Jim Fitzgerald, Bodie, Windows Through Time / Pathways of Light

August 9 – September 10, 2025
Artist Talk: Saturday, August 9th 3-4 pm

LightBox Photographic Gallery & Fine Printing
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, Oregon 97103
(503) 468-0238
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12 pm to 5 pm

LightBox is pleased to exhibit the masterful carbon transfer prints of Jim Fitzgerald.

Please join us for an Artist Talk by Jim on Saturday, August, 9 at 3pm before the opening reception from 4-7pm

Two masterful bodies of work presented in this show, encompass the many years of Jim’s field work including dark room development for both film and handmade carbon transfer prints.

The images presented in “Bodie, Windows Through Time,” is the culmination of his many years exploring the historic ghost town of Bodie, California located in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Working with his handcrafted 14 x 17 ultra large format camera at an elevation of 8,375 feet takes thorough planning and intense determination. Jim invites the viewers to gaze into and through the windows and beyond to imagine what it was like in the 1880s to live and work in that inhospitable environment. Search the images for the ghosts of Bodie, which magically appear in several of the weathered buildings and window reflections.

Each one-of-a-kind 14 x 17 exhibition masterworks require multiple days to produce. Shot on film and hand printed in the historic process from 1864, carbon transfer printing is rare in these days of AI technology and digital negatives. Each singular creation is a straight contact print from original film negatives transferred onto Kodak Ektalure G photographic paper and shot with a Cooke Series XV Triple Convertible lens.

“Pathways of Light” presents our special forests of Yosemite National Park and the Redwoods of Northern California. Immerse yourselves and feel these images as you embark on a visual journey to very sacred places.

These 8 x 10 exhibition oeuvres emanated from Jim’s many years of experience with the special glow in these magical environments.

Additionally, his handcrafted 8 x 10 film camera was used to expose this luminescence on Jim’s film. Each historic process Carbon Transfer contact print was handmade in his wet dark room from the original negatives, aside from the fact that collectible soft focus lenses were used for this series of images.

Handmade fine press edition books will be produced in the fall of 2025 to honor these places of historic importance which, if not protected, will be lost forever.

Finally, the codices collector edition mounted with a wire edge binding technique and inspired by master bookbinder Daniel Kelm, contain all of the prints from this exhibition. All prints and text are original Carbon Transfer.

RJF, 2025

Jim Fitzgerald
Carbon Art Studios
Carbon Art Photography
5205 NE 136th Pl.

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