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STEvE wEISS | UsA
www.candidlandscapes.com
Steve weiss is a Phoenix native of the worst kind, the kind that and private clients collect his photographs, which use traditional
prattles on endlessly about the good old days when there was methods of archival black and white and color photography, as
nothing north of Camelback Road and folks rode horseback well as unconventional Polaroid landscapes.
through the neighborhood on the way to the desert.
Exposed to photography in high school, he only complicated His work is in the fine art collections of Del webb Corporation,
matters by attending the San Francisco Art Institute and Arizona Salt River Project, the gallagher kennedy and Streich Lang law
State University, getting a B.F.A. in 1978 that taught him the firms and many other private collections.
difference between the ”winkin’” eye” and the ”shootin’ eye”.
weiss also runs the independent film programming company no
In 1980, he began his fine art photography company Candid Festival Required, which screens new and thoughtful cinema in
Landscapes, with the intention of looking at the natural and the greater Phoenix area.“Reality is far weirder than surrealism
urban scene with a fresh and uncontrived approach. Corporate ever dreamed.”
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