Fine Art Photography by Warren L. Dowler
My online collection of fine art photographs of the coasts of Southern Oregon and Northern California is for sale. These signed art giclees make great gifts for your home, office or business.
Biography
Warren's wide ranging subjects - from technical and architectural to scenic vistas - reflect a lifetime curiosity of how to recreate three dimensional nature on the two dimensional plane. Each of his prints reflect a philosophy that each pictorial image is to be presented to the human eye only after interpretation using a process which most enhances the presentation. So his body of work reflects the use of historical processes, such as kalitype and bromoil, as well as toned silver, black and white and digital color processing. His current effort is small and large giclee prints of the Southern Oregon Wild Rivers Coast.
He began his photographic career as a Staff Photographer for school newspapers and the Rebel Annual . In 1946, his work was published in the Rotogravure Section of the Denver Post . He processed film and made the photo enlargements for Haanstad's Photo and Gift in Denver, Colorado. He also made the photo products that recorded celebrations taken during WWII at Denver establishments by roaming photo girls.
In 1973, he turned his eye and camera upon the scenic vistas of Lake Powell, combined them with his cartographic (map making) skills to publish, with his wife Louise's writing, five editions of the Lake Powell Boat & Tour Guide and two editions of the pictorial Lake Powell & Rainbow Bridge.
After his first views of historical prints in 1980, at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, he began to explore his passion for historical image making processes and has made prints using a variety of them, including kalitype, platinum, palladium, carbro, gum bichromate, oil and bromoil as well as toned silver. This was in conjunction with his involvement with The New Pictorialist Society, where he is a Fellow, as well as a past President, Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors.
His work is in the Harry Ransom Humanities Photography Collection at the University of Texas. In 1981, Dowler's West, a one-man exhibit, was held at The Light Source Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, and his work has also been shown at the John Nichols Gallery in Santa Paula, California. His photographs have been a part of exhibits held by The New Pictorialist Society, Verdugo Hills Art Association, San Gabriel Fine Arts Association, and the 1984 Los Angeles County and 2009 Curry County Fairs. He is now a life member of the Brookings, Oregon Pelican Bay Arts Association and has shown his work in their exhibits.
Warren now lives in Curry County, Oregon at the Winchuck River Estuary.
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