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TTTTTTThe
Nocturnes . . . by the numbers
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1981
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Night
Light: Five Visions - a early group show of five Night Photographers,
including artists Steve Harper and Tim
Baskerville.
2006 marked the 25th anniversary of this
exhibit at 1469 Pacific Gallery in San Francisco. One can view
this blossoming of the soon-to-be "hyperactive" Bay area NPy
scene and the launch of MTV in the same year as
coincidence - or maybe, just maybe . . .
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'51 Chevy, Burlingame CA, circa 1979 by Tim Baskerville
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1991
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The
Nocturnes - a group show of ten Bay Area Night Photographers, curated
by our own Tim Baskerville, including artists Steve Harper, Lance Keimig,
and Tom Paiva. The year
2006 marks the 15th anniversary of the original exhibit at
Gallery Sanchez in San Francisco.
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1996
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The
Nocturnes Web site launched, to critical acclaim - prior to
our
arrival, Yahoo had NO Night Photography listings - or even a category
for that - it all started here! The year 2006 marks the 10th anniversary
of that original Web site.
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1998
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Launch
of The Nocturnes Workshop Series, at the old RayKo Photo Center at
Sixth and Folsom in San Francisco. Thanks to Lance Keimig and Stuart Kogod! |
"No
other medium so advances art's
most
fervent desire - to attain
a fourth dimension."
-Steve Harper, 1981
(from an early exhibit of Night Photography
at 1469 Gallery, San Francisco)
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2000
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The
Nocturnes move an expanded program of Workshops and Courses to Fort
Mason, the Presidio, and envirions, as well as a ten-week course to UC Berkeley
Extension. |
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2000
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This
year marked the beginning of our online exhibitions of
Night Photography from across the Web, and across the world.
We have sponsored 16 of these thought-provoking shows,
to date (late 2006). |
Tent,
Death Valley by Steve Harper
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2001
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Angel
Island Photo Camp inaugurated - held in the beginning of "Indian Summer"
each year in the San Francisco Bay Area - in
the BAY, actually! |
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2001
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Night
Talk, the Message Board of The Nocturnes was launched in this
year. 2006 marks five years of community-based conversation re: Night Photography,
as well as other important topics! |
| 2001 |
In
this year, we instituted our popular Full Moon Night Photography Workshops
in Death Valley, one of our favorite
places - a "holy place" where Steve Harper used to take his
students in the 1980s. The year 2001 also marked the start of our Photographic
Tours to the West of Ireland - a place where Tim, with his unique ties
to that part of the country, has travelled to
and photographed for over 25 years!
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"Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on that MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get a camera - do Night Photography . . . "
(with
apologies to Dire Straits!)
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| 2004 |
Our
first trek to Joshua Tree National Park for a Full Moon Night Photography
Workshop (another first!). A scary, sacred, surreal place we've always wanted
to visit and photograph - we were not disappointed. U.C. Santa Cruz Extension
has since picked up the course and we travel south again this October (2007) |
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| 2005 |
Moving
our operations from San Francisco (for many, the center of the NPy universe!)
to the extreme north hinterlands of the San Francisco estuary (Mare Island,
to be exact) was not an easy undertaking. But, in the two years since the
relocation we have have expanded our programs to include private tutoring,
our semiannual AlumnNight events,
and other
offerings "on-island." |
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| 2006 |
In
a collaboration with thenightskye.com, we offered two programs in 2006 -
one, to the West of Ireland, and the other in the Eastern Sierra, as part
of festivities celebrating the 15th Anniversary of The Nocturnes. The well-attended
(some 40 NPrs) Night Photography Conference at Mono Lake was a huge success,
and honoring the man who, in a sense, brought brought much of this about
- the legendary NPr / educator, Steve Harper. |
| 2006 |
The
Nocturnes Night photography Blog is launched in August of 2006. The purpose
of the Blog is to manage the many newsworthy items regarding (or not . .
. ) Night Photography (NPy) which we uncover or happen onto, to introduce
news items (and people!) of note that might not readily "fit" into the day-to-day
information workflow of The Nocturnes Web site, and to broaden our scope
to matters of community, politics, the environment, spirituality, and art
in general. |
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