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Alan Stoker Photo
Alan Stoker is a professional photographer now located in Iowa City specializing in Architecture. Alan also photographs theatrical performances, and the work of visual artists such as paintings, sculpture, and three-dimensional art. Recent architectural assignments in the Iowa City area included assignments for the Coralville Public Library and the Willowwind School. Performance photography in the last several years has included commissioned work for the Cedar Raapids Opera Theater including productions of Carmen, Falstaff, Marriage of Figaro, and Magic Flute, Additional performance photography for the University of Iowa Perorming Arts Division included Carmen, Rossini's Cenerentolla, La Traviata for the Mary Ellen Tye Opera Theater at University of Iowa, and Clean House and Dead Man’s Cell Phone for the Iowa Summer Repertory Theater. From 2001 through 2007 Alan worked primarily in the Santa Fe area producing numerous advertising and editorial images for high-end real estate marketing and local architects. Alan has work published for both editorial and advertising in: Archi-Tech Residential (including cover, Fall 2002 issue), Architectural Digest, Residential Architect, Sources & Designs, Texas Monthly, New Mexico Magazine, Sothebys International Preview, French & French Showcase, Santa Fean Magazine, Santa Fe Trend, and Santa Fe Homes (including four covers). Alan joined ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) in 2000, and was nominated to General Membership in 2002.
Some of his earliest professionally published theater photography was during his 4 years as staff photographer for the Santa Fe Opera. Early published architectural work was for the Santa Fe Opera during the reconstruction in 1969. This included working with the architect from the conceptual model stage, through documenting the construction progress and finally formal images of the completed new theater. Those images were published in Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times, New Mexico Architecture, Construction, and New Mexico Magazine. Many photographs of historic buildings in Old Santa Fe Today, 2nd edition, published by UNM Press in 1972 and subsequent editions are by Alan. Over the years Alan has expanded his experience in Architectural photography. Most recently he studied architectural photography with Nick Merrick and working as an associate with Robert Reck, (Architectural Digest masthead photographer,) as a principal location assistant and second camera on numerous location assignments in Northern New Mexico, Phoenix, and Oklahoma City. During the last year in the Santa Fe area Alan has produced numerous advertising images for Dougherty Real Estate, and was commissioned by Sotheby’s International for architectural photography of the Zocalo project designed by Ricardo Legoretta. During the last eight years Alan has expanded his experience in Architectural photography. In 2001 he studied architectural photography with Nick Merrick (managing partner of the premier architectural photography firm Hedrick-Blessing in Chicago). He worked regularly for 2 1/2 years as an associate with Robert Reck in Albuquerque (Architectural Digest masthead photographer) as a principal location assistant and second camera on numerous location assignments in New Mexico and Arizona.
Alan Stoker has been published as a photographer since 1958, starting as a free-lancer at the New Mexican under then-city editor Tony Hillerman. During the late 1950s and 1960s he worked with Santa Fe photographers Laura Gilpin, Todd Webb, Tyler Dingee, and Tony Perry. During the late 60s he was a commercial photographer. Major assignments included being the staff photographer for the Santa Fe Opera during the 1964 and 1967-1969 seasons, with work appearing in several national publications. He was commissioned by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation to make architectural photographs of historic buildings in Santa Fe. They appear in the Second and subsequent editions of Old Santa Fe Today, published by University of New Mexico Press. In 1969 he was a co-founder, with Eleanor Scott and Roy Rosen, and managing director through 1971 of the f22 Gallery on Camino del Monte Sol, the original all-photography gallery in Santa Fe. In 1970 he was selected by National Geographic Society to photograph the initial ten-week field season of the Arroyo Hondo Site archeological excavation by the School of American Research. This work also included cinematography for a National Geographic-produced film on the Arroyo Hondo dig. During the 1994-1995 period Alan served as cochairman of the Photo Group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.
Then after a 25-years career as a professional hydrogeologist, in 2000 he resumed a career based in his original love of photography. He studied architectural photography with Nick Merrick managing partner of the premier Chicago-based architectural photography firm Hedrich-Blessing. Additional study with New Mexico photographers included seminars with Miguel Gandert and David Michael Kennedy at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops; platinum and palladium printing with Ted Rice and Lawrence Huff, 4 x 5 Technique with Steve Simmons (editor of View Camera Magazine), and advanced Black and White printing and Unsharp Masking Techniques with Howard Bond (contributing editor, Photo Techniques professional journal). Digital techniques and Photoshop experience began in the era of Photoshop 3 and advanced through workshops with Gerry Corvousier (Intermediate) and John Paul Caponigro (Fine Art Digital Printing) at the Santa Fe Workshops.
Alan’s personal work includes landscape and architecture, especially emphasizing their interplay reflecting the passage of time or sense of scale. This has included archeological sites, abandoned or evolving structures that still have an integral beauty, and the settings in which they occur. Water too is an important subject for Alan. This may include water itself, but often it is the visual results of water’s actions: the sculptured forms of rocks, the power of a thunderstorm, or the sense of substance in the midwestern air.
Historic, archival photographic processes occupy much of Alan’s attention. Nineteenth century platinum and palladium printing methods were employed for printing a collection of large format negatives Alan has acquired including some from Arizona taken by David Boot, a University of Iowa Professor, in the early 1900’s, and a collection of David Lords 5 x 7 negatives of northern New Mexico Pueblos taken in the 1920s and 1930s.
Alan works in all formats, in both film and digital capture. Film work is done with 35 mm through 4 x 5 for transparencies or negatives (Nikon, Linhoff, and Schneider equipment); and digital capture utilizes Nikon, Fuji, and Kodak cameras, Epson processional film scanners, Epson professional printers for display prints or hard copy proofs. Alan has experience and a large complement of equipment for on-location lighting including an extensive inventory of Lowell tungsten equipment, and six White Lightning electronic flash units (with wireless remote control and synchronization); plus a variety of light modifiers: filters, gels, umbrellas, and reflectors. For magazine, journal covers or large display prints Alan frequently works a hybrid approach involving 4x5 film capture and digital scanning to produce digital image files ready for press make-up or large display prints.
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