Monthly Archives: February 2010

Even though he began to run the 20×24 studio in 1980, John did not begin making image transfers on the camera until 1983. It wasn’t though he did not try, the early attempts were failures, most of the dyes would not stick to the watercolor paper, it was difficult to control the large floppy negative, […]

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John Reuter was one of the earliest artists to utilize Polacolor Image Transfer. Taught the technique by artist and friend Rosamond Purcell in 1978, Reuter began shooting 8×10 in 1980. As he had with his SX-70 work Reuter used the Image Transfer process as a starting point of combining photography, painting and collage. For much […]

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In 2003 I was asked to write a piece for Polaroid about the instant back they had developed for the venerable Holga camera. What began as intrigue soon blossomed into full fledge love and I photographed with it exclusively for a year. One small problem, I have never regarded myself as a landscape photographer and […]

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Lightroom and Digital Photography with John Reuter at Palm Beach Photographic Centre Description Since its inception Lightroom has been a program designed to get the most out of digital cameras. While Photoshop continues to be the program of choice for photographers, designers, illustrators, pre-press specialists, composite artists and digital painters, Lightroom takes a more measured […]

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