"A Room with Good Light" UGA professor Mary Ruth Moore's art usually involves a pinhole optic in black & white photography. Her work, relatively soft with an infinite depth of field, records a place of stillness and silence that we cannot ordinarily experience. "Pinhole Photography is a way of life. The pinhole shows us what goes on while no one is looking," says Moore. "My photographs are inspired in rural south Oconee County, GA, the Georgia islands, Tuscany, Renaissance paintings, and passages from the Bible." Moore's photographs grace the cover of several University of Georgia Press books.
Moore has been teaching beginning and advanced photography at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art for over 25 years and her simple approach to photography is reflected in her teaching. She inspires her students to understand the fundamentals of art history and photography and to use light as a "drawing tool." For many summers, Moore also taught photography in Cortona, Italy through UGA's Visual Arts Studies Abroad Program. Her latest body of work involves the study of vintage bottles, inspired by the paintings of Italian master Giorgio Morandi. For this work, Moore uses a vintage 1900 studio camera and a paper negative and the exposures can last up to several hours.
Two of Moore's former students, Melanie Davis and Ashley Waldron, operate a fine art photography gallery in Atlanta and now represent Moore's work. For more information on Mary Ruth Moore's work, please contact Davis Waldron Fine Art: 678.539.6116 or davis.waldron@gmail.com.
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