Rocky Vertone

September 17-November 18, 2010

This will be Rocky's first show at the Gallery and it will be an amazing show! His first one in years and It is very different fro his one's in the past. A photography show depicting images from his surroundings here in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where he resides.

All images were taken from his iphone using an application called "Hipstamatic." 

Are you hip enough?

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HISTORY
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In 1982 Bruce and Winston Dorbowski began producing a DIY camera made entirely of plastic after dropping out of art school. The molds were made by hand and each camera was assembled in the brothers' cabin workspace on the Wisconsin River in Merrill, Wisconsin. Each camera included a golden yellow shutter button which become a cult icon in 1983. By the end of 1984 the group had manufactured and sold 157 units. They then began working on setting up a production facility to take the camera to retail stores such as Woolworth's and K-Mart. On June 22, 1984 the brothers signed a lease on a new building that was to become the company's manufacturing plant. On the way back to their cabin they were struck by a drunk driver and killed and the Hipstamatic never become mass produced.

You can also learn more about this history of the Hipstamatic on Richard Dorbowski's website, http://hipstamatic.com/