For Immediate Release

Photographer Frank Magalhães to Exhibit at Princeton Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery

Princeton, NJ, August 10, 2007–Photographer Frank Magalhães will exhibit his work in a show called “Hands: A Photographer and His Lady” at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery from Monday, September 10 to Friday, October 19.

A Princeton, New Jersey, resident, Magalhães has been involved in photography for more than fifty years. He is a member of Gallery 14, a cooperative gallery of photographic art in Hopewell, New Jersey. He has exhibited at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion in Trenton, New Jersey, Phillips’ Mill in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the Montgomery Center for the Arts in Skillman, New Jersey.

For the past five years Magalhães has focused his efforts on “digital image capture and processing.” He considers his images to be “found objects where the finding process consists of taking a camera and tripod out into the world while keeping my visual sense on high alert.” In his images—usually, but not always, of artifacts and small natural objects, architecture, or landscapes—he pays special attention to point of view as well as perspective and field of view, using detail and careful adjustment of tonal values to derive excitement from the everyday.

These photographs are part of a study where Magalhães is both photographer and part of the subject. In each frame he zooms in on a single hand or several hands in combination, in repose or engaging in various activities. Some of the photographs depict peeling a potato, shaving, adjusting an earring, while others show artistic activities like playing music or taking a photograph. Magalhães endeavors in this intimate way to define the “Photographer and his lady,” who they are as individuals, and how they relate to each other, while inviting the observer to conjecture about what lies beyond the frame.

An artist’s reception for Magalhães will be held on Monday, September 10 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Erdman Art Gallery. To view his artwork, visit www.photosgallery14.com/FrankMagalhaes/Frank_Magalhaes.htm.

The Erdman Art Gallery is in its seventh year of presenting local and national artists for the benefit of the community. The gallery is located in Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, at the Center of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 2:30 to 9:00 p.m. The exhibit and opening reception are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Mary Grace Royal at 609.497.7995 or coned@ptsem.edu.