Showing posts with label Dogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dogs. Show all posts

10.11.2010

CHIP SIMONS: Dog Gone

Mr. Ping
Photograph © Chip Simons/ All rights reserved

Brodie
Photograph © Chip Simons/ All rights reserved

Photograph © Chip Simons/ All rights reserved

Photograph © Chip Simons/ All rights reserved

Photograph © Chip Simons/ All rights reserved

...pets, since the very beginnings of human culture, have lived by a different set of rules than other animals Ptolemy Tompkins "The Divine Life of Animals"
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Photographer Chip Simons, now Albuquerque based, has worked for countless publications from Time, Esquire, GQ, People, Scientific America, Audubon, Rolling Stone, and Forbes. He's shot advertising for Coke, Shimano, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Apple Computer, to name a few. He is known for his wide angle and fish-eye lenses, and his use of colored lights and light painting techniques...as well as his creative and conceptual approach to all things Americana. Check out Chip Simons Website

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Have You Read...Ptolemy Tompkins, The Divine Life of Animals: One Man's Quest to Discover Whether the Souls of Animals Live On. He received both a New York Times Book Review and an excerpt in The New York Times newspaper on the same day! In his Huffington Post Interview, Do Our Pets Go To Heaven, "Tompkins undertakes an exploration into the myths and beliefs across time that have defined animals' place in the metaphysical scheme of things". Ptolemy, the son of 1970s guru and best-selling New-Age cult author, Peter Tompkins (The Secret Life of Plants, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids), is himself the author of four critically praised books, The Beaten Path: Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World, Paradise Fever: Growing Up in the Shadow of the New Age, The Monkey in Art, and This Tree Grows Out of Hell, a spiritual history of Mesoamerica. More about Ptolemy

6.02.2010

PRISCILLA RATTAZZI: Best Friends

 Luna and Lola (Callaway)
Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

Luna and Lola (Callaway)

  Beatrice Caracciolo with Vespa and Voyou
Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

 The Duke of Beaufort with Lotte and Mabel
Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

 Cristiana Brandolini and Kukuruz
Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

 Elizabeth Avedon with Hogarth, Montauk
Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

Diana Vreeland
Priscilla Rattazzi's iconic image of the greatest arbiter of style + elegance.
Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved


When Priscilla Rattazzi's book Best Friends (Rizzoli) was first published, photographs of famous and not-so-famous people with their canine friends, the New York Times covered the book party in Central Park, Canine Social Set Steps Out, with more than 50 dogs as the guests of honor. "The dogs had water and sampled the victuals at a doggie bar. George, an English bulldog, was the only snob. He decided crowds were not his thing."

Priscilla Rattazzi was born in Rome and came to the US in 1974. She studied photography at Sarah Lawrence College, followed by assisting fashion and still life photographer Hiro, before working as a fashion and portrait photographer for many years.
Exhibitions of her work include: the Staley Wise Gallery, New York; a retrospective at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; a series of portraits of actors, producers and directors for the Tribeca Film Festival at the Jack Banning Gallery, NY; and a retrospective at the Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy; among many others.

Ms. Rattazzi has published three books, as well as one portfolio: Best Friends (Rizzoli, 1998); Children (Rizzoli, 1992); and Georgica Pond (Callaway, 2000), a ten-year examination of a body of water on the East End of Long Island. Best Friends, The Portfolio (LunaLola Press, 2006), is a collection of fourteen of Priscilla's favorites portraits largely chosen from the original book Best Friends.

We look forward to her forthcoming book,
Luna and Lola (Callaway) available in Ralph Lauren stores.

1.10.2010

9.03.2009

TONY MENDOZA: Bob (2006- )

Photograph (c) Tony Mendoza/All rights reserved

Photograph (c) Tony Mendoza/All rights reserved

Photograph (c) Tony Mendoza/All rights reserved

TONY MENDOZA is a Cuban-American photographer. Born in Havana, he moved to Miami with his family in 1960, graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Engineering, Harvard with a Master of Architecture, before becoming a full time photographer in 1973.

Mendoza has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Photography Fellowship as well as two Creative Writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. His photographs have exhibited in major museums around the country. His most well known book Ernie is a photographic memoir centered around a cat he encountered when he moved in to an apartment in New York City. Mendoza is currently an instructor of photography at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Galleries.

Tony Mendoza Website

More Dog Park Photographs

8.12.2009

JESSICA TODD HARPER: Interior Exposure

(12-time Olympic Medalist)
Dara Torres at home in Florida with her daughter
from Newsweek 2009 (c) Jessica Todd Harper/All rights reserved

Self Portrait with Christopher, Papa, and Ah-Choo, 2003
(c) Jessica Todd Harper
/All rights reserved

Becky with Zephyr and Christopher, 2004
(c) Jessica Todd Harper
/All rights reserved

(Untitled) 2009 (c) Jessica Todd Harper/All rights reserved

There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough, that you will be successful, be able to support yourself, or importantly, make a meaningful contribution to others. But in the meantime, if you are an artist, the art just comes - whether you like it or not- because you can't stop it.

Read the complete Interview with Jessica Todd Harper and Michael Werner on Two Way Lens. View Jessica Todd Harper website