MOMENTS CAPTURED AND PRESENTED:
PHOTOS AND PHOTO-HAIGA BY ALAN BERN at TOMATE CAFE IN BERKELEY
Exhibit up Thursday, January 2, 2020 to Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 3:00pm
Alan Bern is a photographer, born, raised and still living in Berkeley. He is also a prize-winning poet and storywriter with two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). A third book, greater distance and other poems (2015), was published by his own press, Lines & Faces. Alan and artist Robert Woods, friends since the 1960s, both worked as commercial printers and have operated Lines & Faces, their press and publisher specializing in illustrated poetry broadsides, since 1974, linesandfaces.com. Alan is a recently retired Children’s Librarian from the Berkeley Public Library.
Photographs can capture and present moments. Poems, too, can capture and present moments— especially short poems such as haiku and haiku-like poems. Alan captures and presents such moments in both his photographs and his poems, and sometimes he combines the two in what are called photo-haiga.*
*"Haiga [paintings] are typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiga– with Alan's photos standing in for the paintings.
January and February 2020
Tomate Cafe
Open daily
8AM-3PM
Berkeley, CA 94710(510) 549-9885
Contact Alan Bern with questions or to purchase his work:
Alan Bern
510-684-0931