Contact: Christine Welch
christinewelchphotography.com

Christine Welch (Lancaster, PA.) is a fine art photographer whose work is in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The American University Corcoran Legacy Collection, Haverford College, Johnson & Johnson Corporation as well as several private collections.  Her work has been reviewed in national publications including The Photo Review, The New Art Examiner and the Washington Post. She has received numerous awards including the Florence Whistler Fish Award for Photography in 2010.

A monograph of her images, Commonplace, (afterword by John Stilgoe, Harvard University) was published in 2004 as part of The Road and American Culture Series by the Center for American Places (distributed by University of Chicago Press). Gregory Conniff, author of Common Ground, said of her work, “…an excellent look at public places of daily life. Many photographers have addressed this subject, but few with her feeling for color, and none with her empathy for the ways these places struggle to get it right.”

Born in WIlliamsport and raised in Lancaster,PA, she often takes the vernacular culture and landscape of central Pennsylvania as her subject.Her series,The Susquehanna Trail: Road of Never-Ending Delight, investigates that contemporary landscape and refers to a 1929 Lycoming County guidebook which promoted tourism from Washington D.C. to Niagara Falls.  Welch, by lavishing her focus on the places we pass through on the way to somewhere else, asks us to to pay attention and learn what they may reveal. Her most recent work, Another Season of Prickly Dread, was begun in 2016, continued through the pandemic and sporatically into the present. In this work, she creates images which describe an itchy sense of anxiety coupled with subtle nods to the small insults of aging. By moving away from the constrants of a particular genre she detatches the experience from place and makes it disquitingly prevassive.

Welch earned a BA from Franklin & Marshall College, an MFA in Photography from the University of Delaware and is a Professor, Emeritus, founder and past Chair of the Photography Department at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA. She also taught at Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA), The University of Delaware (Newark DE) and Lebanon Valley College (Lebanon, PA).

Contact: Diana Mara Henry
The Spirit of Houston

“Your photos are beautiful and represent such a powerful and passionate time in American history. I believe these photos will last and many years from now they will be looked at and studied just as Mathew Brady’s classic and haunting Civil war photos are today. Thank you for being a part of history.” – Ron Kovic

The Bruce Murray Collection

For almost five decades, “The Master” photographer, Bruce Murray, Sr. (1893-1969) had captured amazing images of sports legends, historical figures and Americana.

Bruce Murray Sr.’s fascination with photography started at the age of 12.  He started his professional career around 1911 with the old Philadelphia newspaper the Public Ledger and spent the rest of his career with The Evening Bulletin, retiring in 1958.  For decades his work with the newspapers, earned him recognition as one of the best in his field. In the years between the two World Wars, he photographed hundreds of stirring events and world-famous figures. Nicknamed “The Master,” he won many awards for his work.  His subjects varied from true baseball legends and presidents, as well as judges and composers to landscapes and everyday people.  Mr. Murray truly loved his work and was a founding father and president of the Philadelphia Press Photographers Association, the second oldest association of it’s kind.

His son Bruce Murray, Jr. (1919-1991) followed in his footsteps and was a press photographer for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin before and after his time in the service in W.W.II.  He learned his skill from his father, and had the foresight to preserve whatever existing photography of Bruce Sr.’s that survived.  He captured many mid-century images and was also a plant photographer for a US Steel plant for many years.  He passed on the skill and photography to his son, Shawn (almost Bruce III).   Shawn has proudly preserved the legacy and committed his life to preserving and publishing his grandfather and father’s work.

Bruce Sr.’s work is part of the permanent collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, and was included in the Sports Illustrated book “20th Century Sports – Images of Greatness.”  The photos are also part of the permanent collections of such institutions as the Thomas Edison Museum, the Babe Ruth Museum, the Franklin Institute and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.  They are part of the private collections of many notables such as Reggie Jackson, Tom Hanks, Larry King, Gary Sinise, Les Paul and John Goodman.

For more information:

Contact: Shawn Murray

Email:  shawn@brucemurray.com

Website:  www.brucemurray.com

Contact: Jane Schreibman

janeschreibman.com

“I came to New York after studying at the San Francisco Art Institute; maybe because I didn’t know anyone here, my first project was self-portraits.  This was followed by night festivals, shooting infrared film in the dark. The project grew and eventually took me to Italy and India.

India and Pakistan became the focus of much of my subsequent work. A grant from the Asian Cultural Council helped me complete a project on sacred sites. From there, women in the limestone industry, the beaches of Mumbai- one project followed another.

My photographs have been exhibited and published throughout the US and Europe, and are held in collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Fine Arts Museum Houston, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.”

Joyceculver.com

Joyce.culver@verizon.net

Karen I. Hirsch

karen@karenihirsch.com

www.karenihirsch.com

www.karenihirsch.com/visualart

Karen I. Hirsch is an international award-winning photographer and digital artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work spans editorial, commercial, and fine art photography, with a distinctive style that captures the essence of her subjects through color, composition, and timing.

Hirsch’s photographs have been featured in prestigious publications such as Communication Arts, Graphis, Architectural Digest, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune. Her images are part of corporate and private collections and have been exhibited in galleries across the globe – including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Berlin and Basel.

Among Hirsch’s numerous awards was the grand prize in the Chicago Daily News/Kodak competition, best photo in an American Society of Magazine Photographers contest and grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Alliance.

Hirsch studied with master photographers Ernst Haas, Jay Maisel and Arnold Newman.

In 2003, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs hosted her solo exhibition “My Chicago,” a 25-year retrospective showcasing over 200 images of the city’s people, places, and events. In 2007, she was among ten foreign photographers invited by the Chinese government to document the city of Rizhao.

An active member of the photographic community, Hirsch serves as co-president of the Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum and is affiliated with the ASMP, the American Photographic Artists and the American Photography Archives Group.

Archive representative: Wolfgang Frei

edwardquinn.com

Born in Dublin in 1920, Edward Quinn was a professional musician and served as a flight navigator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war, he eventually made his way to the Côte d’Azur, where he learned photography and captured images of world leaders, glamour girls, as well as figures from the worlds of film, art, music, and literature. His most memorable work included images of a then-unknown Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Brigitte Bardot. His keen eye also captured Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Gary Cooper, and many others.
In 1951, Edward Quinn met and photographed Pablo Picasso for the first time. Their friendship lasted until Picasso’s death in 1973. This encounter with Picasso proved to be hugely influential for Quinn and shaped much of his later work. Quinn is the author of several books and films about Picasso.
Starting in the 1960s, Quinn focused his work on artists, including Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Graham Sutherland, and David Hockney. Quinn passed away in 1997.
The Edward Quinn Archive, located in Switzerland, is managed by his nephew Wolfgang Frei. It contains more than 180,000 photos (negatives) from the 1950s through the 1970s.
A curated selection of about 16,000 photos is published on edwardquinn.com.
The most significant part of the archive is the approximately 9,000 photos of Picasso.
About 25,000 pictures have already been digitized.

Ave Pildas

avepildas.com

avepildas@gmail.com

Whether photographing jazz greats in smoke-filled clubs, the gritty theatrics on infamous

Hollywood Boulevard, or the spontaneous interactions between people and animals at

locations worldwide – Ave Pildas offers a rich and diverse survey of contemporary life.

Ave began his arts education as an architecture student, designing department stores, and

government and medical buildings. Before long, this path felt too conservative and

constricting, so he changed majors to design. Creating products, packaging, and graphics

provided enough diversity to seem like “complete freedom” at the time. Concurrently, Ave

was designing exhibits, displays, graphics, and publications for the Cincinnati Public

Library. After studying at the University of Cincinnati and graduating from the Cincinnati Art

Academy in 1962, Ave headed east to Pittsburgh, where he worked designing collateral for

U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Koppers, and Westinghouse. At Westinghouse, he

met renowned graphic designer Paul Rand.

With encouragement from Rand and well-known typographer Noel Martin, Ave traveled to

Switzerland and enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule, studying typography and graphic

design during the Cold War. As a student, he visited every country in Europe and parts of

North Africa, often by car. It was at this time that Ave set the lofty goal of “raising the visual

conscience” of the world, and, at the conclusion of his studies, accepted a position as

assistant professor at Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts in

Philadelphia. Since then, he has taught at Layton School of Art, Leicester Polytechnic in

Britain, Cal Arts, Art Center College of Design, UCLA, USC, as well as Otis College of Art

and Design, where he served as Chair of the Communication Arts Department. He is

currently Professor Emeritus at Otis.

Ave has been taking photos that combine his observational ability with his prowess as a

designer for over fifty years. His photographs have appeared in national and international

publications. Many of his images of Hollywood Boulevard from the 1970s are represented

in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the New York

Public Library, and appear in Ave’s latest Monograph, Star Struck (2022, Deadbeat Club

Press). Three other books of his photographs have been published previously: Art Deco LA

(1978, Harper & Row), Movie Palaces: Los Angeles (2000, Clarkson Potter), and Bijou (2016,

Nazraeli Press).