Kent Krugh Speciation: Still a Camera
May 3 - June 27, 2018

Minolta Autopak 800

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

Keystone K-8

Archival pigment print
11 x 8.5

Holga

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

Argus C3

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

Kodak No. 3 Hawkeye

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

Yashica 44

Archival pigment print
11 x 8.5

Univex Mercury Model CC

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

White Stereo Realist 3.5

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

Minolta Autocord and Richoflex Model VII

Archival pigment print
13.25 x 14.75

Argus CC

Archival pigment print
11 x 8.5

Yashica 44

Archival pigment print
13.25 x 14.75

Mamiya 16 Super and Kimac Private Eye

Archival pigment print
8.5 x 11

Rochester Camera Co. Cycle No. 3

Archival pigment print
12.5 x 16

Graflex Speed Graphic Miniature

Archival pigment print
13 x 19

Polaroid 440 Land Camera

Archival pigment print
11 x 11

Zeiss Ikon Netta 510/2

Archival pigment print
10 x 11.5

Pearlette

Archival pigment print
10 x 8

Kodak Bantam

Archival pigment print
9 x 7

Kodak Pony II

Archival pigment print
13 x 19

Kodak No. 3 Folding Brownie

Archival pigment print
19 x 13

Hassleblad

Archival pigment print
13 x 19

Nikon D300

Archival pigment print
19 x 13

PRESS RELEASE

Panopticon Gallery invites you to take a closer look at photography’s most important tool—the camera—in Kent Krugh’s solo exhibition. From the Graflex large format bellows camera to the Polaroid to the digital SLR, Speciation: Still A Camera presents a brief history of photography as told through the evolution of the camera.

“This project is an homage to the cameras I have owned, used, or handled. The tools of the trade, having faithfully imaged for decades, have themselves been imaged.” Says Krugh. Using x-ray technology, Krugh brings us inside the devices that have recorded our memories and histories. Although scientific in appearance, the images stir feelings of nostalgia for our first encounters with photography. Krugh’s images are as complex and ingenious as the objects they depict. The hidden gears and cogs are revealed for the first time, though they could be heard with each press of the shutter.

Today’s sophisticated digital cameras look and operate far differently than the first cameras of the nineteenth century. However, while the design and format of a camera has changed dramatically over the years, their function has not. The camera is still a camera: a tool to create images by recording photons of light. It is a box with a lens directed towards the subject to encode its likeness on a storage medium, be it film or digital sensor. This contraption, with complex machinery hidden inside, has been manufactured in many wonderful and clever designs by camera-makers year after year.

Kent Krugh holds a B.A. in Physics and an M.S. in Radiological Physics. His work has been exhibited across the country as well as internationally and is in the collections of the Luz Austral Foundation in Buenos Aires, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum, among others.

Speciation: Still A Camera is on view from May 3 to June 27, 2018, with a reception on Friday, May 4, from 6-8pm. The gallery is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Gallery staff is available Monday – Saturday, 10am to 6pm.