{"id":975,"date":"2010-10-01T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/douglas-beasley-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:36:42","slug":"douglas-beasley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2010\/10\/01\/douglas-beasley-2\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"DOUGLAS BEASLEY  <br> SACRED LANDSCAPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-975\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-975-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-975-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-975-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1st\u00a0 October - 6th\u00a0 November\u00a0 2010<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-975-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-975 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Temporale in arrivo, Bad Lands\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174619big_2g.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174619big_2g-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Temporale in arrivo, Bad Lands\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-947\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-947'>\n\t\t\t\tTemporale in arrivo, Bad Lands\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Ghiaccio e rocce, Lago Superior\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174619big_3g.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174619big_3g-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Ghiaccio e rocce, Lago Superior\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-949\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-949'>\n\t\t\t\tGhiaccio e rocce, Lago Superior\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Box Butte Massacre Site, South Dakota\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174619big_6g.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174619big_6g-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Box Butte Massacre Site, South Dakota\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-951\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-951'>\n\t\t\t\tBox Butte Massacre Site, South Dakota\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Sweatlodge,Pipestone\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_5g.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_5g-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sweatlodge,Pipestone\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-953\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-953'>\n\t\t\t\tSweatlodge,Pipestone \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Heart Rock Wounded Knee, South Dakota\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_14g.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_14g-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Heart Rock Wounded Knee, South Dakota\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_14g-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_14g.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_14g-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-955'>\n\t\t\t\tHeart Rock Wounded Knee, South Dakota\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Tree Reflection With Reeds\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_16g.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_16g-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tree Reflection With Reeds\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_16g-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285174920big_16g-287x287.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-957'>\n\t\t\t\tTree Reflection With Reeds\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-975-0-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-975-0-0-2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Techincal Info<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Curator:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Clelia Belgrado<br \/> <strong>Opening Reception:<\/strong>\u00a0September 30th 2010, from 6 pm\u00a0to midnight<br \/> <strong>Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0 October 1st - November 6th 2010<br \/> <strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0VISIONQUEST gallery Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy \u00a0+39 010 2468771\u00a0 +39 339 7534993<br \/> <strong>Gallery hrs:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0 to Saturday\u00a0 3.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.and by appointment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web site:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0www.visionquest.it<br \/> <strong>Information e-mail:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@visionquest.it\"> info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas Beasley will attend the opening reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-975-0-0-3\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"3\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-975-0-0-3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Press Release<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>VisionQuesT gallery is pleased to begin the\u00a0 2010\/2011 season\u00a0 by presenting the exhibition of Douglas Beasley\u00a0 \u201cSacred Landscape\u201d.\u00a0 The opening reception on Thursday 30th September\u00a0 is part of START, the event that marks the beginning\u00a0 of the new season for all the art galleries in Genova.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Beasley\u2019s personal vision explores the spiritual aspects of people and place and is concerned with how the sacred is recognized and expressed in everyday life. He hopes that his photographs act as prayer-like offerings and are meant as a departure point for the viewer\u2019s own visual or spiritual journey.\u00a0 In the images chosen for the exhibition,\u00a0 mostly MADE in South Dakota in the Lakota-Sioux territories, Beasley specifically wants to convey the feeling, emotion and spirituality of a place by\u00a0 rethinking the expectations of what it means to \u201csee\u201d. The image must emerge, it must arise from the relationship with the subject: searching for the SPIRIT of what is in front of the camera.<br \/>See the wind in water on Lake Michigan or through the trees at the Corn Creek Massacre site, South Dakota.\u00a0 A storm approaching the Badlands of South Dakota. Rocks and ice on Lake Superior, Minnesota. A heart shaped rock as a personal tribute to the Wounded Knee victims, South Dakota. Prayer strings and offerings on the trees at Bear Butte, South Dakota or the frame of a Sweatlodge near Pipestone, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>If photography is the art of recognising and honouring life in a single moment, then Beasley, by photographing the Sacred Landscape, as Maria Camilla De Palma, Director of Castello D\u2019Albertis \u2013 Museum of World Cultures, writes in the essay accompanying the exhibition \u201chas chosen to honour North American Indians, by photographing what is most sacred to them and what better expresses their values and their spirituality: a landscape that is sacred because their ancestors lived there, because it was handed over by their ancestors, and especially because it represents the ancestors themselves.\" But this exhibit is not only about the past, it is about land that is still considered sacred today and actively used by Native people for ceremonial purposes and spiritual journeys. Douglas\u2019 photographs provide the opening for us, the viewer, to find our own emotional connection to this sacred earth.<\/p>\n<p>Most images on show were created with Type 55 Polaroid\u00a0 film shot with an old wooden 4\u201dx5\u201dview camera.\u00a0 Polaroid Type 55 is an instant development black and white peel-apart film that yealds both a 4\u201dx5\u201d positive print and negative image. Once developed the negative is cleared in a 18% Sodium\u2013Sulfite solution, washed and saved.\u00a0 The rest of the images were created using a Hasselblad\u00a0 medium format camera with Kodak Tri-X 400 \u2013 120mm film. The final images are archival inkjet prints made on watercolor paper.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, October 7th , 2010 at 6 p.m.\u00a0 from the\u00a0 skylight that forms the roof of Castello D'Albertis, Museum of World Cultures, the installation of eleven photographs taken in North America by Douglas Beasley, will be presented to the public. Beasley's\u00a0 generous donation allows the Museum\u00a0 to open a new permanent section dedicated to the North American Sacred Landscape.<br \/>This event marks the beginning of the project \u201cVision Quest\u201d\u00a0 which will\u00a0 proceede with a photography course on the enviromental portrait, \u201cPeople and Places\u201d, held by Clelia Belgrado, Director VisionQuesT gallery, (October 2010 \u2013 March 2011) at Castello D\u2019Albertis and a workshop held by Douglas Beasley in the Badlands of South Dakota in the U.S.A. (April - May 2011).\u00a0 This project included the presentation of Beasley\u2019s book and exhibition \u201cEarth Meets Spirit\u201d\u00a0 in Milan, Italy in the spring of 2011 and later on in\u00a0 Rome and other European cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-975-0-0-4\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"4\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-975-0-0-4\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Bio<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>After receiving a BFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he also studied Eastern Religions and Native American culture, Douglas Beasley\u00a0 worked for several years for some very prominent commercial photo studios as a photo assistant and darkroom technician. Both helped him develop a appreciation for detail and technical proficiency but left him longing for artistic self-expression. He then opened his own studio in Minneapolis, MN emphasizing commercial and editorial fashion. As a strong feminist, he considers himself the world\u2019s most unlikely fashion photographer. This evolved into shooting throughout the country for various advertising, educational, public service and non-profit clients. He currently works on fine-art based commercial projects around the world. Much of his personal work, including Sacred Sites of the Lakota, Disappearing Green Space, Silent Witness: Genocide and the Landscape, Sacred Places and Earth Meets Spirit are supported by grants and commissions and have been widely exhibited and collected. His work has been published internationally and featured in numerous magazines such as Zoom, The Sun, B&amp;W, PDN and PhotoVision. His first book: \u201cJapan; A Nisei\u2019s First Encounter,\u201d offers insight into his journey to his mother\u2019s Japanese homeland. His second book Earth Meets Spirit will be coming out in late 2010. His Zen &amp; the Art of Photography book should be out late 2011. <br \/>As founder and director of Vision Quest Photo Workshops, Beasley provides workshops that emphasize personal expression and creative vision over the mechanics of camera use. He believes in helping each student find their own voice rather than making anonymous \u2018pretty pictures\u2019. His workshops are held in places such as Santa Fe, Maine, New York, Hawaii, Guatemala, Peru, Japan, China, Italy, Africa and Bali as well as the Trade River Retreat Center, his cabin\/retreat center in Northwest Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-975-0-0-5\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"5\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-975-0-0-5\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglasbeasley.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.douglasbeasley.com<\/a><br \/><strong>Workshops:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VQphoto.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.VQphoto.com<\/a><br \/><strong>Blog:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/douglasbeasley.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">douglasbeasley.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1285340030_PressReleaseDBeasley.doc\">printable version<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st\u00a0 October &#8211; 6th\u00a0 November\u00a0 2010 Curator:\u00a0\u00a0Clelia Belgrado Opening Reception:\u00a0September 30th 2010, from 6 pm\u00a0to midnight Duration:\u00a0 October 1st &#8211; November 6th 2010 Location:\u00a0\u00a0VISIONQUEST gallery Piazza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}