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The color photography of Karl LaLonde is an
exploration of the beauty of old trucks and old vintage airplanes. America has had a love affair with
trucks and old airplanes, an important part of America’s nostalgic culture. Capturing the aging
beauty, the rust, the old lights, the fading colors, has become a passion with
Karl LaLonde.
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Towns are
different with their unique look & styles. Always at their beginning or at
the edge there are junkyards taking care of the old until their recycled end.
Trucks and cars; tired and retired from there
tasks lay dormant with their own memories of the heroic deeds. For many
years they have accomplished impossible tasks for man. Their memories are
starting to fade like the color on their skin.
Trucks, the modern work horses are the heroes
we’ve used, wore out and left in a field to retire. These steel marvels
are more beautiful now than when shiny and new. Amazing what time
can do to metal and paint. How the brilliant colors are homogenized with
rust. There is beauty in their patina, history and in their engine hearts. …………………………Karl LaLonde
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Karl travels with his camera through towns each
different with their unique look & styles. Always at their beginning or at the
edge there are junkyards taking care of the old until their recycled end. Trucks
and cars; tired and retired from there tasks lay dormant with their own memories
of the heroic deeds. For many years they have accomplished impossible tasks for
man. Their memories are starting to fade like the color on their skin. Trucks,
the modern work horses are the heroes we’ve used, wore out and left in a field
to retire. These steel marvels are more beautiful now than when shiny and new.
Amazing what time can do to metal and paint. Ho the brilliant colors are
homogenized with rust. There is beauty in their patina, history and in their
engine hearts.
Karl LaLonde is a photographer and a
painter, living most of his life here in the Hudson valley. In high school he
learned how to take pictures and the love affair continues today. He attended
Dutchess Community College for Commercial art and BARD for photography. IBM
offered him a job and he started working for them as an artist in their TV
Studio in the sixties. He was directing and producing productions by age 24 and
won several international TV awards. By 30 he was art directing. All this time,
outside of the corporation, he was photographing, painting and showing,
capturing the beauty of old trucks and the nature around us.
And he paints too - vivid colors..
Oceanic, 18x24, acrylic
Plunge, 20 x 16, acrylic
The Depths, 48x24, Acrylic
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