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PROFILE
Native of San Diego County; attended University of California at Davis, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Brooks Institute of Photography; private pilot; has owned photography business in Santa Barbara since 1980.
RESUME
Recent Publications Cowboy Island, Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 2000. Principle photographer for color and black and white photographs, 200 pages. The Valley Club of Montecito, Companion press, 1998. A limited edition book with color photographs of landscape and architecture, 110 pgs. Ranchos - Santa Barbara Land Grant Ranchos, The Easton Gallery Pub., 1996 - chapter of b&w photography of historic ranches and all color reproductions of original art, 152 pgs.
Lotusland: A Photographic Odyssey, Allen A. Knoll Pub., 1995 - principal photographer, 200 pgs.
Sunset Western Garden Book, Sunset Pub. Corp. 1995 - numerous color photographs
Orange County: A Photographic Collection, Sunbelt Publications, 1996 - cover & other photographs
The Oak Group: The First Ten Years, Easton Press, 1996 - 50 b&w photographs
Capital Reef - Canyon Country Eden, Cachuma Press, 1995 - color photography
Rancho Santa Fe: A California Village, R.S.F. Historical Society, 1993 - principal photog., 160 pgs.
Lotusland - The Garden and Its Creators, Companion Press, 1996 - principal photographer, 48 pgs.
Death Valley National Park - An Interpretive History, Companion Press, 1996 - color photography
Island of the Cowboys, S.C.I.F. Pub., 1996 - b&w photography of Santa Rosa Island
Santa Cruz Island Anthology, S.C.I.F. Pub., 1994 - cover & photographs of Santa Cruz Island
Santa Barbara Island, S.C.I.F. Pub., 1993 - cover & photographs of Santa Barbara Island
Chapel of the Holy Cross, S.C.I.F. Pub., 1991 - cover & photographs of Santa Cruz Island
(partial list)
HABS- HAER Photo Documentation Projects:
Santa Cruz Island for the Channel Islands National Park (2000-2001)
Santa Rosa Island, for the Channel Islands National Park ((2000-2001)
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA for JRP/S.A.I.C (1998-9)
Rough and Ready Naval Base, Stockton, CA for JRP Associates(1997)
Salinas Dam, Santa Margarita, CA for JRP Associates (1997)
Mission Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, CA (1997-1998)
Roosevelt Naval Base, Long Beach, CA for S.A.I.C. (1996)
Mare Island historic building district, Vallejo, CA for JRP Associates (1996)
Huntington Pier, Huntington Beach, CA for S.A.I.C. (1990)
Documentation of Santa Barbara projects include: Santa Barbara Railway Depot for S.B.
Redevelopment Agency, & the on-going restoration of Casa de la Guerra for the
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (1995-ongoing)
Chapel - seismic upgrade retrofit, Santa Cruz Island, CA for S.C.I.Foundation (1991-ongoing)
(partial list)
Magazines Where Photographs Have Recently Appeared:
Sunset, Southern Accents, Family Circle, Smithsonian, MD, Architectural Digest, Art and Antiques, Art in California, LA West Magazine, Modern Maturity, Westways, Montecito Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, Women Outside, Garden Design. (partial list)
Shows:
May, 1991 Island Light; Channel Islands Photography
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History/Sea Center Gallery
One man show of Channel Islands photography.
Feb., 1992 Channel Islands
Ventura Museum of Art & History
One man show of Channel Islands photography.
Sept., 1992 Sky Borne
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
One man show of aerial photography of Santa Barbara & So. California.
April, 1993 On & Above California
Easton Gallery
One man show of black & white and color photographs.
Sept., 1994 Near Escapes
Easton Gallery
One man show of black & white and color photographs.
Oct., 1994 "Cuyama, Oaks & Ridges"
Santa Barbara Art Walk
Best of Show Award
Oct., 1996 “Salinas Valley Hills”
Santa Barbara Art Walk
Honorable Mention & Merit Award
Feb., 1999 “All Eight; Photographs of the Calif. Channel Islands”
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
One man show of color photographs and catalog
Photographs in Permanent Collections:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Ventura Museum of History and Art; Mobil Oil Corporation, Santa Barbara; Peter Tatistcheff, New York; Arthur V. Brown III, Indianapolis; and the Santa Cruz Island Foundation, Santa Barbara.
Miscellaneous:
Portfolios of Dewey's aerial photography (1988), Sedgwick Ranch (1995), and Santa Rosa Island Historic Ranching Operations (1996) were featured in issues of Santa Barbara Magazine. Unique bird's eye video footage of the west coast of Baja California was used by the BBC and PBS for inclusion in the 1989 documentary, The Mystery of Laguna Baja. Recently, the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History collaborated with Dewey on the production of an exemplary aerial poster of the four Northern Channel Islands. Other publications featuring Dewey's photography illustrate his great interest in photographing the Channel Islands including: California Channel Islands, 1001 Questions Answered (1987); Santa Cruz Island Anthology (1989); and Northern Channel Islands Anthology (1989).
Current Projects:
Dewey’s current work includes HABS photography of the cultural resources on the California Channel Islands of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz and Anacapa for the Channel Islands National Park. He has also recently completed photography for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for a book to be published in 2001 on its 100 years of history. Also completed in 2000 was HAER recordation of two historic bridges in Santa Barbara County for Applied Earthworks of Fresno, CA.
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