It’s the last week to see “Hidden Art,” an exhibition at Bridge Gallery celebrating the quirky photographs of Lance Hidy.
While best known for his graphic design work on Ansel Adams’s and Arnold Newman’s photography books, Hidy has rendered all manner of publications, posters and stamps into things of beauty. He’s also got a keen eye for a good photograph.
The trout flies were tied by the artist’s father, V.S. Hidy, a trout fly legend whose work turned everyday objects into stuff that looks like experimental sculptures.
Hidy, now based in Merrimac, Mass., used a technique called ‘focus stacking’ to put the images together. It’s a method that creates an astonishing level of detail. Just to create each photograph, Hidy took between 80 and 150 images with tiny shifts in focus. Using a computer editing program, he then combined all those images into one final photograph that kept every area of focus and removed all the blur. The result is an image with an astonishing level of detail.
Only an artist would do something like this. As funny as photographing a fancy fish hook sounds on paper, we’d do well to take note of Hidy’s methods. In our own way, we can all do what he does: zeroing in on something small, spending time with it and convincing others that it’s worthy of our attention.
Bridge Gallery, 5 Pemberton St., North Cambridge. Free.
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