Stu Levy's photographs often involve disappearing
wilderness areas. He gained an appreciation for the threatened
landscape by studying Eliot Porter's photographs, and learned about the art of fine printing from Ansel Adams. Yet it was in
looking at the images of Minor White that he experienced the
emotions and mysteries that photographs are capable of
expressing. Known as one of the finest printers of black and
white photographs in the region, Stu Levy enthusiastically
took on the challenging task of printing Minor White's
negatives of the Dolph and Lindley houses for the Portland Art
Museum portfolio project, trying to capture the full mood of
vanishing elegance shown in the soon-to-be- demolished
remnants of Portland's grand architectural heritage.Traveling Europe and the South Pacific in recent years,
Levy's current body of images effectively captured everything
from the romantic streets of Prague to the awe inspiring
gothic reminents of The Black Forest to finally traverse the
mystic scapes of the Hawaiian Islands.
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