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Cindy Pitou Burton

Photojournalist to Fine Art

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I spent 16 active years as a photojournalist in NYC, first working for the NY Times, expanding to CBS, NBC, PBS, magazines and corporations. Moving to a quieter Ojai, I began photographing the western landscape, experimenting with different mediums.

Polaroid and negative transfers enchanted me with the painterly way it transformed each print. Archival sepia prints of the west reminded me of old postcards and led to photographing flowers on a light box as I rediscovered color. All of these influence my photographs, occasionally in combination. A life lived as a photographer, from photojournalist to fine art.

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OSA Artist's Museum Show Reception This Friday!

Always great fun! The reception is August 21 at the Ojai Valley Museum from 5 to 7pm, and the show is up until October 12. I'll be there, pouring drinks and enjoying the food when I'm not at the bar. The exhibit "As We See It" is an amazing one and worth spending time looking at each and the comments next to each art piece.

Music, East End/Upper Ojai Studio Tour and Gallery Shows in Ojai!

I’m in two of the events! Always fun when a family brings children with them. Many just look but some ask questions, often funny, but sweet to see their curiosity and ask them questions about their favorite. Here’s a photograph from last October’s OSA Tour. Many of the photos from then are in blancheSylvia’s gallery on Flowers, across from the festival, but many new ones are in my studio. Signs are out and maps are online so enjoy a day of art in the mountains and valleys of Ojai. Free and welcoming...

Cindy Pitou Burton: After the Rains. . .

Epic wind and rain poured down the mountains and into streets for three days, closing streets and trapping many inside. Seeing sun peeking . . .

Cindy Pitou Burton: Mixing it Up!

Beatrice Wood in her studio from a photo taken for an NBC series on successful aging. I then played with the image years later with Polaroid transfers, making it into a smeared transformation of Beato. . .

Cindy Pitou Burton: Not my Shot

A visitor to my studio on the Oct. tour last year asked to take a photo of me. She fumbled a bit and . . .

Cindy Pitou Burton: A Toy Box in my Negatives

As I was cleaning my darkroom, now storage room, I ran across contact sheets, slides--and grabbed a stool. I had never printed some of...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Nature's Surprises...

I've been glued to my sea and cloud series, changing every morning and night. Then the sun sets and backlights an orchid on my table. I...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Sharp Contrast in Winter at Taft Gardens

Having been at Taft Gardens in the obvious times, spring, summer and fall, this was my first trip to make in winter with it's cool light...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Clouds Gathering...

The uneven, unseasonal weather has been creating new landscapes everywhere--but nothing like the range and color of clouds. I have a...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Cleaning up my studio...

Here is one small area, the rest has scattered work being assessed to frame or to file for another show just ahead. It's hard to move...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Iris pushing through

A sea of common blue iris and one large pale yellow among them was startling. I cut it, put it on my old lightbox and the light came...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Drama at the Beach

Days grow longer, contrasts more extreme, silhouettes disappear into a grand design.

Cindy Pitou Burton: All in Magical Ojai

Returning home from an evening with friends from a great Digital Pop event at the Ojai Valley Museum to wonderful food at The Noodle...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Rain and Clouds Become Art

During a cold, dark and rainy winter and spring, life slowed down and drifted into paying attention to the details outside my window. It...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Remembering Barbara Walters

Looking back on my years of photographing in NYC I realized I have B&W portraits that lay out history and life in the 1980's and early...

Cindy Pitou Burton: Life Lived as a Photographer

I spent 16 active years as a photojournalist in NYC, first working for the NY Times, expanding to CBS, NBC, PBS, magazines and corporations.

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