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Matinee: 'My Beloved Greece'
28 October 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 524th in our series of Saturday matinees today: My Beloved Greece.
In this 4:13 video we take a peek at My Beloved Greece, a retrospective exhibit of images by J. Joshua Garrick.
Garrick is a fine art photographer, journalist and educator who made art history 10 years ago as the first non-Greek to open a major art exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece. The exhibit included 92 works, some of which make up the current exhibition on display through Jan. 23, 2024, in the Art in the Chambers exhibition at the Orange County Administration Center in downtown Orlando, Fla.
Terry Olson, the director of the Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs Office, explains the Art in the Chambers program exhibits three collections a year in the chamber, inviting the artist or curator to discuss their work at an opening reception.
As a professor of ancient Greek art and culture at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Garrick has taken American students on 15 trips to Greece. He was consequently invited by the Greek Ephorate of Antiquities to photograph the Parthenon from the scaffolding and roof during its recent restoration.
"There are truly no words to describe how grateful I am to have had that unbelievable opportunity," he said. The images were reproduced in seven American magazines including Archaeology Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Garrick describes one of his favorite images in the show, which delights him for its light and shading, its composition and its depth of field. "Pretty proud of that," he admits.
The prints are made on five-bond aluminum with a four-sheet press, going through the press four times to achieve a 3D quality.
He has a little advice to share, too.
"If you don't love what you see through your viewfinder, put the camera back in your back-pack and see with your own eyes," he said in a recent interview. "That's the first step."
On a long journey.