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ALBERT WATSON insured $3,500 offered $1,975 SOLD
Monkey in Mask image 4" x 4" $1975
Albert Watson (born 1942) is a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography, and whose work is featured in galleries and museums worldwide. He has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s. Photo District News named Watson one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time, along with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, among others.[1] Watson has won numerous honors, including a Lucie Award,[2] a Grammy Award, the Hasselblad Masters Award and three ANDY Awards,.[3] He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2010.[4]
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of a physical education teacher and a boxer. He grew up in Penicuik, Midlothian, and attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh and Lasswade High School, followed study at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and the Royal College of Art in London. wikipedia
MAX DUPAIN insured $5,000 offered $2,750
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| Bombo, South Coast, 1939, signed & dated '39 lower right $2750 |
By 1934 Max Dupain had struck out on his own and opened a studio in Bond Street, Sydney. In 1937, while on the south coast of New South Wales, he photographed the head and shoulders of a friend, Harold Salvage, lying on the sand at Culburra Beach. The image, entitled Sunbaker, subsequently became Dupain's most famous piece.[2]
However, it was not until the 1970s that the photograph received wide recognition. It was purchased in 1976 by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and has become a national icon.[3]
Later years
During World War II Dupain served with the Royal Australian Air Force in both Darwin and Papua New Guinea helping to create camouflage.The war affected Dupain and his photography, by creating in him a greater awareness of truth in documentary. In 1947, these feelings were reinforced when he read a book Grierson on Documentary which defined the need for photography without pretence. The catchcry was "the creative treatment of actuality". Dupain was keen to restart the studio with this new perspective and abandon what he called the "cosmetic lie of fashion photography or advertising illustration". Refusing to return to the "cosmetic lie" of advertising, Dupain said:
"Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create."Dupain's documentary work of this period is exemplified in his photograph "Meat Queue". He used a more naturalistic style of photography, "capturing a moment of everyday interaction [rather than] attempting any social comment".[4]
Dupain also worked extensively for the University of New South Wales[5] and CSR Limited and made many trips to the interior and coast of northern Australia. However, apart from his war service he rarely left Australia, the first time not until 1978, when he was 67, and even then it was to photograph the new Australian Embassy in Paris, designed by his longtime friend and associate Harry Seidler.[6] He wrote, "I find that my whole life, if it is going to be of any consequence in photography, has to be devoted to that place where I have been born, reared and worked, thought, philosophised and made pictures to the best of my ability. And that's all I need".[7]
In the 1950s the advent of the new consumerism meant that there was plenty of promotional photography for advertising and he attracted clients from magazines, advertising agencies and industrial firms. In between this he devoted time to pursue his love of architecture, and began architectural photography, which he continued most of his life.
ERICA LENNARD SOLD
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| Ermenonville, image 8" x 12" $575 |
For over twenty five years she has explored the nature of beauty and the beauty of nature, Lennard has photographed the majestic formal gardens of Europe, Zen Gardens of Japan The Imperial Gardens of China, as well as the greatest archeological and spiritual monuments in the world the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Angkor Wat, the monasteries of Ladakh and Bhutan, and the palaces of India. Her re-interpretation of beauty also led her to a successful career as a fashion photographer working for such magazines as Vogue and developing the advertising campaigns of some of the greatest designers of the American fashion history, most notably Perry Ellis.
Born in New York City in 1950, she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to Paris where her career began. There her first book was published, 'Les Femmes Les Soeurs', her first exhibitions took place and her first assignments in fashion and portraiture began for Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Interview and Rolling Stone to name a few. She began to do her work on gardens, photographing the classic gardens of Le Notre, while still living in Paris and then started her first of many books on Gardens and Interiors with Artists Gardens, published by Harry Abrams in New York in 1992.
Over the years her work has been exhibited internationally, her books published in several countries, including the immensely successful 'Art of Doing Nothing' and she has contributed to the worlds leading magazines, and continues to do special commercial assignments.
CHRIS VERENE insured $1,800 offered $675 SOLD
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| MY COUSIN CANDI"S WEDDING image 19" x 14" $675 |
Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois and is the son of the philosopher Donald Verene. He spent his teens and twenties in Atlanta, Georgia and studied art at Georgia State University. Verene moved to Brooklyn in 1999. In 2000, he was included the Whitney Biennial with his 1998 series Camera Club and the performance installation piece, The Self-Esteem Salon. That same year his monograph about Galesburg and his mother's family in the Georgia and Florida, Chris Verene, was published by Twin Palms Press. The New York Times reviewed his self-titled book in 2000. "Chris Verene is this year's most appealing newcomer, a diamond in the rough whose square color pictures record his family and friends in candid, unvarnished fashion. The book gets its gritty grip on reality by sticking to place, which happens to be Galesburg, Ill. The tacky interiors, worn clothes and forlorn expressions in the pictures suggest that all is not well in Galesburg, but Verene adds a commentary that tries its best to be upbeat and compassionate. The effect is reminiscent of Mark Goodman's visual diary of life in Millerton, N.Y., A Kind of History, which was published without fanfare a year ago. But the larger shadow hanging over Verene's work belongs to Diane Arbus, which is not a bad thing".wikipedia
CYNTHIA VAIDEN GUEST, MY WORK
“ For decades, Cynthia Guest has been creating imagery that inspires the viewer to reconsider the ordinary. Her distinctive style and bold semi-abstract aesthetic dominates any subject she chooses." P. Guest
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