LAURENT GIRARD: Statues of Central Park

Robert Burns
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

The Falconer
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

Sir Walter Scott

Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

Group of Bears
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

Indian Hunter

Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

Three Dancing Maidens
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

The Angel of the Waters
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard /All Rights Reserved

Taking photographs since the age of 12, French born Laurent Girard has been one of the world's most sought-after master black and white printers for decades. Laurent is the former owner of New York's legendary Lexington Labs, printing for everyone from Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Bert Stern, Herb Ritts to Bruce Davidson, Nicholas Vreeland and Patti Smith (his impressive client list here!). In 2002, he merged Lexington Labs with Coloredge, and, in 2008, Laurent joined Griffin Editions, providing Fine Art Photographic Printing for Artists, Museums and Galleries (their blog). Central Park website.

Statues in Central Park
Gelatin Silver Prints / Selenium Toned
Prints For Sale

Update: Laurent Girard
CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait
June 8 - August 4, 2012
Leica Gallery • 670 B'way • New York

KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI: 567 Photography Interviews

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

Photographer and part-time educator, Kevin Miyazaki, has created THE BIG LIST [567 & GROWING] OF PHOTOGRAPHER AND PHOTO INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS on MIAD-FA382. It's a fantastic Resource - a must-see-and-read for anyone interested in Photography!

You can read HOME: KNOWN AND UNKNOWN by curator Karin Higa, Japanese American National Museum, about Miyazaki's series Camp Home (on his website under Personal/Camp Home). He has been documenting the reuse of buildings from the * Tule Lake Internment Camp, where his father's family was placed during World War II. Because photography was forbidden by internees, very few photographs of the home-life were made by the families. "My pictures act as evidence, though many years later, of a domestication rarely recorded during the initial life of the structures."

Kevin Miyazaki: Website
The Big List: MIAD-FA382

* Tule Lake was the largest and most controversial of the ten War Relocation Authority WRA camps used to carry out the government’s system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent, mandated by Executive Order 9066. Two-thirds of the 120,000 persons of Japanese descent incarcerated in American concentration camps were American citizens, an act that culminated decades of anti-Japanese violence, discrimination and propaganda. Read more...

ASSAF POCKER: Scar Tissue

Cosmo
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Gia
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Van
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Van
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Liora (Portrait of the photographer's Mother)
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

"Pain recognizes pain"–Assaf Pocker

Assaf Pocker was born in 1958 in Be'er Sheva, Israel. He studied Photography and Art at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and worked as a successful photojournalist in Israel throughout the 1980s. After moving to the U.S., Pocker has been working on his series, Scar Tissue, to be published by Nazraeli Press. The subject matter is pain, raw pain, and the images are very intense. You can view them here

"Scar Tissue" Nazraeli Press, Fall 2010
With An Introduction by Renee T. Coulombe, PhD

IN PRAISE OF MY BLOGGER COLLEAGUES

Little Augury: Portrait de Monsieur Levett et Mademoiselle Glavani Assis Sur un Divan en Costume Turc, The Louvre Museum, Paris, (1738-1741)

LITTLE AUGURY is truly Eclectic!

With her keen sense of Style, great knowledge of History and long career in Interior Design, Little Augury's posts include everything cosmopolitan. Through archival and contemporary photographs and paintings, Little Augury covers Social History, Houses, Style, Design, and Architecture. Always sophisticated.

Dame Edith Sitwell
Photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1926

The Sitwell Family: Osbert, Edith, and Sacheverell, 1927
Photograph by Cecil Beaton

"Regina Angelorum at McQueen": Detail of Jean Fouquet's Melun Diptych Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, a supposed portrait of Agnes Sorel, confidante & mistress of Charles VII and images from Alexander McQueen's Collection

La Infanta: Velasquez's Infanta dona Margarita de Austria juxtaposed with contemporary photography in Africa.

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Artist Catherine Nolan's Fine Art Blog

Blog Giveaway
I received this beauitful bag of Catherine Nolan Notecards! (on Etsy)

As a "Winner of the Fine Art Giveaway," I received a bag full of assorted notecards from Artist Catherine Nolan - beautifully reproduced original paintings - just for following her blog! And Catherine accepts commissions. Provide her with photos and she can create an original painting of your favorite room, including sentimental objects and your pet! EtsyShop

Join Catherine Nolan and many other Artist's
Beacon Hill Art Walk
Sunday June 6th 12 to 6. Rain or Shine

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SIGNED BY ANGE

Signed By Ange on Etsy

I won this "Signed by Ange" 6.5"x20" painting of an inspirational Helen Keller quote

The beautifully wrapped painting sent from France (!) from Signed By Ange

We all have the potential to achieve great things, feats that might seem impossible from our current position. All we need is a little more encouragement.–Ange's Words

I "won" an original painting on wood from Toulouse, France (!) Calligraphy Artist "Signed By Ange" of Helen Keller's quote: "No pessimists ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Ange creates customized artwork through Etsy. Check out her work on her Blog.

HEART FOR HAITI: Benefit Online Auction For Doctors Without Borders

"Brad Pitt, A River Runs Through It." Gallatin River, Montana
Photograph (c) George Holz/All Rights Reserved

Untitled, 3.8.10 (Port Au Prince, Haiti)
Photograph (c) Kareem Black/All Rights Reserved

Jay-Z, Kanye West: JFK Story, 2005
Photograph (c) Clay Patrick McBride/All Rights Reserved

Untitled
Photograph (c) Reed Young /All Rights Reserved

Rhode Island Red
Photograph (c) Evan Kafka/All Rights Reserved

Stone Wall, 2004
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

White Bengal Tiger
Photograph (c) Warwick Saint/All Rights Reserved

VIEW ALL 146 AUCTION PHOTOS HERE!

AUCTION OPENS 5/19/2010 9:00 AM - CLOSES 6/17/2010 11:59 PM

Click Here For All The Details

STELLA JOHNSON: photo-eye Showcase

Djohong, Cameroon, 2003
Photograph (c) Stella Johnson/All Rights Reserved

Orinoco, Nicaragua, 2003
Photograph (c) Stella Johnson/All Rights Reserved

Orinoco, Nicaragua, 2003
Photograph (c) Stella Johnson/All Rights Reserved

"Restlessness and curiosity led me to travel to places far enough away from my immediate world to have an open field. There’s a magnetism that led me to those places, to imagine what I wanted to do with my camera."– Photographer STELLA JOHNSON

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photo-eye Photographer's Showcase
An Online Juried Photography Gallery

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.

Priscilla Rattazzi Website

ROSE-LYNN FISHER: -BEE-

tarsus
Photograph (c) Rose-Lynn Fisher/All Rights Reserved

the bee's knee
Photograph (c) Rose-Lynn Fisher/All Rights Reserved

eye

"The first time I looked at a bee’s eye magnified I was amazed to see a field of hexagons, just like honeycomb" Photograph (c) Rose-Lynn Fisher/All Rights Reserved

BEE, Photography by Rose-Lynn Fisher
Princeton Architectural Press

"As though revealing a secret, the scanning electron microscope presents a realm of structure, design and pattern at a level of intricacy we are oblivious to in our daily experience."–rose-lynn fisher

–BEE–
Photographs by Rose-Lynn Fisher

FARMANI GALLERY

June 3 - June 26

An Afternoon with the Artist: June 19 1-5 PM