The result, in the case of The Dark Knight Rises, is a movie so
rich in lushly cinematic images — with lustrous colors and richly
textured night scenes — that it should be displayed side by side with the likes of The Avengers and The Amazing Spider - Man in public forums devoted to educating the audience about what is being lost as the making and
exhibiting of films on actual film becomes a museum art — the latest, but surely not the last, casualty of Hollywood's relentless focus on the bottom line.
A Nashville resident whose work has been
exhibited and collected internationally, Jack Spencer alters the surfaces of his photographs with techniques suggestive of painting —
rich tones and colors, softly - focused or veiled forms, slight imperfections and painterly
textures.