James Walden: An Itinerant Eye is a collection of 60 photographs created in 12 countries between 1972 and present day. This exhibition will take place at the Omniplex in the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum - 2100 NE 52nd St. - Oklahoma City, OK 73111
Show Dates: July 9 through Dec. 31, 2005
Gallery Web Site: http://www.iphf.org
An Itinerant Eye - The Book: For those who cannot attend this exhibition in person, a 64 page book is available that contains all of the images from the show, plus commentary by James Walden. The book is approximately 6x8" with a soft cover which appears in the image above. Each book is signed by James Walden and is numbered in a limited edition of 100 copies. The cost for each copy is $65. This price includes shipping inside the continental USA.
If ordering from Oklahoma, please add 8.5% state sales tax. Orders by telephone will be accepted with payments made by Visa or MasterCard. Orders by mail will be accepted with payment by check or US Postal Money Order. Delivery time is 4 to 6 weeks. Signed giclee prints of all images in sizes up to 24X36” are also available.
To order books and prints, please call 405.824.7358 during office hours, which are Monday through Friday between 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM US Central Time. Mail Orders should be addressed to James Walden & Associates - 9300 N. May Ave. - Suite 400/192 - Oklahoma City, OK 73120.
What is an “Itinerant Eye”:
Foreign travel stimulates our senses to make us more aware of our surroundings. As we venture outside the safety net of our home environment, we enter an unfamiliar world where we experience new sights, sounds, and smells, where the language, customs, and food may be foreign to us, but the people we see are living their lives in a manner that is natural to them. We are the aliens in their homeland and we see it all from a different perspective, through "an Itinerant Eye". Applying this viewpoint, as if we are discovering amazing new sights while exploring some exotic land, can be the key to creating good photographs of nearly any subject in any location.
Biography:
James Walden was born in Guymon, Oklahoma in 1949. Raised on a remote cattle ranch, he was inspired at an early age by the photographs in his father’s National Geographic magazines to create his own images in exotic locations around the world. He shot his first photos as a child with a Kodak StarFlash camera, and had advanced to a Nikon S-2 range finder camera before studying Photo Journalism at the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Walden got his first chance to photograph foreign lands in 1970, when he left college and enlisted in the U.S. Navy to serve as a submarine hunter and aerial photographer over the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. After receiving an Honorable Discharge from the Navy, he studied at the Fishback School of Photography in Sacramento, California before moving to New York City in 1976 to study at the School of Visual Arts. While living in New York, his commercial work took him to Europe on several occasions. After returning home to Oklahoma in 1982, he studied motion picture production and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Oklahoma. Today, he shoots for a variety of architectural and advertising clients from his base in Oklahoma City, but continues to create his own personal images.
This exhibition and book are a chronicle of his travels and what he discovered through his "Itinerant Eye".
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