Jerry Dantzic's jazz work, mostly gelatin silver prints, currently showing at WBGO in Newark is awesome. You won't find me using the word "awesome" very often, but here it applies.
www.wbgo.org/events/gallery/jerryDantzic.asp
Photojournalist, illustrator, educator, ASMP member since 1956, looking at his work makes me want to toss out all my digital crap and go back to Tri-x 35mm full time (I'm this close to taking a sledge hammer to my Epson printers). I love that film grain, and that charged spontaneity the occasional camera movement creates in the images. Every once in a while I come across a photographer whose body of work just screams that this is what they were born to do. As natural as breathing. That amazes me. From what I saw at last night's opening, a book was on display as well, I get the feeling that Jerry Dantzic might be in that category. I have to find out more about this guy.
Jerry's son Grayson Dantzic , a musician, songwriter, and Dantzic's archivist was at last night's opening, as was photographer Joe Pobereskin, long time friend of Jerry (and me) and current president of the New Jersey chapter of ASMP www.asmp-nj.org.
Check the BGO link above for times. WBGO is a half block from NJ-PAC. Don't bother trying to find street parking. There's an underground garage right across the street.
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