Len Speier in exhibit at Erie Art Museum | APAG – American Photography Archives Group

Date: Feb 15, 2014 - Sep 14, 2014

Len’s recent solo show at the CALUMET GALLERY in New York City received KUDOS from Stephen Perloff in the February/March 2014 issue of the PHOTO REVIEW.

Len Speier’s photographs are included in a new show titled EXPOSED: Recent Gifts to the Photography Collection at the Erie Art Museum.

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Len Speier, VW Bug copyright Len Speier All Rights Reserved EXPOSED: Recent Gifts to the Photography Collection
Tom Caravaglia is a renowned photographer whose New York studio has produced iconic images of celebrated dancers and musicians for decades. In 2011, the Museum exhibited “The Gift of Music”, a remarkable collection of photographs about music and musicians, all gifted to the Museum by Caravaglia and his colleagues, including many former students. Now, he has invited other colleagues to join him in a second gift exhibition.

Among them are Victor Skrebneski , who has given the Museum the portrait of Vanessa Redgrave that adorned the poster for his recent exhibition.

Art Greenspon contributes his famous 1968 image of the 101st Airborne near Hue, frequently cited as the best photograph of the Vietnam War. Greenspon’s experiences capturing this image scarred him physically, mentally and emotionally, but later inspired him to attain a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology in 2011, at the age of 69, with the goal of helping veterans with PTSD.

Filmmaker Antoine Douaihy has donated works from a series of life-size nude composite figures, each comprised of 16 separate photographs of eight different individuals. He has also contributed several abstract photos using light and color. Douaihy’s photographs have been included in several films, including Woody Allen’s Whatever Works (2009).

Cuban-born José Picayo contributes a group of “Mug Shots”, from his critically acclaimed series. After moving to the US with his family and attending Parsons School of Design, Picayo now lives and works in New York, for clients including Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Martha Stewart, Anne Klein, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Williams Sonoma.

Lawyer and photographer Len Speier taught, alongside Caravaglia, at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) until Speier’s retirement in 2006. Speier’s works are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Photo Archive of the NY Public library, among others. He is a lecturer and writer on photography and photographers’ and artists’ legal rights and business practices.