The Creative Coalition will host an exclusive one-night-only sneak preview of my portraits of performing artists from the entertainment industry with an exhibit of the ‘Art & Soul’ project in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress on April 29th. ‘Art & Soul’ is the cornerstone of The Creative Coalition’s arts advocacy campaign to focus national attention on the need to secure federal funding and support for the arts.
Entertainment for the evening’s star-studded event will be The Creative Coalition’s one-night show by the same name, ‘Art & Soul’. The show, written and produced by multiple Emmy Award-winning producer Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide: Life on Street) starring Co-Presidents of The Creative Coalition, Tim Daly (Private Practice) and Dana Delany (Desperate Housewives); directors Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing); actors Adrian Grenier (Entourage), Omar Epps (House); Marlon Wayans (White Chicks, Scary Movie), Ashley Greene (Twilight), Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm); Steven Weber (Brothers & Sisters); Wendie Malick (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Just Shoot Me); Richard Schiff (The West Wing), CCH Pounder (Avatar) and legendary news anchor Morley Safer (60 Minutes) among others to be announced.
The portraits of artists including Anne Hathaway, Samuel Jackson, Alyssa Milano, Zooey Deschanel, Tony Bennett and Kerry Washington are accompanied by handwritten personal testimonials from each individual, expressing the positive impact art has had on their lives which will appear in a book to be published by Filipacchi Publishing, the book division of HFM U.S. The exhibition is sponsored by Sony and Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. and it will showcase 20 photographs from the project printed by Duggal Visual Solutions.
“We are proud to enlist the members of The Creative Coalition to bring arts to the top of the American agenda,” said The Creative Coalition Executive Director Robin Bronk. “Art & Soul is The Creative Coalition’s initiative that brings together today’s greatest artistic voices and storytellers to illuminate the importance – to every American — of support for the arts and efficacy of arts in education.”
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Catch Legendary Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard this Thursday, April 1 from 7 – 9pm at the Opening reception for “Legends of Jazz Photography” at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. The show features the work of Herman Leonard, William Claxton and William Gottlieb. All are welcome to attend. It’s a great chance not only to see great jazz photographs but to also meet a true Jazz Legend…The exhibit runs from April 1 – May 15, 2010.
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My New York neighbor from two floors down, Wei Liou, just turned me on to the Clic Bookstore in SoHo. It’s part gallery/part bookstore with beautiful prints including Lyle Owerko’s “The Samburu Boomboxes”, James and Karla Murray’s New York Storefronts and Andy Warhol by Ron Galella as well as signed books from Elliott Erwitt, Patrick Demarcelier, Martin Shoeller and a host of others…Clic Bookstore is located at 255 Centre Street (at Broome Street) right across from the magnificent Police Building where we once looked at an apartment (woulda, coulda, shoulda…) Or check out their other locations around the corner at 424 Broome Street and 189 Lafayette.
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Took advantage of an off-day in LA to check out the Walter Iooss – Neil Leifer Exhibit at the stunning Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. Great space and an even better exhibit with prints of many of their most memorable images paired with fantastic multimedia shows interlacing interviews of each between their greatest hits. Simply Fab!
Neil Leifer's classic overhead photograph of a Mohammed Ali knockout
Walter Iooss' Portraits of Athletes
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“Whenever anyone asks me how I got the photographs I did, why I was often the only photographer present or got such unique access I reply simply, ‘Trust’.” – Jim Marshall
Even if you don’t know legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall – you know his photographs. Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire onstage at Monterey, Johnny Cash in Folsom Prison and flipping the bird onstage, Miles Davis boxing at Newman’s Gym, Jim Morrison taking a puff…
Last week while I was in New York I stopped by The Morrison Hotel Gallery and Loft to check out Marshall’s show from his his book ‘Trust’
The Morrison Hotel Gallery
124 Prince Street
New York, New York
October 22-November 13, 2009
If you hurry you might even be able to snag an autographed copy of ‘Trust’ Jim Marshall’s book ‘Trust’ is available on Amazon if for some strange reason you can’t make it to The Morrison Hotel Gallery before they run out.
Every year at PhotoPlus I have dinner with a bunch of photographers including Jim at Cafe Loup. I’ve always like Jim and dinner with Jim is always entertaining .Be sure to check out Jim’s website Marshall Photo.
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All quiet before the party...
Love the Panorama Mode on my new Sony Cybershot DSC-WX1
Fazia with Dirty Martini and the Girls
Fazia with Sony Artisan Andy Katz and Jay Maisel
My Sony Artisan brother Matthew Jordan Smith with girlfriend Nozomi
The Fabulous Lindquist Sisters
Some people had a devil of a time getting into the party
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If you’re going to be in New York for the PhotoPlus Expo, be sure to catch the Sony Artisans of Imagery Exhibit showcasing personal projects by the Sony Artisans of Imagery alongside a show of the Sony World Photography Awards Global Tour 2009/10 at the Aperture Gallery in New York from October 22 through October 30, 2009.
The show will include five of the latest photographs from my long-term project on Burlesque. I began photographing the Legends of Burlesque in 1992 when I photographed the “Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque” Dixie Evans. Over the years I returned to Exotic World, located just off Route 66 in the California desert, to photograph their annual reunions where Dixie was kind enough to introduce me to many of her friends, allowing me to capture this part of Americana. The images in the show are the most recent additions to the project were taken at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend in Las Vegas.
Come check out the work of my fellow Sony Artisans of Imagery: Matthew Jordan Smith, Andy Katz, Cristina Mittermeier, David McLain and Me Ra Koh. Big thanks to Kayla Lindquist, director of the Sony Artisan’s of Imagery, for putting this great show together for the one year anniversary of the program.
Show Sponsored by SONY and American PHOTO
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York
Hours: Monday–Saturday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm, Sunday: closed
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ASMP/SFL along with with FilMiami.org, the Film and Television division of Miami-Dade County, presents Film Meets Art, a special pre-Art Basel opening of fine art photography at a December 1st cocktail reception hosted by Jeff Peel, director of Miami-Dade Office of Film and Entertainment at the Seth Jason Beitler Fine Arts gallery in the Wynwood Arts District.
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