Exhibits

Roger De Muth's panoramic photographs will be on display at the library from September 8 through October 17 during all regular library hours.  A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, September 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

 

Roger De Muth is an award winning Designer, Illustrator, Photographer and Gardener. His Illustrations have won awards of merit from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles. His work has appeared in the American Institute of Graphic Arts, The New York Times, Playboy, and the Design Journal, Seoul, Korea to mention a few. His first Children’s book won the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s Book award, and a Creativity award from Create Magazine.

 

Roger has been honored to work with the Cartoon Network, Cracker Jack, Masterpieces Puzzles, Smokey the Bear, Xerox, Silver Burnett & Ginn, Consolidated Edison, WGBH Boston, Kodak, Xerox, Big Blue Dot, Disney, C.R. Gibson, American Greetings, Niagara Mohawk & many companies thoughout the United States and Europe. He is currently working on his 3rd Children’s book - Dinner for Eight with Blue Apple Books in Maplewood, New Jersey.

 

This past year, Roger created a portfolio of 5 panorama photos of the Landmark Theater in downtown Syracuse. The Landmark Theater portfolio was awarded to the top 15 movies in the 5th Annual Syracuse Film Festival. The Landmark Theater Portfolio won a Silver Award in this year’s 38th Annual Creativity Contest, and included in the 4th Annual International Association of Panoramic Photographers exhibit.

 

Roger has been working with panorama photos for many years, originally taping images together with scotch tape. His earliest vision was of a panorama photo of a park in Passaic, New Jersey that his father photographed. Everything changed however with the introduction of digital cameras and Photoshop CS 3. It is now possible to have unbroken images perfectly spliced together creating a seamless image. It is this combination of digital camera, digital image, and Photoshop CS3 that has made shooting panorama photos so intriguing for the artist. It is addicting to say the least! Roger tries to go out a shoot nearly every day.

 

Each of the photos is made up of dozens of photos carefully stitched together. The prints are printed on archival Epson Photo Luster paper and then permanently mounted on industrial strength gator board.

 

Roger De Muth is currently Associate Professor of Illustration at Syracuse University in his 30th year. He is represented by the Chameleon Gallery in Cazenovia, NY and Elise Rosenthal in Los Angeles.

 

For more information and examples of work please visit www.mrpanoramaman.com or www.demuthdesign.com or rdemuth@syr.edu

 

The photo is taken from the bridge looking north on Rippleton Cross Road of the Meadows Farm in Cazenovia.

The image is made up of approximately 30 individual photographs carefully stitched together.

 

Rippleton cross Roger DeMuth.jpg

 

The New Woodstock Free Library is open Monday through Friday 1 to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday evenings 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 until 1.  The library is also open whenever the blue library symbol flag is flying out front.  Children’s hour is every Tuesday at 11 a.m. 

The library phone number is 662-3134.