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CHRIS McCAW
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Chris McCaw’s newest "Sunburn" series take the idea of a photograph's ability to record light to the outer boundaries of the medium, allowing a primal look at the physical and aesthetic evidence of the sun. San Francisco Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker describes them as “self-portraits of the sun – literally burned into photographic paper.”

Rei Masuda, Curator of Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo comments: McCaw accidentally found that the sun imprints its locus into film by literally burning it inside the camera. Tracing itself among static landscapes, the sun reveals unusual facets.”

Having exhibited nationally and abroad, McCaw’s work has been reviewed by Daylight magazine, View Camera Magazine, International FotoTage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Das Bild Forum, Germany, Recontres Photographiques Image/Imatge, France and SF Camerawork Journal of Photographic Art. In 2007, he received the Alternative Exposure Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and Southern Exposure in San Francisco.

McCaw’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Princeton Museum, Harry Ransom Center of Humanities at University of Texas, Museum of Photographic Arts of San Diego, and many private collections.

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May 28, 2008 LA Times