Atlanta+Based+Photographer

=Lucinda Bunnen= http://www.aliciatravisonphotography.com/ Atlanta native Lucinda Bunnen has had a very positive impact on photogrphy in our city. After 35 years of Photography she continues to be invonlved int the community in many ways. Her exhibitions are exceptional, and if you are given the oppurtunity to attend a lecture or speach by Bunnen you should jump on the chance.

=Panorama Ray=

There was an photographer during the late 80s who had high hopes for the Atlanta art scene. He wasn't a native of the area, and at first the Atlanta scene didn't accept him, but eventually his charming personality won them over. He was a folk artist named Raymond Herbert, but many knew him as Panorama Ray. He was called Panorama Ray because he used an antique Kodak Cirkut panoramic camera to achieve his famous wide-angle photographs. He was also called the "Mayor of Cabbage Town". Cabbage Town, which is the oldest industrial settlement in Atlanta, had gone downhill until Panorama Ray made people interested in the area once again. Ray dreamed of making Cabbage Town into an art gallery district, as well as an overall artistic zone. He opened an art studio there, which he called Cirkut Central, to promote local art. Panorama Ray died of a heart attack in 1997 and his art studio has since closed, but his memory and his high hopes and dreams live on in Atlanta's art scene. His son Ray Herbert III followed in his footsteps and is now a panoramic photographer in Atlanta. He helps keep his father's memory alive in Atlanta's art world today by continuing to use the style of photography that made his father famous and by working with galleries that are in the gallery district, Cabbage Town, which Panorama Ray had created. //(above: New Orleans designer Rosemary Kimble and friends in front of Panorama Ray's camera van, 1996 -- from her//

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