Tim Kilby — Photographs 1978-1987 is a retrospective exhibit of my nine intensive years of large-format photography.
Planned photography. Critical thinking and emotional awareness determined every composition and exposure. Going beyond realism, could the quintessence of the subject, of the scene before me, be captured on film and rendered with truth in the print? What else was in the image? Listen with your eyes, and your spirit will be informed.
In earlier years, I learned the mechanics and craftwork of photography through study, work assignments, and free practice. In graduate art school, I studied the great masters of photography, painting, and design, past and contemporary, to absorb the vocabulary of the visual artist. I was transitioning from taking photographs to making photographs, looking inward with my art, creating expressions of my experiences, visual and emotional.
In my Artist CV, you can learn about the shows where many of the photos were shown.
Camera Work provides both the technical details of my photographic process and my thoughts on this intentional style of photographic expression.
I was fortunate to receive recognition in the media and through a National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship grant. Read what reviewers thought in Published Reviews.
With location and career moves, the many fine images I made during this period would be my last. Only on rare occasions have I shown one or several of these photographs in my local community. In 1988, I put down my darkroom tongs for the last time.
Finished prints in small editions, a few at the most, were placed in archival storage. To see which images are available as vintage prints, search using the keyword “print.” Acquisition inquiries can be sent here.