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In Eastern Light

Diptychs of Downeast Maine

by Steven D. Keirstead

Softcover
Full-color paperback on cover stock without flaps
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Full-color dust jacket over linen cover
Hardcover, ImageWrap
Hardcover book with full-color design printed directly on the casewrap
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About the Book
In Eastern Light is Steven Keirstead's exploration of the Earth, Water and local vernacular Architecture of rural Hancock County, Maine. Lying east of the Penobscot River, the Downeast Coast region includes the spectacular Acadia National Park, as well as quiet seaside villages.



In a novel approach to documentary and fine art photography, Steven combines an aesthetic inspired by Japanese Painting with medium format film photography. This photographic diptych series was made with careful planning to allow printing of each pair of adjacent negatives on a single sheet of paper. This book presents the diptychs as an artistic meditiation of light and place.
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Features & Details
  • Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
  • Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
    # of Pages: 40
  • Publish Date: Jul 15, 2009
  • Language English
  • Keywords Japanese art, vernacular architecture, color photos, maine., downeast, seascape, landscape, diptychs, diptych
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About the Creator
SDKeirstead
Steven D. Keirstead
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Steven Keirstead was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1965. His family lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Brevard, North Carolina. Steven’s aunt Patricia Austin and grandfather William C. Austin were professional photographers. At Rice University, Steven studied photography with Geoff Winningham and Peter T. Brown. He crafted photocollages inspired by David Hockney’s Cameraworks and simpler 35mm diptychs. Steven had a work study job for Peter Brown as a color printer. He earned a BA in 1987 (Biology and Art & Art History) followed by a BFA in 1988. Steven lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his husband, potter Lansing Wagner. Steven has shown his photography at Rice University's group show Light and Vision II during Houston Fotofest 2010, in the Fresh Works show at FlashForward Boston in 2011, in Night Becomes Us at the Art Complex Museum, and his solo show Quarries of New England has been at the Blue Hill Public Library in Maine, and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA

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