March 24 - April 28, 2024
From Northern-Southern:
“Field Patterns and Test Recordings is a series of unscripted color photographs, Bill McCullough’s first solo show in Austin.
Shot in bars, homes, subways, streets, and dances spanning twelve years, 2008 to 2020 these are not impersonal street photographs, McCullough has been allowed to each shoot by smile or nod. His camera is never hidden. Not photojournalism, McCullough keeps faith with the people he photographs. The candid details divulge nothing.
Before photography, McCullough was, and still is, a pedal steel player. The images have a music. McCullough uses illumination like recording studio microphones, finding or positioning light to balance layers of a composition like sounds in a room. Light is listening. The photos are complex with color harmonies, each realized in a shutter click akin to a clear note in the space between beats.
In the gallery McCullough arranges the prints as intimate geometries. Sequence and interplay between the photos suggest narrative patterns and under-stories, human truths beneath the surface of consciousness.”
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