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Carl Austin Hyatt
While attending college, before any thought of becoming a photographer, Carl Austin Hyatt found himself at a museum in Amsterdam one morning, staring into Rembrandt’s eyes. After twenty minutes in front of the self-portrait, he was finally ‘released’ from the gaze only to realize he had been having an intimate conversation with a master who had lived four centuries earlier. It was as if he had just met the Ancient Mariner. Such was his introduction to the soul of art.
Hyatt is known for his exacting attention to detail and technique, which began in his twenties. For several years, he and his best friend cloistered themselves in a old farmhouse where they were perfecting the intricacies of chemistry, exposure, film, and paper. After months of trial and error in the darkroom, they would drive twelve hours to New York City to compare their tests with the prints of the masters on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art. Avoiding the vigilant guards, they would unfold their latest tests in search of the secrets of tonality. The luminous tones of Hyatt's prints have become another key signature of his work.
Hyatt is a 1996 MacDowell Colony Fellow, and is represented in both public and private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He works in Large Format using 4x5, 8x10, and 11x14 cameras and currently lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Hyatt is known for his exacting attention to detail and technique, which began in his twenties. For several years, he and his best friend cloistered themselves in a old farmhouse where they were perfecting the intricacies of chemistry, exposure, film, and paper. After months of trial and error in the darkroom, they would drive twelve hours to New York City to compare their tests with the prints of the masters on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art. Avoiding the vigilant guards, they would unfold their latest tests in search of the secrets of tonality. The luminous tones of Hyatt's prints have become another key signature of his work.
Hyatt is a 1996 MacDowell Colony Fellow, and is represented in both public and private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He works in Large Format using 4x5, 8x10, and 11x14 cameras and currently lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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