STEPHEN MALLON: The Next Stop Atlantic

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Kathleen Vance, Associate Director, Front Room Gallery, in front of Stephen Mallon's "Next Stop Atlantic" image

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

UPDATE!
"Next Stop Atlantic"
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
July 29 - September 25, 2011
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ

NYC Transit joined the artificial reef building program off the east coast of the U.S. in 2000, sending stripped subway cars on barges to be dropped into the Atlantic Ocean to build refuge for fish and crustaceans to colonize the structures. Photographer Stephen Mallon beautifully traces the progress of the train cars on their last voyage out to sea.

Mallon gained enormous acclaim for his series, "Brace For Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549," documenting the salvage of the U.S. Airways flight piloted by Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who managed to emergency-land in the Hudson River in January 15, 2009 without losing any passenger lives.

Another Mallon Must See: Stephen Mallon produced and directed this video created from over 30,000 still images, posted in The Wall Street Journal: A New York Bridge Delivered (here). Follow the progress of this massive structure as it is floated, dragged, pushed and pulled over one hundred miles of New York's historic waterways.

UPDATE!
"Next Stop Atlantic"
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
July 29 - September 25, 2011
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ

STEPHEN MALLON: Brace For Impact: The Aftermath of Flight 1549

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

On Jan. 15, 2009, a few Canadian geese with bad timing became snarge, a steely pilot became a hero, and the world became fascinated with images of a jet splashing into the Hudson River and then floating calmly as passengers crowded its wings. But until now, few people have seen the equally surprising pictures of the second half of this story: when a salvage team used the biggest floating crane on the East Coast to pluck the ill-fated Airbus A320 from the frigid water.

–Matthew Shechmeister, Wired Magazine

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STEPHEN MALLON is the current President of New York's American Society of Media Photographers. Mallon is also the photographer called to document the work of Weeks Marine, the crane company hired for the salvage of US Airways Flight 1549. That was the flight piloted by "Sully" Sullenberger III, who successfully carried out the plane's emergency ditching onto the Hudson River last January, saving all 155 people aboard.

Mallon's recent exhibition of large scale photographs, Brace for Impact, the Salvage of Flight 1549, were shown at Williamsburg Brooklyn's Front Room Gallery. "Mallon's photos present us with the aftermath of this disaster and remind us how it was averted despite nearly unbeatable odds through the mastery and bravery of the pilot and crew...As the fuselage and engine of the aircraft were later brought up intact by a gigantic crane and a team of divers in heated wetsuits, Stephen Mallon captured the moment standing on the deck of the crane-barge. In Mallon's uncanny photographs the plane sometimes appears to be a metaphorical wounded animal, like a whale lifted completely out of the water. It is damaged, beat up and missing one of its engines, but it nevertheless survives." –Front Room Gallery

Brace for Impact, the Salvage of Flight 1549 Dec 3 - 6: VERGE artfair Miami

A Must-See: the entire Flight 1549 Gallery

A Must-Have: Exhibition Catalog

STEPHEN MALLON: The Salvage of Flight 1549

Brace for Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549 © Stephen Mallon

Five years ago, Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River. Stephen Mallon documented it's salvage. I *spoke with Stephen Mallon about how he got started in Photography and the making of these photographs.

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“Mallon’s work harkens back to the heroic industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White and Charles Sheeler, who glorified American steel and found art in its industrial muscle and smoke during the Great Depression.”–David Schonauer

Stephen Mallon is a British-born, Brooklyn-based Industrial and Fine Art Photographer. Mallon first caught my undivided attention and gained enormous acclaim for his series, Brace for Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549. His large-scale photographs documenting the salvage of Flight 1549, the plane piloted by Sully Sullenberger III who successfully emergency-landed in the Hudson River in January 15, 2009 saving all 155 people aboard.

He followed with another outstanding series, “American Reclamation - Next Stop Atlantic”. NYC Transit joined the artificial reef-building program off the east coast of the U.S. in 2000. Mallon beautifully traced the progress of the train cars on their last voyage out to sea.

Brace for Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549 © Stephen Mallon

  

I studied Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1992-1996. When I came to New York after graduating, I was picked up by several assistants that liked my work ethic and they brought me along on a number of jobs; that was how I got started. I assisted for four years. In the late ‘90’s, I was shooting industrial landscapes, burned up power stations, airplane landing strips, oil fields, and ended up with a portfolio of Industrial Landscapes.

My wife and I came up with the concept of a body of work to propose to the recycling industry to photograph within the 50 states to interested companies and have a flushed out project that could be published as a book. I came up with the title “American Reclamation.”

While I was scouting locations for the book, I spotted a barge loaded up with New York City subway cars. The stripped and decontaminated retired subway cars are thrown into the Atlantic Ocean to create a reef. They pull the windows out, they pull out the motor and the plexiglas, but the steel bodies have asbestos from the old fireproofing so it’s not cost efficient for scrap yards to purchase the steel. They can’t cut them up in a traditional scrap yard, so they dump them into the ocean. They have been doing this for centuries, since the 1600’s, with old tanks, old tires, and cement blocks. The EPA signed off on it. They start building reefs within ninety days, although there’s concern about how stable they are because the hurricane apparently pushed a lot of the subway cars around because of the strength of the currents.

American Reclamation - Next Stop Atlantic  © Stephen Mallon

American Reclamation - Next Stop Atlantic © Stephen Mallon

When I found that barge, I got in touch with Weeks Marine and showed them my existing work on the recycling project. The general manager was a fan of photography and said, “Come on down.” He introduced me to the program director of the MTA who then granted me access to the yard at 207th Street and allowed for me to go out on a series of chase boats with them and photograph when they were putting the subway cars into the ocean.

They were going out every month with a tugboat that takes the barge down. It takes about 24 hours for the tugboat to get there loaded up; so the crew boat goes out from either Cape May or Ocean City and we meet up about two hours out. Bang up right next to them. They climb up a ladder onto the barge, start up the excavator with a custom arm built by them to pick up the subway cars and start throwing them off. Then that crew boat backs off. It needs to stay in the area anyway, so I was able to ask the captain, “Can you keep me here? Get me closer, get me to this side.”

Around November of 2008, I got a call from the salvage contractor at Weeks Marine saying, “I don’t know if you’re interested, but we are picking up the Concord tomorrow”. Weeks has a floating crane, so they were able to pick up the Concord and move it back onto the pier that had been built for it. I photographed while the Concord was being moved to the newly restored Intrepid Museum.

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Jan 15, 2009, it’s my wife’s birthday, Sully lands in the Hudson River and we’re sitting in a bar in Clinton Hill looking at this on TV. Someone at the bar said, “I wonder how they’re going to get the plane out?”  I said, “I know who’s going to do this!” I called my contact at Weeks Marine and asked if they got the job. He said I’ll be in a meeting with the Coast Guard and the FBI, so I can’t pick up my phone, but call Tom Weeks, who owns all the cranes. I jumped in the car, plugged in the address on the GPS, got on a tugboat and then I went out and photographed the crash site. I ended up with exclusive access to Sullys crash because I went in there under the aspects of photographing for the construction company, Weeks Marine. As the fuselage and engine of the aircraft were later brought up intact, lifted some eighty feet out of the icy waters by a gigantic crane and a team of divers in heated wetsuits, I photographed the moment standing on the deck of a crane-barge. I went inside the aircraft to shoot and photographed inside the cockpit and the pilot’s seat. NTSB was there and granted access for me as well with the understanding they would have jpegs available for their research and presentation if needed.

 Brace for Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549

© Stephen Mallon

Rob Haggard, of AphotoEditor.com, was the first to post press about my photographs of Flight 1549 on his blog. CBS News picked this up and then it just exploded – NBC and MSNBC, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, PDN, the Lucie Awards, and numerous blog posts later.

They showed Flight 1549 and a couple of the subway cars at PULSEMiami. About half a dozen prints sold, half of which were the subway cars, so I went back and shot the subway cars again. I had a solo show at Front Room Gallery in Sept 2010, on the next chapter of “American Reclamation - Next Stop Atlantic”. The works have been accepted widely and have been shown in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Rome, and the Bristol Biennial, Bristol, UK.
 

Stephen Mallon.com

Brace for Impact:
THE AFTERMATH OF FLIGHT 1549

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*The complete article "STEPHEN MALLON: INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES" first appeared in iMagazine in 2012.

STEPHEN MALLON: Earth Day In Grand Central Terminal April 21-24

Weeks 297, 2008
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Virginia, 2008
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Stephen Mallon Prints on display at Grand Central Station Apr 21 - 24th

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Two images from my upcoming New York solo show "Next Stop Atlantic" will be on display at Grand Central Station, courtesy of The Metropolitan Transit Authority, in conjunction with Earth Day, April 22nd. These images are from the artificial reef project of the MTA to form sanctuaries for marine life by using former subway cars deep in the Atlantic ocean to form steel condos for fish! You can see a documentary on how they look Underwater Here. I am really honored that they are on display at Grand Central Station! – Stephen Mallon

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Giant Earth Images: This show illuminates Grand Central's soaring main concourse with inspiring environmentally themed quotes, messages, photographs and graphic images contributed by artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Rafal Olbinski, among others. The show, projected onto two of the north columns in the concourse, runs 10 hours a day.

EarthFair Outdoors: April 23rd and April 24th; A two-day festival of art, music and the environment on Vanderbilt Ave. A large exhibit area highlighting green businesses, organic food and environmental groups, EarthFair also features live music.

Stephen Mallon "Next Stop-Atlantic"

Exhibition Opens Sept 10 2010

Front Room Gallery

STEPHEN MALLON: The Next Stop Atlantic

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

The Next Stop Atlantic
Photographs by Stephen Mallon
september 10-october 10th!

The NYC Transit authority joined the artificial reef building program off the East Coast of the US sending stripped and decontaminated subway cars off on barges to be dropped into the Ocean in order to build refuge for many species of fish and crustaceans which would colonize the structures. Stephen Mallon traces the progress of the train cars on their last voyage. Front Room Gallery

STEPHEN MALLON : SEA TRAIN

Sea Train: Subway Reef Photos by Stephen Mallon

New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery

Opens Free for the Public • March 20th, 2019

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Between August 2001 and April 2010, MTA New York City Transit deployed more than 2,500 de-accessioned train cars to underwater locations off the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia. The reefing program took shape in two different phases. From 2001-2003, 1,269 carbon steel “Redbird” cars and from 2008-2010, 1,311 stainless steel “B-Division/Brightliner” cars were repurposed and reefed. The cleaned shells of these subway cars created a flourishing new habitat for varied sea life including sea bass, tuna, mackerel, flounder, blue mussels, sponges, barnacle, and coral, and improved marine environments in areas of the ocean floor that were once barren deserts.

Mallon learned of the project in 2008, and spent the next two years documenting the last group of stainless steel subway cars along their journey to a new life on the ocean floor. His images follow the cars as they are cleaned and prepped by crews at New York City Transit’s 207th Street Overhaul Shop, following rigorous protocols approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then moved onto barges in the Harlem River, and deployed using GPS off the coasts of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and South Carolina.

The subway car reefing program not only spurred the creation of miles of artificial reefs along the eastern seaboard from New Jersey to Georgia, it also helped the agency avoid $30 in disposal costs. The program spurred economic growth in coastal communities by successfully establishing robust underwater environments for divers and anglers. But its greatest impact affects marine life itself, benefiting different life stages for a wide variety of aquatic species, working to prevent over-fishing, and providing a broader habitat for spawning and growing fish populations.

On Earth Day 2010, the subway reefing project came to a close, having placed 2,580 obsolete subway cars on ocean reef sites from as close as 54 nautical miles off the coast of New Jersey to as far away as 742 nautical miles in Georgia’s coastal waters. While the program proved cost-effective for decommissioning large fleets all at once, it may not be as efficient going forward given New York City Transit’s current standard of decommissioning only a few cars at a time.

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Opening March 20th at the New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery, Sea Train: Subway Reef : Photographs by Stephen Mallon features nineteen large-format photographs. Mallon’s images, many exhibited for the first time, capture the seemingly impossible: iconic subway cars dropped like toys by brightly-colored cranes off hulking barges. As they are deployed to become artificial reefs, these symbols of industry and city life, which carried millions of passengers along New York City’s iron rails for decades, appear shrunken in scale against the vastness of the Atlantic seascape.

Sea Train: Subway Reef 

Photographs by Stephen Mallon

Opens Wednesday, March 20th

New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery

in the shuttle passage on 42nd Street and Park Avenue,

adjacent to the Station Master’s Office.

The New York Transit Museum Gallery 

at Grand Central Terminal

Monday - Friday, 8am to 8pm

Saturday - Sunday, 10am to 7pm

Free to the public year-round.

*Text courtesy of the New York Transit Museum Gallery

NYC PORTFOLIO REVIEW Tonight!

Brace for Impact, the Salvage of Flight 1549
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Brace for Impact, the Salvage of Flight 1549
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Brace for Impact, the Salvage of Flight 1549

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved
Stephen Mallon blogpost


Wednesday, May 26th, 6:30-9PM
REVIEW 2010: ASMP-NY
FINE ART PORTFOLIO REVIEW
New York's American Society of Media Photographers

CALUMET, 22 West 22nd St, NYC

Register Here for the Review
Become a member of ASMP (membership application here)

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Read Mary Virginia Swanson's post "To Attend or Not To Attend"
Photographer Aline Smithson's post on Preparing for a Review
Jen Bekman's Portfolio Do's and Don't's

PHOTOGRAPHERS HELPING HAITI: ASMP: NY March 5-7 Benefit for Doctors Without Borders

from Brace For Impact: The Aftermath of Flight 1549
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

from Brace For Impact: The Aftermath of Flight 1549
Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Aaron Lee Fineman /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Salem Krieger /All Rights Reserved

More than 100 prints donated by ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers: New York Chapter) members will be on sale for $100 each, 100% of all sales goes directly to Doctors Without Borders.

Work available includes Stephen Mallon's photographs of The Salvage of Flight 1549 (...piloted safely onto New York's Hudson River by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger), black and white portraits of Hungarian-born Master Photographer Andre Kertesz by Susan May Tell, Brazilian photographer Gilberto Tadday's recent images in Haiti, among so many others. Curated by Elizabeth Avedon.

The VERGE ART FAIR donated this ASMPNY Booth: Friday & Saturday, March 5-6 from 2-8 pm, Sunday, March 7 from 12-6 pm The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41, NYC

PHOTOGRAPHERS HELPING HAITI

Opening Night Preview Reception $20 March 4, 6-10 pm
More Photos For Sale HERE and HERE

REVIEW 2010: ASMP-NY Portfolio Review

New York Photo Awards: Fine Art Single Image, Honorable Mention
Photograph (c) Anna Moller/All Rights Reserved

The Innocent. Casualties of the Civil War in Northern Uganda (book)

Photograph (c) Heather McClintock/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Metin Oner/All Rights Reserved

The Gender Frontier (book)

Photograph (c) Mariette Pathy Allen/All Rights Reserved

Tribal Bhil Families at the Bathing Ghats at Baneshwar Mela
Photograph (c) Terri Gold/All Rights Reserved

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith, former ASMPNY President Stephen Mallon, with Fine Art Consultant Mary Virginia Swanson

Photographer Heather McClintock, with Reviewer Mary Virginia Swanson and a Board Member

Publish Your Photography Book, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2010

by Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson

Review 2010 Organizers, Photographers Stephen Mallon and Susan May Tell

My experience at the American Society of Media Photographers / New York REVIEW 2010: Fine Art Portfolio Review was excellent. It was a great platform for photographers to network with over 40 Reviewers that included industry insiders such as Fine Art Consultant Mary Virginia Swanson, Editors from PDN (Photo District News), Gallery Owners, Director's, Curator's and Photo Agents. I was impressed with the high level of work and creative presentations. I came away with many photographers to keep in contact with and profile here in the future. There were also a couple of very successful professionals there to show their new work (Lynn Goldsmith!!!), as well as a few first time students. Thank you to all the photographers:

(Blogspot is acting crazy and insists on making these names GIGANTIC...check out their links anyway)

Lynn Goldsmith, Heather McClintock, Manjari Sharma, Mariette Pathy Allen, Terri Gold, Sheri Lynn Behr, Joseph Squillante, Peter Braune, Peter Riesett, Andrew Prokos, Barbara Beeman, Jason Gardner, Peter Riesett, Melissa Lynn, Robert Hooman, Teresa Kruszewski, Raymond Adams, Meton Oner, Amy Lombard, Anna Moller, Dolly Faibyshev and Tom Donley

And thank you to ASMPNY's former President, Stephen Mallon and ASMPNY Fine Art Chair, Susan May Tell, for including me! A lot of great people from ASMP/NY worked to produce this event, Calumet Photo hosted the space and WagMag donated Pernod for the after party!

PHOTOGRAPHER'S i MAGAZINE: iPad Only

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3
Cover by Steve McCurry

Stephen Mallon with Elizabeth Avedon

“Mallon’s work harkens back to the heroic industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White and Charles Sheeler, who glorified American steel and found art in its industrial muscle and smoke during the Great Depression.”–David Schonauer

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3

Issue #3 for iPad includes Steve McCurry Retrospective, Stephen Mallon Reclamation Projects, Joyce Tenneson, Stephen Wilkes, Dave Beckerman, Thom Hogan, Roger Pring, Lara Jade, Simon Bond, Carl Heilman II, Adam Juniper, Brooke Shaden, Michael Freeman, John Beardsworth, Nancy Brown, Richard Hood, Grahm Davis. Download iPad app: bit.ly/Lvueox

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3 for iPad
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TOP 10 MOST POPULAR POSTS of 2014

#1

Always extremely popular are the many Best Photography Book lists. It assures me books are still alive and well. Of course my list is just a small portion of the excellent photography books that were published in 2014, so check out some of the other 2014 Best Photo Book Lists I've posted links to.

 

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“Photography has never been as fashionable as now. In fact Photography IS the communication now.” – Jean-Jacques Naudet

Jean-Jacques Naudet has championed the careers of countless photographers throughout decades, first as Editor-in-Chief of French PHOTO Magazine during it’s heyday in the 1970′s and ’80′s and later as editor at large for American PHOTO, working for Hachette Filipacchi Media for forty years. A prominent figure in the overall History of Photography, Naudet moved on to found his own publications, starting with the former “Le Journal de la Photographie," and currently with the new L’Oeil de laPhotographie / The Eye of Photography, promoting legendary icons of the past along side a generation of emerging photographers. I have been fortunate to be guided by Naudet over the years. The Interview

 

#3

 Each year, the New York Photo Festival presents PhotoWorld, a wide-ranging juried exhibition selecting the best new documentary, fine art, and motion and drone photography being produced today, determined by top photo and image professionals. Finalists chosen exhibit their work in an installation at POWERHOUSE Arena during the DUMBO Arts Festival. PhotoWorld s an unparalleled opportunity to jump start your career in Photography.

#4

 Photograph © Stephen Mallon

Stephen Mallon first caught my undivided attention and gained enormous acclaim for his series, Brace for Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549. His large-scale photographs documenting the salvage of Flight 1549, the plane piloted by Sully Sullenberger III who successfully emergency-landed in the Hudson River in January 15, 2009 saving all 155 people aboard. http://www.stephenmallon.com

#5

“In “Crusade For Your Art: Best Practices For Fine Art Photographers," Jennifer Schwartz has written one of the most comprehensive guides to date for both the professional and emerging fine art photographer to navigate the current world of Photography. With contributions from leading photography museum, gallery and photo directors, the expert advice given is instrumental in creating what every photographer needs to know to navigate the current art market. I absolutely love this guide. It covers all bases! I whole-heartedly recommend this masterful guide to the photographic community.” – Elizabeth Avedon. The Book

 

 #6

Photograph © Ruddy Roye Instagram.com/ruddyroye

Relatives of both Shantel Davis and Kimani Grey burst in tears obviously overwhelmed by the moment. Protestors marched around the Barclay Center plaza chanting "I can't breathe," while encouraging Barclay fans to support their cause. Shantel Davis was killed on June 14, 2012 while Kimani Grey was killed March 9, 2013. "It hurts so much, when will the pain stop..."

Ruddy Roye is keeping us real. An "Instagram Humanist/Activist" with over 107,000 followers, Roye describes himself as a "Brooklyn photographer peeling the cornea off his eye ball to share on Instagram." Follow him here: http://instagram.com/ruddyroye. And check out @everydaypolaroid and @everydayblackamerica for more images http://www.ruddyroye.com

#7

Photograph © Jennifer McClure

"Laws of Silence" is about Jennifer McClure's personal mythology and fear of letting go of the life she was programmed to live. Her family life was difficult and displaced, not something she wished to replicate, and left her distrustful of both people in general and the whole idea of the American Dream. "The water is an important part of this series because I had a bad experience in the water as a child; I love the water but I'm also afraid of it. I often feel the same way about people...." http://www.jennifermcclure.com/

#8

The Clash Photograph © Amy Arbus

Over the course of ten years Amy Arbus made thousands of photographs for the Village Voice and roughly 500 were published. She describes her "On the Street" series as very raw and rough edged, but deceptively organized. Included among the luminaries are Keith Haring, Sonic Youth, Madonna, The Clash, Phoebe Legere, Susanne Bartsch, The Rosenberg Twins, Messrs. McDermott + McGough and Grace Jones. Read more: An Interview with Amy Arbus. http://www.amyarbus.com

#9

 

"In FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, the film unfolds like a detective story, Director's John Maloof and Charlie Siskel reveal Maier’s mysterious life as a nanny and a loner through the recollections of her various employers and their children, and as other details of her past come to light. Through the reconstruction of a large portion of Maier’s collection of over 100,000 photographs and interviews with other well-known American street photographers and collectors, the film challenges our notions of the artist and the creative act, and how art is made and marketed. This is Maloof's and Siskel's remarkable directorial debut. Watch the Film Trailor here.

#10

I received a beautiful book by photographer Hiroshi Watanabe.  I was very moved by both the images and the text in "The Day The Dam Collapses" and wrote an open letter to him. http://www.hiroshiwatanabe.com/

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Out of the over one hundred or so posts in 2014, those most viewed are listed above.  And as of today, the last day of 2014, there have been 1,167,699 views in the last year and a half I've been counting. Not many compared to some, but so many more than I anticipated when starting this Photo Journal for my own interest. Thank you to all who have visited and to those who continue to visit. 

Today is the last day I can say I was one of TIME Magazine's Top 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014! So I'm soaking it in all day. Thanks so much to Editor Mia Tramz for choosing my twitter-feed. Follow Tramz and her colleagues on TIME Lightbox to keep you informed. 

Elizabeth Avedon: Art and Photography

TIME Magazine's Top 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015!