From Modernism to Post Modernism by Tom Millea, March/April 2010

“The change was radical and complete. The photographic community abandoned everything I knew as photographic art and substituted another new set of beliefs. In one fell swoop, Modernism was out and post-Modernism was in.”

From his own historical perspective of decades as a fine art photographer, Tom Millea regards the shift in aesthetic philosophy from Modernism to Post Modernism and its effect on photographic education.

After Platinum by Tom Millea, January/February 2010

“I had to throw everything I knew about platinum out the window and begin again to see with new eyes and work with new hands.”

Tom Millea relates the journey of exploration that took him from platinum printing to a new photographic vision. When the process he had known and perfected became impossible to continue, he met the challenge of learning to see and work digitally.
California photographer Tom Millea has gained a reputation for both his earlier platinum and palladium work and his current color digital photographs which showcase his new photographic vision. Millea’s prints in the Contributor’s Gallery are taken from his upcoming Book of Palms.

Millea’s works have been exhibited at The San Jose Museum of Art, Monterey Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum, Yosemite Museum of Art, Oklahoma Arts Institute, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, De Saisset Museum and Art Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Baltimore Contemporary Museum of Art, the International Center for Photography, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Public collections include Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Crocker Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.