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Lew Stamp
Lew Stamp PhotographyGranville OH 43023 United StatesHome Ohio United States Home Phone: 330-283-0920
Bio
Lewis K. Stamp Jr was born in Alliance Ohio, 1948. He began his photographic experience with a graduate of the California School of Art, Leland Whitacre who introduced Lew to the darkroom arts associated with fine photography. Mount Union college was the next stop where He devoted his time studying Theater Arts, then on to the New York Institute of Photography, in NYC. Lew returned to Ohio receiving a BFA from Ohio Universities, Clarence H White Jr School of Photography, with a master class with renown visiting professor Yousuf Karsh in Athens.
The Social Political energy of the late 1960’s and 70’s drew Lew into Photojournalism. As a photographer for the Ohio University POST Lew was published in TIME magazine as The Ohio National Guard occupied Ohio State University campus in Columbus. The Kettering-Oakwood TIMES a photographically progressive suburban Dayton newspaper was a great fit for Lew along with a team of young energetic journalist for seven years before spending a year at University of Missouri studying Journalism . Lew spent the bulk of his career at Knight Ridder Newspaper’s, Akron Beacon Journal where awards from The Ohio Newspaper Photographers Association, The National Press Photographers Association, The Associated Press , The Cleveland Press Club, and a Pulitzer Award, arrived annually till he left news journalism in 2008 to pursue freelance corporate work. Lew also served two terms of office on the NPPA national board of Directors supporting photojournalism at large. After the death of his wife of 50 years, Plaid Lynn Casson Stamp, who was a journalist in her own right, , Lew moved again to south-central Ohio, this time in Granville, returning to his roots of fine art photography.
Artist Statement
All of my past photographic images have implied something about me as to how I chose to creatively record my fifty years as a documentary photojournalist, where I made story telling images, daily on demand.
During a recent self imposed two year hiatus from the making of images, came a shocking revelation where I now create images when I personally emotionally need them. These photographs are vastly more introspective about my search for who I am going to be, rather than my previous witnessing of the world. Now I explore to find where I am going, who I will become and what I have to say with my now images. The Process of an Alternate Reality. Shifting the dimensionality of a photograph takes that venerated tradition to a new art space in this case through the experimental use of inkjet printing where the applied photo ink is kept wet. This process allows the use of new and traditional tools to work with the wet ink/pigment extending even into the dried state, as in this case.The process’s evolution can result in more than one finished or fixed image which is captured by photocopying the unstable print as a desired effect momentarily passes. The possibilities are impacted by the content and style of the original image, including individual ink volumes, humidity, gravitational orientation, and use of various tools by hand.The human created image has always possessed a value in our culture as part of a system of recognition and record keeping for us, as cognitive beings. These images have become my smokey,, cognitive hand,, memorialized on the cave wall.