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About The Photographer

John Lytton is a black and white fine-art photographer who uses classical techniques
with digital, medium and large format cameras to record images of traditional
subjects such as landscapes and architecture. He has frequently employed his own
chemical formulas to produce prints of unusual depth and clarity. Using his
background in both engineering and commercial photography, John operates Lytton
Imaging, a photographic and digital imaging consulting and service company.
Clients include Sysco, Compaq Computers, Sandia National Labs, industrial
manufacturers, banks, real estate companies, public relations firms.

Updating his pursuit of fine art black and white printing, John made the transition to
digital fine art printing in 2000. After extensive calibration and testing of equipment,
inks and papers, he now produces digital fine art black and white prints that rival,
even exceed, traditional silver-based images in permanence and visual quality,
winning awards for himself and his clients. John also conducts workshops and
seminars on black and white fine art digital printing.

In 1997, he and his wife Trisha moved to Tijeras, New Mexico from Houston, Texas
where he had started Lytton Imaging in 1980. Before that, he had worked for the
Boeing Company at NASA and also for Brown & Root, a large construction
company. John taught photography and digital imaging at the Art Institute of
Houston.

Artist’s Statement

As with so many other photographers, I was fascinated and ultimately inspired by
classic photographic artists and masters of craft such as Ansel Adams, Edward
Weston, Wright Morris and others who could transform color into shades of gray yet
capture the essence of their subjects. In my black & white photography, I have two
primary goals: first, to capture the interplay of an image’s grayscale tones in a
rendition that recreates the feeling and visualization I had when photographing the
subject; second, to convey that same or similar feeling to another viewer of that
image. The primary attraction of my images is the subject itself or the intra-tonal
relationships, and usually a combination of both. A perceivable sense of depth &
dimension is a hallmark of my prints. Although I photograph a variety of subjects,
my favorite themes are landscape and architecture.
- John L. Lytton