Jeff Bridges: Pictures

Name: Jeff Bridges: Pictures
Start: 2022-12-22T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2022-12-22T17:00:00-06:00
Location: Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries

Schedule

Thu Dec 22 2022 at 12:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries | St. Louis, MO

Sponsored by Commerce Bank
Visit: https://www.thesheldon.org/events/jeff-bridges-pictures/ to learn more.
For more than 30 years and on dozens of film sets, Jeff Bridges has been perfecting his own personal style of photography. For the first time throughout his career, this collection of Jeff Bridges’ photographs will be on exhibition in the Midwest.
Shooting between film takes, with a Widelux F8 panoramic camera, Bridges shows us the sometimes chaotic, sometimes casual, intimate moments on movie sets. The Widelux camera, with a lens that swings in an arc, takes pictures so wide they can capture nearly as many characters, action and moods as a movie. The effect leaves the viewer surrounded by the image. Bridges says that the camera is “sort of a missing link between still photography and moving pictures.”
The work in this exhibition documents the evolution in movie-making over the decades, from 35mm film to digital cinematography, as well as the evolution of lighting techniques. Bridges allows the viewer a glimpse behind the camera with him, peeking into the intimacy and the wonderment of movie making. If you take away Bridges’ celebrity status, the work stands on its own as strong, dramatic and sophisticated photography, that has been featured in Premiere and Aperture magazines, as well as in gallery exhibitions in New York (at the George Eastman House), Los Angeles, London, Italy and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. In 2013, he received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography.