Meryl Meisler
http://www.merylmeisler.com
Gallery Representative: ClampArt
info@clampart.com

Meryl Meisler was born in 1951 in the South Bronx and raised in North Massapequa, Long Island, NY. Inspired by Diane Arbus, Jacques Henri Lartigue, and her dad Jack and grandfather Murray Meisler, Meryl began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class at The University of Wisconsin – Madison. In 1975, Meryl moved to NYC and studied with Lisette Model, continuing to photograph her hometown, NYC street life, the infamous New York discos and sordid nightlife. A 1978 C.E.T.A. Artist Grant supported her portfolio on Jewish identity. After C.E.T.A., Meryl began a three-decade career as a NYC Public School Art Teacher. Upon retirement, she began releasing large bodies of previously unseen work, including three books, A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre, 2014), Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (Bizarre, 2015) and New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco (Paradise Pictures Press, 2021) Meryl lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, NY, continuing the photographic memoir she began in 1973 – sweet and sassy with a pinch of mystery. Her photography is represented by CLAMPART.

Archive contact:
Jane Olin
http://janeolin.com

Jane Olin has worked as an experimental photographer in California’s Monterey Bay area for over thirty years. Living at the epicenter of West Coast photography, she learned the skills and tenets of “straight” photography from the assistants and students of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. She now prefers to push the conventional boundaries of the wet darkroom, and purposely pours, sprays, and drips photographic solutions onto her exposed gelatin silver paper.

In 2022, Olin’s recent tree-based series Intimate Conversation is featured in Jane Olin-In The Company of Trees, a solo exhibition at NUMU New Museum Los Gatos in Los Gatos, CA, and Trees Stir in Their Leaves, a group exhibition at Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. Olin’s photography has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including at the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, CA, Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA and Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Olin has won numerous juror awards, including a 2021 IPA International Photography Award curators’ choice Best of Show. Her work is held in collections including the Center for Creative Photography, Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA, Monterey Museum of Art, and Triton Museum of Art.

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Ron Sherman

https://ronsherman.com

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.

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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.