Douglas Busch

Born in Miami Beach in 1951, Douglas Busch now lives in Malibu, California. He calls his series of seascapes “Silent Waves”. In Silent Waves, Busch uses digital photography to capture quiet, sublime and dramatic moments of the eternal encounter between light and water. His images seem self-evident and natural, as if they had created themselves, with their meditative atmosphere. It is rare that we meet such pictures of nature, which are made with the most modern technical means, but that express at the same time such a “paintingly”, emotional quality. Busch’s photographs remind us of abstract paintings and they incorporate such intense “allure” because they translate “water” and “light” into sensual compositions of fragile colors.
“In the first part of 2003, Douglas Busch rented for a time a beach bungalow in Malibu with a sundeck extending over the surface of the sea. From then on, his sea images begin to move away from the type of photography in which the subject is easily recognisable, instead becoming increasingly abstract in nature until they end up as meditations on light and colour. He begins photographing the sea literally at every moment of the day and night, from the first light of dawn until the fading of the last traces of natural light in the evening, finally using searchlights to illuminate the water at night. (…)With their starkly reduced range of colours, the resulting pictures have little in common with photography in the generally accepted sense of the word. These monochrome studies lack anything like an identifiable content. We are now dealing with the play of light and colour in a visual space. Within these structures, it is still occasionally possible to make out  individual waves or clouds. These almost serve further to heighten the impact of these images, as they comprise the only point of reference within them.
The ‘Waves’ are just as romantic as they are lucid.”Quotes: Thomas Schirmböck

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Illinois State Library
Rockford Art Museum
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art
Grinnel College Art Museum
Danforth Museum of Art
George Eastman House
Portland Museum of Art
University of California, Santa Cruz
McDonalds Corp.
United Banks of Colorado
St. Frances Hospital
The Best Company
Ziffren and Ziffren
General Litho
Jannes Arts Publishing Co.
Liebovich Steel Corp.
Eastman Kodak Corp.
Cedar Sinai Hospital
Polaroid Corp.
Rodenstock Optical Corp.
City of Rockford
Denver Chamber of Commerce

Photo District News: No Strings Foundation
International Photo Techniques
Camera Arts
Modern Photography
Photo Vision
Professional Photographers of America Technical Photography
N.Y. Times Art Review
Chicago Tribune
New York Photo District News
British Journal of Photography Photographic Collector Magazine
Popular Photography
Rockford Magazine
Janesville Gazette
Rockford Register Star
Die Rheinpfalz, Germany
Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, Germany
Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, France
Edenkobener Rundschau, Germany
Foto and Labor, Germany
Darkroom Photography
Photo Vision
Cucina Bella E Buona #76
Il Nouvo Bagno #27
HG TV Design Challenge 10 April 01
Robb Report March and April 2005
Western Interiors 2005

Solo Exhibitions

2006	Art Moscow, Russia May 2006
	Silent Waves: Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
	Retrospective: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
	Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
	Vestiges: Vertretung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz und der Europaischen Union, Berlin, Germany
	Vestiges: Mainz Museum, Germany
	Italian Gardens: Museum fuer Europaische Gartenbaukunst, Duesseldorf, Germany
	Vestiges: Landes Museum Koblenz, Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Germany
2005	Hack Museum, Retrospective Ludwigshafen, Germany
	Vestiges: Maison de l’Archeologie, Niederbronn-les-Bains, Frankreich, France
	Vestiges Buró Trifels, Annweiler am Trifels, Germany
	Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2000	Focus Gallery, Carmel, CA
1999	Mannheim City Gallery, Mannheim, Germany
	Group V, Braunfeld, Germany
1998	Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
	Group V, Braunfeld, Germany
1997	Photo Classics Gallery, Munich, Germany
	Lotus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
1996	451 Gallery, Rockford, IL
	Borrone Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
1995	Fact Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
	Linderman Gallery, Germany
1994	G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	X-ibit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992	Steven Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991	Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990	Art Services, San Francisco, CA
	X-ibit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989	James Madison University, Harrisionburg, VA
	continued City Hall, Rockford, IL
	Weiss-Morris Gallery, Rockford, IL
	Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL
1988	Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
	Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
	Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
	Union League Club, Chicago, IL
	J.R. Kortman Gallery, Rockford, IL
1987	Ida Public Library, Belvidere, IL
	Denver Chamber of Commerce, Denver, CO
	United Banks of Colorado, Denver, CO
1986	Florissant Valley College, St. Louis, MO
	Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO
	Fermilabs, Chicago, IL
	A-Space Gallery, Madison, WI
	University of Maine, Portland, ME
1985	Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL
	Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI
1984	Tracy Felix Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
	Victor School of Photography, Victor, CO

Group Exhibitions

2002	A Century of Photography, Cedar Rapids Art Museum, IA
2000	Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
1989	Art in the Embassies, Washington, DC
	Busch Gallery, Rockford, IL
1988	Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
	Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1987	Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
1986	US Department of State, Washington, DC
	The LLoyd Gallery, Spokane, WA
	The Architectural Center, Chicago, IL