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