Silveryana: the Photography of F Tobias Morriss November 15, 2010

Morriss was renowned for his skills as a machinist/mechanic and bricoleur, in addition to his stark and haunting images produced almost exclusively in black and white through the silver gelatin process. A remarkably popular professor and friend, Morriss mentored dozens of photography students who remained in close contact with him long after they had finished their studies at USC, and he found great satisfaction in helping non-photographic artists in the USC Art Department to hone their craft and find inventive solutions to difficult artistic problems, whether philosophical or mechanical in nature.