Carl G. Lindquist began his life-long love of cameras and photography at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. The opportunity to serve as photography editor of the yearbook gave him perspective on the power of the photographic image to capture a moment in time. He took this experience and translated it into a 40 plus year career in industrial photography, documenting a chapter on the continuum of manufacturing history. On Monday Carl could be on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico; Tuesday would find him traveling to a potato farm in Idaho and in the next few days he would be doing architectural documentation in Denver. He could end or start the next week in a coal mine in Pennsylvania, where he met his greatest lighting challenges. He was very successful with portrait work for political and business leaders. Along the way he began to work on industrial movies with his most interesting project being to cover the building of the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. Carl’s work was as varied as the business and industrial world of the USA.. After retiring he worked at his first love - landscape photography. He spent as much time as possible in the state parks of Western Pennsylvania and national parks from coast to coast. Two of his favorites were Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. He loved climbing rocks and ridges to seek unique perspectives and uncommon angles. An eye for image composition and remarkable patience for just the right lighting were tools he brought to the task of creating a picture. An extraordinary collection of images created over a lifetime behind the camera compels us to offer this retrospective sample of his work and to honor his intense commitment to photographs as a tool to communicate and find beauty.
CARL LINDQUIST PHOTOGRAPHY © 2009