Sue Rosoff Photography
<span class="text"><font color="#CCCCCC" class="text"> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"><img height="185" width="600" src="/users/SueRosoff4830/docs/Image//CalgaryOutridersTryptichFinal_sm300.jpg" alt="" /><br /> </font></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></div> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">You're invited to come see my photographs at the 2009 </font></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: small;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.foapom.com"><span style="font-size: medium;">Laguna Festival of Art</span></a></font><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">!!!</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">It runs July 5th to August 31st </font></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Open daily from </font></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">10 am until 11:30 pm. </font></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">My booth is #120 </font></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Hope to see you there! </font></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">And here's my cell number in case you're there and I'm not - I'm never far! </font></span></span></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">530 228-3618</font></span></span></span><font size="5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.foapom.com"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /> </span></a></font><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"> </font></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> </h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> </h2> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <br /> </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: larger;">My photography, from the time I was very young, has been about documenting - whatever it was that announced itself - if I was fast enough to capture it. My first classes were at San Clemente High School and I just kept on from there. When I began work on my thesis project for my Master’s degree in Visual Studies/Photography at UC Berkeley, I knew I wanted to document a culture – to see how far into, how close I could get – to see if I had the perseverance it takes to do the kind of work I wanted to do - to become the proverbial fly on the wall. It was <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1216410219_0">Ansel Adams</span> who talked me into documenting the rodeo culture when I was assisting at his photographic workshops in Carmel. All the assistants had to put up work and he and his wife Virginia saw my early rodeo shots and invited me over for lunch to visit about them. Needless to say, that was the push I needed. I seriously didn’t know how far into the culture I could get – it was like Mt. Everest with clouds – you can’t see the top and you don’t know if you can get there – but you’re giving it your best shot.<br /> <br /> Rodeo is a combination of two of America’s primary icons – the cowboy and the athlete. It is historic and in the present day. It is a lot of driving and long hours to hurry up and wait for the few minutes of competition before you’re on the road again. It is not an easy life – it takes a lot of passion to keep going. And it’s living a dream. It is part of our American cultural heritage.<br /> <br /> I have been fortunate to be able to photograph other cultures, cowboy and otherwise. It takes time to become a known and accepted entity in each group, since I am not there to step on toes to get one shot and leave, as I would have to do when I worked for a newspaper. I go at their pace, try to learn customs and some language and do a tremendous amount of observing. As with my craft of photography, cultural knowledge is another way to extend my craft – so when the “chance favors the prepared mind” moment happens, I am ready to capture it. I see my photographs as a way to build bridges – to give people a chance to see how similar we all really are, so as to perhaps not focus on the differences.<br /> </span></div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: larger;"> </span></p> </font></span><br>
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