Archival Natural Color Photography
Making photographs brings imagination, light, nature, time and space
together with a transcendence to reality for me. I make ethereal images
depicting that nether realm between real and fantasy. Working
exclusively in natural light, I emphasize natural surrealism while
engaging the emotions evoked by the natural realm, especially the
mystery or magical essence of light-play in the world. Photography
provides me an expressive channel that goes beyond traditional language
where the transitory quality of light exceeds to endure. My pictures
emerge through imagination and experience with the interaction between
light and subject supported by a keen interest in natural history.
Extending my pursuit of authentically imaging the essence of
light-subject interaction, I personally make all of my photographs and
create individual, archival, photographic, digital color pigment prints.
My images rarely refer to a specific location. They may point to places
both distant, and near, all the while reaching toward the receptive
places within the viewer. I seek not only to capture the physical realm,
but also to move beyond. The world experienced through the lens is where
I encounter the intimacy of realism face to face in communion for the
deeper beauties in surrealism.
Capturing what I see in the camera remains primary in my work, striving
to match the natural image for direct color printing. My images
originate using vintage and advanced modern cameras to image what I see
in nature. Using archival color pigment digital printing techniques and
materials, I create luminous prints with full natural color and tonal
depth on acid free, 100% cotton fiber, fine art paper. This allows me to
create individual, finished prints as faithful to the natural image as
possible and of heirloom quality, in signed and numbered limited
editions. Finishing each print includes 8 ply museum matte and solid
natural cherry or white maple framing.
Using the print as a record of growth and a means of sharing, I pursue
greater connection with my medium and how light graces each subject. The
advent of digital print making enables a level of control and quality
long exclusive to black and white darkroom prints. I find digital color
pigment prints increasingly satisfying with truly archival quality,
luminescence, accurate color quality, and full natural tonal depth.
Fulfilling my goals of sharing the results of photographic imagery
remains my 42 year passion through fine color archival prints. I strive
for dual goals with all of my work: 1) authenticity in every image, and
2) creating heirloom quality work with each finished piece.
- Marv Poulson
Photographer & Naturalist
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"I look
forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace
and beauty....I look forward to an America that will
reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement
in business or statecraft."
--John F. Kennedy, 1963 |
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Marv shooting among Mojave desert wildflowers in the wet spring
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"Art is
the queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to
all generations of the world."
--Leonardo de Vinci |
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