Background
Dick Arentz was born on May 19, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan, to Ewald Arentz and Hermina Theoroda Arentz (nee Auner). Later his family moved. He grew up in St. Claire Shores, Michigan, where attended Lake Shore High School.
Lake Shore High School
University of Michigan (Angell Hall, one of the major buildings of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)
University of Michigan (the Central Campus)
(Discusses the region where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, an...)
Discusses the region where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona meet and shares photographs of farms, highways, sand dunes, rivers, canyons, forests and towns.
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1986
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Platinum and palladium printing is one of the easiest of the non-silver processes to learn but it also offers a number of variations, which the photographer can closely control. Platinum printing encompasses three basic phases which are somewhat under the control the photographer: sensitometry, chemistry and mechanics. This unique book is the only thoroughly comprehensive work on platinum and palladium printing. This exciting method of print-making is explained with an emphasis on technical control not only to manage the cost of materials but also to teach the reader to optimize the variations possible with this process. Photographers interested in learning or improving upon this process will find this book an indispensable resource and reference guide.
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2000
(Platinum and palladium printing is one of the easiest of ...)
Platinum and palladium printing is one of the easiest of the non-silver processes to learn. This guide offers a number of variations, which the photographer can closely control. Photographers interested in learning, or improving upon this process, will find this book an indispensable resource and reference guide. This is an absolute must-have for professional photographers and printmakers. Inside you will find: *The three basic phases of printing: sensitometry, chemistry, and mechanics *Practical information based on the making of over 3,000 platinum and palladium prints, covering everything from making your first print, to the most advanced techniques to challenge experienced printers.
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2005
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Dick Arentz spent 35 years exposing film through the bellows of large-format view cameras. He printed his images using the 19th century process of platinum and palladium printing, for which he is the recognized master. His books include 'Platinum & Palladium Printing,' as well as Nazraeli publications 'The Grand Tour' and 'British Isles.' Now with 'Italy Through Another Lens,' Arentz has moved to the 21st century, using the latest technology. His impressions of Italy are indeed 'Italy Through Another Lens.' Arentz presents a series of landscapes not generally seen by Italians or visitors, and which, framed by his unerring eye, radiate with the rich, haunting beauty of Italy from the Italo-Albanese hill towns in Sicily and Calabria to the little-known canals of Milano.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590052714/?tag=2022091-20
2010
Dick Arentz was born on May 19, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan, to Ewald Arentz and Hermina Theoroda Arentz (nee Auner). Later his family moved. He grew up in St. Claire Shores, Michigan, where attended Lake Shore High School.
Dick Arentz attended Lake Shore High School. In 1959, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a Doctor of Dental Surgery academic degree. In 1965, he received an MS in oral surgery. From 1969 to 1972, Arentz studied photography at the University of Michigan, where he explored contact print processes with Phil Davis. He was greatly affected by the work and writings of Edward Weston.
In 1972, Dick Arentz published "the Death Valley Portfolio" as an informal "thesis". It was republished in Camera Magazine in 1973. From 1973 to 1980, he taught studio photography and the history of photography at Northern Arizona University. The Edna Rider Whiteman Foundation Grant helped Arentz to start a project that year which would culminate in the publication of a book "Four Corners Country" published in 1986 and reissued in 1994 as a softcover. In 1980, he returned to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor to study the platinum process with Phil Davis. Arentz started researching and writing about platinum-palladium techniques when he found that there was little published on the subject. He was especially interested in discovering why there was an unpredictability of results with certain materials. In 1988, Arentz was one of four Arizona artists selected for the Phoenix Art Museum Triennial Exhibition. In 1992, he was included in a traveling exhibition "Between Home and Heaven, Contemporary American Landscape Photography", curated by the National Museum of American Art. Arentz continued researching and teaching the platinum-palladium process. In the process, he uncovered the solution to a paper problem. His formulation of specifications allowed a major paper company, Crane & Co., to manufacture a paper suitable for platinum and palladium photographic processes. In 1999, he published the first edition of Platinum & Palladium Printing with Focal Press. Arentz moved to a new phase of his career in 2010 with the publication of "Italy Through Another Lens". Since 2017, Arentz has concentrated on photographing the interiors of English cathedrals, using a historic Leica lens.
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1986(Platinum and palladium printing is one of the easiest of ...)
2005(Dick Arentz spent 35 years exposing film through the bell...)
2010Dick Arentz is a member of SPE.
Dick Arentz is an outstanding American photographer. He is also known as "the master of Platinum" ("platinum and palladium printer").
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Dr. Michael J. Ware and Bill Jay have commended Dick Arentz as a master-craftsman in platinum-palladium printing.