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.

Archive contact:
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.

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. 

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Contact: Tom Kumpf 

BARBARA ALPER 

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Email:  barbara@barbaraalper.com

Barbara Alper is a freelance and fine art photographer with multi-faceted documentary, conceptual, and narrative portfolios. She has published photos in many distinguished journals, magazines and newspapers, such as Barron’s, Newsweek and Time, including a lengthy association as a news and feature photographer with The New York Times. Her commercial clients include Columbia University and the New York Botanical Garden, among others.

Alper is a prolific street photographer, and her artistic projects include the series Rockaway Beach, Sea Samba, and The Gulf Channel.

She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibits in Japan, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and domestically; her photographs are included in major collections around the world, among them The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, FNAC, the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, The New York Public Library and The Brooklyn Museum in New York, as well as private collections.  She is represented by Getty Images Archive and Getty Images Gallery as well as Ffoto in Toronto and Tepper Takayama Fine Arts in Boston.  A Conversation with Alper about her Vintage work can be found on Ffoto’s website:

Barbara holds a B.A. in Social Work from Michigan State University, studied at the MIT Creative Photo Lab, Cambridge, MA and with renowned photographers Harold Feinstein and Lisette Model.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area we’ve had the most amazing and fun experiences working together for over 35 years for our editorial, commercial, and non-profit clients, creating portraits and photo-journalistic images of an incredibly diverse group of people, as well as having eight solo exhibits of our documentary projects and being part of several group shows. We are curious about people and their stories, cultures, and lives, and its a wonderful thing that photography has given us the opportunities to meet them through our photo shoots, projects, and traveling. With portraits and photo-journalism often done on the same story our strengths are in storytelling, showing the relationships between people and the empathy they have for each other, producing images with hope, and getting people to reveal themselves in a genuine way. 

We collaborate in numerous ways when working on a project or a quick photo shoot – from meeting with the client when that’s possible, to scouting locations, to creating and discussing the concept, to the shoot itself when we are trading cameras back and forth trying different ideas to see what’s working and what’s not, as well as trying a variety of lighting schemes and compositions. Our clients include Stanford University, TechWomen, Goodwill Industries, The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Family Caregivers Alliance, and The Girl Scouts of Northern California.

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WILLIAM HELBURN BIOGRAPHY

For more than two decades William Helburn’s playful, sexy images were everywhere.  A contemporary of Avedon, Penn, Bassman and Horst, Helburn strove to create startling images that would spring off the page, often juxtaposing the sublime with the absurd. “Shock value was a term that was used,” says Helburn “And I meant to shock people as much as I could.”

Starting in 1949, Helburn photographed style for Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Life and Town & Country – and brought style to ads for Coca-Cola, General Motors, Buick, Revlon and Supima, working with Doyle Dane Bernbach and New York’s other ground-breaking agencies.  A “first-call” photographer at the heart of advertising’s creative revolution, Helburn brought a fashion photographer’s sensibility to everything he caught in his lens.

“I think fashion photography is, singularly, the most creative form of photography there is,” said Helburn of his art. “The fashion photographer always has so much of his inner self, contributing. His taste. His inner being … I didn’t think of myself as other than that.”

William “Bill” Helburn was born in New York City in 1924. After serving in the Pacific in World War II, Helburn was inspired to become a fashion photographer after then-partner Ted Croner encountered model Lisa Fonssagrives posing naked in the snow, in a test shoot for her husband Fernand.  Both Croner and Helburn would go on to study with Harper’s Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch at his Design Laboratory; Helburn’s work lead to a 10-page assignment for Bazaar that helped launch his career.  Helburn would go on to publish thousands of images and win dozens of awards for his fashion and advertising photography. William Helburn’s first book, published in 2014, is “William Helburn – Seventh and Madison”.   His photography has been shown in galleries and art shows around the world. William Helburn died November 3, 2020, in Connecticut. He was 96

For more information, contact:

Bob Lilly, Lilly Global Media

718-928-5899

bob@lillyglobalmedia.com

www.williamhelburn.com

contact:

Leslie Smolan – leslie@rodneysmith.com 

Patricia Barrett – patricia@rodneysmith.com

www.rodneysmith.com 

Gary Beeber

Archive contact: Julie Grahame

I am an American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. My documentary films have screened at over 85 film festivals. Solo (photography) exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC, the Griffin Museum of Photography (Personalities), and upcoming exhibitions at PRAXIS Photo Arts Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography (Sylvester Manor series), and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Among Fortune 500 companies who collect my work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.

I am always drawn to subjects I find to be incongruous, and have often been told that I see things that other people don’t pay attention to. As I’m taking pictures I think a lot about the passage of time and how things evolve over the decades. What happened to the people who lived in these places and what were they experiencing? The images I capture speak to me in a variety of ways, fulfilling an insatiable curiosity about the world and everything in it.