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 Wayne Lambert


  

Wayne Lambert is a Colorado-based photographer who has photographed in the Southwest U.S. and Mexico since 1969.  He has studied with Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Roy Flukinger, and Dick Arentz.

His photographs, which are sometimes likened to those of the nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers, reflect his interests in classical formal documentation of geographic and ethnographic subjects.  In addition to work in New Mexico and the Southwest, Lambert has worked extensively in central, western, and northern Mexico and since the 1970's has had a particular interest in the Purepecha, an indigenous group in the vicinity of Patzcuaro in the west Mexican state of Michoacan.

He became interested in photography in junior high school and in high school he worked part-time at a commercial photography studio and a daily newspaper.  In college he first majored in photojournalism and then changed to geology/geography eventually receiving a Ph.D. degree in geology from the University of New Mexico.  He has worked as a research geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey on projects which involved documentary landscape photography and as an archaeological geologist with Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia.  For several years he taught geology, geography, and photography at West Texas A&M University.  During the last 15 years he has devoted his time to photography and has owned galleries in Colorado Springs and Santa Fe.  Currently he is a Studio Artist at the Business of Art Center in Manitou Springs where he has a private studio and darkroom.  He is represented by the Etherton Gallery in Tucson and the Afterimage Gallery in Dallas.

He works exclusively with large-format film cameras, mainly 8 x 10-inch, and makes both platinum/palladium contact prints and archival pigment-ink prints.  Both processes assure excellent black-and-white print quality and longevity.  All darkroom work and print preparation are done by him.

His photographs are popular with both private and institutional collectors and portfolios of his work are included in several major Southwestern collections including the Millennial Collection at Texas Tech University and the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico.  He is particularly pleased that many of his clients have been first-time photography buyers who have been struck by the beauty and elegance of finely-crafted black-and-white photographs.

---The photograph of Lambert and his most commonly used camera, an 8 x 10-inch wood Deardorff, is by Kelly O'Connor Williamson.   


Brief Resume

Born, Fort Worth, Texas  

EDUCATION

   2004  Workshop in platinum/palladium printing with Dick Arentz, Condon, Montana

   1982  Workshop in black-and-white print permanence with Roy Flukinger and Siegfried Rempel,

             Austin, Texas

   1971-72  Tutorials in platinum printing with Laura Gilpin, Santa Fe, New Mexico

   1970  Workshop in photography and book design with Ansel Adams, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont

             Newhall, Morley Baer, and Adrian Wilson, Santa Cruz, California

   1969  Workshop in photography with Ansel Adams, Dick Garrod, Henry Gilpin, Al Weber, Pirkle Jones,

             and Dorr Bothwell, Yosemite, California

   1968  University of New Mexico, Ph.D., geology

   1955-57 Texas Tech University, University of North Texas, photography

EMPLOYMENT

     U.S. Geological Survey, Central Missouri State University,  West Texas A&M University,

     Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (Mexico), Southern Methodist University,  Wayne
    
     Lambert Gallery (Artist/Owner) 

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

   2012  Mexico and the Southwest:  Photographs in Platinum and Ink, Ward Russell Photography, 
            
            Santa Fe, New Mexico
 
   2001  Shifting Landscapes: Considerations of Time, Place, and Culture, SRO Gallery, School of Art,

             Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

   1991  Wayne Lambert / Photographs, Formal Gallery, College of Fine Arts, West Texas A&M

             University, Canyon, Texas      

   1983  Photographs of the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College,

             Amarillo, Texas

   1983  Photographs of the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon.

             Texas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    
   2013    Colorado in Focus, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, Colorado

   2012    Studio Artists Show, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, Colorado      
   
   2010    16th Annual Fine Print Auction and Show, Texas Photographic Society, Davis Gallery, 
                
                Austin, Texas

   2009    15th Annual Fine Print Auction and Show, Texas Photographic Society, Davis Gallery,
                 
                Austin, Texas

   2009    Images Beyond the Lens, A Classic-to-Contemporary Exhibit of Fine Art Photography by
                
               Twelve Colorado Photographers
, Gallery Two-Ten, Colorado Springs, Colorado  
  
   2008   Time and Place, Photographs from the Millennial Collection, Louise Hopkins Underwood 
               
              Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas
  
   2008  14th Annual Fine Print Auction and Show, Texas Photographic Society, Davis Gallery, 
               
              Austin, Texas
   
   2007  13th Annual Fine Print Auction and Show, Texas Photographic Society, Davis Gallery, 
               
              Austin, Texas

   2007  Visual Edge 3:  Handcrafted, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, California

   2006  Wayne Lambert / Platinum and Silver, Apogee Studio, Salida, Colorado (with Fay Golson and

             Gary Hand)

   2005  TPS 14:  The National Competition, Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Texas

   2005  On Life and Living, Flash Gallery at Working with Artists, Denver, Colorado

   2005  Crossing Borders:  13th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Laredo Center for the Arts,

              Laredo, Texas

   2005  Wayne Lambert and Fred Hubiciki, Salida Art Walk, Salida, Colorado

   2005  Fine Art Open, Arkansas Valley Art Center, Buena Vista, Colorado

   2005  Member's Show, Circle of Confusion, Colorado Springs, Colorado

   2003  Five-State Photography Competition, Hays Art Center, Hays, Kansas

   2002  Rocky Mountain Juried Photography Exhibition, Business of Art Center, Colorado Springs,

             Colorado

   2001  New Faces / New Prints / New Space, Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, Texas (with Paul Flaggman,

             Brenda Hemsing, Brad Temkin, and Robert Vizzini)

   1990  Created Histories, Fine Arts Gallery, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (with

             Miguel Gandert and Kathy Vargas)

   1976  Seven Photographers, The Darkroom Gallery, Denver, Colorado

PRESENTATIONS

   2001  Society for Photographic Education, South-Central Region Conference, speaker

   1990  Society for Photographic Education, South-Central Region Conference, speaker and panelist

PUBLICATIONS AND PRINT

    In preparation  Mexico, Photographs by Wayne Lambert

   1992  New Mexico Magazine, February, 1992

   1991  Photographic Possibilities, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press

   1985-1994  Field Conference Guidebooks, New Mexico Geological Society, featured photographer

   1984  Repeat Photography Newsletter, editor

INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS

   The Polaroid Collection, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

   The Millennial Collection, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

   Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

REPRESENTATION
   
   Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona    (www.ethertongallery.com
   
   Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, Texas    (www.afterimagegallery.com)  

 
"Beauty is the name of as good a place as any."
---Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

"But few, I fear, can tolerate simple truthfulness:  there is not enough of excitement in it."
---Frances Frith, Introduction, Egypt and Palestine, 1858

"Photography is photography; and its purity and innocence is far too uniquely valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else."
---Frederick Henry Evans

"Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties."
---Bernice Abbott, 1951

"...the beauty and force of factual, unmanipulated photography..."
---John Szarkowski, 1973

"Photography has certain inherent qualities which are only possible
with photography---one being the delineation of detail."
---Edward Weston

"I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render..."
---Edward Weston

"[Weston] was one of those who taught photography to be itself."
---Robinson Jeffers




 

 

            

             

 

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