Salt Lake Photographic Print Society at Caffe Molise

When the Salt Lake Photographic Print Society showcases its annual spring exhibition, plan on seeing some of the best photographic images in the region. The society is Utah’s oldest photography club, and its aim is to “preserve the fine-art photographic print as the highest expression of photographic art.”

This aim is amply expressed in the current exhibition hung at Caffé Molise, hosted by Utah Artist Hands (an untitled piece by Fred Silcox is pictured). These images make the most of two fundamentals: the natural and the artificial. Within these fundamentals, the photographers use the abilities of the print to capture the finest tonalities, textures, hues, gradations, contrasts and nuances, all to create a lucid and refined elemental exposition of the subject. It might be an old motel with a garish fuchsia sign and roof and decaying white wood that has seen many, many years, or the purity of a swell of water as it thrusts forward, looking icy-cold and crystalline. (Ehren Clark)