My career in photography began in 1976. I covered events for newspapers and non-profit organizations as well as photographing in the classical music world. My work includes assignments for The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Philharmonic, The Juilliard School, The New School, United Jewish Appeal (UJA), Israel Bonds, and The Jewish Theological Seminary. My personal work includes photographs taken at The Gotham Book Mart, the United Nations, in Crown Heights, in and around NYC, in Tannersville, NY, and from my window view of the Hudson River. The majority of my photographs for UJA are in their archive at the Center for Jewish History.

My photographic education began at The Germain School of Photography and continued with study with Philippe Halsman, and Arnold Newman. I taught photography at LaGuardia High School and New York Institute of Technology.

I have been exhibiting my photographs since 1976 with solo shows at The Donnell Library, The Interchurch Center and The Riverdale Y; and group shows at many places including The National Arts Club, Soho Photo Gallery, and Cork Gallery; and internationally in Prague and Edinburgh.

My email address is: Bggeld@gmail.com

My Website is currently under construction. The address is: bonniegellergeld.com

Contact:
Catherine Ursillo
http://catherineursillo.com

I began my professional photographic career as a staff photographer for the anti-war paper The New York Free Press. I also worked for newspapers and magazines covering the political crisis of the 70s.

I continued my work for corporations, industrial and editorial clients. My photogrpahs have appeared in magazines, textbooks, annual reports, corporate brochures and photo book collections. My work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. I have had one-woman shows at Nikon Gallery, Soho Photos, (I was a founding member of Soho Photo), Forum, Trade Center Gallery and others. Group shows have included Leica Gallery, First Woman’s Bank, MIT, United Nations, Museum of Natural History, Museum of the City of New York and others. I have had portfolios published in many photo anthologies, including Family of Women, Photo, Zoom, Popular Photograph, Women See Men and others. I established and directed the photography department for Chemical Bank. During that period I worked on a number of audiovisual shows for fundraising purposes. These included Meals on Wheels, Senior Citizens Organizations, The Bronx and Chinatown.

In the early 80s, I represented my photographic organization ASMP on a trip to China to meet with and exchange ideas with the Chinese Photographers Organization. I also represented OXFAM on a trip to Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Australia.

 John Benton-Harris – A native Bronx born New Yorker (1939) completed his formal education and obtained a diploma in commercial photography in 1960. His commitment to “Serious” seeing dates back to well before that time. His professional career kicked off with The Sinclair Oil Corporation as a apprevtice Industrial Photographer. A short time after that he received a scholarship from Alexey Brodovitch to attend his now legendary “Design Limitary” at Richard Avedon’s studio in Manhattan. And after almost completing his 2 year military obligation as a Photographer (1963-65) with the US Army in Italy, John flew to London on self assignment to record The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill.  In August of that year he returned again to carry forward his new desire to explain something more of the nature of the English character to the outside world. He quickly landed a staff position with LONDON LIFE Magazine. Since that time he has carried forward several on going visual investigations on both sides of the Atlantic divide, while managing to do some relevant Curetting, teaching and lecturing whilst miraculously managing to continuing to stop, entertain and inform us with his Voiced Stoppages from Time, while remaining open to a multitude of influence from both this history and the broader deeper and longer history of artistic visual expression.  

“Old Masters Were Young Once” – Serpentine Gallery, London -1971

“Derby Day 200” – Royal Academy of Art, London – 1979

“Americans in Europe” – Santa Fe Centre for Photography – 1983

“Eyeing the British Character” – Sussed Gallery, University of Michigan -1988

“The Mad Hatters Tea Party” – OK HARRIS Works of Art, New York -1991

“Out for the Day” – mac THE CENTER FOR BIRMINGHAM -1998

“Mad Hatters – a diary of a secret people”, Bielsko-Biala, Poland” – 2011

More complete information on John’s History and outlook and overlook can be found on – www.johnbenton-Harris.com  & his Blog site: http://thephotopundit.blogspot.co.uk/

Contact Information:  Diane Kramek, 862-226-2112

dianekramek@gmail.com or stanleyknapphotography@gmail.com

Website: www.stanleyknap.net

Stanley I. Knap was born in 1947 in Wildflecken, Germany in a displaced persons refugee camp operated by the US Army.  His parents were liberated from Nazi concentration camps two years earlier and together with 20,000 refugees – primarily Poles – they were given the choice to return to Soviet-controlled Communist Poland or immigrate to the United States.  In 1949, the family landed in Manhattan but eventually settled in New Jersey where Stanley’s father, a talented composer and music director, took a job at a Polish parish in Passaic. His mother, a nurse with RN status in Poland, quickly taught herself enough English to qualify as a LPN in a local hospital.

Stanley identified with his Polish roots as a child but also became Americanized in high school and as a young adult.  He was drawn to photography and began seriously studying it in 1966.  He graduated from The School of Visual Arts, New York in 1969, majoring in both film and photography.  His work – that of the life around him and his beloved city – won him early accolades as he was awarded sponsorship for a Guggenheim Grant and was also one-time assistant to Annie Lebowitz. His work was published in New West Magazine and he was featured in Rolling Stone as being one of the Twelve Hot photographers. He shot a number of album covers: Blossom Dearie, Larry Croce and Sugarcane Harris among others. Stanley’s work touches upon that of Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank; however, it was Stanley’s mentor and teacher Garry Winogrand who would be the biggest artistic influence in his career.

Stanley preferred working in film photography, never digital, as it allowed a tactile relationship between the photographer, the subject, and eventually, the viewer.  He primarily worked with a 35mm Leica M4 camera with a 28mm lens and Tri-X 400 in black and white film. There was no cropping or special manipulation done in the dark room and all photographs were composed full frame in the camera’s view finder.  His subject matter is his life and observations; much of his work captures the dynamic and gritty realities of New York City in the 60s-80s.

Stanley suffered from a syndrome that many children of adult Holocaust survivors develop.  While it manifests itself in a myriad of ways, for Stanley it halted his ability to pursue photography. In 2009 he began working again. As he was beginning to reestablish himself he was diagnosed with cancer and died in June of 2014. His renewed passion can be seen in personal photographs of his family and friends.

Upon graduating from The High School of Art&Design in New York City, Judy Schiller received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts also in New York City. After working for Rebecca Blake and Hal Davis, she was a freelance photography assistant for five years. In 1988, Judy launched Judy Schiller Photography, specializing in fashion photography based in New York. Over time, due to her lifelong passion and appreciation for music, she gravitated towards photographing musicians. Since 1995, though she has kept her concentration on musicians, her photographic scope has expanded to include photographing CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies and publishing houses.

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THE ARCHIVE & PRINT COLLECTION OF JURGEN SCHADEBERG

65 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY JURGEN SCHADEBERG

schadebe@iafrica.com  – www.jurgenschadeberg.com

200,000.00 negatives 1942 – 2014 – 4,000 plus silver prints, many vintage, all hand printed by Jurgen Schadeberg, 500 plus colour giclee archival prints

SOUTH AFRICA – 1951 – 2009

500 plus archival black and white silver prints and colour giclee prints by Jurgen Schadeberg which cover six decades of South African photography.

10% are vintage prints and the balance are late prints.

A Retrospective of films by Jurgen & Claudia Schadeberg , a one hour Arte documentary about Jurgen Schadeberg and accompanying books and catalogues

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The above section of images covers key social, cultural and political events and personalities in the early struggle for freedom in the fifties and are 60 silver prints of the black and white fifties. They are all silver gelatin prints and the average paper sizes are 40 x 50 and 50 x 60 cms. All these images were taken during the fifties in South Africa – many images come from the book “The Black and White Fifties”. This set of images includes prints of Nelson Mandela in the fifties.

The 1952 Defiance Campaign, 25 silver prints in paper sizes from 30 x 40 (unframed)

The Rise and Fall of Sophiatown – fifties – 25 framed silver prints of Sophiatown in its heyday, its forced removal and demolition to give way to a white suburb called Triomf.

The San of the Kalahari 1959 – a set of 12 framed silver prints of the San Dance of Exorcism

The story of jazz, swing and blues over six decades – 60 framed silver prints –Portraits of the most talented and influential jazz and blues singers and musicians many of whom have been sadly neglected an forgotten.

The story of Robben Island, the prison, the island and former inmates, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu – 15 framed silver prints.

Kliptown today – 2003 the Soweto suburb where the historic Freedom Charter was formed which was the basis for South Africa’s new constitution. We see how the Kliptonians live and survive today – 40 framed silver prints & 40 unframed silver prints

Voices from the Land – 2007 – a study of farm conditions in South Africa today with stories from farmers and farmworkers – 128 framed and crated silver prints.

Tales from Jozi – 2007 – the story, in colour, of life today in Johannesburg showing the diverse lives and lifestyles of a city in transition- 92 archival framed colour giclee prints in crates.

On the Beach – 1995 – a range of framed black and white and colour images of happy beach scenes from Camps Bay to the Oyster Box – 20 giclee colour prints – paper sizes range from 80 x 80 cms to 40 x 40 cms.

All the photos are digitised and all the prints have been hand printed and signed by Jurgen Schadeberg.

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GREAT BRITAIN – 1964 – 1984

GERMANY – 1942 – 2012

GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN 1968

FRANCE – 1984-1985 & 2007 – 2010

SPAIN – 1968-1971 & 2012-2013

Jack Mitchell

Native Floridian Jack Mitchell (1925-2013) was an avid photographer whose work was published in Florida newspapers and national magazines before he was out of high school. Jack Mitchell moved to New York City after serving in WWII and spent the next five decades there. His photographs have appeared worldwide in newspapers and magazines including Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and Mitchell photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine. His work chronicles the greatest dancers, actors, writers, artists and musicians of the late 20th century.

Craig B. Highberger, Executive Director Jack Mitchell Archives

Email: craig.highberger@gmail.com Website: www.jackmitchell.com

Larry Racioppo  141 Beach 129^th Street   Rockaway, NY 11694

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Larry Racioppo

b. 1947

Home Page: larryracioppo.com

Archive Contact: larryracioppo@gmail.com

LARRY RACIOPPO was born and raised in South Brooklyn. After two years as a VISTA volunteer in California, he returned home in December, 1970, intending to become a photographer. While working a series of jobs—telephone repairman, taxi cab driver, waiter and bartender, and photographer’s assistant—he completed his undergraduate work at Fordham University and earned a master’s degree at Brooklyn College.

All the while, Racioppo was photographing his neighborhood, working in black-and-white 35mm and later in 120mm film. He had his first solo exhibition in 1977 at Brooklyn’s f-stop gallery, and in 1980 Scribner’s published his first book of photographs, Halloween.

In 1989 Racioppo became the official photographer for New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, hired to document the city’s re- building of its distressed neighborhoods, from Bedford Stuyvesant to Harlem to the South Bronx.

When he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1997, Racioppo took a leave from HPD to create a series of panoramic urban landscapes. He returned to HPD to coordinate LANDSCAPES OF HOPE an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York documenting the agency’s work. While continuing to photograph for HPD until 2011, Racioppo had solo exhibits of two in-depth personal projects: FORGOTTEN GATEWAY: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island at the National Building Museum, and THE WORD ON THE STREET at the Museum of Biblical Art.

Racioppo has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the Graham Foundation. In 2006 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Chairman’s Extraordinary Action Grant for his exhibit “The Word on the Street” at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York. Racioppo’s work is in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library, El Museo del Barrio, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Hugh Bell