“NFTs for Fine Art Photographers: What They Are and How to Make Your Own. Concepts, Real World Experiences and 7 Tips” by APAG member Steve Giovinco. Read it here.
Ron Sherman
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Ron Sherman
Ron Sherman’s first published photograph was in junior high school and 60 years later he still gets a great pleasure in seeing his images published. In 2014, Emory University acquired his 750-silver gelatin collection of 1970s Atlanta prints. These photographs are available at their Library for research, publication and display. He is currently editing and digitizing his 500,000 black and white negatives and color transparencies created during his long career.
Ron’s photographs have been published in national magazines ranging from Time, Life, and Newsweek to Business Week, Forbes and Sports Illustrated. His corporate assignments have been featured in annual reports, brochures and multimedia productions for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Coca-Cola, BellSouth (now AT&T), and the Southern Company. For more than 30 years he has made a specialty of capturing the essence of campus life in photo-essays on more then 130 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.
Photographs from his stock photo library of some 250,000-color images are regularly leased for a variety of publication purposes. Tony Stone Images and Getty Images represented selected photographs for national and international distribution. BrownTrout published a Ron Sherman Atlanta calendar from 1994 to 2010. His images, capturing the classic beauty of Atlanta and Georgia, have also been published in four hardcover photographic books.
Ron started Computer Aided Photography, Inc. in 1991 to explore the creative possibilities of using a combination of photography and computer technology. His foresight has allowed him to stay on the leading edge of his craft and complete many unique projects. With a Fine Arts Degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Masters of Arts in Communications from Syracuse University, Ron has been profiled in a number of photography publications and is listed in Who’s Who in America.
Santi Visalli at 90: Una Storia
“Santi Visalli at 90: Una Storia” is on now through March 13th, 2022, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California. Click here to view the exhibition online.
Born in 1932 and raised in Messina, Sicily, Santa Barbara resident Santi Visalli traveled with a camera for three years across the globe before settling in New York during the late 1950s, aiming to become a successful photographer on the international stage. With an astute eye, tenacious energy, and patient skill, Visalli forged an extraordinary career that saw him photographing countless major world figures and important sites and cities for over five decades.
This exhibition of 29 photographs focuses on a specific area of Visalli’s art: perceptive portraits of well-known figures in the 1960s and 70s worlds of film, literature, art, music, and popular culture. Ranging from the spontaneous and joyous to the posed and quiet, Visalli’s portraits all relate a storia, an Italian word meaning tale, story, and history. Tactful yet honest, Visalli captures his subjects with a respectful distance that nonetheless allows the unique sense of these renowned personalities to emerge on their own terms.
Robert Kalman
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- From the series on Confederate Monuments, “Parade Unrest.” Baxley, Georgia. Erected 2008.
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- Johnny Rozsa, from the collection “Fleeting Intimacies.”
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- Janiella and Izak, from the collection “No Difference Between Them.”
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- From the collection “What’s it like for you to be an American?” Chanel, August, 2021.
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- Juan and his great grandson, Elgin, from the collection “Nicaraguan Village: Twenty Years Apart.”
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- Roman police officers.
Email: Robert Kalman
Over his forty-year career making documentary portraits of strangers, Robert Kalman photographs people in such a way as to make others care about them and remember their stories. His portraits show us more than mere likeness; they reveal a quality of humanness that relates to who they are.
Kalman says, “When making a person’s portrait using large format we enter into a relationship of momentary intimacy. It’s unavoidable. The resulting image has to do with what passes between us.” He continues, “I think everyone has the urge to feel important, to be seen in an authentic, respectful, dignified way. That’s what my work is about. I take on documentary projects to reveal that authenticity within and across cultures that I want to learn about.”
Consequently, among his diverse projects are portraits of Nicaraguan villagers made twenty years apart; New Yorkers approached on the street; elders; straight and LGBT interracial couples; Europeans; police officers; lesbians; Kuna Indians; transgender Israelis; and a dozen more. His current projects, which have been on hold during the pandemic, include returning to Nicaragua to extend to over thirty years his series of villagers, portraits of African American women artists who reside in Brooklyn, and a collection of American portraits entitled, “What’s it like for you to be an American?”
Kalman’s work has appeared in countless publications, solo exhibitions and juried shows throughout the United States, and he is an active member of New York’s Soho Photo Gallery. He and his wife (and collaborator), Linda, live in the Hudson Valley.
Monolog Collective
A new show is on display at APAG member Gallery 270 in Westwood, now through January 4, 2022, with an in person opening on November 11, at 7 pm ET.
“This group of like-minded stalwart artists, by choice, work in the “slow” historical processes of monochrome film photography to express their vision. They’ll be with us to share both the stories behind their images and the amazing variety of vintage processes they employ to create them, such as platinum/palladium, silver gelatin, carbon transfer, tintype, wet plate collodion tintype and ambrotype.” Learn more.
The World of Yousuf Karsh
Le Monde de Yousuf Karsh
The exhibition “Le monde de Yousuf Karsh / The World of Yousuf Karsh” is open now through January, 2022, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Karsh fans who are not local to Montreal can purchase a beautiful catalog instead.
Guy Borremans
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- London Tube, 1970
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- Anti Peace March protesters, New York City 1966
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- Linda on the rocks, New Brunswick, Canada 1972
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- Crees, James Bay, 1970, Canada
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- Genevieve Bujold, Montreal, 1960
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- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 1972
Guy Borremans
Canadian, b. Belgium (1934-2012)
Guy Borremans emigrated from Belgium to Montreal in the mid-fifties and established himself as one of the leading photographer and cinematographers in Quebec and in Canada. After working as a photographer in Belgium, Borremans found work in Montreal as a press photographer and had his first solo photography exhibit in 1956.
He moved to New York City in 1965 to work for the United Nations Film Department, National Educational Television (NET), as well as Movietone and other production companies. He moved back to Montreal in 1968, and worked in still photography. He also taught film and photography at the University of Montreal, Moncton University and Concordia University.
Borremans has contributed to more than forty productions and has held thirty-three solo exhibitions of his photography. His photographs are in many museum collections, such as the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa, the Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City and private collections in New York City, Japan and China.
For all inquiries related to exhibition, loan requests, reproduction rights, or for more information about this collection contact Ariel Borremans.
Instagram: @guyborremansphotography
Ruth Orkin Centenary
Ruth Orkin was born on September 3, 1921, which makes this her centenary year. A major retrospective exhibition titled “Expressions of Life” is on view now through December 5, 2021, at New York City’s Fotografiska. Plus a new 240 page Ruth Orkin monograph, “A Photo Spirit,” (Hatje Cantz, 2021) is on sale now.
Congratulations to APAG’s founder, Ruth’s daughter Mary Engel, for her tireless work on preserving her mother’s archives. See more on the Ruth Orkin website.
Tom Quinn Kumpf
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- “Village Blacksmith”, El Rito, NM, USA, 2012
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- “Elders”, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2008
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- “Child’s Play”, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1998
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- “Moscow Prospect”, Moscow, USSR, 1990
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- “Cuba Sí”, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, 2003
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- “The Watcher”, NYC, USA, 2019
Tom Quinn Kumpf is an internationally recognized, award-winning photographer, writer, poet, and storyteller whose work has appeared in publications, newspapers, magazines, and exhibitions throughout the U.S., Europe, and many other parts of the world. He is author of eight books, including Children of Belfast, Ireland: Standing Stones to Stormont, Two Sides: Haiku and Other Words, and most recently, Northern New Mexico Portraits. He works primarily in documentary, travel, portrait, and fine-art photography, while a stock photo library of more than 20,000 photographs provides images to media outlets, businesses, publishers, and individuals worldwide. He is a year-round resident of Taos, NM, and is currently working on a book series of portraits he has taken over the course of his fifty-plus-year career.
Contact: Tom Kumpf
Arthur Rothstein Illustrated Lecture
On February 20, 2021, at 2 PM EST, join Ann Rothstein Segan, PhD, for an online illustrated lecture about her father Arthur Rothstein. Visit the Whitesbog website.