Rick Doble
195
Old Nassau Rd., PO Box 117,
Smyrna, NC 28579
Telephone: 252-729-8691 --
Email: rick_doble@yahoo.com
– Website: www.RickDoble.net
Overview:
-- 38 years in photography including 10 years in
digital photography plus 12 years in digital imaging
-- Author and photographer of 2 books on digital photography
-- 10 year old digital photography website; webmaster
for website
-- Digital photography exhibited in museums, shown in
print and internet media, reviewed for the last 9
years; this recognition came from 12 different
countries
-- Digital images and essays on digital art used by
libraries, schools, teachers and students worldwide
-- Top search engine rankings by Google for digital
photography and essays on digital photography
-- Invented own digital photography system before the
advent of digital photography
-- Exhibiting art photographer since 1971
-- Freelance photographer and photography teacher for
23 years
-- Photography intern for North
Carolina state government (UNC-graduate
school), 1974
-- Worked at the UNC-Chapel
Hill photolab under Ross Scroggs,
1971-1972
-- M.A., 1974, Dept. of Radio, TV & Motion
Pictures; B.A., 1966, English, Honors (both UNC-Chapel
Hill)
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1997
Author Of Books/Articles (print):
Book Author & Photographer: The Everything
Digital Photography Book, 2nd Edition by Rick Doble, Adams
Media
Corporation, 2008. 362 pages, 77 photographs by Doble; listed on Amazon for delivery
May 2008.
Book Author & Photographer: Career Building Through
Digital Photography by Rick Doble,
Rosen Publishing
Group,
2007. 64 pages, 6 photographs by Doble; listed on Amazon.com.
Book Agent:
Pamela Brodowsky, International Literary Arts, LLC, Moscow,
PA.
Essay Author:
Life Imitating Art, a newsstand
magazine, 2002.
Website - 10 years old
www.RickDoble.net since 1997: 2000+ digital photographs, 25+ essays, 12,000 word
illustrated autobiography
about
the creation of contemporary art. Website traffic: over 500,000 page views per
year from 69 countries; 400 other websites and directories in 24 countries have
linked to RickDoble.net.
Latest work:
Painting With Light, slow shutter
speed, unmanipulated digital photography; since 2002.
700+ digital photos with essays and a variety of subject
matter. www.RickDoble.net/paintingwithlight
Major Shows, Publications And Symposiums Since 1997
Unless specified with the
notation (web) work listed was hardcopy, printed and framed for display or
printed in a hardcopy publication. URLs at the end of an entry are listed for
work available and still online. URL’s without hyperlinks are sites online that
no longer display Doble’s work. Mentions are in the USA unless stated otherwise.
Juried Group Exhibition: 5th
Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition, Doble’s ‘painting with light’ photo
exhibited
and included in catalogue, University Of North Carolina at Greenville, Gray Gallery, 2007.
Work In Gallery:
Garden Gallery (Mary Jo Bell, director), Raleigh, NC, 2003-2007 (until gallery
closed).
Encyclopedia Listing: Doble listed as principle artist in the genre of
‘light painting’ with digital
photography.
Online Encyclopedia of Painting. New Delhi, India, 2006.
http://www.ethnicpaintings.com/painting-trivia/light-painting.html
Proposal and Conference: Capturing the
Moving Mind Conference, Moscow, Russia, proposal for series of
Doble’s ‘painting with light’ photos accepted, Doble
invited to conference, 2005. http://www.ephemeraweb.org/conference/accepted-abstracts.pdf
Award, Self Portrait Competition (web): PostPicasso.com, Doble’s ‘painting with light’ self
portrait accepted,
honorable mention, 2004.
Juried Group Exhibition: Merry Moor Winnett Photography Triennial, Doble’s ‘painting with
light’ photo
exhibited at Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC, 2004.
Book Cover: Mary Didn’t Have A Mam, Derry Cotter, Trafford Publishing, Canada, 2004. Cover art was from
Doble’s
‘painting with light’ photography.
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Didnt-Have-Derry-Cotter/dp/141202420X
CD Music AlbumCover: Unterhaltungskapelle by
Romme Bilger, Rallehond Records, The Netherlands,
2004.
Cover art was from Doble’s ‘painting
with light’ photography.
Featured Photographer (web): 16 digital photographs from Doble’s ‘painting with light’ series, Photo Box,
Slovakia, digital work online at this site since 2003. http://photo.box.sk/autor.php3?id=1711
Juried Group Exhibition: Cameron Art
Museum, Wilmington, NC, 2002.
Digital Photography Web Page For Modern Art Museum (web): 1 digital image, The Open Museum
Net.Art @
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,
Ireland, 2002.
http://www.stunned.org/imma/netart_open.htm
Award (web):
Mona Lisa Award, online award for web site design, compatibility and clarity,
2001.
http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/millennium/decwin.htm
New Media Juried Exhibit: Digital image page and explanation, New Media Line Exhibit, Kannonmedia.com,
Vienna,
Austria, 2001. Sponsored by major contemporary art museums/organizations
in Europe & USA.
http://www.kanonmedia.com/news/nml/doble.htm
Digital Photographs In Collection: Untitled Catalogue, coffee-table color
catalogue of contemporary photos, and
4’X3’
color poster, Kent, England, 2001.
Internet Fine Arts Publication (web): Update of Doble’s current exhibits online, Fine Art Forum,
Australia, 2001.
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/Backissues/Vol_15/faf_v15_n07/stuff.html
CD Music Album Cover:: Lorna (a rock group), Nottingham, England, 2001.
Featured Artist (web): Signum (web), Issue
6, 6 digital photographs plus artist statement, 2001.
http://www.incunabula.org/signum/Issue6/freezone/shadows.html
Major Online Publication (web): Pif Magazine,
pifmagazine.com (a major literary web
publication), 7 Internet
covers,
1998-2000. Also listed on masthead as contributing artist - digital photography.
http://pifmagazine.com/2000/12/,
http://pifmagazine.com/2000/10/, http://pifmagazine.com/2000/07/,
http://pifmagazine.com/vol34/,
http://pifmagazine.com/vol29/, http://pifmagazine.com/vol23/,
Directory: Marquis Who'sWho
in America, Millennium edition, listed as photographer, 2000.
Juried Digital Exhibit (web) : 9 digital images, Bit By Bit (www.bitbybitdigital.org),
2000.
Juried Group Show: Omaha Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha,
NE, 1999.
Juried Group Show: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth,
Australia, 1999.
Symposium (symposium, book, web): Aixois d'Art Contemporain, Aix en Provence, France, animations shown at
symposium
and on website plus included in hardcopy book of symposium, 1999.
http://www.sitec.fr/users/akenatondocks/DOCKS-datas_f/collect_f/auteurs_f/D_f/DOBLE_f/anim_f/4elements_f/indexdob.html
Participant (book & web): Cyberarts 99, Prix Ars Electronica,
Austria, 1999.
Feature Article (web): Sint-Michielsschool, Merelbeke, Belgium, 1999.
http://users.skynet.be/sky84605/sneeuwkristallen.html
Featured Artist (web): 13 digital images with artist statement, Enculturation, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1998.
http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_1/doble/
& http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_1/toc.html
Reviews Of Doble’s Digital Photography Since 1997
Net Art News
(web), Rhizome.org,, one ezine issue devoted to
review of Doble’s ‘painting with light’ photography,
ezine
emailed worldwide and archived, 2003. Quote from review, “Great examples of
what can be achieved with...a bit of imagination.” http://rhizome.org/news/story.php?timestamp=20030228
eDigitalPhoto, a newsstand magazine, full page color review, 2001. Quote from
review, “You’ll have plenty to
look
at on this site.” http://www.rickdoble.net/ephotoreview.html
NETSURER DIGEST (web - www.netsurf.com, web) Volume 06, Issue 21, June 15, 2000. (4th of 4 reviews.)
Quote
from review, “Rick Doble is a digital artist who has invested his work with a
great deal of thought...If you think of art as more than just pretty pictures,
this is truly a stand-out site.”
Mac's Picks,
(web) New
Zealand,
2000.
Quote from review, “Interesting site and a well
accomplished artist.”
Netweek Magazine, (print magazine and website) Australia, Editor's Choice award and review, 1999.
Quote from review, “Richard deGaris Doble is a pioneering
artist.”
NETSURER DIGEST (web - www.netsurf.com, web) Volume 05, Issue 24, August 06, 1999. (1st of 4 reviews)
Quote
from review, “Go read Rick's essay s and see his stuff to soak up his creative,
adventurous excitement about seeing the world in a fresh way each time he
clicks the shutter.”
WCBS, New York NEWSRADIO 88 (radio
station and web: www.newsradio88.com), review aired on radio and
posted
on website, 1999. Quote from review, “Rick Doble is an Internet Artist - An
E-Artist, so to speak.”
The Film-Philosophy Journal of London (web) by David Martin-Jones, United Kingdom, 1999. (Review of work at
Enculturation
Site, earlier listing.) Quote from review, “Doble argues, towards the same goals
as those of the futurists, or the cubists: the visualising
of the whole of an object in both space and time.”
http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol3-1999/n15martin-jones
Carteret News-Times, newspaper, Morehead
City, NC; review by Clay Riley, June 6, 1999
Quote
from review, “ While it is not fair to say that Doble discovered the medium of
computer aided photography, it is certain that he was a pioneer.”
World Wide Web World - by Chris Cochems
(ChrisTuna)
(web), 1998.
Quote
from review, “Rick Doble takes pictures. He uses a digital camera, and gets
incredible results, then arranges the images into themed shows, and places them
on the web for us to enjoy. Oh, and he does all of this really well.”
Clickx,(web)
a weekly electronic journal of Belgium. article (nr. 61), 1998.
Quote from review, “Doble's ‘color elaborations’ give...an
impression of a cathedral's leaded windows.”
Educational And Scholarly Activities Relating To Doble’s
Digital Photography
Libraries That List Or Use Doble’s Digital Work
Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL)
http://www.maslibraries.org/infolit/samplers/bentley.html
Saxon Library, Germany (Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
Associated with the University library Dresden, a collecting focal point for contemporary art since 1945
http://webis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ssg/bib.14/ssg.9_11/internet11423.html
The Schwerdtfeger Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/1793/15669/1/bentley/about.html
School Project : Arti FAQ 21OO, a learning project for students in New York. Doble’s essay on the future of art
used in conjunction with a school project on the history and future of art.
Quote from project, “We invite you [Internet surfers] to use them [Rick Doble's thoughts] as a
springboard for speaking, listening and viewing our work.”
http://users.erols.com/sjfeld/nyc/director.htm
Digital Photographs Displayed For Education Exhibit: International Centre for Life,
(www.centreforlife.co.uk),
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 2002.
Doble’s Work A Primary Source For University Essay: Digital Arts
Processes, Madeleine Reade-Lyons,
Thames Valley University in London, 2004
http://www.rickdoble.net/big_bang/Digital_Arts_Processes_ass2.html
Doble’s Essay A Source for Dissertation: Glitch Art, Iman Moradi, The University of Huddersfield,
UK, 2004.
Essay:
Painting with Light: the new expressive
capability of digital photography, Rick Doble.
http://oculasm.org/glitch/download/Glitch_dissertation_print_with_pics.pdf
Use By A Professor: Philosophy professor, Dr. Tom Leddy, from San Jose State University, California, used
Doble’s essay on contemporary art as a basis for his talk on the Future of Art in a panel discussion, 2004.
Student Use:
Over 30 students from the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Russia, Norway, Holland
and
India have used Doble’s work as part of their studies.
These requests included requests from the following (emails from students
available on request):
== UK: Sheffield Norton College; Charles Darwin High
School; Bexhill College in East
Sussex; Winchester School of Art; University of Southampton; Newcastle High
School; Budmouth School, Dorset.
== Canada: Malaspina University College in BC.
== USA: Warwick High School in Newport News, Virginia; Smithfield-Selma High School in North Carolina; and a Youth Pastor in Ft. Myers, FL.
Doble’s Essays Republished On The Web
The
following sites republished Doble’s essays; those sites listed with links still
have the essay online:
Essay: Is Photography The New
Expressive Visual Art?
Global
Living Diary of Digital Art: http://www.lastplace.com/LivingHistory/doble.htm
Log Cabin
Chronicles: http://www.tomifobia.com/doble2.html
The
AMERICAN GAZETTE at CollegePark, MD, for college students and college newspapers
Reprinted
on these three websites, no longer online: Vanguard
Online, United
Kingdom;
Scrape Magazine; ARTPRESS: Postmedia, Italy.
Is
Photography a True Art Form? by Don Thorpe (Artists of Utah); Doble’s essay
quoted:
http://main.artistsofutah.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=51
Essay: The Digital Way To
Experiment
DigiGallery:
http://www.digigallery.com/1999/articles/thedigitalwaytoexperiment.html
Essay: Thoughts About The Future Of Art In The 21st Century
Annihilation Fountain: http://www.disobey.com/detergent/zines/annihilation_fountain/1998/taf08.txt
Reprinted on these three websites, no longer online: The Animist, Australia; Way2GOAL; Arti FAQ 21OO.
Essay: A Touch of the Savage
International Digital Art: http://www.idaprojects.org/articles/doble.html
Essay: Introduction To Painting With Light Photography
Quotation
from Doble in discussion: http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/display/3927520
Essay: Why Create Art?
Vanguard Online,
United Kingdom.
Google Rankings of www.RickDoble.net (Ranking are
based on 9/22/07 searches)
Search = ‘ “internet artist” ’
(in quotes), rank = #2 out of 27,400 results.
Search = 'digital art
photography'; rank = #2 out of 50,800,000 results.
Search = ‘essay digital
photography’. rank = #2 out of 2,140,000 results.
Search = 'digital photography
experimentation'; rank = #2 our of 1,890,000 results.
Search = 'painting with
light'; rank = #2 out of 9,830,000
results.
Search = 'essays painting
with light'; rank = #2 out of 2,090,000
results.
Search = ‘essay future of
art’, rank = #1 out of 6,350,000 results.
Search = 'contemporary art
essays'; rank = #2 out of 2,640,000
results.
Search = 'illustrated
autobiography art'; rank = #2 out of
1,750,000 results.
Invention Of Digital Photography System (1985 – 1997)
Before The Advent of Commercial Digital Photography
From
1985-1997, Doble created an original system for digitizing photographs. Frozen
frame images from a video camera were converted into still digital photographs.
Doble wrote programs in Basic & Assembly languages for digital imaging
including: a graphics file format converter, an image browser/manager and an
image palette manager.
Doble
spent one year studying the public domain photographs of Eadward
Muybridge’s human figures in motion before creating a
series of large color figure studies from Muybridge’s
landmark study: Human and Animal
Locomotion, 1887. Doble used his original digital photography imaging
system to create this work.
== Shows Of
Doble’s Original System Digital Photography Images
Online exhibit (web): The Animist,
Australia, 1999.
Juried Group Exhibit (museum exhibit and web): 2 digital photographs included, Digital Americana Exhibit: The Orlando
Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, 1998.
Online Review & Feature (web): Annihilation Fountain,
Vol. 8, 1998.
Two-person Show:
Carteret Arts Council, Morehead City, 1997.
Museum Gallery Show: 20 digital photographs, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC, North
Gallery, 1995.
Art Magazine Article: 2 full page color prints, Sanskrit Magazine, Charlotte, NC, 1994.
Award - Honorable Mention: Art from the
Heart Exhibit, Carteret Arts Council, Morehead City, NC, 1994.
One-Person Show: 40 digital photographs, Cameron-Black Gallery, Beaufort, NC, 1993.
Feature Article: Carteret News-Times, Morehead City-Beaufort 1993.
Exhibit: Carteret Community
College, Morehead City, NC, 1992.
Portfolio Presented: Society for Photographic Education, Southern Chapter, Annual
Convention, Indian
Beach, NC,1992.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS OF DOBLE'S
NON-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY (FILM BASED - 1971-1991)
One-person Show: North
Carolina
Coastal Folklife Projects Gallery, Beaufort, NC , 1991.
Two-person Show: Durham Photographic Arts Society, Durham Arts Council, Durham,
NC,1984.
Photographs Purchased: Duke Hospital (3 photos); First Union Bank; Regional Coordinator - NEA; 1975-1984.
2 Book Covers:
Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulde, Dr. Faustwitz,
Spaceman, Carolina Wren Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1983 & 1984.
Author: Photography
Reviewer, regular column in the NC Anvil
and The Guide to the Triangle,
Durham, NC, 1973-1981.
One-person Show: Broad Street Gallery, Durham,
NC, 1981.
Record Album Cover: The Red Clay Ramblers, Chapel Hill, NC, 1979.
Group Show:
Center For Creative Leadership, Greensboro, 1977.
Magazine Cover:
Cover plus two other photographs, Southern
Exposure, Durham, NC, 1977.
Magazine (2 issues): Photo-essay, photo (2nd issue), Photo Artist Magazine, Winter Park, Florida, 1976 & 1977.
Review:
Review of Downtown Gallery Show (below),
Durham Morning
Herald, Durham,
NC, 1976.
One-person Show: Downtown Gallery, Durham, NC, 1976.
Magazine Feature: Cover plus photo essay feature 2 page article, The Guide to the Triangle, Durham,
NC, 1976.
Magazine: 1
photo included, Latent Image 3, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1976.
Book: 1 photo,
North Carolina, A Camera
Profile, Provincial Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1976.
Magazine Feature Photo-Essay: The Sun, Chapel Hill, NC, 1976.
3 Awards: Best
In Show, 1st
Place
Landscape, 2nd
Place
Portraiture: Durham Arts Council, Juried Photography Exhibit,
Durham,
NC, 1974.
One-person Slide/Tape Show: UNC, Chapel Hill, NC; Library, Pittsboro, NC, 1974.
One-person Show: University Square Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 1974
Magazine: 2
photographs, Truck 13, Carrboro, NC, 1974.
Magazine: 1
photograph, Sumus number 3, The Loom Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1973.
2 Awards: Honorable
Mentions: NC State Fair, Raleigh, NC, Professional
Photography, 1973; Amateur Photography, 1971.
One-person Show: UNC Student Union, Chapel Hill, NC, 1971.
Photography Jobs And
Related Activities
Freelance Photography Including Part-time Jobs (1975-1993), Durham & Smyrna, NC:
Photography teacher
(contract): beginning, advanced and darkroom at St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation plus courses at Duke
University,
Durham Technical Institute, NC Museum of Life and Science, Durham Recreation
Department, NC Aquarium - Pine Knoll Shores, NC Maritime Museum, Beaufort.
Freelance assignments: directed
12 multimedia instructional slide shows for area school systems (Durham, Greensboro,
Eden);
photojournalism
for NC State Government, Duke University, Carolina Wren Press, Durham Chamber
of Commerce, Durham Recreation Department, Central Carolina Bank plus regional
newspapers in Apex and Fuquay-Varina.
Director: Durham Historic Photographic Archive Project (1977-1980,
part-time salary): Wrote NEA grant, ran 3 year
project;
researched,
copied, compiled permanent collection now in Durham public library. Project has been digitized by library
and is now online at: http://www.dclibrary.net/prod1/ncc/photoarch/
Director: Durham Restoration or Renewal (1976-1977, part-time salary):
Wrote grant, obtained funding from the NC
Humanities
Committee for multimedia slide show about preserving Durham architecture.
Director & Instructor: Durham
Photography Workshop (1972-1975): Founded workshop for teenagers "at
risk" after school;
teens
photography exhibited at numerous locations in Durham and on local TV (The
Peggy Mann Show).
Other Activities And Information
---Web Master (1996-present)
& advanced computer user (1983-present): member of the Raleigh, NC, Radio Shack Color
Computer
(CoCo) Club (1983-1988);
wrote in Basic and Forth programming languages.
---Writer (1964-present):
book and newsletter on consumer issues, short stories, poetry, plays, essays,
reviews.
---Chairman, Board Member, Saint Joseph's Historic (& Art) Foundation, Durham, NC,
1977-1983.
---Born July 24, 1944, Richard deGaris Doble, Sharon Connecticut, 63 yrs.
old, married to Janet Harriman, no children.
Employment History
And Education
---1994-present: Editor and
publisher, Savvy-Discounts Newsletter.
---1975-1993: Professional
freelance photographer (see earlier description).
---1972-1975: Director,
Durham Photography Workshop (see earlier description).
--- Intern, photographer,
North Carolina State Government. Department of Natural And Economic Resources,
Division of
Community
Development, 1974. Took photographs for city development project to document
problems and opportunities in a number of North Carolina cities and towns including: Rocky Mount, Greenville,
Greensboro, Asheboro,
New Bern, Beaufort, Laurinburg, Clinton.
---Masters in Communications
(M.A. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974).
Graduate
school work: UNC-Chapel Hill photolab
under Ross Scroggs,; Memorial Hospital video-taping program.
---B.A. in English, Honors in
Writing (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1966).