I hope to see you 01/23/10 at the Paul Mahder Gallery for our opening of photographs by Migdalia Valdes:
Bad Days Made Beautiful
Artist's Opening Reception
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
6:00pm to 9:00pm
at the
Paul Mahder Gallery
3378 Sacramento Street @ Walnut
San Francisco, CA 94...118
These sublime and unusual photographs are made without the use of a camera. Please join us for hors d’oeuvres, wine, good conversation and great art!
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“Bad Days Made Beautiful is a body of work that comes from within the larger framework of my lifelong project titled Every Day in Black and White. With Every Day, I have made a commitment to photograph every day using my old Rolleiflex and film. This project has become a photographic essay of what we see and think about, remember and forget, laugh at and sometimes walk by, a story of time, shifting culture, social change and memory; a poetic documentary of contemporary urban life.
Bad Days Made Beautiful are those occasional days that I just cannot muster the sincerity or energy to photograph. Over the years, as few of those "bad days" as there have been, I have maintained my commitment to the Every Day project by simply exposing film to light. What has transpired are remarkable displays of light on film, captured in an endless variety of abstract compositions. Displayed as real images, these Bad Days Made Beautiful have a language not just of their own, but have come to be read as abstractions that represent the feelings, moods, of their audiences.” Migdalia Valdes
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Migdalia Valdes has been living and working as a photographer in San Francisco since 1998.
“Bad Days Made Beautiful is a body of work that comes from within the larger framework of my lifelong project titled Every Day in Black and White. With Every Day, I have made a commitment to photograph every day using my old Rolleiflex and film. This project has become a photographic essay of what we see and think about, remember and forget, laugh at and sometimes walk by, a story of time, shifting culture, social change and memory; a poetic documentary of contemporary urban life.
Bad Days Made Beautiful are those occasional days that I just cannot muster the sincerity or energy to photograph. Over the years, as few of those "bad days" as there have been, I have maintained my commitment to the Every Day project by simply exposing film to light. What has transpired are remarkable displays of light on film, captured in an endless variety of abstract compositions. Displayed as real images, these Bad Days Made Beautiful have a language not just of their own, but have come to be read as abstractions that represent the feelings, moods, of their audiences.” Migdalia Valdes
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Migdalia Valdes has been living and working as a photographer in San Francisco since 1998.
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