Paul Lurie   I enjoy the vistas of the landscape, whether it is the wilderness, the water, a rural farm or an urban streetscape. I am interested in how those landscapes are visually interrupted by people, their structures, or the changing light of the sky. The interruption may have been done by a sensitive architect, or by an insignificant barn or silo, or it may be in the form of people. These people happened to be at a point in space and time that allowed them to be captured as they intercepted their visual environment. Photography allows me to arrange all of these interruptions in a visually interesting manner not obvious to the naked eye. These images were taken with a Hasselblad Xpan 35mm panoramic camera. This camera produces double frame 35mm images. The images were either shot handheld or steady with a monopod. While I am very interested in and use technology. I do not own a digital camera. I believe that film still produces a superior tonality for landscapes. I am indebted to my visual mentors, including the painters Harold Gregor, Roger Brown, Ian Hornak, James Winn and Steven Kozar, and the photographers Aaron Siskind, Maxwell MacKenzie and Jean Moss-Weintraub. In particular I want to recognize the importance of Max McKenzie who first opened my eyes to the importance of scale in photography and the subject potential of farms apart from historical references. -Paul Lurie