The Encompassing Eye: Photography As Drawing

ENCOMPASSING EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY AS DRAWING explores the relationship between photography and drawing — from photography’s earliest days to the present. A common interest in the formal elements — line, texture, tone, form, and arrangement of shape — connect the works selected from this exhibition by the curator, Charles Hagen, and relate them to the drawing tradition. In photography these element are usually produced by light mechanically captured on photosensitive surface. Through manipulation of depth of field, focus, and control of light, these photographers allude to the drawing’s ability to describe and expressively render.