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<\/a>“Antelope Panorama” by Dayle Record<\/p><\/div>\n
For most photographers, finding the right moment to press the shutter is crucial. Dayle Record, whose large, color photographs of the Great Salt Lake, Singular Images: The Lake I Love<\/em>, are currently on display in Charley Hafen\u2019s cozy, brick-and-glass jewel box of a gallery, handles the critical moment like a painter who first draws her subject, then waits until the sun is right to limn the light and capture the defining moment. In the imagination, one sees her motionless on the lakeshore, her camera pointed at a favorite view for hour after hour, selecting instants from the continuum of time, then back in her studio, choosing from a handful of images the one that she will make into a one-of-a-kind print.<\/p>\n Advance notice for this show mistakenly implied that Record would be showing \u2018altered\u2019 photos. In fact, while she practices straight photography, each vista comprises a single print she will not duplicate. Such was, of course, the rule in the early days of photography, when each daguerreotype was a unique, positive image, and the only way to make another was to take a second photo. Since then, some photographers have limited the prints that could be made of their works, even going so far as to destroy the negatives. In the digital age, the whole idea of an original has to be reconsidered. For Record, the solitary print is a metaphor for the single act of looking. Sunrise, sunset, squall: these things happen often, yet each time they are witnessed is unique. A photograph can become as singular as a painting.<\/p>\n