One of the first photos a visitor sees in the new exhibit is a wide picture of an inlet in Cadaques, with a small, lone wooden sailboat on the beach. It got me to look at nature in a different way." He created these experiences with his paintings, that they were very similar. My pictures are created so you can walk into them. His images from Spain are similar in scale to his Florida works, and he draws parallels between his photos and Dali's paintings. We lived in Newport Beach on a sailboat," said Butcher, during a media tour of the exhibit. "It was like I was back in Monterey, Point Lobos. Going to Spain, he said, reminded him of California. You can see how certain rocks perched on cliffs look like the skulls that Dali painted, for example, and how light and shadows influenced Dali's visions.īutcher, who has been called the Ansel Adams of the Everglades because of his large-scale, sharp monochromatic landscape images, started his photography career in California. Butcher's photos are almost a starting point for Dali's paintings across the hall in the museum. In the show's 41 photographs, viewers can see what inspired Dali - no small feat given his fantastical and often outrageous artistic imagination. The result is the exhibit "Clyde Butcher: Visions of Dali's Spain," and it's a stark, moody show of the rugged, rocky landscapes of Spain's Costa Brava. Petersburg commissioned Butcher to travel to Spain to capture Cadaques, Portlligat, Figueres and Cap de Creus - areas where Dali spent his early years, and where he died. It brings Butcher's career in Florida full circle. Not long after that, Butcher picked up his camera and began shooting photos of Florida's cypress stands, of swamps and secluded beaches.īutcher's latest work is an homage to the surrealist master. "He inspired me," Butcher said with a grin, adding that Dali's work led him to do some "creative, outer-space type stuff." Petersburg and visited the Salvador Dali museum, where a collection of the Spanish artist's work was on display. I didn't do anything for almost the first two years," he said.īutcher, who had previously lived in California and photographed landscapes there, wasn't impressed by Florida as a creative subject. But when he first arrived in the Sunshine State almost 40 years ago, he looked around and couldn't find anything to photograph. PETERSBURG - Photographer Clyde Butcher is known for his sweeping, evocative black-and-white photos of Florida's Everglades.
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