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Klaus Lange, seaman artist of San Francisco, presents "Sea-Worn Stories," a collection of color photographs depicting the weathered and worn hulls of ships in extreme close-up. His imagery directly depicts a record of time and energy. Through the lens, he captures distressed painted steel, thus presenting an intimate look at what most people will never see. Lange reveals to the viewer intense and dramatic abstract imagery, and the grand power of an ever-moving force - the sea.
A merchant seaman, Klaus Lange works and photographs aboard a San Francisco pilot boat, and occasionally a Panama Canal tugboat. His time spent working alongside the mammoth ships that traverse these waterways led him to photograph the passing sides. He states, "To me, a ship's hull is like an expressionist canvas with portrayals of physical struggle and natural beauty in which I find stories told by the ship's own paint."
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