Classic St. Louis: A 40-Year Retrospective
by Richard Sprengeler
Location: The Lambert Gallery West
This exhibition consists of 40 large black and white photographs of St. Louis. The title “Classic St. Louis” refers to the use of black and white film, and the use of large format cameras, whose design harkens back to the view cameras used in the 19th century at the onset of the medium. Sprengeler’s intent is to produce a large body of photographs of St. Louis with these cameras before the production of large format film is discontinued or becomes economically prohibitive.
About the Artist: Richard Sprengeler
Richard Sprengeler is a self-employed freelance architectural and fine art photographer. He has been photographing St. Louis for over forty years, starting in 1980 while studying photography at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
In all of his forty years of wandering the city, St. Louis has never disappointed him. Sometimes it yielded up its secrets easily and sometimes he had to labor hard in order to capture them. The portrait of the city that has emerged is his testament to the men and women of the past 300 years who built this dynamic and extraordinary city.
To learn more, visit: RichardSprengeler.com.
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