'The Collective Russell Cothren' Displayed at Mullins Library
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The exhibit currently on display in Mullins Library demonstrates that UA photography editor Russell Cothren not only can shoot beautiful images, he also can print them in unusual and creative ways. “The Collective Russell Cothren” highlights Cothren’s skill in all aspects of the photographic process.
Cothren is a largely self-taught photographer who came to the profession in a roundabout way. He was introduced to 35mm photographic techniques while working as a “printer’s devil” for the local newspaper in his hometown of Siloam Springs. At that time, painting was his hobby, and he began taking snapshots to record images that he wanted to paint later. He quickly became fascinated with the immediacy of film and soon abandoned painting altogether.
"Rex" |
"Moondancer" |
There are, for instance, those images from Siloam Springs that represent well-known characters and scenes from his childhood, such as the train depot and Rex Robrahn’s welding shop, or Carl Stinnet’s barber shop in Horatio, Arkansas - all places fondly remembered where legendary characters congregated. And then there are postcard glimpses of the unusual and far away, such as Mount Tamalpais in California, an old Spanish fort door on the border between Mexico and Texas, and a oddly surreal image of a hand-crafted, traditionally Dutch skiff posed in tall grass.
"Vane Cock" |
“The Collective Russell Cothren” will be on display in Mullins through the end of August. For more information, call 575-6702 or visit http://libinfo.uark.edu/info/artexhibit.asp
Contacts
Molly Boyd, public relations coordinator, University Libraries, (479) 575-2962, mdboyd@uark.eduHeadlines
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