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heels overhead:
why aren't you looking up?

The Photolab Gallery announces an exhibit of color pigment photographs, titled “heels overhead” by East Bay photographer, Charles Klein.
 
The show will run from January 2 to February 17, 2008 at the Photolab Gallery, 2235 Fifth Street in Berkeley.
 
The exhibit is open to the public, accessible and free of charge.
 
A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, January 12th, from 5 to 7 pm.

Photographer Charles Klein is one of our favorite photographers. In this exhibit, indeed in all his work, he takes us on a fascinating journey through our own world to look at, laugh at, puzzle over all the stuff that we look right at but do not see.

The camera is ideally suited for the job of catching fleeting moments. Ok, but haven't we done that already? Until you see Klein's work you are inclined to think, in these days of post-modern-conceptual, uh, whatever-it-is, that the Cartier-Bresson framing of the world has already been fully exploited. And if we can't do photography quite that well, then Photoshop can fix it for us. So the camera become a gathering tool, not a way of seeing.

Just when I was thinking that the photographer's ability to see (and use a camera to capture) was obviated by the computer's ability to fix what wasn't captured cleverly; just when I began to suspect that nobody can just get it right and make me laugh at what I can see through the photographer's eye, just then Charles Klein shows up to give me a bit of hope.

Photographic prints by Charles Klein are available for purchase directly from the artist. For stock queries please contact: ck@charleskleinphotography.com

For more information
Contact: Andrea McLaughlin (510) 644-1400
Charles Klein (510) 525-7947

Also see: charleskleinphotography.com

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ABOUT THE PHOTOLAB GALLERY

The Photolab Gallery is a not for profit gallery space made available to selected photographers to showcase and sell their work.  The Gallery provides the San Francisco Bay Area with an opportunity to expand its exposure to current excellent photographic work and local artists and to  buy directly from the artists.


The Photolab Gallery has shown over 120 exhibits since 1991, featuring the work of over 115 photographers including several artists who have been invited to show more than once. Many photographers whose work was shown in the Gallery have gone on to be represented by professional art galleries.

For more information about current or past exhibits or to
learn how to submit a portfolio contact Andrea McLaughlin.

Photo Credits:
Photos in top banner by Charles Klein and Margaretta Mitchell,
photos for exhibit by Charles Klein
All other photos this page by Andrea McLaughlin