2011 -- Viewpoint's Twelve show - 2005 through 2010 -- KVIE Art Auction - 2008 through 2011 -- Sacramento Fine Arts Center's Magnum Opus, (including an Award of Merit in 2008) |
| My photographs are displayed at the Blue Moon Gallery in Sacramento. I have given a number of presentations on photography topics at the Sun City Lincoln Hills Photo Club, and jurored club photography competitions as well as co-jurored the Sacramento County Fair photography competition. |