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Richard Stultz
Urban Constructs and Choices
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Quotes from reviewers:
“Beautifully aesthetic work!” “Very skillfully made.” “Lovely!”
“Very nice composition and clean imagery that makes you want to linger.....”
“(Richard Stultz has) technical acumen that most people don't have. Most professionals don't even have it. His work is flawless.”
“There is something almost otherworldly to these. Some of (the) images really detach the viewer from the reality. (They aren’t) really surrealist but have an otherworldly quality that becomes somewhat symbolic.”
“The photographs look very painterly.”
“The sense of color is really beautiful. They have a lot of identity to them. They are really done with a sense of care.”
“I like his eye for color and geometry; they are a very strong compositionally.”
Richard Stultz became interested in photography after moving to Chicago shortly after college and purchased a Honeywell Pentax SLR camera. However, a career in commercial real estate demanded too much time and kept him on the photography sidelines for awhile.
He developed some very valuable experience toward the end of that period when he was hiring photographers to photograph commercial buildings. Many of the photographs need additional work to prepare them for publication. This introduced him to the world of digital photography. Along with some wonderful exhibitions he had seen, it rekindled his interest in photography and got him going again. He left that job and set up shop as an architectural photographer, working for architects and commercial real estate firms. Over the last few years, he has reduced that work and focused on his primary interest of photography as art.
The greatest influences on his work were not photographers but rather 20th century artists such as Edward Hopper, Giorgio De Chirico, and some of the Surrealists (in college, he actually tried painting a copy of De Chirico's The Delights of the Poet). In addition, he has been inspired by photographers such as Walker Evans, Louis Baltz, Henry Wessel, Wright Morris, Andreas Gursky, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld.
All photographs by Richard Stultz are archival pigment prints, in editions of 10 to 20, signed, titled, and dated by the artist.