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The<br />
PAI Imagıst<br />
October 2010 Speaker<br />
<strong>Garry</strong> <strong>Gross</strong><br />
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING<br />
Diamond © <strong>Garry</strong> <strong>Gross</strong><br />
www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong>
ThePAIImagıst PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
Here is the tail of how <strong>Garry</strong><br />
<strong>Gross</strong> went from fashion<br />
photography to the dogs. For<br />
30 years Gary photographed the<br />
covers of magazines like GQ,<br />
Cosmopolitan, and New York<br />
Magazine and celebrities like<br />
Calvin Klein, Gloria Steinem,<br />
Whitney Houston, and Lou<br />
Reed. That, after apprenticing<br />
with Francesco Scavullo, Lisette<br />
Model, and Richard Avedon.<br />
Unexpectedly the bottom<br />
dropped out of his career and<br />
it served as a warning to all<br />
photographers that signed<br />
model releases are no guarantee<br />
of protection. In 1975 Gary<br />
photographed a nude 10-year<br />
old Brooke Shields. Despite two<br />
properly executed releases,<br />
Shield’s mother sued him in<br />
civil court. Fortunately the<br />
judge in the case concluded that<br />
Next PAI Meeting<br />
Thursday, October 21<br />
12 Noon Luncheon<br />
National Arts Club<br />
15 Gramercy Park South | New York City<br />
“<strong>Garry</strong> <strong>Gross</strong> is not a pornographer<br />
but a photographer<br />
of extraordinary talent.” That<br />
should have settled the matter,<br />
but the tremendous publicity<br />
in the case caused his previous<br />
employers to turn away. That<br />
effectively ended his fashion<br />
career.<br />
What does a man do at such<br />
a juncture in life? Look for<br />
something that he would really,<br />
really like to do. So he wrote on<br />
a piece of paper things that<br />
excited him. As a child he loved<br />
animals. He had fish, cats,<br />
hamsters, and lots of dogs.<br />
The dogs won out.<br />
In 2002 <strong>Garry</strong> attended and<br />
graduated from the Animal<br />
Behavior Center of New York as<br />
a certified dog trainer. It was<br />
only natural that <strong>Garry</strong> joined<br />
his two loves, dogs and photography.<br />
Looking at his detailed,<br />
beautifully lighted portraits<br />
on his website, I am reminded<br />
of the exquisite images of the<br />
Canadian portrait photographer<br />
Joseph Karsh. <strong>Garry</strong>’s images<br />
have an inherent intimacy.<br />
The dogs look out at you as if<br />
expecting you to whisper some<br />
secret. The techniques he has<br />
developed in working with dogs<br />
are based on his deep love and<br />
understanding of them. Older<br />
dogs in particular have a<br />
message in their eyes.<br />
How <strong>Garry</strong> works with his<br />
subjects I leave for the luncheon.<br />
A combination of the methods<br />
of the psychologist BF Skinner<br />
and the lighting techniques he<br />
used with cosmetics. As well as<br />
a generous helping of patience.<br />
—Bob Sharpe<br />
President’s Note<br />
I have been President and Treasurer of PAI for many years. It has been an opportunity to meet<br />
great photographers and see their work. And it has been an opportunity to honor the<br />
work of our own talented members.<br />
It has also been a long and consuming experience. Tina and I have deferred many trips, many opportunities to see<br />
and do other things. So I think it time to listen to that inner voice, the one that says,” Do things while you still can.”<br />
Therefore, I will be stepping down as PAI President on January 1, 2011. I will continue on the board and provide<br />
whatever help I can. I am sure that the PAI has in its ranks other members who will successfully lead PAI into the future.<br />
With all best wishes,<br />
BOB SHARPE<br />
PhotograPhy anD ImagIng<br />
officers<br />
Robert Sharpe<br />
President<br />
Randy Duchaine<br />
First Vice President<br />
Marilyn Fish-Glynn<br />
Second Vice President<br />
Richard Bachmann<br />
Treasurer<br />
A. Lucky Checkley<br />
Secretary<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Richard Bachmann<br />
A. Lucky Checkley<br />
Randy Duchaine<br />
Marilyn Fish-Glynn<br />
Al Francekevich<br />
Leonora Goldberg<br />
Cynthia Matthews<br />
Marjorie Neikrug<br />
Dr. Marcus Reidenberg<br />
Fred Rosenberg<br />
Dan Rutkowski<br />
Robert Sharpe<br />
Len Speier<br />
Len Stern<br />
Ed Bobrow<br />
Special Advisor<br />
to the Board<br />
Editorial Submissions<br />
imagisteditor@gmail.com<br />
Deborah Yale, Editor<br />
Mindy Lang, Designer<br />
Our sincere appreciation to<br />
SiteWelder<br />
for its continued support<br />
of the PAI mission and for<br />
delivering our message<br />
to the photographic public<br />
via a great website.<br />
www.sitewelder.com<br />
The PAI Vision:<br />
To bring people together<br />
who are passionate<br />
about photography.<br />
The PAI Mission:<br />
To grow PAI, to share the<br />
joy of photography while<br />
building camaraderie and<br />
inspiring creativity.
ThePAIImagıst PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
Exhibitions | News | & Updates<br />
Currently on view<br />
herb Fixler is having a six-month revolving exhibition of work featuring<br />
all new black and white and color imagery captured in 2009 & 2010 at the<br />
Manhattan Athletic Club Gallery (entrance on 48th Street between Park<br />
and Lexington Aves. opposite the Inter-continental Hotel). See the<br />
Gallery section for one of his color images from the show.<br />
October 10–November 15<br />
ross Lowell invites you to view two dozen banners of nature photography,<br />
artist’s opening Sunday October 10 from 2-4 pm. The 30 square images are<br />
suspended from stately trees along a serpentine trail in the “Forest of<br />
Possibilities” at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Routes 121 and 35 in Cross<br />
River, NY. See the Gallery section for one of his images from the exhibit.<br />
Monday, October 18: Lecture 3–5 pm<br />
Susan may tell will be lecturing at the B & H Event Space located on the<br />
2nd floor, 420 9th Avenue, NYC. She will share work from her exhibitions<br />
(Constructed Moments; A Requiem: Tribute to the Spiritual Space at Auschwitz;<br />
and Real/Unreal: Urban Landscapes of the 1980s), recent projects, and<br />
discuss her personal work and anecdotes about her friendships with Andre<br />
Kertesz, Helen Gee and several others. http://www.bhphotovideo.com<br />
through October 23<br />
marvin E. newman will be a featured photographer in Beyond Color:<br />
Color in American Photography 1950-1970, at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery,<br />
535 West 24th Street, NYC. See the Gallery section for one of his images<br />
in the show. www.brucesilverstein.com/artist/230/Beyond-COLOR<br />
through January 2<br />
Erika Stone’s photograph Woman in Curlers, East Harlem, NY, is included<br />
in the exhibition: Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York<br />
Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Print Gallery & Stokes<br />
Gallery located at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, NYC.<br />
through January 10<br />
rebecca Lepkoff’s New York City street photographs are included in<br />
Cheryl Dunn’s film Everybody Street, presented at the Alfred Sieglitz:<br />
New York show at the Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton Street, NYC. Rebecca<br />
is renowned for her Lower East Side street images taken in the 1930’s.<br />
November 5–January 8<br />
E. Peter Schroeder is having an exhibition at the Leica Gallery, of his Paul<br />
Newman photographs taken when Paul first appeared on Broadway.<br />
The plays’ were Picnic (1953), Desperate Hours (1956) and Baby Want a Kiss<br />
(1964). Also included are photographs taken in Greenwich Village; Lower<br />
Fifth Avenue; Hollis, Queens; and the Jersey Shore. PAI members are invited<br />
to the private opening Thursday, November 4, from 7 to 9 pm. Leica<br />
Gallery, 670 Broadway, NYC.<br />
Romare Bearden, 1980,<br />
© Marvin E. Newman<br />
Cynthia matthews shares<br />
several worthwhile photography<br />
exhibitions/ auctions that are<br />
free and interesting events:<br />
Sotheby’s<br />
October 1–5<br />
Auction: October 5–6<br />
1334 York Avenue, NYC<br />
http://sothebys.com<br />
Christie’s<br />
October 2–6<br />
Auction: Friday, October 8<br />
20 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC<br />
http://christies.com<br />
Phillips, de Pury<br />
& Company<br />
October 2–8<br />
Auction: Friday, October 8<br />
450 West 15th Street, NYC<br />
http://phillipsdepury.com<br />
Swann galleries<br />
Fine Photographs and<br />
Select Photobooks<br />
Auction: Tuesday,<br />
October 19 at 2 pm<br />
104 East 25 Street, NYC<br />
http://swanngalleries.com<br />
marvin E. newman is pleased to<br />
announce The United States<br />
Postal Service will issue a stamp<br />
of his photograph of the artist<br />
Romare Bearden, with a print run<br />
of five to ten million.<br />
Dr. marcus reidenberg recently<br />
submitted a group of 58 photo<br />
graphic prints from his New York<br />
Street Trades series to the New<br />
York Historical Society. The society<br />
now has 120 prints of his street<br />
trades and other contemporary<br />
New York scenes for their collection.<br />
See the Gallery for one of his<br />
images submitted to the NYHS.<br />
Len Speier’s image Rome, Ice<br />
Cream Cones was selected for the<br />
Texas Photographic Society’s<br />
TPS 19: International Competition<br />
Annual Exhibition at the A. Smith<br />
Gallery, Johnson City, TX. Curator<br />
of Photography at the Museum of<br />
Art in Santa Fe, NM, Katherine<br />
Ware, juried the exhibition.<br />
michael Sender announces that<br />
a book is being planned on The<br />
Village Camera Club that was<br />
located on Bank Street in the 1950s<br />
and 60s, then moved to Bleecker<br />
Street and then to Varick Street.<br />
A few members he recalls are Peter<br />
Moore, Aaron Rose and Sid Kaplan.<br />
If anyone can provide information<br />
or know any members that<br />
belonged to the Village Club,<br />
please get in touch with him.<br />
msender33@yahoo.com<br />
Please submit information for the<br />
Exhibitions, News & Updates column to<br />
Deborah yale at<br />
imagisteditor@gmail.com<br />
Publication of materials is at the sole<br />
discretion of the editor. Deadline for<br />
upcoming issue is the end of the month<br />
preceding publication. Materials received<br />
after deadline will be held over and published<br />
the following month.
ThePAIImagıst PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
PAI’s 50th Anniversary Luncheon<br />
Touching, informative, funny, inspiring and nostalgic, just a few<br />
of the adjectives heard describing PAI’s historic 50th celebration.<br />
In addition to stories told by our past presidents Marge Neikrug,<br />
Len Stern, and Al Francekevich, we saw Nobles Lowe, Tony Vaccaro,<br />
Marvin Newman, Al Gescheidt and Rebecca Lepkoff.<br />
Alden James, President of the National Arts Club, dropped by with<br />
opening remarks about PAI’s early beginnings at the NAC and assured<br />
members that the club will continue rolling out the red carpet for<br />
our programs.<br />
Marge Neikrug, up from Florida for the occasion, shared her memories<br />
of the genesis of PAI and recalled the days she and Regina Reynolds<br />
were the first women invited to join the group.<br />
With the time capsule opened, others followed, recounting fascinating<br />
and hilarious stories. Marvin Newman’s tale of unwittingly causing a<br />
major chemical spill in the Time Life darkroom; Tony Vaccaro’s spirited<br />
saga of Flair magazine’s editor assigning him a fashion shoot when his<br />
only photographic experience had been in combat; and Al Francekevich’s<br />
astonishment that he was seated at the same table as Philippe Halsman<br />
and Leopold Godowsky (co-inventor of Kodachrome). So many<br />
wonderful stories and clearly a magical time.<br />
One last note, members enjoyed Bob Sharpe’s slide show of Imagist<br />
covers throughout the years. Running only six minutes, it condensed<br />
dozens of images taken by the talented photographers who have<br />
spoken at PAI.<br />
Being privy to stories like these was a reminder that this is precisely<br />
the reason I joined PAI. It doesn’t exist anywhere else.<br />
—Cynthia Matthews<br />
PAI President Bob Sharpe (l) with Past Presidents Marge Neikrug, Len Stern<br />
and Al Francekevich, holding an image of the historic first chartered flight on<br />
TWA in 1958.<br />
Tony Vaccaro shares his magical memories at PAI’s 50th Anniversary<br />
luncheon, held at the National Arts Club.
A FORUM<br />
DESIGNED TO SHOWCASE THE WORK<br />
OF OUR MEMBERS<br />
Please submit 6 x 9", 300 dpi images to imagisteditor@gmail.com<br />
Britta’s Farm; Assens, Denmark © Martin Fine<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING<br />
ThePAI<br />
Gallery
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
Chrysler<br />
© Michael Sender
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
Coney Island, 1953<br />
© Marvin Newman
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
Dogon boy<br />
© Jeff Foxx
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
Flower Stand Worker, 2010<br />
© Dr. Marcus Reidenberg
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
navy Pier © Herb Fixler
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
on Park avenue<br />
© Ed Bobrow
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
the Seine Paris<br />
© Dave Forbett
ThePAIGallery PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING | www.PAI-<strong>newyork</strong>.<strong>org</strong> October 2010<br />
next generation 7 © Ross Lowell