The first featured photographer is New Yorker Carol Golemboski. In toned gelatin silver prints such as Untitled: (above), Golemboski conjures up a lost Victorian world by using period props and adorning her pieces with scratches suggesting great age. New Mexico photographer Colin Blakely creates photomontages in which he uses a computer to lay images on top of one another. The results are printed in large-format Fujichrome prints; in each, a main photo, typically a kitsch interior or exterior, is adorned with maps, photos and half-tones of things like mountains and clouds. The last artist is Colorados own Cory Armantrout, a recent graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver. Armantrouts pieces are photo-based collages in which photocopies, cardboard and shards of glass are also used.
Retro Truth is a mixed bag, but one of its strengths is that each photographers work can be viewed in some depth -- at least until the show comes down on Saturday.
