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Laura Gilpin - Masterworks July 20 - September 15, 2007 |
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Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier Summer 2007 |
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Delilah Montoya • Women Boxers: The New Warriors December 15, 2006 - January 15, 2007 Photographer Delilah Montoya's new book, "Women Boxers: The New Warriors," published by Arte Público Press: University of Houston, 2006, depicts the first generation of women in the Southwest on their way to becoming championship boxers. Montoya's photographs of professional boxers Holly Holm, Stephanie "Golden Girl" Jaramillo, Monica Lovato, and Jackie Chavez and others, take us deep into the rigors and rewards of women's boxing. Interest in women's boxing has not only been growing, but women boxers have actually breathed new life into a sport which will be featured for the first time in the 2012 Olympic Games. Many of the women Montoya photographed are training for that moment. Montoya's project was funded in part by the University of Houston Small Grants Program and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County. |
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Elliott Erwitt • Six Decades October 13 - November 20, 2006 Elliott Erwitt's timeless photographs of ordinary life, beach scenes, celebrities, children and dogs have delighted viewers for decades. According to Henri Cartier-Bresson, "Elliott has to my mind achieved a miracle working on a chain-gang of commercial campaigns and still offering a bouquet of stolen photos with a flavor, a smile from his deeper self.” At age 77 Erwitt has culled through sixty years of his work and chosen what he considers to be his very best photographs. These ebullient images, many of which have not been published before, reflect the vast scope of the wittiest photographer of our time. Andrew Smith Gallery will have approximately 25 of Erwitt's photographs representing many phases of his long career, including several photographs taken in New Mexico in the 1960's. |
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Sandra Russell Clark • Cut Adrift September 16 - October 2, 2006 The American South has been an ongoing source of inspiration for Clark. Her numerous photographic series including Gardens of Reflection, Elysium, and In Search of Eden have documented the Gulf Coast's verdant landscapes, formal gardens, and aboveground cemeteries. Her images, according to one writer, "seduce the viewer with their unabashed beauty and ignite feelings of melancholy, loss, and optimism." Clark's series on New Orleans cemeteries capture through infrared film their opulent, or downtrodden or otherworldly beauty. They appear in Clark's book, "Elysium, A Gathering of Souls, New Orleans Cemeteries (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)." A native of New Orleans, Sandra Russell Clark lost her home and studio in Hurricane Katrina. |
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Victor Masayesva • Drought August 18 - September 25, 2006 Victor Masayesva, Jr., who lives in Hopi, Arizona, is a distinguished filmmaker and photographer whose exhibit titled, Drought, marks his fifth show at Andrew Smith Gallery. Masayesva is an acute observer of the struggles of Native People to retain their identity, culture and spirituality against enormous obstacles. His manipulated photographs have explored such issues as reappropriation, government encroachment on sacred sites, historical biases, environmental destruction, and limitations of human perception and sensitivity. His current body of work focuses on the crippling drought of 2006, and explores how global warming is impacting the Hopis and the world as a whole. Masayesva will be signing copies of his new book Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva, published by the University of Arizona Press. |
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Bill Wittliff • A Selection: Lonesome Dove and La Vida Brinca July 14, 2006 - August 14, 2006 Based in Austin, Texas, Bill Wittliff has had a distinguished career as photographer, film producer, director, publisher and screenwriter of the Emmy award-winning television series Lonesome Dove. As a photographer Wittliff has long been known for his photographs made on the set of the 1989 TV mini-series, Lonesome Dove. Wittliff's photograph from the series titled, Gus on the Porch, remains the best selling single original photograph of the last decade. These days Wittliff shoots with pinhole cameras, photographing Hispanic fiestas, religious observances, people, architecture, and rural scenes in Mexico, Texas, and New Mexico. Probing beneath the literal look of things, Wittliff exposes an uncanny realm where half ordinary, half specter-like forms inhabit another reality. |
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Fredric Roberts • Humanitas After working for thirty years as an international investment banker Fredric Roberts turned his back on the world of high finance and picked up a camera. Since 2000 he has worked in the tradition of such great travel photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Steve McCurry. His stunning color photographs of people and scenery from India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Bhutan and Myanmar are the subject of the book Humanitas:Volume One, (2004). His photographs describe a glittering, exotic world of golden Buddhas, silver flecked saris, elaborate turbans, jewelry, embroidered scarves, prayer beads, begging bowls, holy books, and reed sandles. Roberts' work is in the collections of Stanford University and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. Recently he won multiple awards in the 2003 and 2004 International Photography Awards. |
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Patrick Nagatani • Chromatherapy March 10, 2006 - April 30, 2006 Tableaux artist Patrick Nagatani pioneered the Contemporary Constructive Movement in the late 1970s, developing a vocabulary of ideas and presentation based on constructing large scale sculptures, small models and paintings in front of the camera. His recent "Chromatherapy" project consists of 60 color photographs that relate to the belief that colored light rays can cure diseased organs of the body. Reminding viewers that light is the basic tool of photography, Nagatani creates real and imaginary relationships between photography, light and healing, inviting viewers to suspend disbelief and entertain the idea that there actually exists a wonderful, non-invasive alternative to surgery and drugs. |
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Jack Spencer • This Land November 25, 2005 - January 15, 2006 Jack Spencer, based in Nashville, Tennessee, achieved notoriety for his photographs of people and landscapes of the Mississippi River Delta that appeared in his first book, Native Soil (1999). Spencer's umber hued and selectively colored prints glisten with a soft tactility seldom seen in photography, achieved through unique technical processes devised by the artist. For the last three years Spencer has been taking landscape photographs for his series, "This Land." He has traveled through various parts of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, avoiding interstate highways and doing his best to get lost on back country roads. From the cloud swathed Grand Tetons, to a grass fire in Idaho, to the palmetto forests of Florida, the artistic process for Spencer is both a journey to actual places, and a journey through realms of imagination and uncanny beauty. |
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Jerry Uelsmann • Other Realities November 11, 2005 - January 15, 2006 Jerry Uelsmann is one of America's most important contemporary photographers, known throughout the world for his dreamlike images that evoke myth, magic, humor, and melancholy. Since the late1950s Uelsmann’s surreal, composite photographs have challenged conventional notions of reality, and changed the language and direction of photography. Uelsmann uses up to seven enlargers in the darkroom to create his enigmatic images of nature, the human figure, exterior and interior environments, and improbable relationships. Each photograph is hand printed using multiple negatives on single sheets of paper. The photographs in the exhibit at Andrew Smith Gallery were made between 1998 and 2005. Many appear in the new book, Jerry Uelsmann: Other Realities (Bulfinch Press, New York, 2005). |
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Lee Friedlander • Sticks and Stones July 8 - Sept. 12, 2005 Lee Friedlander is internationally regarded as one of America's most important contemporary photographers. For over fifty years he has photographed the American social landscape, working within the tradition of Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Charles Sheeler, Garry Winogrand, and Robert Frank. Friedlander photographs places characterized by the eccentricities and imperfections, by the telephone booths, chain link fences, advertising, phone poles and street signs that describe who we are as a culture. Transcending mere documents, his photographs are the result of the artist's masterful ability to structure scenes through the camera lens. |
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Paul Caponigro • Still Lifes 2004 March 18 - May 16, 2005 With a distinguished career spanning over fifty years, Paul Caponigro is regarded as one of the greatest photographers of our time. His newest body of work, Still Lifes 2004, includes over twenty-five superbly printed arrangements of weathered rocks, polished shells, rain spattered leaves, brittle corn husks, and gnarled wood. The images explore how light interacts with opaque, translucent and transparent surfaces. Underlying these surface concerns is a meditation on the transmutation of matter over time, and the unexpected beauty that appears as things weather and decompose. Paul Caponigro continues to reveal the wondrous in the ordinary, and to explore symmetries and conjunctions that abound in nature. |
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Annie Leibovitz • American Music October 22, 2004 - January 15, 2005 Annie Leibovitz's career began in the early 1970s when at age 24 she became chief photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine. For her recent series, "American Music," Leibovitz made an ambitious photographic journey in order to describe how popular music is made and how musicians live. "American Music" covers nearly a century of musical creativity. Most of the photographs were taken between 1999 and 2001, but the exhibit includes some images from the early 1970s. Portraits include Pete Seeger, Norah Jones, B.B. King, Brian Wilson, Dan Zanes, Emmylou Harris, Hank Williams, Iggy Pop, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Lucinda Williams, Mary J. Blige, Patti Smith, The Roots, The White Stripes, Willie Nelson, and many others. |
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Herman Leonard • The Jazz Portfolio Photography and jazz music have been Herman Leonard's two great passions for over fifty years. Combining an intimate, informal style of portraiture with impeccable print quality, Leonard's photographs capture magical moments when great jazz musicians like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Sarah Vaughn were utterly transported by their music. Leonard often backlit his subjects in the smoky, late night clubs where they performed. The Smithsonian Institution has the entire set of photographs from Images of Jazz in its permanent collection. |
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Jack Spencer • Aparicioñes Jack Spencer's umber-colored images of rural life in the American south and Mexico have been compared to the writings of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and Flannery O'Connor. His exquisitely crafted prints are the result of an exceptional vision, original darkroom technique, and a marvelous sense of story. Spencer is known for his photographs of humid bayou country, hard living black musicians, dogs cavorting, and folks going about their business in the backwaters of the Mississippi River Delta. He also worked in Mexico for three years on "Apariciones," a series of over seventy-five images of people and landscapes filled with magical realism. Spencer's newest project is a series of landscapes taken in various parts of the United States simply called, "This Land." |
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Joan Myers • Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey Over the last twenty five years Joan Myers has undertaken one ambitious project after another. Long fascinated with the South Pole, Myers was chosen by the National Science Foundation to participate in their 2002-2003 Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. She spent four months photographing virtually every aspect at McMurdo Station and elsewhere in the Antarctic. Inside the station she documented scientific activities, personnel, and infrastructures. Outside the base she photographed historic huts, geologic wonders and wildlife. Myers will be collaborating with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee on a book of her photographs and experiences. For her work on Antarctica Myers was awarded the 2003 Eliot Porter Prize by the New Mexico Council on Photography. |
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Herman Leonard • Jazz Classics Photography and jazz music have been Herman Leonard's two great passions for over fifty years. During the 1940s and 50s he roamed the nightclubs of New York and Paris, photographing the greatest jazz musicians of that era: Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, and many others. Leonard's photographs depict magical moments when the great jazz musicians are utterly transported by their music, relaxing backstage, and joking among friends. |
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Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie • Portraits Against Amnesia Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is a seminal figure of the first generation of Contemporary Native photographers. For over thirty years her art has imbued the complex issues of identity with intelligence, wit and grace. Tsinhnahjinnie&Mac246;s speaks to a Native audience, without apology to the "mainstream". Her graphically powerful works involve a layering of abstract imagery, symbols, and personal references from her own life. She is a 2003 Eiteljorg fellow with the prestigious Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis. |
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Flor Garduno • Inner Light Flor Garduño is Mexico's acclaimed "poet-photographer." Her powerful images of native peoples throughout the Americas bridge the threshold between the sacred/temporal worlds, and allow viewers to glimpse what Carlos Fuentes called "the moving portrait of eternity." Recently Garduño has photographed still lifes and female nudes, describing a deeply personal realm in which the artist wanders through the multi-faceted territory of the mythic feminine. |
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Paul Caponigro • Fifty Years of Photography Paul Caponigro has spent fifty years exploring the natural world and architectural forms from antiquity. His printing reflects a heightened sensitivity toward gray tonalities rather than the impact of strong blacks and whites. He invites us to pause for a moment and reflect with fresh eyes on subtle movements in nature like the ebb and flow of tides, surfaces polished by wind and water, or twisted by the elements into goblin-shaped knots and whorls encrusted with lichens. |
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Ansel Adams • Monumental Classical Photographs Ansel Adams is regarded as the greatest landscape photographer of all time. We owe much of our understanding of Western wilderness areas and their preservation to his breathtaking images. Not only was Adams' artistic influence gigantic, so were his mural photographs which he printed in sizes up to 6.5 x 9.5 feet. Adams understood the visual force of monumental photographs. He mastered the process and was regarded as the technical and artistic expert in the field, becoming the virtual authority on what he called, "enlargements with a vengeance." |
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August Sander • Portraits from the Twentieth Century August Sander (1876-1964) was the great German photographer from the first half of the twentieth century who brought a new, objective realism to photography and redefined ideas about portraiture. Having become convinced that photography and painting were completely separate media and should follow independent courses, Sander strove for photographic portraits that were sharp and clear, free from retouching or manipulation. His most significant body of work was titled, "Citizens of the Twentieth Century," an ambitious, rank-ordered portrait collection of German society. |
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Baron Wolman • Forever Young In 1967, during rock music's heyday, Baron Wolman met Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine, who hired him as the magazine's first chief photographer. For the next three years Wolman photographed the royalty of the 60s pop and rock world. His images of Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Rolling Stones, and other celebrated musicians were the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stone's layout. Wolman's timeless silver and platinum print images reflect an era when photographers and musicians were part of the same explosive scene. |
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Danny Lyon • Indian Nations Danny Lyon has spent his career photographing marginalized groups in the U.S. and abroad, drawing attention to the human spirit's struggle for economic survival, and providing an inside look at radical, counter-culture lifestyles. The power of his photographs lies in Lyon's ability to create a simple tableau that reveals cultural intensity at its fullest, making it impossible for viewers to side-step challenging issues. Lyon has had major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona. |
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Josef Sudek • Still Lifes Summer/Fall 2002 During his lifetime, Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was Czechoslovakia's most famous photographer -- the národní umèlec (national artist) of his country. Internationally he is regarded as one of the great masters of the 20th century who introduced aspects of modern art to the medium of photography. In the vast scope of his work one finds Pictorial, Abstract, Surreal and Dada elements. At the same time, Sudek maintained a diverse and unique photographic vision that evades categorization. Like Edward Weston, Sudek made magnificient photographs of every subject he chose to work with. |
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Magnum Photographers Magnum Photos, Inc. was founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour (Chim), George Rodger, among others. They set about to form a consortium that would protect photographer's ownership of photographic negatives, give them editorial control over the use of their photographs, and free them from the tyranny of big magazine or agency editors who took advantage of reporters' time as well as their negatives. For the first time in the history of photography the Magnum agency provided its members with their own copyright. Many Magnum photographs are regarded as classic masterpieces that encapsulate in a single image the sweeping global changes and looming personalities of the twentieth century. |
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Alan Ross Alan Ross' photographs describe the beauty of the western United States in images of dramatic deserts and mountains, cloud-swept skies, and radiant light. A master printer and educator, he has led workshops in locations ranging from Yosemite to China, and was Ansel Adams' Photographic Assistant in Carmel for five years. |
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Ansel Adams Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is considered the greatest landscape photographer of all time. His breathtaking images of the Sierra Nevadas, the Pacific coastal region, the Southwest, and other locations throughout the United States elevated the art of photography to new heights. As a teacher, Adams' influence on students of photography was incalculable. His development of the Zone System, his books, lectures and original prints continue to profoundly influence both photographers and collectors of photography. |
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Barbara Van Cleve Descended from Montana pioneers, Barbara Van Cleve is renown for her photographs of ranchers, rodeos, cowboys and cattlewomen. Her photographs range from straight-forward documents, to images of movement, myth and imagination. |
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Jody Forster Jody Forster's landscape photographs of the Southwest U.S., northern Mexico, the Himalayas, Thailand, and Antarctica reveal moments when powerful forces of nature interact. Forster uses an 8 x 10" view camera and prints his own silver print photographs. His color prints evoke a heightened sense of atmosphere, perspective and space. |
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William Henry Jackson Born only four years after the invention of photography, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was the first person to photograph many western scenic wonders such as Mesa Verde and Yellowstone. Using huge wet-plate cameras he worked on the Geologic Surveys, documented archaeological ruins, artifacts, native Americans, and the expansion of the railroad. His most prolific legacy was with the Detroit Publishing Company. |
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Phil Borges • Indigenous People - Landscapes of the Soul Phil Borges travels to remote parts of the world photographing people of vastly different backgrounds and cultures. His intimate, split-toned portraits reveal the daily lives and struggles of native peoples around the planet. Borges's portraits were taken in Tibet, Peru, the Amazon Basin, Kenya, Siberia, Mongolia, the Philippines, and elsewhere. |
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Frederick H. Evans Highlights of Gloucester Cathedral, 1890 A Rare Collection Of Platinum Print Photographs Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943) advocated "untouched realism" in an era when it was believed that only by elaborate manipulation could photography approximate fine art. Evans developed his negatives mechanically and printed them without retouching. The 40 platinum print photographs from Evans' masterwork, the Albert Harrison album of Gloucester Cathedral were printed between 1890 and 1891. |
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Christopher Burkett
Christopher Burkett is one of the great contemporary of photographers of the pristine American wilderness. Each Cibachrome photograph reflects the artist's impeccable printing skills, and his desire to share with viewers a conviction that the eternal is present in ephemeral nature. Burkett prints all his own work, striving for maximum image clarity without distortion or exaggeration of color. |
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Paul Caponigro • Cornucopia March 17 - May 1, 2000 Paul Caponigro is one of the legendary photographers working today. With an artistic career spanning half a century, his photographic eye, powers of inspiration, and technique are unmatched in the world of photography. In 1999, after a six year hiatus, Mr. Caponigro created twenty-four exquisite new still lifes that celebrate the cycles of nature, and hint at an underlying order and intelligence to the universe. |
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