SVA MPS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Book+Branding Class of 2014. Part III

 MARK ROUSSEL  Finding and Losing My Father

Photograph (c) 2014 Marc Roussel

 EVELINA REINHART  The Joy of Eating

Photograph (c) 2014 Evelina Reinhart

HENNY GYLFA  Park Hill Boxing Club

Photograph (c) 2014 Henny Gylfa

JAMIE SHIELDS Less Is More

Photograph (c) 2014 Jaime Shields

SHARRON DIEDRICHS Burden of Existence

 Photograph (c) 2014 Sharron Diedrichs

 WON KIM Stereotypes

Photograph (c) 2014 Won Kim

ERIKA VELASQUEZ  Below The Surface

Photograph (c) 2014 Erika Velasquez

ZILAN FAN Between Dream and Reality

Photograph (c) 2014 Zilan Fan

 TAYLOR MICKLE  Futurama

Photograph (c) 2014 Taylor Mickle

SVA Masters in Digital Photography 2014 Grads - Part III

Leading-edge Masters Degree program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts, Chaired by "Photoshop Diva" Katrin Eismann (check out her Books on Amazon!), with Associate Chair and "Color Guru" Tom P. Ashe, (check out his Color Management book); and with an unbelievable faculty of photography professionals I'd list but do not want to leave anyone out! Congrats to all my students on their final Branding, Book and Portfolio Designs!

Book+Branding Part I

 Book+Branding Part II

*all names are Website links

SVA MPS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Book+Branding Class of 2014. Part II

 JAIME CODY  Recollection

VICTORIA HARDINA  Together

Photograph (c) 2014 Victoria Hardina
 

CLAREESE HILL  My Black Face

Photograph (c) 2014 Clareese Hill

AILIN BLASCO  Ourea

Photograph (c) 2014 Ailin Blasco

KEVIN WO  Announce

Photographs (c) 2014 Kevin Wo

 CHUCK ALMAREZ  A Time Gone By
Photograph (c) 2014 Chuck Almarez

 LACY KIERNAN  URBAN LANDSCAPES
Photograph (c) 2014 Lacy Kiernan

ANDRE AVANESSIAN  phobophobialand

  ADRIANO HULTMAN  Things We Can See 

Photograph (c) 2014 Adriano Hultman

SVA Masters in Digital Photography 2014 Grads - Part II

Leading-edge Masters Degree program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts, Chaired by "Photoshop Diva" Katrin Eismann (check out her Books on Amazon!), with Associate Chair and "Color Guru" Tom P. Ashe, (check out his Color Management book); and with an unbelievable faculty of photography professionals I'd list but do not want to leave anyone out! Congrats to all my students on their final Branding, Book and Portfolio Designs!

Book+Branding Part I

 Book+Branding Part III

*all names are Website links

SVA MPS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Book+Branding Class of 2014. Part I

 SARAH JUN   Mimicry

Photograph (c) 2014 Sarah Jun

BILO HUSSEIN  Never Home

Photograph (c) 2014 Bilo Hussein

HSIN WANG  De-Selfing

Photograph (c) 2014 Hsin Wang

MEG LAUBSCHER  Somewhere In Between

Photograph (c) 2014 Meg Laubscher

SVA Masters in Digital Photography 2014 Grads - Part I

Leading-edge Masters Degree program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts, Chaired by "Photoshop Diva" Katrin Eismann (check out her Books on Amazon!), with Associate Chair and "Color Guru" Tom P. Ashe, (check out his Color Management book); and with an unbelievable faculty of photography professionals I'd list but do not want to leave anyone out! Congrats to all my students on their final Branding, Book and Portfolio Designs!

COLIN MURPHY
Photograph (c) 2014 Colin Murphy

Book+Branding Part II

 Book+Branding Part III

*all names are Website links

RICHARD GERE: Pilgrim

 Giza, 2005

Courtesy of the Gere Foundation

Photograph (c) Richard Gere  

EA: Your photograph of the Pyramids and the South Pole (not shown) are like two jewels. I’ve never seen a photograph of the Pyramids from that angle before.

Richard Gere: I was in Cairo in 2005 on the way to the Middle East to meet His Holiness in Jordan, in the ancient stone-carved city of Petra. Elie Wiesel co-hosted “The Petra Conferences” with King Abdullah II of Jordan. They brought together Nobel Prize winners with distinguished social and political leaders. His Holiness was there and I was invited to come, but on the way there I was speaking at a conference of Arab women, "Women, Creativity, and Dissidence" in Cairo, Egypt, under the aegis of the Arab Women Solidarity Association (AWSA). I was there for a couple of days and I befriended one of the key archeologists.

I asked to get to the Pyramids early in the morning. I got there in the morning at dark and waited for the light to come up. We were way out in the desert. I took a lot of pictures. Somehow it was out and around, way on another side, and I could see the Pyramids were almost lining up. When the light was coming up, all the lines were converging and I just had to move maybe ten or twenty yards over, then all the lines created these planes. I’d never seen that angle in a photograph before either.

Richard Gere is represented by the Fahey/Klein Gallery, L.A.

Richard Gere, 108 Stupas

Erdene Zuu, Karakorum, Mongolia, 1995

  Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon

 Richard Gere and Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Bodh Gaya, India 1987 

Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon

AMERICAN PHOTO MAGAZINE

 read Gere Foundation Foreword here

As I've lost most of the negatives from the photographs above and on the Gere Foundation site, click through for a last look before they disappear completely! – E.A.

A pilgrim is defined as a person who travels on long journeys. Richard Gere’s book of photographs, Pilgrim (published by Bulfinch Press, ISBN: 978-0821223222), is available from Amazon.com. All proceeds are donated to the Gere Foundation that supports humanitarian causes throughout the world. 

SEAN PERRY: The Wonder of Asymmetry

LensCulture

PhotoNOLA

photolucida Critical Mass

CENTER Review Santa Fe

  

On the Wonder of Asymmetry, Part Two

by Sean Perry

In 2008, at the dawn of the greatest stock market panic and decline in nearly 80 years, I started trading in earnest. I had loosely followed financial markets for 7 years prior, mainly investing as most do via mutual funds with the small deduction from a part-time paycheck. Shall we just agree, trial by the fire of Hephaestus is a considerably understated depiction of the escapades that would follow.

I cannot help but find this experience a most interesting proxy for navigating the world of photography call for entries and competitions – which are seemingly unending and certainly no less harrowing. Unexpectedly, trading has informed my practice and teaching in many ways – including adopting comparable strategies for opportunities that require a financial investment. As I am certain you are aware, nearly all do today. Hence my reverence for the organizations and calls that reside in a photographers favor, such as the aforementioned Critical Mass, as well as the exceptional PhotoNOLA, LensCulture and Review Santa Fe among the select few.

Still the labyrinth and spectacle of finance both delights and flummoxes me, including it's many fascinating characters cast as heroes and villains alike. I confess at times this strange hobby just bewilders all of my synapses – conjuring visions of multidimensional chess against doyens speaking in tongues. Yet I persevere, and continue to look for the sages and their keys who have traversed these dark pools.

Allow me to introduce you to one such gentleman.

Paul Tudor Jones is the quintessential bad-ass. Seriously. He imagined and then built the Robin Hood Foundation and the Excellence Charter School. October 19th, 1987, careers, egos and wealth were alight in a most spectacular fashion as companies of the Dow Jones Index lost a combined $500 billion in value in a single day. Meanwhile, Mr. Jones calmly procured a cool $100 million on an asymmetric bet. He had anticipated Black Monday with the adeptness and moxie to bank it.

Asymmetric bets – I like that.

I first discovered Mr. Jones in the 1989 title by Jack D. Schwager, Market Wizards – a sublime collection of back stories and interviews with elite traders and financial minds. He is introduced under the heading of The Art of Aggressive Trading, and though his investment prowess is exceptional, equally so are his philanthropic endeavors and accomplishments. At the time of the books publication, the newly founded Robin Hood Foundation endowment had grown to an impressive $5 million. Now twenty five years later, it has distributed more than $1.45 billion into various initiatives and programs to alleviate poverty in New York City. Remarkable what can be fostered with desire and tenacity.

 Watch Video: Paul Tudor Jones

I am grateful for Mr. Jones and the nourishment found in studying his life and work – his deceptively simple discipline renders so powerful in practice. He readily consumes his failures and like a phoenix, ascends. I leave you with this passage from a speech he gave to the graduate class of the Buckley School, 9th grade boys commencing a new chapter in their young lives. I accept that pursuing the work I love, entwined with the necessity of refining opportunities to sustain it, will always be laden with the dragons he speaks of below. Asymmetry is a welcomed companion in these formidable times. I brave on.

"Some things happen to you that at the time will make you feel like the world is coming to an end, but in actuality, there is a very good reason for it. You just can’t see it and don’t know it. When one door closes, another will open, but standing in that hallway can be hell. You just have to persevere. Quite often that dragon of failure is really chasing you off the wrong road and on to the right one. Some of your greatest successes are going to be the children of failure." – Paul Tudor Jones, 2009

On the Wonder of Asymmetry, Part One

Sean Perry Photographs

Sean Perry is a fine-art photographer living and working in New York City and Austin, Texas. His photographs and books center on architecture, space and light – the ambiance felt within built environments. He is currently completing three series on New York City entitled Monolith, Gotham and Fotopolis, as well as exhibiting a recently completed body of work on the dreamscape of temporary environments, Fairgrounds. read more

W.M. HUNT: "Foule - American Groups before 1950" in Arles from the WM Hunt Collection + NYC 2015

from the W.M. Hunt Collection

“Foule - American Groups before 1950" 

7 July – 21 September, 2014 

Palais de l'Archevêché

35 Place de la République, 13200 Arles France

“Ramona Lodge”, Women in costume, early 20th Century 

Unknown Photographer or Studio

Men with bow ties, 1890's. Horner Studio

“The Human U.S. Shield, 30,000 Officers & Men, at Camp Custer, Battle Creek Michigan, Brigadier General Howard L. Laubauch, Commanding”, 1918.  Mole & Thomas (Arthur Mole b. England 1889 – died US 1983 & John D. Thomas, American, dates unknown) 

Click on images to enlarge!

 “Hunt’s Three Ring, Circus”, Northport, LI, NY

June 26th, 1921, E.J. (Edward J.) Kelty

2015 UPDATE:

NYC, 2015: "Hunt's Three Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950" opens Monday, September 28th, 2015, 6-8 PM, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, New York. 

2014 ORIGINAL
The W.M. Hunt Collection

“Foule - American Groups before 1950" 

7 July – 21 September, 2014 

Palais de l'Archevêché

35 Place de la République, 13200 Arles France

 VIMEO

Play this short VIMEO with Collector W.M. Hunt

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

4th of July. Anniversary of the
Signing of The Declaration of Independence

Although Thomas Jefferson is often called the “author” of the Declaration of Independence, he was a member of a five-person committee appointed by the Continental Congress including Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman. When writing the first draft of the Declaration, Jefferson primarily drew upon two sources: his own draft of a preamble to the Virginia Constitution and George Mason’s draft of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights. After Jefferson’s first draft, the other members of the Declaration committee and the Continental Congress made 86 changes.

Jefferson was quite unhappy about some of the edits made to his original draft of the Declaration of Independence. He had originally included language condemning the British promotion of the slave trade (even though Jefferson himself was a slave owner). This criticism of the slave trade was removed in spite of Jefferson’s objections.

"Original Declaration of Independence/ dated 4th July 1776," was handwritten on the back of the Declaration of Independence. No one knows who wrote it. (read more here)

SEAN PERRY: Critical Mass 2014

 "Surfland" photolucida, 2009

08.07.04 #1 Abbey

Photograph © Joni Sternbach

"Findings" photolucida, 2005

White Terns, Midway Atoll, 2000 

Photograph © Hiroshi Watanabe

On the Wonder of Asymmetry, Part One

By Sean Perry

I am quite fond of the phrase asymmetric opportunity – parlance divined from a curious fascination with the renegade spirits who define finance. I am particularly inspired by the adroit Paul Tudor Jones, to look for and capitalize upon these succulent rarities whenever one can.

Critical Mass is part of photolucida, an outstandingly run arts nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. It's directed by the lovely Laura Moya and has a fantastic board and group of contributors. I will save the photolucida reviews for another time, today I want to tell you about Critical Mass.

You submit a 10 image portfolio with associated information to a pre-screening review committee of 25 jurors. They select 200 of the best portfolios and that is then sent to over 200 reviewers/jurors. Yes, 200! From the curated 200, the Top 50 are announced and awards are selected including a monograph. I have a sweet (and scarce) collection of titles from past winners, including Camille Seaman, Joni Sternbach and Hiroshi Watanabe. Another inspired detail, when you participate you receive a copy of their book even if you don't make the Top 50.

"The Last Iceberg" photolucida, 2006

Stranded Iceberg I, Cape Bird, Antarctica 2006

Photograph © Camille Seaman

I encourage the perusal of outstanding Reviewers, even if you feel your project is not yet ripe to apply. The Picture Review alumni use these calls as a little black book – it is a great way to know who does what, where and prepare for a time when perhaps you are ready.

My past submissions proved helpful in many ways, including tangible benefits to my career path and relationships. Also the important practice of presenting new work. I would love to win the book prize (of course!) but in truth, that's not the reason for doing this.

Potentially 225+ legit reviews of your work for $75.00. If you make the top 200, you have to pony-up to move forward. I believe $200.00, which works out to $1.22 per review/contact.

So beautifully asymmetric. You will find no better example in photography calls today asking the risk of little, in exchange for generous passage and potential. July 16th is the deadline to enter, I wish you all luck and triumph.

photolucida Critical Mass

Registration for Critical Mass 2014 is open until July 16th, 2014
Sean Perry Photographs