John Chiara's 'Sea of Glass' reframes nature on Treasure Island

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Chiara's new show is comprised of photos shot on San Francisco's artificial island

Ever since Ansel Adams started taking pictures in and around San Francisco roughly 100 years ago, the cityscape and its surroundings have remained a popular muse for photographers. By now, it feels overdone. Can photographers still find new ways of looking at such familiar sights?

Chiara’s photographic process makes use of a large, handmade camera obscura — a big wooden box with a camera lens attached to it. Rather than shooting his pictures on film and printing them later, Chiara shoots directly onto photosensitive paper taped to the interior wall of the camera opposite the lens. This results in traces of tape and other detritus around the edges of the one-of-a-kind images, emphasizing their physicality.

“Navy Mound, Center of Treasure Island” is split between a metallic tarpaulin-covered pile and a large swath of sky; “Avenue of the Palms, South Treasure Island,” is half iridescent bay, half San Francisco skyline. In “Perimeter at Westside, Treasure Island” we get three layers: a small rock outcropping along the shoreline, a strip of ocean, and Alcatraz distantly visible atop the horizon line.

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