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Wimberley, TX
P.O. Box 920Wimberley, TX 78676
214-437-6272photographicarchives@icloud.com
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Another image from Myron Wood's ongoing project to document the historic mining town, Central City, Colorado. This image was made six years after the publication of "Central City, A Ballad of The West" (Chapparal Press,1963). Co-authored by his wife Nancy C. Wood, the book documents the vestiges of a gold rush boom town of the mid-19th century. After publication, Myron returned numerous times to photograph this sleepy town forty miles west of Denver.
Born in Wilson, Oklahoma, Myron Wood abandoned a career as a classical pianist in 1946, attended The Progressive School of Photography in New Haven, CT for two years and then moved to Colorado Springs, CO. He spent the remaining 53 years of his life in Colorado as an independent photographer.Known for his lyrical interpretations of the cultures and landscapes of the Southwest, diverse geographic subjects and Weston-inspired straight photography recur throughout the history of his work.ARTIST STATEMENT“Writers taught me how to see. Painters and photographers didn’t teach me how to see. Writers taught me how to observe. Bach taught me how to think through his music. Every time you think you know what he’s going to do next, he does something brilliant and unbelievable. It’s a constant working on a theme, which he expands and uses. Pure genius. I learned about design from painters, musicians and writers.So, I became a photographer after an early life as a musician and found to my surprise that I hadn’t wasted a minute. The same words are used – tone, line, ensemble, balance – and all the things I thought about and used in music were, across the board, related to photography. I also discovered becoming well equipped in a number of art forms is very important. It allows you to more easily move in your own art form.” Myron Wood, 1993from an interview with Journeys Magazine, Colorado Springs, CO, Fall 1993
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