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

DAVID J. CAROL: All My Lies Are True

"The book spread with the volcano in Costa Rica"
Photograph (c) David J. Carol/All Rights Reserved

"The boat on the Arctic Ocean off of Baffin Island"
Photograph (c) David J. Carol

"Fox"
Photograph (c) David J. Carol

Photo Book: "All My Lies Are True"
Photograph (c) David J. Carol
 
PDN-PHOTO-ANNUAL 2010 Winner

"All My Lies Are True" (a PDN Photo Annual 2010 Winner) is a book of “events” that I thought were interesting and that I needed to save as proof of what I had seen. Every picture was taken with the same motivation, to see if I could preserve that evidence in a photograph."

David J. Carol

David J. Carol was born in New York City. He attended the School of Visual Arts and The New School for Social Research where he studied under Lisette Model. He was the first assignment photographer for The Image Bank photo agency (now part of Getty Images) at the age of 26. He currently works daily in the real world of commercial photography as the Director of Photography at CBS Outdoor. David has traveled the world taking pictures for himself and others for over thirty years. Carol is the author of several photography books; his photographs and books are in the permanent collections of various museums and institutions....read more here

All My Lies Are True

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!

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

CLIVE ARROWSMITH: HH The Dalai Lama

His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama
Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith/All Rights Reserved

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche
Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith/All Rights Reserved

Layout from Clive Arrowsmith 's future book of Portraits

Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith/All Rights Reserved

London based photographer Clive Arrowsmith was in NYC attending The Dalai Lama's Teachings. The Tibet Center, founded by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche (in Clive's portrait above), hosted His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teachings in NYC in partnership with Richard Gere's organization, Healing the Divide.

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Some excellent posts on Tricycle Magazine's blog describe each days Dalai Lama Talks at Radio City Music Hall this past week. Tricycle: Day 1 & 2 and Tricycle: Day 3. Also on the Tricycle blog is a not to be missed Video Interview with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

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Sitting in front of Jessica Hines and I at HH The Dalai Lama's Public Talk at Radio City Music Hall was American Composer Marvin Hamlisch and sitting behind us– Jon Bon Jovi!

ANDREW HARVEY: Author Scholar Mystic

A Journey In Ladakh is the vivid account of a journey by a young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions. Ladakh, cut off by snow six months of the year, is where the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is practiced, dating back 300 years before the birth of Christ.

Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, Journey to Ladakh, The Return of the Mother, Son of Man, and The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World’s Mystical Traditions. He is also coauthor of the best-selling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

Andrew Harvey recommends "everyone read this book."

This is a uniquely beautiful, powerful, and important book–one that restores the deepest mysteries of ancient African wisdom at a time we need them most–Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Hope

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Between sessions of HH The Dalai Lama's recent Teachings in NYC on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, author Andrew Harvey sat down with my friends and mesmerized us with stories from Linda Tucker's book Mystery of The White Lions: Children of The Sun God. As he is the author of over 30 books with his own "Amazon Andrew Harvey Page" and he is recommending everyone must read this book – I'm listening.

"Linda Tucker’s first hand account of her journey into the legend of the White Lion. After being rescued from a life-threatening encounter with lions in the Timbavati game region, Linda embarked on a journey into the mysteries of the White Lion, a mystical journey into the knowledge and ceremonies of Old Africa, in which humans and lions are able to cross the species barrier—in accordance with the most guarded secrets of Ancient Egypt and humankind’s greatest riddle, the sphinx.

The White Lion is a genetic rarity of Panthera leo, and occurred in just one region on earth: Timbavati. Today White Lions form the center of the notorious “canned” trophy hunting industry—hand-reared captive lions, shot in enclosures for gross sums of money. Shamans believe that killing a “lion sun god” is the ultimate sacrilege. The story of the White Lions is a true legend unfolding in our own extraordinary times."

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The Oxford-trained authority on Rumi, Andrew Harvey was born in Coimbatore, India in 1952, where he lived until he was nine years old. It is this early period that he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religions and providing him with a permanent and inspiring vision of a world infused with the sacred. He left India to attend private school in England and entered Oxford University in 1970 with a scholarship to study history. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul’s College, England’s highest academic honor...over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. He is Founding Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism Read Entire Bio

Andrew Harvey
Institute of Sacred Activism

EVA KOLEVA TIMOTHY: Lost In Learning

Book Cover with The Journal c. 1800's
Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

Prism Light
Title Page from Opicks, Sir Isaac Newton, 1704
Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

Sundial

Universal Horizontal Sundial, Johannes Kooch, Stockholm, Sweden c. 1650-1679. Courtesy of the History of Science Department, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

The Man Behind The Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. Louve, Paris, France 1503-1506.
Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

Galileo's Compass

Galileo's Geometrical and Military Compass

Made for presentation to the Duke of Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni, Padua, Italy, 1604. Courtesy of the History of Science Department, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

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"For with every bit of light we receive and every mystery we uncover, we have done little more than open new paths to even greater vistas and even deeper seas"–Lost In Learning

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Eva Koleva Timothy is a Media/Communications graduate from the University of Utah and a graduate of the Oxford School of Photography holding a Licentiate Certification from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. She was recently chosen as a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for her photograph, The Man Behind The Mona Lisa.

As Book Design Editor for Eva's Monograph, Lost In Learning (Fall 2010, Athenaeum), I want to introduce you to her beautiful photographs, some of which incorporate the use of Sfumato, a technique originated by Da Vinci centuries ago. "My intent in this project has been to create a portrait of an age where exploration was life's supreme adventure." For the front cover of the book, Eva chose her photograph, The Journal c. 1800's. Catherine Petruccione posted a Book Review of Lost in Learning on her blog Old Scrolls.

LOST IN LEARNING: The Art Of Discovery

Monograph September 1, 2010 Athenaeum Publishing

UPDATE: JULY 2010

Lost in Learning was voted People's Choice 1st Place Category Winner for Professional Books as well as sub-category 1st place winner for Fine Art Books in the International PX3 Competition in Paris.

RICHARD GERE: HH The Dalai Lama in NYC

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, West Bengal, 1996
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

Ulan Bator (The Arrival of His Holiness), Mongolia, 1995
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

Arms With Mala, 1996
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

HH THE DALAI LAMA, NYC

Richard Gere's organization, Healing the Divide, and The Tibet Center, founded by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, are hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings in New York City May 20th, 21st, and 22nd. HH will teach Nagarjuna’s Commentary on Bodhicitta (download text here in English, Mandarin and Tibetan), and A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, by Shantideva. www.dalailamany.org. Purchase Tickets

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD GERE FAHEY/KLEIN GALLERY

REVIEW 2010: ASMPNY Portfolio Review

TIBET: A Limited Edition Portfolio. Photographs: Richard Gere
Design + Production: Elizabeth Avedon. Fahey/Klein Gallery

REVIEW 2010: ASMPNY
FINE ART PORTFOLIO REVIEW
+40 GREAT REVIEWERS
Wednesday, May 26th, 6:30-9PM
CALUMET, 22 West 22nd St, NYC

GET YOUR PORTFOLIO READY!

We recommend bringing one body of work with 10 to 20 images - big enough that they get a sense, but not so big that it is difficult to get through in the time available. No portfolio over 16x20 will be allowed for ease of reviewers. Make the packing material easy to get through so as not to slow down the review. Bring leave behinds and leave behind your ego! Bring your resume, bio and statements. Read more...

Register Here If you are interested in participating in the review and are not a member, you may do so by becoming 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