Surrealities: Experiments with Digital Photomontages
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Harry Borgman
Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now the College for Creative Studies ). He has written several art technique books for Watson Guptill Publications, Dover Publications recently reprinting his book "Pen and Pencil Drawing Techniques." For many years he worked as a freelance artist in Detroit, New York and Paris, France. As a painter he works in the watercolor and acrylic mediums and is also very active as a sculptor, doing wood carvings as well as wood and metal constructions. Recently he has been experimenting with the computer medium, currently creating photomontages and collages on the computer for a proposed exhibition.
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Surrealities - Harry Borgman
Copyright © 2004 by Harry Borgman. 21045-BORG
Library of Congress Number: 2003096421
ISBN #: Softcover 978-1-4134-2952-7
Ebook 978-1-4771-8131-7
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FOREWORD
Image314.JPGImage323.JPGABOVE: A parody on Dali, titled If Dali Had Deadlines.
A poster for an exhibition at the Krasl Art Center.
When I first encountered Borgman’s work, it intrigued me so thoroughly that I was eager to curate an exhibition for two primary reasons. First, his images are compelling in their beauty and power, and innovative art that is also both approachable and appealing is rare enough; it is fun, once in a while, to please the audience. Second, I wanted to introduce an artistic use of new technology in an environment which I could observe viewers’ facial and body language, and