Sat August 11, 2018
Robert K Byers Photography 'Centennial' at the Telegraph Hill Gallery SF
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Telegraph Hill Gallery is pleased to present “Centennial: A Lifetime of Photography”a solo exhibition featuring the works of Robert K Byers. In celebration of his 100th birthday, the gallery will showcase images from his lifetime of photography. “Centennial: A Lifetime of Photography”will run from July 27 through September 7, 2018 with an opening reception on July 27, 2018 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
“Robert Byers has been, and is, one of the pillars of photography in this area of the West. He is a most excellent photographer, a warm and supporting friend, and a creative and stabilizing force in our local-national organization, the Friends of Photography. His photographs, like the man himself, are strong, direct, and clean in spirit and craft.” - Ansel Adams
Born in 1918, Robert Byers spent his childhood in Idaho and moved to California as a teenager. He settled in Carmel Valley in the 1960s, where he still resides. In 1930, he began photographing after receiving a free box camera from an Eastman Kodak Company promotion for 12-year-olds. Thirty years later, after studying with Ansel Adams, as well as Wynn Bullock and Brett Weston, he started to seriously pursue photography. He primarily used a large-format camera and photographed extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
Byers has had numerous individual and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Japan. His black and white images of natural landscapes, old buildings, and abstracts are in museum, corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad. Byers served as a trustee of the Friends of Photography in Carmel for 19 years and taught numerous photography workshops throughout the United States.
Byers graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in economics and received a law degree and master of business administration from Harvard University. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II. He practiced law for decades in Santa Clara and Monterey counties, and also pursued many farming and other business ventures. With his late wife he raised four children. For more than 30 years he was a consultant to Photo Gallery International in Tokyo, Japan, as well as to the Oriental Paper Distributing Company of Santa Ana, California. He has served on the advisory board of Freestyle Photographic Supplies since 2002.
Byers reflects on his craft: “I look at photography as the search for the ultimate image. It’s the search and the journey that make life and photography exciting. In working with the camera, I want to arouse a reaction in the person viewing the photograph similar to that felt by me when I made the exposure.” Byers has had a lifelong love of the outdoors, as well as old buildings and mining towns, and in his images he captured the beauty he found in his explorations. His work is in the style of the 1930s “straight” photography of Group f/64 and West Coast Photographic Movement, characterized by sharply focused images and subtleties of tone, light, and texture.
Telegraph Hill Gallery www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Tuesday to Saturday 12:30 - 6:00 PM
For more information please contact [email protected] call 415.767.9794
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“Robert Byers has been, and is, one of the pillars of photography in this area of the West. He is a most excellent photographer, a warm and supporting friend, and a creative and stabilizing force in our local-national organization, the Friends of Photography. His photographs, like the man himself, are strong, direct, and clean in spirit and craft.” - Ansel Adams
Born in 1918, Robert Byers spent his childhood in Idaho and moved to California as a teenager. He settled in Carmel Valley in the 1960s, where he still resides. In 1930, he began photographing after receiving a free box camera from an Eastman Kodak Company promotion for 12-year-olds. Thirty years later, after studying with Ansel Adams, as well as Wynn Bullock and Brett Weston, he started to seriously pursue photography. He primarily used a large-format camera and photographed extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
Byers has had numerous individual and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Japan. His black and white images of natural landscapes, old buildings, and abstracts are in museum, corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad. Byers served as a trustee of the Friends of Photography in Carmel for 19 years and taught numerous photography workshops throughout the United States.
Byers graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in economics and received a law degree and master of business administration from Harvard University. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II. He practiced law for decades in Santa Clara and Monterey counties, and also pursued many farming and other business ventures. With his late wife he raised four children. For more than 30 years he was a consultant to Photo Gallery International in Tokyo, Japan, as well as to the Oriental Paper Distributing Company of Santa Ana, California. He has served on the advisory board of Freestyle Photographic Supplies since 2002.
Byers reflects on his craft: “I look at photography as the search for the ultimate image. It’s the search and the journey that make life and photography exciting. In working with the camera, I want to arouse a reaction in the person viewing the photograph similar to that felt by me when I made the exposure.” Byers has had a lifelong love of the outdoors, as well as old buildings and mining towns, and in his images he captured the beauty he found in his explorations. His work is in the style of the 1930s “straight” photography of Group f/64 and West Coast Photographic Movement, characterized by sharply focused images and subtleties of tone, light, and texture.
Telegraph Hill Gallery www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Tuesday to Saturday 12:30 - 6:00 PM
For more information please contact [email protected] call 415.767.9794
Telegraph Hill Gallery is pleased to present “Centennial: A Lifetime of Photography”a solo exhibition featuring the works of Robert K Byers. In celebration of his 100th birthday, the gallery will showcase images from his lifetime of photography. “Centennial: A Lifetime of Photography”will run from July 27 through September 7, 2018 with an opening reception on July 27, 2018 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
“Robert Byers has been, and is, one of the pillars of photography in this area of the West. He is a most excellent photographer, a warm and supporting friend, and a creative and stabilizing force in our local-national organization, the Friends of Photography. His photographs, like the man himself, are strong, direct, and clean in spirit and craft.” - Ansel Adams
Born in 1918, Robert Byers spent his childhood in Idaho and moved to California as a teenager. He settled in Carmel Valley in the 1960s, where he still resides. In 1930, he began photographing after receiving a free box camera from an Eastman Kodak Company promotion for 12-year-olds. Thirty years later, after studying with Ansel Adams, as well as Wynn Bullock and Brett Weston, he started to seriously pursue photography. He primarily used a large-format camera and photographed extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
Byers has had numerous individual and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Japan. His black and white images of natural landscapes, old buildings, and abstracts are in museum, corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad. Byers served as a trustee of the Friends of Photography in Carmel for 19 years and taught numerous photography workshops throughout the United States.
Byers graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in economics and received a law degree and master of business administration from Harvard University. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II. He practiced law for decades in Santa Clara and Monterey counties, and also pursued many farming and other business ventures. With his late wife he raised four children. For more than 30 years he was a consultant to Photo Gallery International in Tokyo, Japan, as well as to the Oriental Paper Distributing Company of Santa Ana, California. He has served on the advisory board of Freestyle Photographic Supplies since 2002.
Byers reflects on his craft: “I look at photography as the search for the ultimate image. It’s the search and the journey that make life and photography exciting. In working with the camera, I want to arouse a reaction in the person viewing the photograph similar to that felt by me when I made the exposure.” Byers has had a lifelong love of the outdoors, as well as old buildings and mining towns, and in his images he captured the beauty he found in his explorations. His work is in the style of the 1930s “straight” photography of Group f/64 and West Coast Photographic Movement, characterized by sharply focused images and subtleties of tone, light, and texture.
Telegraph Hill Gallery www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Tuesday to Saturday 12:30 - 6:00 PM
For more information please contact [email protected] call 415.767.9794
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“Robert Byers has been, and is, one of the pillars of photography in this area of the West. He is a most excellent photographer, a warm and supporting friend, and a creative and stabilizing force in our local-national organization, the Friends of Photography. His photographs, like the man himself, are strong, direct, and clean in spirit and craft.” - Ansel Adams
Born in 1918, Robert Byers spent his childhood in Idaho and moved to California as a teenager. He settled in Carmel Valley in the 1960s, where he still resides. In 1930, he began photographing after receiving a free box camera from an Eastman Kodak Company promotion for 12-year-olds. Thirty years later, after studying with Ansel Adams, as well as Wynn Bullock and Brett Weston, he started to seriously pursue photography. He primarily used a large-format camera and photographed extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
Byers has had numerous individual and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Japan. His black and white images of natural landscapes, old buildings, and abstracts are in museum, corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad. Byers served as a trustee of the Friends of Photography in Carmel for 19 years and taught numerous photography workshops throughout the United States.
Byers graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in economics and received a law degree and master of business administration from Harvard University. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II. He practiced law for decades in Santa Clara and Monterey counties, and also pursued many farming and other business ventures. With his late wife he raised four children. For more than 30 years he was a consultant to Photo Gallery International in Tokyo, Japan, as well as to the Oriental Paper Distributing Company of Santa Ana, California. He has served on the advisory board of Freestyle Photographic Supplies since 2002.
Byers reflects on his craft: “I look at photography as the search for the ultimate image. It’s the search and the journey that make life and photography exciting. In working with the camera, I want to arouse a reaction in the person viewing the photograph similar to that felt by me when I made the exposure.” Byers has had a lifelong love of the outdoors, as well as old buildings and mining towns, and in his images he captured the beauty he found in his explorations. His work is in the style of the 1930s “straight” photography of Group f/64 and West Coast Photographic Movement, characterized by sharply focused images and subtleties of tone, light, and texture.
Telegraph Hill Gallery www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Tuesday to Saturday 12:30 - 6:00 PM
For more information please contact [email protected] call 415.767.9794
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