Saturday February 6, 2016 from 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Eric B. Johnson Talks About:
Shrines and Altars: Optical Fragments from the Interior
Studios on the Park
1130 Pine Street
Paso Robles, CA 93446
Front Office: 805.238.9800
Shrines & Altars at Studios on the Park
Exhibition Opening Saturday January 2, 2016 6-9PM:
Eric B. Johnson
Shrines and Altars: Optical Fragments from the Interior
Studios on the Park
1130 Pine Street
Paso Robles, CA 93446
Front Office: 805.238.9800
Under the Influence: Responses to Place
Selections from my Abandoned Highway series are included in the exhibition “Under the Influence: Responses to Place” at the Betteravia Gallery in Santa Maria, CA. Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Arts Commission and curated by Kam Jacoby and Karen Gearhart-Nelson. Opening September 11 from 4-6PM at the Betteravia Gallery then again at the Peake Gallery in Santa Barbara in February 2015.
Ernest Bloch and Alfred Stieglitz: A Sunday Morning Conversion
Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs
In January 1922 Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), generally considered the father of American photography, suggested the December issue of the publication “MSS” be devoted to asking the question: “Can A Photograph Have The Significance Of Art.” Over 40 luminaries in the arts were invited to send letters in response to the question. Among those who responded were Marcel Duchamp, Carl Sandberg, Georgia O’Keefe, Waldo Frank and the composer Ernest Bloch.
Ernest Bloch Lecture
Joni Metolius, Judy Boffo, Ernest Bloch II and Sita Milcev
The Jewish Community Library in San Francisco hosted a lecture by Eric Johnson on Ernest Bloch’s photography on May 8, 2012. The lecture was a rare occasion when Bloch’s direct decendants were in attendance including his four grandchildren Ernest Bloch II, Joni Metolius, Sita Milcev and Pencho Dimitroff along with Pencho’s son and wife and daughter.
Shrines & Altars Exhibition
A selection from the series Shrines & Altars was exhibited at the Artists Alley in San Francisco! Galiara on the Web, The Artists Alley is located at 863 Mission between 4th & 5th across Bloomingdales Mall.
Framing a Vision of the World at the Oregon Jewish Museum
January – May 2011
A major exhibit of prints made by Eric Johnson from Ernest Bloch’s negatives was mounted at the Oregon Jewish Musuem in Portland in 2011. Including 40 prints made in 1974-75 from negatives dating from 1897-1955, the show is by far the most extensive survey of Bloch’s photographic work. See the installation here.
Book of Bloch’s Photography
Associated with the exhibit Johnson produced a book surveying Bloch’s photography. The first published survey including 80 of Bloch’s photographs,
“A Composer’s Vision: The Photographs of Ernest Bloch” is available to purchase at Blurb.
Shrines & Altars at the Steynberg Gallery
“Shrines & Altars” at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo, Nov. 2009
A major presentation of the “Shrines & Altars” series took place in November 2009 at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo. Eighteen 24”x36” archival pigment prints were on display.
Eric Johnson’s prints from Ernest Bloch’s negatives donated to the Library of Congress!
In June of 2009 Eric traveled to Washington DC to donate prints he made from Bloch’s negatives in the 1970’s to the Library of Congress. A collection of 102 prints covering 45 years of Bloch’s life were donated to the Music Division. This collection is the largest Bloch archive and this donation added significantly to the quality and depth of the LOC collection.
See a blog from the Music Division: “Remembering Ernest Bloch.”
Ernest Bloch Article in Aperture Magazine
Eric Johnson wrote an article about the beginning of his work with Ernest Bloch, and published it in Aperture Magazine in 1972, titled: A Composer’s Vision Photographs by Ernest Bloch (Eric Johnson, Aperture magazine 16.3).