The photography of Ron Brown is unique today because it brings together the rock hard reality of photography and the fractured reality of surrealism. Robert Heinecken said,"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph."

In these composite images, Ron Brown's goal is to probe the subconscious, bringing to view the complexity of today's life in its three and four dimensions (space and time) to a two-dimensional surface, the print. These prints are not unlike the cubist paintings of Marcel Duchamp in that we can see more than one side at a time. The inherent qualities of the photographic medium are used to its fullest such as multiple exposure and photography's ability to capture time and motion in the form of a blur. With this, Ron is able to rearrange our perspective of the world around us. We are able to see ourselves in a new light.

The creative process does not stop with the click of the shutter. It continues throughout the entire process. Jerry Uelsmann said, "The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows, is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see'?"

Ron Brown makes use of all that photography and computers have to offer. I have been working with HI RES digital files for years, I use a Power Mac G3 with lots of Ram and GIGs of hard drive space for complex image manipulation and photo-composition. I regularly work on 100 megabyte files.

4x5 and 8x10 Sinar view cameras are used which are from Switzerland and the most precise cameras made in the world. The detail in the negative or transparency is unequalled in any other format photography provides. From both ends of the electromagnetic scale, he pulls colors from the palette of light: infrared, visible light, X-rays, and lasers are all used. He divides them in different levels of space within his photographic paintings.

Born in Rigby, Idaho in 1958 Ron Brown grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. "I was trained in the Ansel Adams tradition of fine art photography at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I enjoy the darkroom ritual, and use the zone system to make all my own prints to museum quality standards from 8 X 10 inch negatives. From the time I was very young, I remember going into the mountains and deserts to go hunting or camping with my family, it was there that my father taught me to appreciate and enjoy the landscape."

Exhibitions:

(1990) One Man Show -The Image Gallery, Danvers, MA.

(1987) Communication Arts Photography Annual - An internationally juried competition, Palo Alto, California

(1987) Commercial Art Show - Utah State University, Best of Show

(1987) One Man Show - Utah State University

(1987) Mountain West Bi-Annual Photography Exhibition, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Juror Eric Paddock

(1986) Cliff Lodge Inaugural Exhibition, Snowbird Institute, Utah Arts Council, Juror Suzanne Folds McCullough, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago

(1986) Utah Intercollegiate Art Show, University of Utah, Juried Exhibit

(1986) Utah �86 Photographic/Salt Lake City Art Center, Juror Judy Dater

(1984-85-86) Utah Open Photographic Annual Exhibition, Juried Exhibit

(1993) The Landscape and I- Utah Museum of Natural History Juried Exhibit

(1995) Visualeyes Gallery in London,

(1996) E3 Gallery in New York City

(1996) One Man Show at the Light Sources gallery in Boston

(1997) The Image Gallery in Boston

(1998) Agart World Print Festival 1998, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Clients:

Brattenburg, Filhardt, & Wright, San Jose, CA

Ziff Davis New York, NY

PC Magazine New York, NY

Gramecy Pictures Beverly Hills, CA

Salisbury Communications Torrance, CA

Aperture New York, NY

Sun Microsystems Methuen, MA

Franklin Quest Salt Lake City, UT

Netlink Englewood, CO

Saatchi & Saatchi Mexico

WordPerfect Orem, Ut

Whittle Communications, Knoxville, TN

General Dynamics Boston, MA

Cahners Publishers, Chicago, Il

McGraw-Hill New York, NY

Century 21 Dallas,TX

Semiconductor International, Chicago, IL

Jobson Publishing, New York, NY

MTV, New York, NY

In the 15 years that I have been a Commerical photographer I have never missed a photography deadline. Most conceptual photographic images take about a week and are delivered on CDROM. Corporations and Advertising Agencys use me again and again because of my Award winning digital photographic special effects. I make conceptual photographic images for annual reports, photographs for capability brochures, digital photographic images for media advertising and editorial photography. I also sell stock photography, online. See my unique conceptual photographs on Magazine covers, and brochures for high tech companies throughout the world.

Ron Brown can be reached in his studio at 801 .298 .1167

Ron Brown PhotoGraphics
33 East 2750 South
Bountiful, UT,
84010, USA