{"title":"Photography","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"wilhold-up-the-mirror-photograph-and-mixed-media-assemblage-wall-hanging-artwork","title":"Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 27.0, W: 40.0, D: 5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Hopper,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(American, 1936-2010)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixed media sculpture \"Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)\", 1961, photo and assemblage,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAce gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27\"h x 40\"w x 5\"d.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made. Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010 From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece \"Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\/Literature:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of \"Dennis the Menace\", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years. Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis. In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place. Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz, Wallace Berman, and George Herms, and artist\/filmmaker Bruce Conner. As Hopper was denied work in film, he turned increasingly to his own artistic investigations. He started assembling objects with photographs (photo-assemblages) and conceptually questioning the relationships between “reality,” “illusion,” and “representation,” sometimes working under the guidance of Kienholz. “I was recording objects -in a photograph- and using the object the way it functioned, and then affixing the object itself to the record of the object, and using light and recreating the light of the real object, recreating the light in the gallery and having the record of the way it looked using natural light and raw canvas.” Hopper became a key figure in the L.A. art scene in the early 1960s, and his black-and-white photographs of artist friends were used occasionally for posters and announcements for the Ferus Gallery or for the covers of the magazine Artforum. In 1963, Henry Geldzahler, curator of twentieth-century art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, introduced Hopper to Andy Warhol. Coincidentally, the meeting occurred on the very day Warhol introduced the young British artist David Hockney to Geldzahler. A few months later, Warhol mounted An Exhibition by Andy Warhol at Ferus Gallery in L.A., showing his silkscreen paintings of Elvis Presley and Liz Taylor. Hopper threw a party at which he introduced many actor friends to Warhol. With a 16mm movie camera purchased before leaving New York, Warhol shot his first film, Tarzan and Jane Regained…Sort of, while staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Hopper appeared in the film with Claes Oldenburg, Naomi Levine, Wallace Berman, and Taylor Mead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn October 1963, Walter Hopps, curator at the Pasadena Art Museum, organized by or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy, the first retrospective of Marcel Duchamp’s work in the United States. This exhibition had an enormous impact on the entire L.A. art scene and on Hopper’s work in particular. Hopper became increasingly interested in the idea of the readymade, shared authorship, and the artist as “finger pointer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHopper had his first solo exhibition of assemblages at Primus\/David Stuart Gallery in L.A. in January 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn January 1966, Robert Fraser Gallery in London showed Los Angeles Now, an exhibition featuring Hopper’s new Foam Rubber sculpture, which consisted of huge boulders and cacti constructed out of foam rubber. The exhibition also included works by Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Jess Collins, Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Craig Kauffman, and Edward Ruscha.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628205048106,"sku":"a_12801042S1","price":35000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_D8493FEB5BE247428D149665954A07E9_master_645ba40e-a00c-402f-b647-2b747befbfdc.jpg?v=1780507178"},{"product_id":"vintage-silver-gelatin-old-car-wreck-photographer-nona-hatay","title":"Vintage Silver Gelatin Old Car Wreck Photographer Nona Hatay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 11.0, W: 14.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned with initial. Hatay is a visual artist, a healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Scotland of a Hungarian physicist\/inventor and an English art dealer, she grew up in an international environment. Her father encouraged original thinking and experimentation; her mother nourished her creativity and her intuitive skills. Leaving her home in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, for Munich, Germany, she apprenticed to Bauhaus photographer Frl. Berthe Himmler. The next step was New York City where Hatay began to freelance in all aspects of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was when she photographed Jimi Hendrix at Madison Square Garden on May 18, 1969 and was inspired by his music that she got a chance to spread her wings artistically. She was initially inspired by his energy, his vision and his originality. \"Jimi Hendrix was absolutely amazing - it is not possible to put words to the Experience. He was, and still is, unique. I didn't know at the time I photographed him that he was interested in his music being a healing power. I learned a lot about this aspect of Hendrix about ten years later when I met people who knew him. When they heard how much I was interested in the healing aspects of his music, they shared their stories with me. I used some of this information in my two books, Jimi Hendrix, The Spirit Lives On and Jimi Hendrix, Reflections and Visions\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNona's experimental techniques were used in her photographs on many other Rock stars, such as Tina Turner, James Brown, and Frank Zappa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe had a major exhibit of her work in Paris. ORIGINAL PHOTO ART\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone of a kind - experimental \u0026amp; hand painted are in many private collections \u0026amp; museums HARD ROCK CAFE INTERNATIONAL exhibits over 200 original Hatay photoartworks of MUSICIAN worldwide A few original vintage photoartworks available from Studio Hatay 2012 Limited edition archival giclee prints available September from Studio Hatay or Gallery shows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eESSAYS, LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIOS \u0026amp; EXHIBITS ( partial list )\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1968 THREE SUNDAYS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE New York City, NY - one copy handmade book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1969 NEW YORK CITY - essay\/exhibit Peace Marches, other events, personalities,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbi Hoffman, Dick Gregory, Stan Lee, Moondog. others, and concerts Fillmore East and Apollo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1975 SAN FRANCISCO HOOKERS BALL (exhibit purchased by Margo St James) 1976 CASTRO STREET FESTIVAL (Sylvester performing) exhibit color (hand painted) expanded photographs 1978 HENDRIX PORTFOLIO limited edition boxed portfolio of 10 original experimental photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Jimi Hendrix with tape of 10 songs illustrated (designed to experience listening while looking at the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emultidimensional pictures and reading Hendrix's lyrics\/poems) b\/w 1980 THE ROSICRUCIAN PARK, San Jose CA (world headquarters) color photos \u0026amp; experimental b\/w\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1982 JAMES BROWN \u0026amp; TINA TURNER - limited edition portfolio 1983 COLOR EXPANDED PORTRAITS - hand painted photos - many exhibits \u0026amp; commissions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1986 COLOR EXPANDED VINTAGE CARS at Limerick CT exhibited AUTO ART SHOW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1990 JIMI'S BACK - experimental photoart of Hendrix at FNAC Paris \u0026amp; toured France 1990\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eROCK CIRCUS London and HARD ROCK VAULT Orlando, FL 1996 THE P FUNK Portfolio - color \u0026amp; experimental of George Clinton \u0026amp; P FUNK concerts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1997 NATURAL ILLUSIONS VISUAL MEDITATIONS - photo art to contemplate 2004 DVD Natural Illusions Visual Meditation - pictures morph slowly with music to relax 2006 EXPLORING CREATIVITY WORKSHOP (collage art with Natural Illusions)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudios\/Galleries: 1975 STUDIO HATAY San Francisco, CA - specializing in Musicians and Performers portfolios 1985 MOMENTS OF TIME GALLERY, Northampton, MA (photography)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2000 STUDIO HATAY at the Canal Gallery, Canal District, Holyoke, MA - Visual Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation: 1965-66 photography corse in Holland Park Comprehensive School, London, England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1966-68 studied photography in Munich, Germany (apprentice Frl Berta Himmler)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1968-70 New York City School of Visual Arts - photography\/art classes 1975-77 San Francisco Art Institute - design classes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628209406250,"sku":"a_12838652S1","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/ED9E02AE_660B_4ACA_8044_D337C770636F_master.jpg?v=1780507208"},{"product_id":"vintage-signed-silver-gelatin-photograph-portrait-print-of-anthony-haden-guest","title":"Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Portrait Print of Anthony Haden Guest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 10.0, W: 8.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist. Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of his senior year at the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, Malanga became a regular on Alan Freed's The Big Beat, televised on Channel 5 (WNEW) in New York City. He graduated from high school with a major in Advertising Design (1960). He was introduced to poetry by his senior class English teacher, poet Daisy Aldan, who had a profound influence on his life and work from then on. He enrolled at the University of Cincinnati's College of Art \u0026amp; Design (1960), and was mentored by the poet, Richard Eberhart who was the university's resident poet for 1961. He dropped out at the end of the Spring semester. In the fall of 1961, Malanga was admitted to Wagner College in Staten Island on a fellowship anonymously donated for the express purpose of advancing his creative abilities as a poet and artist. At Wagner he befriended one of his English professors, Willard Maas, and his wife Marie Menken, who became his mentors. In June 1963, he went to work for Andy Warhol as \"a summer job that lasted seven years,\" as he likes to put it. Malanga dropped out of Wagner College in 1964, freeing him up to work for Warhol full-time. Gerard Malanga worked closely for Andy Warhol during Warhol's most creative period, from 1963 to 1970. A February 17, 1992 article in The New York Times referred to him as \"Andy Warhol's most important associate.\" Malanga was involved in all phases of Warhol's creative output in silkscreen painting and filmmaking. He acted in many of the early Warhol films, including Kiss (1963), Harlot (1964), Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Vinyl (1965), Camp (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966); and co-produced Bufferin (1967) in which he reads his poetry, deemed to be the longest spoken-word movie on record at 33-minutes nonstop. Malanga played a combination of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby in Warhol's film Since (1966). Also in 1966, he choreographed the music of the Velvet Underground for Warhol's multimedia presentation, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1969, Malanga was one of the founding editors, along with Warhol and John Wilcock, of Interview magazine. In December 1970, Malanga left Warhol's studio to pursue his work in photography. Malanga and Warhol collaborated on the nearly five-hundred individual 3-minute \"Screen Tests,\" which resulted in a selection for a book of the same name, published by Kulchur Press, in 1967. It should be noted that neither Warhol or Malanga were photographers at the time. Thus, by virtue of their collaboration with the motion picture medium, creating in what amounted to post-photographs, they became professional photographers. Malanga's photography spans over four decades and encompasses portraits, nudes and the urban documentation of \"New York's Changing Scene,\" a phrase which he adapted from Margot Gayle, an architectural historian and advocate, whose Sunday News column of the same name had a direct bearing on the development of his photographic eye. Malanga has always sought someone who was rarely photographed or placed in situations and surroundings unique to the pictures he was shooting. Within the first six years of taking pictures he managed to create three of the most prominent portraits of post-modern photography: Charles Olson for the interview he made with Olson for The Paris Review (1969); Iggy Pop nude in the penthouse apartment they shared one summer weekend (1971); and William Burroughs in front of the corporate headquarters that bears his family name (1975). All in all, he has photographed and archived hundreds of poets and artists over the years. He is also a photographer of a number of firsts, including Herbert Gericke, the last farmer of Staten Island (1981); and Jack Kerouac's typewritten roll for On the Road (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Haden-Guest (born 2 February 1937) is a British-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite who lives in New York City and London. He is a frequent contributor to major magazines and has had several books published. Born in Paris, Haden-Guest is the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a United Nations diplomat who later became 4th Baron Haden-Guest. His mother was Elisabeth Haden-Guest, née Louise Ruth Wolpert. As Haden-Guest was born before his parents' marriage, upon his father's death the peerage passed to his younger half-brother, Christopher Guest, a comedian, actor, writer, director, musician and Grammy Award-winning composer. 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Old South Beach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Liebling (1924-2011) was born in Harlem and grew up poor in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. A first-generation son of Jewish immigrants from Europe. In 1942, Liebling quit his first semester at Brooklyn College to enlist in World War II. Liebling returned to Brooklyn College in 1946 to study art under the G.I. Bill. Ad Reinhardt taught a Bauhaus-influenced design classes honed his formal sensibility; documentary photographer Walter Rosenblum opened his eyes to the power of the photographic image. In 1947, Liebling joined the Photo League, a socially minded collective of photographers, Paul Strand, W. Eugene Smith, Lisette Model and Aaron Siskind, who took to the streets of NYC to focus their lens on hidden corners of urban life in the city. For Liebling, children surviving the rough-and-tumble city streets became a symbol of fortitude. “Their faces could inform all that they felt, from grace, to reflective questioning, to supreme prescience,” he said. “Sometimes there was a hint of defeat, but more often there was improvisation and brilliance.” One Easter morning in Harlem, Liebling encountered a young child dressed in his Sunday best: broken shoe-laces, tattered trousers, a threadbare tweed coat and cap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHands buried in his pockets, the boy spread his coat open wide, and the click of Liebling’s shutter transformed him into Butterfly Boy. This image of a winged superhero who could soar away from his impoverished world has become a beloved icon, appearing on public posters and billboards in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Japan and elsewhere. In 1948, he studied motion-picture production at New School for Social Research and worked as a documentary filmmaker. While a professor of film and photography at the University of Minnesota, Liebling began a longtime collaborative relationship with filmmaker Allen Downs; together they produced several award-winning documentaries, including Pow Wow, The Tree Is Dead, and The Old Men. A master of color photography of the 1970s and 80s similat to Ernst Haas and Joel Meyerowitz. In the late 1970s, Liebling rediscovered the long-lost Brooklyn of his childhood in the oceanside neighborhood known as “Little Odessa” in Brighton Beach. He spent three decades photographing there in brilliant chromogenic color as the old wave of Jewish denizens gave way to the new wave of Russian immigrants. He was rarely caught without his twin-lens Rolleiflex camera, and produced a distinguished six-decade body of work, now held in the permanent collections of many world-renowned museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Jewish Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. and The J. Paul Getty Museum, among many others. Liebling received numerous awards and grants, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Photographic Survey Grant, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628212551978,"sku":"a_12857062S1","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_60D319D6604B4E3F94A92D74BCCFEE78_master_e4ce2c47-e31e-4969-ab4c-551d7173faab.jpg?v=1780507234"},{"product_id":"large-mounted-abstract-color-photograph-sculpture-detail","title":"Large Mounted Abstract Color Photograph Sculpture Detail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 32.0, W: 48.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom a Miami art collective. this piece was an experimental collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628214223146,"sku":"a_12863122S1","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_B438C9D79715435C9C706761C0B64CAB_master.jpg?v=1780507246"},{"product_id":"digital-iris-print-an-ideadic-camera-pencil-signed-with-initials-edition-of-15","title":"Digital Iris Print \"An Ideadic Camera\" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 11.0, W: 8.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is for the one print listed here. Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed \u0026amp; published by Muse X, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1998 in the collection of MoMA where it is described as a digital print\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Long currently lives and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworks in California.Education B.F.A., University of the Arts, Phila, PA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT. Since then, the artist has received a number of honors and awards, most recently the 2008 Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. He currently teaches as a professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Riverside. Long’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. His most important solo presentations include CATALIN at The Contemporary Austin in Texas (2014), Fountainhead, a public commission in Dallas, Texas organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013), Pet Sounds at Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), Seeing Green, a solo project in conjunction with All of this and nothing: The 6th Hammer Invitational at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), 100 Pounds of Clay at Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010), and More Like a Dream Than a Scheme at David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Rhode Island, which traveled to SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico (2005). His work has been included in many significant museum exhibitions such as the 1997 and 2008 Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art New York; Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art; NYC. Performance Anxiety, MCA, Chicago; Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Arte Contemporáneo Internaciona, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; ART\/MUSIC: rock, pop, and techno Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Almost Warm and Fuzzy, Des Moines Art Center, The Shape of Color: Excursions in Color Field Art, AGO\/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Gone Formalism, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. SculptureCenter in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among other museums.Long's sculptures have explored the abstract autonomous art object as a psychological investigation into the nature self and others and have been made from diverse media such as coffee grounds, rubber and hair from Abraham Lincoln. He has collaborated with pop musicians such as Stereolab, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and with the renown choreographer Merce Cunningham. Since his relocation from NYC to LA Long's work has been inspired by the Los Angeles River which runs adjacent to his studio. Each year, after the furious flood season, a verdant and abundant growth of grasses, thickets, and trees emerges from the discarded office furniture, bedsprings, and shopping carts that get washed into the concrete channel providing a providing a dwelling for mallards, osprey, crayfish and heron. Captivated by the river and inspired by its unbiased intermingling of these elements, Long creates photographs, video and sculpture in and about the river and the myriad of imagery and meanings it offers. 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Tom Carapic (born 1939), full name Tomislav Sava Čarapić, is an artist who specialises in found object artwork. He also does street art. A prominent Outsider Artist he was a featured artist in the American Visionary Art Museum's End is Near Exhibit. His work was also featured in the exhibition catalog. His work has been sold at Slotin Folk Art. Carapic was born in Velisevac, Serbia (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He was educated at a military school in Herzegovina in the 1950s, and served as a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army. Afterwards he was denied a college education, possibly because he was not a member of the Communist Party, illegally crossed into Italy in 1961, and, from there, emigrated to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1965, he began attending classes at the New York Art Students League, but dropped out soon afterwards, eventually attending the Wilfred Academy of Beauty Culture. He was unable, however, to find steady beauty parlor employment, and worked in menial labor while attending classes in Spanish Education at Manhattan Community College. Due to a problem with accreditation, he was forced to switch to classes in the field of studio art. There he experienced hallucinatory visions that explained his repeated failures to obtain a degree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970s, Carapic began experiencing more hallucinatory visions; claiming that his degree problems were caused when \"the evil marriage bureau massed the troops\" against his college and proceeded with \"an Air force bombardment\" of the school. After receiving other visitations, he began making and showing his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of his art is centered on found objects, most famously computer keyboards, especially those by IBM. Most of his art consists of these objects, marked with black Sharpie markers, and with green thumbprints and handprints along the objects. His most famous exhibit in New York City is \"Big Bang Theory,\" a doomsday warnings painted on computer keyboards and shoes and construction debris. Bears similarity to the Art Brut movement made famous by Jean Dubuffet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was inluded in The End is Near! an exhibit which included an unprecedented group of noted thinkers, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Stephen Jay Gould to Reverend Howard Finster and Apocalypse culture expert ,Adam Parfrey, visionary artists brought together by curator, Roger Manley, for an amazing exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum, the world’s largest ever mounted on the subjects of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia. The End is Near! featuredwork from the following visionary artists amongst others: William Adkins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZ.B. Armstrong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Bruley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Bruno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Leroy Brunson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Carapic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre Carbonel Howard Finster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Fowler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Mac Franklin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Joseph Gatto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Gie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Gimel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugo Hempel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOskar Herzberg Vojislav Jakic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorbert Kox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Keeling Lassiter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStuart Little\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcKendree Robbins Long\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoog (Peter Meyer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeter (August Natterer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyal Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXavier Schelkle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Schoenleber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Smythe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Sowell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL.C. Spooner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVonn Stropp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanislav Szukalski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelvin Milky Way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Wise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Yoder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Zeldis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKonrad Zeuner included in The Museum of Everything at MONA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628221956394,"sku":"a_12920912S1","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_C7069614FCED44498ACF3EE8C34FFBA5_master_9adf6d65-84fc-41f9-8ae1-1a791f1a36d9.jpg?v=1780507321"},{"product_id":"after-blossfeldt-1-vintage-silver-gelatin-signed-photograph","title":"After Blossfeldt #1, Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 14.0, W: 11.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo Ann Callis (American, b. 1940) After Blossfeldt, 1988; Gelatin silver print; Signed, dated and numbered A\/P 1; 13 5\/8\" x 10 7\/8\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo Ann Callis (born Cincinnati, Ohio 1940) is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California. Though Callis initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son Stephen in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born. By 23, she was married with two children; she later separated from her husband. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind. Both sensual and unsettling, these\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escenes showcase erotic imagination in its many forms, all intimate and deeply human. Although the work may sound like a very contemporary investigation of desire, it was made some 40 years ago, predating the staged photographs of Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts (S. CA), where she works up until now (2017). Callis's work is primarily surrealist. Thematically, she has traditionally been invested in drawing attention to and complicating domestic spaces and the role of motherhood. These characteristics are demonstrated in pieces such as Dish Trick (1985)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications Woman Twirling. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. Text by Judith Keller. Decor. Thistle \u0026amp; Weed, 2013. Essay by Jennifer A. Watts. Other Rooms. New York: Aperture, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect public collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum Of Modern Art, New York. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Gallery Min, Japan. References\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBohnacker, Siobhan (March 6, 2014). \"Jo Ann Callis's Color Work\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrohojowska-Philp, Hunter. \"Culture Monster All the Arts, All the Time\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecilia Alvarez, Ana. \"Go behind the lens of Jo Ann Callis' odd arousal\". Dazed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCallis, Jo Ann. \"Photography and Media Faculty\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuchnic, Suzanne (1989). \"A Late Start is No Drawback for Callis\". Los Angeles Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrohojowska-Philp, Hunter. \"Jo Ann Callis' long lens on domestic life\". LA Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZellen, Jody. \"Burning Down the House: Ellen Brooks, Jo Ann Callis, Eileen Cowin\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jo Ann Callis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoMA\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jo Ann Callis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLACMA Collections\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jo Ann Callis (Getty Museum)\". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImage: 12 13\/16 × 10 in. (32.5 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 13 5\/8 × 10 7\/8 in. (34.6 × 27.6 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer work has been widely exhibited in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art, all in Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Gallery Min, Tokyo. In 2009 a retrospective of her work, Woman Twirling, was presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Callis has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards and prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628222021930,"sku":"a_12926962S1","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_75C7B57B2E9B4C02AE8A512BC1528ABE_master.jpg?v=1780507323"},{"product_id":"dans-le-quartier-hongrois-de-mea-shearim-jerusalem-vintage-silver-gelatin-print","title":"Dans le Quartier Hongrois de Mea Shearim, Jerusalem Vintage Silver Gelatin Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 16.0, W: 20.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeah Shearim photograph of Torah scholars. Rabbis in Jerusalem. Photo of Hungarian quarter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrédéric Brenner (born 1959) is a French photographer known for his documentation of Jewish communities around the world. His work has been exhibited internationally, among others, at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Rencontres d'Arles in Arles, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam. Brenner was born in Paris and grew up in France. In 1981, Brenner received a B.A. in French Literature and Social Anthropology from the Paris-Sorbonne University. He went on to study at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and received a M.A. in Social Anthropology, also awarded by the Sorbonne. Brenner is the recipient of the Niépce Prize and his book Diaspora: Homelands in Exile won the 2004 Visual Arts Award from the Jewish Book Council. At age 19, Brenner began photographing Orthodox Jews in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Initially, he believed this was \"authentic Judaism,\" but his approach quickly evolved into an exploration of the multiplicities of dissonant identities. In 1981, Brenner began photographing Jewish communities around the world, exploring what it means to live and survive with a portable identity and how Jews adopted the traditions and manners of their home countries and yet remained part of the Jewish people. He spent 25 years chronicling the diaspora of the Jews across the world from Rome to New York, India to Yemen, Morocco to Ethiopia, Sarajevo to Samarkand. Brenner has published five books and directed three films. His work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. He has been represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York since 1990. Brenner’s opus Diaspora: Homelands in Exile was published as a two-volume set of photographs and texts by HarperCollins in 2003 and appeared in four foreign editions. Diaspora was also a major exhibition, which opened in New York at the Brooklyn Museum in 2003 and traveled to nine other cities in America, Europe and Mexico. In reviewing the book, The New Yorker wrote: “Brenner's work—elegiac, celebratory, irreverent—transcends portraiture, representing instead a prolonged, open-ended inquiry into the nature of identity and heritage.” NPR's Robert Siegel has described Brenner's work as \"a celebration of the diversity and complexity of diaspora.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2006, Brenner founded This Place, a collective photography project aimed at recontextualizing Israel from multiple perspectives. The photographers working on this project include Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington. This Place will be exhibited internationally, beginning at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague in the fall of 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography Jerusalem, Instants d'Eternité. Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1984. Israel. New York: HarperCollins; London: Collins Harville, 1988. With texts by A. B. Yehoshua Marranes. Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1992. With an essay by Y.H. Yerushalmi. Jews\/America\/A Representation. New York: Abrams Books, 1996. With an essay by Simon Schama. Exile at Home. New York: Abrams Books, 1998. With a poem by Yehuda Amichai. Diaspora: Homelands in Exile. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. An Archeology of Fear and Desire. London: Mack, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilmography 1991, Les derniers Marranes (The Last Marranos), with Stan Neumann, produced by Les Films d’Ici, distributed by Europe Images International. 2003, Tykocin, with Jérôme de Missolz, ZKO Films. 2003, Madres de Desaparecidos, ZKO Films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Exhibitions: Musée Nicéphore-Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France Consejo Mexicano de Photographias, Bellas Artes, Mexico City Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam International Center of Photography, New York Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne Rencontres d'Arles, Arles Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York Brooklyn Museum, New York United Nations, New York\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628222513450,"sku":"a_12926992S1","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_EF1D8B8C97B84E3D9182DA58EC7A6A24_master_0acdff81-387f-419f-a99d-7cac553d2c2a.jpg?v=1780507326"},{"product_id":"vintage-c-print-of-time-and-change-boulders-on-a-sea-shore","title":"Vintage C Print \"Of Time and Change\" Boulders on a Sea Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 20.5, W: 27.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1981, Chromogenic Print. It is supposed to be signed lower right recto but has not been examined out of frame. Provenance: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York; ARCO Chemical Company, Newtown Square, PA. Sonja Bullaty (October 17, 1923 - October 5, 2000) was a Jewish American photographer. Bullaty is known for her \"lyrical composition\" and strong use of color during her fifty-year collaboration with her husband, Angelo Lomeo. Bullaty and Lomeo's photographs appeared in LIFE, Time and Audubon magazines and journal.They have both exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House, UMPRUM Museum in Prague, in the Nikon House galleries and other venues. Bullaty was born in Prague to a Jewish banking family. Her family gave her a camera when she turned fourteen. Since Bullaty had been forced to leave school at the time, the camera was a \"consolation gift.\" When Bullaty was eighteen, she was deported by the Nazis to Poland, where she was kept in the Lodz ghetto, and then later taken to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen concentration camps. During a death march near Dresden, she and a friend successfully hid in a barn and were able to escape and return to Prague. When she got back to her home city, she discovered that no one else in her family had survived the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBullaty, \"her head shaved,\" saw and answered an advertisement to be the helper to Czech photographer, Josef Sudek. As his assistant, she mixed chemicals for the darkroom, organized his negatives and learned from his sense of composition.[1] Sudek called her his \"apprentice-martyr.\" Sudek's work often focused on the Czech landscape and windows, such as in the series The Windows of My Studio (1940-1954). Bullaty also photographed windows, but unlike Sudek, who photographed his own windows looking out, Bullaty photographed windows looking into buildings. Bullaty published a book, Sudek (1978), about her mentor, and it was the first publication of his work in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBullaty found work with a photographer on her third day in New York. Also in 1947, she met Angelo Lomeo. They were brought together when she was inquiring about a darkroom in a building he managed. Lomeo was intrigued by Bullaty's accent and went to see her. They started photographing together a year later, traveling and sharing resources; during their time together, they became close. Bullaty and Lomeo were married in 1951. Later, when she was married, she and her husband would visit Sudek and bring him photography supplies. They visited him in Czechoslovakia \"almost yearly.\" In 1971, she helped mount an exhibition of Sudek's work in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs photographers, Bullaty and Lomeo started using studio cameras, but eventually changed to working on location with 35-mm SLR cameras. They began their career photographing artwork for museums and galleries In addition, much of their work was originally in black and white, but they switched to color in 1970. Lomeo and Bullaty had their first photographic assignment in 1948, located in the American South While photographing, Bullaty was grabbed by a Ku Klux Klansman and \"pretended to be merely a tourist.\" Bullaty and Lomeo worked together on assignments all over the world. One series that Bullaty and Lomeo worked together on included windows from around the world and was featured in Popular Photography magazine. LIFE magazine featured their photos of Yugoslavian peasant-painters and their art in 1964. The couple were the first to receive the Olivia Ladd Gilliam Award from the Orion Society. Despite working together, Bullaty had her own personal vision: she was intrigued by \"Kafkaesque shadows she remembers from her childhood.\" She also captured the effects of climate and seasons in her landscape work. 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It is from the aftermath of the six day war. Leonard Freed, Micha Bar Am, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Rubinger and other important Magnum Photos photographers where there snapping photos. not sure who this is by but it is a beautiful piece\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628241715498,"sku":"a_13119202S1","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_C6B73D21FBCA43CFBB2D4F272FE42C4C_master.jpg?v=1780507496"},{"product_id":"birds-cibachrome-photograph-print-signed-conceptual-art","title":"Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 10.0, W: 10.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″. Muse [X] Editions. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe National Museum, Gdansk;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeutsche Bank;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Museum of Modern Art, Houston;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Neuberger Museum of Art;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Virginia Museum of Fine Art;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe World Bank;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Yale University Art Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Commissions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe World Bank,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Dahmer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Grants and Awards:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFulbright Fellowship (2011),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYaddo (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy Dwyer, and conceptual photographs by Kevin Hanley. Doug Aitken, Polly Apfelbaum, David Levinthal, Richard Long, Christian Marclay, Alyson Shotz, Uta Barth all have published with them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628248105258,"sku":"a_13177612S1","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_DBAA556AA6D2479584D889AB5F3370B1_master.jpg?v=1780507553"},{"product_id":"large-vintage-print-silver-gelatin-signed-photograph-terminal-patient-bird-cover","title":"Large Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Terminal Patient Bird Cover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 19.25, W: 13.25 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMan in Wheel Chair , Titled Terminal patient, Bird Cover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked \"McPhoto.\" An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eartists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. 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(not 99 as has been recorded elsewhere) it is signed and dated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkip Arnold was born in Binghamton, New York and currently lives and works in Marseille, France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkip Arnold has maintained a transgressive practice of body performance art, photography, film and installation art. In the style of extreme body centered work that includes such practitioners as Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Fluxus Art. His work is grounded in body politics, Self as Subject, Performance Art, Film\/Video, Contemporary Art, Provocative body art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econfronting the body as a politicized entity. In his performance art, Arnold seeks out extremes and intensities, testing the limits of physical endurance. Although Arnold originally started using video simply to document, he ultimately ended up exploring the medium itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles, B.F.A. State University College, Buffalo, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Studio Fine Arts and Liberal Arts and Sciences, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Senior Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Visiting Faculty, ECOLE National Superieure D’ARTS Paris - Cergy Visiting Faculty, Video\/ Multimedia\/Performance, FaVU VUT Academy of Art, Brno, CZ\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolo exhibitions include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine König Galerie (Vienna, Austria),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreene Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalerie Frederic Giroux (Paris, France),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAeroplastics (Brussels, Belgium),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpencer Brownstone Gallery NY,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACE Gallery, NYC, NY. Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGroup exhibitions include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe J. Paul Getty Museum,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Unlimited, Art Basel\/33,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Los Angeles County Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Louisiana Museum of Art (Humblebaek, Denmark),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffens Kulturhaus Linz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudrey Love Gallery @ BAC, Miami FL Greater L.A., curated by Elenor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY 15 minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol Orange County\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is Everything? Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, curated by Edwin Wurm and Martin Walde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwards include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDurfee Foundation, ARC grant National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant Art Matters Inc., Fellowship for Performance Brody Arts Foundation, Fellowship for Performance Foundation for Art Resources, (FAR), Grant for video\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628249284906,"sku":"a_13201782S1","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/IMG_8937_master.jpg?v=1780507574"},{"product_id":"vintage-20x24-format-polaroid-signed-surrealist-photograph-eve-sonneman-photo","title":"Vintage 20X24 Format Polaroid Signed Surrealist Photograph Eve Sonneman Photo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 22.0, W: 32.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is from a show at Sidney Janis Gallery and is from the estate of Joan Sonnabend. Eve Sonneman (born in Chicago on 1946) is an American photographer and artist. She did a series of similar sequences in color and black and white and for diptychs. She was included in the show EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Photographs from the Avon Collection The exhibition addressed the diverse and changing concepts of beauty as expressed by women through photography. It included such masters of the form as Berenice Abbott, Marina Abramovic, Ellen Carey, Lotte Jacobi, Barbara Kasten, Sally Mann, Sheila Metzner, Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund, Deborah Turbeville, and Carrie Mae Weems to name a few. Since the start of her career in the Young Photographers exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971, Eve Sonneman has secured a unique position for herself in the world of contemporary art. Internationally renowned as a photographer, she has participated in the 1977 Documenta and in the biennales of Venice, Paris, Strasbourg, and Australia, has published five books, and has been the subject of 77 solo exhibitions. David Shapiro, \"She is a painterly photographer [who] reminds us that photography, as with Man Ray and Rodchenko, must never be denigrated as mere materiality.\" In addition to her career in photography, Sonneman works in paint, making large abstractions, painting watercolors and objects. Her distinctive, highly personal form of pointillism has been acutely characterized by the critic Klaus Kertess as \"teeming with tiny, obsessively made, evanescent rings congealing into a delicate and fugitive, floreate dew.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolo Museum Shows: Museum of Modern Art, PS 1, New York Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris Geode Museum of Science and Industry, Paris Musee de Toulon, Toulon, France Le Nouveau Musee, Lyon, France Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan The Hudson River Museum, New York The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinnesota Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY Museum of Modern Art, Costa Rica Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana Whitney Museum of Art Resources Center, New York Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Media Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect museum collections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Modern Art, NY the Metropolitan Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Centre Pompidou, Paris,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Art Institute of Chicago,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonneman was represented by Leo Castelli for many years, and is now represented by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNohra Haime Gallery in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628250104106,"sku":"a_13242392S1","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_7496778BF627492887316A6E7DB15DB6_master_d295f467-cab8-4416-a3c7-5bd1704e1db4.jpg?v=1780507585"},{"product_id":"graffiti-art-photograph-silkscreen-print-park-new-york-city-1970s-pop-art","title":"Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Park New York City 1970s Pop Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 19.0, W: 28.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenre: Photographic Subject: Cityscape Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 19\" x 28\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreet Art, Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Naar is a British-American author and photographer celebrated for his pioneering images of New York City graffiti in the 1970s. Still active in his nineties, Naar has had a multifaceted career as an intelligence officer in World War II; a globe-trotting executive during the postwar years; and an environmentalist, with nine published books to date. Born in London in 1920, Naar graduated at 15 from the private Mill Hill School. Too young to attend an English university, he crossed the Channel to study French and German at the Sorbonne. At this point, Naar had yet to develop a special interest in photography, but his artistic and design sensibilities were being shaped by his Parisian influences, particularly the street photographs of Brassaï. Four years later, his matriculation at the University of London cut short by the outbreak of World War II, Naar was conscripted. Thanks to prior experience in the Officers' Training Corps at Mill Hill, he would spend the next six years on intelligence work, including service with the British Special Operations Executive, on clandestine assignments that took him through the Middle East and Italy. At war's end, by-then Major Naar emigrated to New York City and secured American citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the 1950s, armed with a Super Ikonta rangefinder camera and later a Praktica single-lens reflex, Naar was developing his eye as a \"weekend\" photographer, roving his Greenwich Village neighborhood and seeking out subject matter while on foreign corporate assignments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was not until Naar's early forties, after influential photographers Nickolas Muray and André Kertész—both impressed by his hobbyist portfolio—offered encouragement, that he resolved to seek wider exposure as a photographer. A series of street scenes Naar shot in Mexico City in 1962 was featured in a 1963 solo exhibition in Coyoacan titled \"El Ojo de un Estranjero.\" His 23-page photo essay on Germany, 20 years after the death of Adolph Hitler, appeared in the Italian design magazine Domus. New York Times critic Joseph Deschin, reviewing Naar's 1965 one-man show at New York University's Loeb Student Center, extolled his \"flair for design and an eye for the unexpected, his pictures generate the kind of excitement that one associates with discovery of newness in the familiar.\" The striking image \"Shadows of Children on Swings\" was selected by Ivan Dmitri for the Metropolitan Museum's \"Photography in the Fine Arts\" exhibition, and for its permanent collection. Within the span of a few years, Naar had not only transformed himself into a professional photographer, but was in demand as a contributor to major publications like The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue, Fortune, Elle, and Schöner Wohnen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Naar had a specialty at that time, it was photographing artists and architects amidst their creative (and created) surroundings. One of his earliest and most enduring images featured a young Andy Warhol sprawled on a red plush sofa, surrounded by glistening objects in the infamous \"Silver Factory.\" Other subjects over the years included Luis Barragán, Marcel Breuer, Christo, Alexander Liberman, Heinz Mack, Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Barnett Newman, Saul Steinberg, and Günther Uecker. His portrait of Josef Albers accompanied that artist's obituary in the New York Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1970s, Naar's reputation was well established and he was redirecting his energies toward on-location corporate work for a diverse range of clients.Then in 1972, a commission for the London-based design firm Pentagram morphed into a full-length book project, with the 1974 release of The Faith of Graffiti (UK title Watching My Name Go By)—the first book-length examination of New York City graffiti art. Featuring an introduction by novelist Norman Mailer, the controversial collection would become \"like a bible to later graffiti artists,\" in the words of Brian Wallis, chief curator at New York's International Center of Photography. Naar \"legitimized\" graffiti \"a decade earlier than anyone else, and he came at it with a graphic design sensibility—he understood color and composition and bold design.\" It is for this groundbreaking series that Naar himself remains in demand, with numerous recent retrospectives and a 2007 collection, The Birth of Graffiti, which includes 130 previously unpublished photographs from the original assignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor exhibitions 1963 Galeria Coyote Flaco, Coyoacan, Mexico, El Ojo de un Estranjero 1965 Metropolitan Museum, New York, Photography in the Fine Arts 1976 Musee d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 1977 Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005-6 Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, the Netherlands, Jon Naar Retrospective 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Artists, Designers and Architects 2008 Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Retrospective 2013 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, Jon Naar: Signature Photography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628250431786,"sku":"a_13242422S1","price":1125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_404131F83A5342899864CC273F9A8936_master.jpg?v=1780507591"},{"product_id":"relics-2-elaborately-constructed-vintage-color-photograph-surrealist-image","title":"Relics 2 Elaborately Constructed Vintage Color Photograph Surrealist Image","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 24.0, W: 20.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChromogenic photo print. hand signed, titled and dated. This is a vintage print, printed in 1987 and editioned 2\/10. Jane L. Calvin (born April 27, 1938) is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Jane Calvin was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was an avid art collector and Calvin was brought up in the art world from the time she was born. She attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago as a young child and went on to pursue a degree in Art History from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1959. Calvin worked as a private art dealer for some time before deciding to continue her education and become a fine art photographer. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with her MFA in 1982.[1] Calvin later went on to be a Professor of Photography at The School of the Art Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Beloit College. She was Adjunct Professor of Photography at Columbia College in Chicago until 2005. Since she started making photographs, Calvin has had exhibits across the nation as well as in Germany and China. Calvin constructs her photographs by montaging multiple slide projections and found objects into room-sized assemblages in her studio. She then photographs it, making a tableaux into which layers of meaning are woven. She does not use computer editing, just straight photography. Calvin stated, \"The images can be seen as my commentary on the political and social roles projected onto society whose desires, manipulated by language and image, conflict with concerns of gender, sexuality, race and female identity.\" She says,“I make photographs, I don’t take them,” and in so stating she follows in the path of many Dada and Surrealist precursors, for example, German Kurt Schwitters’ famous Merzbau or Junk House (1923 and following), or Joseph Cornell’s metaphorically vast but physically modestly scaled, even private sculptural interiors of boxes (1930s and following). In her use of projected imagery within and upon the setup of her photographs, Calvin gestures toward earlier 20th century American surrealist photographer Man Ray photographic work, one example of which is Space Writing (Self-Portrait) acquired last year by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Calvin’s more recent kindred spirit – although comparatively minimalist in nature and junior chronologically – is Sandy Skoglund. The latter’s photographed installations are a hybrid of unnatural, spectral, coloration and suspended narrative. \"I am a maker of meaning, not an observer of it. My medium is photography, although it is includes the processes of sculpture and installation . I build room-sized sets onto which I project images and text, recording the final result with the camera. There are no darkroom or digital tricks. The process is straight photography.\" For over 25 years, Calvin has been exploring contemporary society’s approach to issues of gender, female identity, sexuality, vulnerability, and love \u0026amp; desire. Eschewing linearity, the work stands in opposition to the simplicity and minimalism prevalent in earlier 20th century image-making. Her images are elliptical, fragmented, layered, reflecting the contemporary world as one of discontinuity and ambiguity with myriad connections, a world less temporally and spatially fixed than ever before. Through the content carried in found materials and appropriated texts, –she addresses— the social and political conditions that are just out of sight, but remain like some kind of background radiation exerting a subtle but undeniable influence on our society. Pop and pulp references throw a humorous light on cultural identity and gender roles projected onto society. The subject matter, appearing disconnected from its place and time, mysteriously overlaps our own collective awareness. –She asks the viewer to see what has been there all along.–—\/\u0026gt; Exhibition publication, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis, 2005, 'Jane Calvin Sentences' Introduction by Terry Suhre, Director, and Essay \"Jane Calvin's Phantasmagoric Spaces\" by Dr. Mark White. This is a Set-Up: fab photo\/fictions This exhibition looked at photographers who utilize fabricated imagery and constructed subjects to create their work. These deliberate fictions, and their position in the realms of photography and art, were explored through the work of several highly acclaimed artists: Jane Calvin, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, Barbara Kasten, Abelardo Morell, Patrick Nagatani, Nigel Poor, Boyd Webb and Sandy Skoglund. An installation of Sandy Skoglund's \"The Green House\" was featured. The focus of Jane Calvin’s career has been as a fine art photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic Collections Tweed Museum of Art Duluth, MN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolaroid International Collection Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, MN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational and national institutions which have featured her work include: The Museum Anna Nordlander, SWEDEN 2011; 798 Photo Gallery, BEIJING 2005; ArtSea Gallery, SHANGHAI 2005; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art \u0026amp; Design, Sarasota, FL, 2004\u0026amp;07; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL 2004; Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga 2004; Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO 2005; University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 2005; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 2005; The Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia 2006, Purdue University 2007 ; Swedish National TV News, 2011; The Isetan Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN; The Photographic Center, Skopelos, GREECE; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; ART CHICAGO, Int Art Exposition; Kim Foster Gallery NEW YORK; Robert Burge 20th Century Photographs, NEW YORK; The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2002; The Chicago Cultural Center: Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS; The Detroit Institute of Art; Hartley\/Scarfone Galleries, University of Tampa, FLA; The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; Oklahoma State University; TAI Gallery, NEW YORK;.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant; Polaroid Materials Grants; numerous Illinois Arts Council Grants; and an Arts Midwest\/ NEA Grant. The exhibition “Jane Calvin, A Decade of Work” at NIU Gallery in Chicago was awarded Best Photography Exhibition of 2002 by “New City, Chicago”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer work has been widely published and reviewed in venues such as: The New York Times; The Chicago Tribune; Japan Art \u0026amp; Cultural Association Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo; The Wilson Quarterly; Color Magazine, USA; Museums, Chicago; Love \u0026amp; Desire, Thames \u0026amp; Hudson, London; Body Icons, Skopelos, Greece; The Tampa Tribune, Florida; The Tampa Review Literary Magazine; The Toledo Blade, Ohio; Artweek, Los Angeles; Art News, New York; The Tampa Review; Expressions Magazine, Beijing; Homonumus Literary Magazine, Beijing; L’apprendistato di Duddy Kravitz, Mordecai Richler, Milan Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has appeared on CCTV International “Cultural Express”, Beijing,CHINA 2005; SVT Swedish National TV News Stockholm SWEDEN 2011; and “848 Chicago Public Radio; WBEZ CHICAGO 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has been a Juror for The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; a board member of WHITEWALLS, Journal of Language and Art; and a Guest Curator for the Rockford Art Museum, IL. She has been featured as Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist at: The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, The University of Illinois, Society for Photographic Education, Bryn Mawr College Club of Chicago, University of Toledo, The Tweed Museum of Art, The Ulrich Museum of Art, Oklahoma State University, University of Tampa, National Conference of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Rockford Art Museum, The Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FLA, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR \u0026amp; The Bryn Mawr College Chicago Alumnae Association, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has been a Professor of Photography at The School of The Art Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Beloit College. 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Michal Rovner (born 1957) is an Israeli video, photo and cinema artist. Michal Rovner was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She studied cinema, television, and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and subsequently at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 1981, receiving a BFA in photography and art in 1985. In 1978, with artist Arie Hammer, she co-founded the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, the city’s first school for photographers. She moved to New York in 1987. Work In her early photography series Outside (1990–91), Rovner photographed a Bedouin Arab encampment in the desert and reprinted it, distorting its size and color. For the Decoy series (1991), she distorted radar and surveillance images to create photographs of indistinct groups of people with blurred features. In One-Person Game Against Nature (1992–93), she again distorted images, this time her own photographs of people floating in the Dead Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Rovner began to use film and video, creating works featuring anonymous crowds of people or animals, as in Monoprints of Birds (1998). While she has eschewed direct political commentary in her work, in 1995–96 she produced installations for the Israel-Lebanon border that were situated on electric fences and guard towers in the line of ongoing exchanges of fire. These were complemented by her video Border (1996–97), in which she futilely attempted to demarcate and cross the border from Israel into Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer video Notes (2001) was a collaboration with the composer Philip Glass; Rovner used footage of a group of people walking on an inclined angle, and Glass composed music inspired by this moving image (their collaboration was documented in the 2003 documentary Looking Glass). Time Left (2002), a multichannel-video installation comprising images of endless rows of indistinct beings, was the centerpiece of her mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2002. For the exhibition In Stone, at Pace Wildenstein in New York in 2004, she mixed sculpture and video by projecting minute images of crowds onto tablets of stone, blurring the line between image and text. In the film Fields of Fire (2005), Rovner’s images of oilfields in the Republic of Kazakhstan reflect the persistent instability of a region at the epicenter of international scrutiny. Living Landscape (2005), a site-specific video wall at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, projects a montage of pre-WWII footage of dances, music, and daily lives of European Jews. In the early 1990s, she worked with director Robert Frank on two films, One Hour-C’est Vrai (1990), an experimental film for French television, and Last Supper (1992), which she co-wrote. Rovner represented Israel in the 50th Venice Biennale and turned the Israeli pavilion into one of the most interesting one that year. \"....Rovner's media art is like no other. She stands alone in the pure and artful way she bends digital technology to suit her own vision. She makes of these tools fine materials like the smoothest of marble or the supplest of paints...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer installation in the Louvre in 2011 was called \"Histories\". The Louvre chose Rovner for its Summer season outdoor display, next to the famous entrance Pyramid. Rovner's idea was to explore the themes of physical and psychological borders and of identity. In winter 2012 Rovner presented \"Topography\" show in Pace Gallery, New York, continuing environment and science theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions Rovner has had numerous solo exhibitions since her first, at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv in 1987, including shows at the Prague House of Photography (1992), the Art Institute of Chicago (1993), the Whitney Museum of Art in New York (2002), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rome (2003), and Jeu de Paume in Paris (2005). She has also exhibited widely in group exhibitions, such as the Photography Biennial in Ein Harod, Israel (1986), New Photography 10 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1994), Photographic Condition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1999), Whitney Biennial (2000), Biennial Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2000), Venice Biennale (2003), Shanghai Biennale (2004) and the Auckland Triennial (2007) The Space Between, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 11–October 13,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichal Rovner, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica California, March 31–April 28, 2001. Recall Seeing, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, 1998. Photographic Works, Pace \/ MacGill Gallery, New York, October 30–November 29, 1997. Michal Rovner: Art Now 10, Tate Gallery, London, May 26–August 3, 1997. Michal Rovner, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, June–July 1993. Michal Rovner, Prague House of Photography, 1992. Decoy: Michal Rovner, Grant Gallery, Denver, 1991. Traveled to: The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, as Decoy: Michal Rovner, Photographs of the Gulf War,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside: Michal Rovner, Works 1987–1990, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwards and recognition In 1997, Rovner received the Tel Aviv Museum Award and in 2008 she received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lives and works in New York and Israel, where she has a farm in the Valley of Ayalon, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuotes \"My work is not directly related to the Israeli-Palestinian question. I present situations of conflict, tensions, fractures.. vulnerability. (...) I always begin with reality. I record it and subsequently, little by little, I extract the image of reality, which becomes more fuzzy, losing its own definition, and bringing therefore something else.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has exhibited with Micha Ullman, Igael Tumarkin, Dani Karavan, Moshe Gershuni, Sigalit Landau, Besir Abu Rabia, David Tartakover and David Reeb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer works have appeared in collections around the world such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 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He works in platinum, palladium, cyanotype, gum, silver gelatin and other alternative processes. He is also a fine commercial photographer. This is similar in feel to Karl Blossfeldt and Irving Penn. He moved to Los Angeles in 1976, and currently lives in Simi Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628253217066,"sku":"a_13290042S1","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_E65121F54CDA469D85B9AC15816610B1_master.jpg?v=1780507625"},{"product_id":"vintage-large-format-abstract-unique-color-photo-polaroid-photograph-ellen-carey","title":"Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 20.5, W: 20.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches) Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective. Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin, Penelope Umbrico, Ellen Carey, Nicki Stager, Shirine Gill, Wolfgang Tillmans, Harvey Lloyd, and Adam Broomberg \u0026amp; Oliver Chanarin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an internal Dye Diffusion print (large format) Polaroid print. These are exceedingly rare now. This format was used by many of the leading photographers of the second half of the 20th century, among them Peter Beard, Chuck Close, David Levinthal, Robert Frank, David Hockney, Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and, perhaps most significantly, Ansel Adams More recently Ellen Carey has created large abstract masterpieces using this format.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDUCATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1978 M.F.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 1975 B.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 1970 Art Students' League, New York, NY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnovation\/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography 1947-1997, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA (book\/tour) PHENOMENON, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA Photography's multiple roles: art, document, market, science, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL (book) Moholy Nagy and Present Company, The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL Beyond the Camera, Large-Scale Manipulated Photographs, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT The Camera I, Photographic-Self Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Imas Collection,The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Selections 6, Photokina, Polaroid Corporation, Cologne, Germany (book) Highlights, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY Identities: Portraiture in Contemporary Photography, Philadelphia Arts Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Selections 5, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France (catalogue) Artists Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (book)\\ New Surrealism, The Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY (catalogue) Poetic Injury. the Surrealist Legacy in Postmodern Photography, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) Sexuality. Expressions and Perceptions, Art City, New York, NY Summer Selections, Castelli Uptown, New York, NY Pace\/MacGill, New York, NY Figures: Forms and Expressions, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalogue) Painting, Pattern, Photograph, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Ellen Carey - Cindy Sherman: Photo Bus Show, CEPA and Niagara Frontier Transit, Buffalo, NY Images of Women, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Manipulated Polaroids, Wheelock College, Boston, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSELECT GRANTS Polaroid 20\"x24\", Polaroid Corporation, Boston, MA and New York, NY Massachusetts Council on the Arts, New Works Grant, Boston, MA New York State Federation for Artists Grant (FFA), New York, NY National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, D.C. Lightworks, Syracuse, NY Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS), New York, NY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSELECT COLLECTIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA George Eastman House, Rochester, NY International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL Lightworks, Syracuse, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO Ruttenberg Foundation, Chicago, IL Sol Lewitt Collection, Chester, CT Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Dallas-Fort Worth Art Museum, TX Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY International Center of Photography, New York, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT New York Public Library, New York, NY Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Perez Museum, Miami, FL Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Ruttenberg Foundation, Chicago, IL San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San José Museum of Art, San José, CA The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Sir Elton John Photography Collection University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628256100650,"sku":"a_13324462S1","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_4088B55253DA4C96A14D554FD513272F_master_c5583b07-9fc4-4dd8-a9ed-97d7e9f98d73.jpg?v=1780507666"},{"product_id":"original-hand-signed-rock-roll-photograph-woodstock-country-joe-macdonald","title":"Original Hand Signed Rock \u0026 Roll Photograph Woodstock Country Joe Macdonald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 14.0, W: 9.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal signed in gold ink Rock And Roll Photo from the Woodstock music festival. A custom print by Ken Lieberman laboratories in New York hand signed by the photographer. Mounted to board. Jason LAURÉ\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn: Chehalis, Washington, USA, 1949. Resides in Cape Town. Studied at Columbia University, New York City and Sorbonne, Paris. Awards: Pulitzer Prize finalist; National Book Award, USA. Residency: Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University, USA finalist. Author: photographer of 32 books. Collection: UNICEF Africa Museum of New York; UCLA; Woodstock Museum, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodstock 1969: The Lasting Impact of the Counterculture by Jason Laure As the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock festival nears, Woodstock 1969 stands out for its singular voice. Photojournalist Jason Lauré followed his unerring instinct for being in the right place at the crucial moment. He and coauthor Ettagale Blauer trace the historic events that preceded the festival and then envelop the reader with photographs of the headliner rock stars that performed during the landmark three-day concert including the Who, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, and Santana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThreading his way back and forth from the stage, through a sea of happy audience members, Jason Lauré photographed the communal life that was an essential part of the phenomenon that was Woodstock. Never intrusive, yet working close-up, he managed to capture these innocent moments in the pond and in the woods with the same compassion and intimacy he brought to his coverage of all the crucial events of the era. After Woodstock, he photographed such legends as Jimi Hendrix, Tina Turner, and Jim Morrison of the Doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodstock 1969 gives the reader an appreciation of the lasting impact of the festival, showing the way it changed the lives of all who experienced it. It served as the high point of the counterculture that started in earnest in the Summer of Love, and also as a leading influence in the decades that followed. The book concludes with a look at Woodstock's lasting legacy, from Greenwich Village and the rock scene of the Fillmore East to the establishment of Earth Day and the burgeoning environmental movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Lauré moved to San Francisco in the famous \"Summer of Love\" and started photographing the counterculture. He attended Columbia University and worked at the New York Times before serving in the United States Army in France, where he attended the Sorbonne. He was a finalist for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his work in Bangladesh. His photographs have been auctioned at Sotheby's and featured at the Hard Rock Cafe and at the Bethel Woods Museum. Jason lives in Cape Town, South Africa and in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotojournalist Jason Laure covered the Woodstock Festival from August 15-18, 1969. His awesome photos capture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePete Townsend of The Who and John Sebastian, respectively, performing onstage; an iconic image of the massive traffic tie-up outside the Festival; young people trekking to the event; and festival crowds. Many vintage images of bands performing, including The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Grace Slick, John Sebastian, Keef Hartley, and The Incredible String Band; also, many candid moments from the Festival: the crowds, young couples, nude bathers, and the festival-goers' impromptu living quarters. 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Still active in his nineties, Naar has had a multifaceted career as an intelligence officer in World War II; a globe-trotting executive during the postwar years; and an environmentalist, with nine published books to date. Born in London in 1920, Naar graduated at 15 from the private Mill Hill School. Too young to attend an English university, he crossed the Channel to study French and German at the Sorbonne. At this point, Naar had yet to develop a special interest in photography, but his artistic and design sensibilities were being shaped by his Parisian influences, particularly the street photographs of Brassaï. Four years later, his matriculation at the University of London cut short by the outbreak of World War II, Naar was conscripted. Thanks to prior experience in the Officers' Training Corps at Mill Hill, he would spend the next six years on intelligence work, including service with the British Special Operations Executive, on clandestine assignments that took him through the Middle East and Italy. At war's end, by-then Major Naar emigrated to New York City and secured American citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the 1950s, armed with a Super Ikonta rangefinder camera and later a Praktica single-lens reflex, Naar was developing his eye as a \"weekend\" photographer, roving his Greenwich Village neighborhood and seeking out subject matter while on foreign corporate assignments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was not until Naar's early forties, after influential photographers Nickolas Muray and André Kertész—both impressed by his hobbyist portfolio—offered encouragement, that he resolved to seek wider exposure as a photographer. A series of street scenes Naar shot in Mexico City in 1962 was featured in a 1963 solo exhibition in Coyoacan titled \"El Ojo de un Estranjero.\" His 23-page photo essay on Germany, 20 years after the death of Adolph Hitler, appeared in the Italian design magazine Domus. New York Times critic Joseph Deschin, reviewing Naar's 1965 one-man show at New York University's Loeb Student Center, extolled his \"flair for design and an eye for the unexpected, his pictures generate the kind of excitement that one associates with discovery of newness in the familiar.\" The striking image \"Shadows of Children on Swings\" was selected by Ivan Dmitri for the Metropolitan Museum's \"Photography in the Fine Arts\" exhibition, and for its permanent collection. Within the span of a few years, Naar had not only transformed himself into a professional photographer, but was in demand as a contributor to major publications like The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue, Fortune, Elle, and Schöner Wohnen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Naar had a specialty at that time, it was photographing artists and architects amidst their creative (and created) surroundings. One of his earliest and most enduring images featured a young Andy Warhol sprawled on a red plush sofa, surrounded by glistening objects in the infamous \"Silver Factory.\" Other subjects over the years included Luis Barragán, Marcel Breuer, Christo, Alexander Liberman, Heinz Mack, Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Barnett Newman, Saul Steinberg, and Günther Uecker. His portrait of Josef Albers accompanied that artist's obituary in the New York Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1970s, Naar's reputation was well established and he was redirecting his energies toward on-location corporate work for a diverse range of clients.Then in 1972, a commission for the London-based design firm Pentagram morphed into a full-length book project, with the 1974 release of The Faith of Graffiti (UK title Watching My Name Go By)—the first book-length examination of New York City graffiti art. Featuring an introduction by novelist Norman Mailer, the controversial collection would become \"like a bible to later graffiti artists,\" in the words of Brian Wallis, chief curator at New York's International Center of Photography. Naar \"legitimized\" graffiti \"a decade earlier than anyone else, and he came at it with a graphic design sensibility—he understood color and composition and bold design.\" It is for this groundbreaking series that Naar himself remains in demand, with numerous recent retrospectives and a 2007 collection, The Birth of Graffiti, which includes 130 previously unpublished photographs from the original assignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor exhibitions 1963 Galeria Coyote Flaco, Coyoacan, Mexico, El Ojo de un Estranjero 1965 Metropolitan Museum, New York, Photography in the Fine Arts 1976 Musee d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 1977 Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005-6 Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, the Netherlands, Jon Naar Retrospective 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Artists, Designers and Architects 2008 Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Retrospective 2013 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, Jon Naar: Signature Photography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628261507370,"sku":"a_13388892S1","price":1125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_690427E2D186400BB3334DAAB1A66AAF_master.jpg?v=1780507728"},{"product_id":"austrian-sound-space-architect-bernhard-leitner-photo-mechanical-print-signed","title":"Austrian Sound Space Architect Bernhard Leitner Photo Mechanical Print Signed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 20.25, W: 30.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernhard Leitner, (Austrian, 1938)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a portfolio \"Sound : Space\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ton : Raum\" Self published by artist in 1975\/1976,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLimited edition of 50 Hand signed in pencil by artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to his gallery it is a photomechanical etching process. It is hand signed and numbered. It might be a screenprint of sorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernhard Leitner, born 1938 (Feldkirch, Austria)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitect and artist, Pioneer of sound, space and light installation art. Leitner studied Architecture at the Technical University in Vienna. Lived from 1968 until 1983 in New York City. Worked first with the Department of City Planning, than as Associate Professor at New York University, Co-director of \"Urban Design Studies: Humanistic Perspectives\"1983–1986 in Berlin. 1987–2005 Professor for Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Bernhard Leitner’s work in Sound Architecture and Sound Space Sculpture goes back to his artistic-empirical research (1969–1975) in New York, i.e. to his physical-acoustic analyses on experiences of spaces that are formed, designed and composed with the sculptural material Sound stemming from his interest in architecture, music and dance. Three-dimensional movements of sounds shape new architectural spaces. He was influenced by American Minimalism and Minimalist art. The scale of his work reaches from large permanent urban architectural installations (Le Cylindre Sonore,Paris; Sound Field 1020 Vienna; Sound Space Technical University Berlin) to body-related sculptures (Sound Chair; Vertical Space for one Person; Sound Arch; Sound Suit). As with the work of John Cage even the silences are loaded with meaning. This work combines architectural drawing with a photograph of his work. He was also instrumental in preserving the architectural work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who was also a one-shot architect. Leitner helped save the single house designed and built in Vienna by Wittgenstein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Exhibitions:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoMA PS1, NY (1979),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA group exhibition with Vito Acconci, William Anastasi, Jack Goldstein, William Hellermann, Nancy Holt, Annea Lockwood, Dennis Oppenheim, Norman Tuck Documenta 7, Kassel, Ars electronica, Linz (1982),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenice Biennial, (1986),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcademy of Arts Berlin (1996),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeue Nationalgalerie Berlin (1999),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKunsthalle Bremen (2000),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, (2008),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, (2011),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSound Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2012),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTU Berlin (1984, 2014),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFondazione Prada, Venice (2014),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKollegienkirche Salzburg (2015\/2017),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany (2023) Contemporary Drawing Art of the Schering Stiftung Kupferstichkabinett (Collection of Drawings \u0026amp; Prints)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eN. 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His mailbox was simply marked \"McPhoto.\" An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eartists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. 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This Vintage photograph was developed from the original negative and is the last portrait photo taken before his death. This photo was selected as a possible cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. It is hand signed in marker, lower right by Sherman Weisburd. Sherman Weisburd, known for his album cover photos of the 1960s and '70s and advertising work of the early '70s. Photographer for Playboy Magazine, TV Guide (Sonny \u0026amp; Cher), and Viva Magazine. Grammy nominated for his photo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Charles Aznavour, He shot Arlo Guthrie for the cover of Alice's Restaurant, Betty Ford for Ingenue magazine, Marilyn Monroe for Modern Screen magazine. He also shot Ashford \u0026amp; Simpson and was a cinematographer for Universal and Paramount pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Cooper was an Oscar winning American actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the postwar years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952). In his final films, Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Man of the West (1958). Cooper had a series of romantic relationships with leading actresses, beginning in 1927 with Clara Bow, who advanced his career by helping him get one of his first leading roles in Children of Divorce In 1929, while filming The Wolf Song, Cooper began an intense affair with Lupe Vélez, which was the most important romance of his early life. During their two years together, Cooper also had brief affairs with Marlene Dietrich while filming Morocco in 1930 and with Carole Lombard while making I Take This Woman in 1931. During his year abroad in 1931–32, Cooper had an affair with the married Countess Dorothy di Frasso, while staying at her Villa Madama in Rome. After he was married in December 1933, Cooper remained faithful to his wife until the summer of 1942, when he began an affair with Ingrid Bergman during the production of For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1948, after finishing work on The Fountainhead, Cooper began an affair with actress Patricia Neal, his co-star. During his three-year separation from his wife, Cooper was rumored to have had affairs with Grace Kelly, Lorraine Chanel, and Gisele Pascal. 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His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited the work of most of the emerging leaders of Abstract Expressionism, but also that of such important European artists as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian. As the critic Clement Greenberg explained in a 1958 tribute to the dealer, Janis' exhibition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epractices had helped to establish the legitimacy of the Americans, for his policy \"not only implied, it declared, that Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell were to be judged by the same standards as Matisse and Picasso, without condescension, without making allowances.\" Greenberg observed that in the late 1940s \"the real issue was whether ambitious artists could live in this country by what they did ambitiously. Sidney Janis helped as much as anyone to see that it was decided affirmatively.\" He collaborated with his wife Harriet on books such as Abstract and Surrealist Art in America in which he explores the burgeoning styles of art rarely before discussed in America. The work exhibits a wide array of artists who were successful in conveying the surrealist and abstract styles such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur B. Carles, Man Ray, Leon Kelly, Mark Rothko, and Ray Eames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Village Voice Greenwich Village old office. 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He has been a controversial figure, partly due to a manslaughter conviction (King was pardoned in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written in support of King.), and civil cases against him. King's career highlights include, among multiple other enterprises, promoting \"The Rumble in the Jungle\" and the \"Thrilla in Manila\". King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio Cesar Chavez, Ricardo Mayorga, Andrew Golota, Bernard Hopkins, Felix Trinidad, Roy Jones Jr. and Marco Antonio Barrera. King is politically active and made media appearances promoting George W. 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She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (first released in 1976). For the 1994 television film The Burning Season, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award. Her other television credits include The Cosby Show (1986), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), and Alias (2005). Braga was the first Brazilian to present a category at the Oscars. She was announced by Goldie Hawn as one of the most glamorous actresses in the world, before appearing with Michael Douglas, who announced the result of the best short film. Braga competed for many prestigious awards in the United States. For her performance in The Burning Season (1994) she was nominated for the third time for the Golden Globe for best supporting actress. In 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Burning SeasonDuring the 1980s, Braga had relationships with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth, with actor Robert Redford and with director Clint Eastwood. She has no children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Village Voice Greenwich Village old office. 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Studies in Tel­ Aviv with Mordecai Ardon, Aharon Avni, Mosher Mokadi and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcel Janco founder of the Dada art movement. Studies at The Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem. 1956 Awarded a scholarship by the Israel​ American Fund.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Group\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions 1950­ 55Israeli Artists​ Exhibition, Tel­ Aviv Museum 1956 Cimaise de Paris,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1958 \"School of Paris\", Charpentier Gallery,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1959 Les Grands et les Jeunes Aujourd ​hui Salon National 1960 Les Grands et les Jeunes d ​ Aujourd ​hui Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum of Modern Art, Paris 1961 Russian Artists of the Paris School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​1961​ Salon de la Jeune Peinture,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1964 Salon des Indépendants, Grand​ Palais, Paris 1965 Salon d'Automne, Grand​Palais,Paris 1966 Lauréat for the Gravure du Prix de la Critique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1967 Biennale, Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1970 stay with Theodor Ahrenberg, the eminent Swedish art collector. MILSHTEIN has an exhibition at ARC, in the museum of modern art in Paris. Drawings suspended in a liquid contained in a bottle thus creating a three dimensional effect. 1978 An retrospective exhibition of his etchings engravings is held at the Bibliotheque Nationale; the publication of a book illustrated with 33 drawings : Le rite du chat, on show at Artcurial in Paris. Milshtein has also written several plays and has worked in etching intaglio carborundum, lithograph techniques. listed in adec\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eartprice. He has exhibited at galleries in Germany, France and Switzerland with Theodore Theo Tobiasse, Mane Katz, Raya Sorkine, Avigdor Arikha and Abram Krol. 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From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he remained until 1972. He had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery. His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic trademark. Along with Reuven Rubin and Yaacov Agam he is one of Israel's most famous artists. In 1990, Kadishman was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture and in 1995 he was awarded the Israel Prize, for sculpture. Kadishman was an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship recipient from 1960-1962. Selected one man exhibitions 1965 Kadishman, Sculptures - Grosvenor Gallery, London. Curator Charles Spencer Harlow Arts Festival - Harlow, England 1967 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto 1968 Edinburgh International Festival - Goldbergs \u0026amp; The Richard Demarco Gallery 1970 Menashe Kadishman \/ Yellow Forest - Jewish Museum, New York. Cur. Tejas Englesmith, asso. curator Edward Fry 1971 The J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan 1972 Menashe Kadishman, Concepts and their realization - Mus. Haus Lange, Krefeld. Cur. Paul Wember Yellow Square, Valley of the Cross, Jerusalem 1975 Canvas Forest\/Laundry - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Yona Fisher Menashe Kadishman : Glass - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1976 M. Kadishman : Glass - Rina Gallery, New York 1977 Unicorn Gallery, Copenhagen 1978 The Venice Biennale, The Israeli Pavilion. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. She was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. Simons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960 she moved to Houston, Texas and started a time of her life mainly focused in his artistic career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoing work in the vein of Marianne Brandt and Hannah Hoch. During this decade she made several expositions alone and with other artists in galleries in San Antonio and Houston as well in Mexico City, San Francisco and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1971 she was chosen for a group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland that included\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Haacke, Bruce Nauman, Vera Simons and Alan Sonfist. In addition, the museum commissioned her to make a gas balloon flight from the museum grounds. She titled the project \"Drift Amsterdam\" and took time-lapse photographs while floating across Holland. Other installations include a silver helium filled structure, which she called \"The Elevator\" that floats in a plastic ceiling high case. Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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It is titled Josias Astronomical Clock SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012) Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German\/American aviation pioneer, aeronaut and photo collage artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe played a very important role in balloon development and atmospheric exploration. Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. Simons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960 she moved to Houston, Texas and started a time of her life mainly focused in his artistic career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoing work in the vein of Marianne Brandt and Hannah Hoch. During this decade she made several expositions alone and with other artists in galleries in San Antonio and Houston as well in Mexico City, San Francisco and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1971 she was chosen for a group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland that included\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Haacke, Bruce Nauman, Vera Simons and Alan Sonfist. In addition, the museum commissioned her to make a gas balloon flight from the museum grounds. She titled the project \"Drift Amsterdam\" and took time-lapse photographs while floating across Holland. Other installations include a silver helium filled structure, which she called \"The Elevator\" that floats in a plastic ceiling high case. Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. She was still active, creating new art there the week of her death which occured on July 31, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628284969258,"sku":"a_13775562S1","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_A8708C7B65EC4D8580D94044B93FF8B7_master_26ec54e4-bb4b-45fb-8127-b57f45157714.jpg?v=1780508016"},{"product_id":"wrist-watch-abstract-photo-mosaic-collage-aerial-photograph","title":"Wrist Watch Abstract Photo Mosaic Collage Aerial Photograph","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 22.0, W: 30.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one depicts a sports wristwatch over an aerial landscape and is titled Clock Garden. it is signed and dated 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012) Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German\/American aviation pioneer, aeronaut and photo collage artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe played a very important role in balloon development and atmospheric exploration. Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. She was still active, creating new art there the week of her death which occured on July 31, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628285002026,"sku":"a_13775572S1","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_6BA253EA7B644B998E71A03DB720575D_master_77cd22d9-370a-4275-933f-21d6e3ef8c88.jpg?v=1780508018"},{"product_id":"wristwatch-city-abstract-photo-mosaic-collage-aerial-photograph-feminist-aviator","title":"Wristwatch City Abstract Photo Mosaic Collage Aerial Photograph Feminist Aviator","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 22.0, W: 30.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one depicts a sports wristwatch over an aerial city landscape and is untitled. it is not signed. I believe it might be Amsterdam or London. 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In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. 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Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. 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Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. She was still active, creating new art there the week of her death which occured on July 31, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628285690154,"sku":"a_13775592S1","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_E8B79C2EA1B44C42B09EAC3951A0DAE5_master.jpg?v=1780508023"},{"product_id":"sports-watch-abstract-photo-mosaic-collage-aerial-photograph-feminist-aviator","title":"Sports Watch Abstract Photo Mosaic Collage Aerial Photograph Feminist Aviator","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 17.5, W: 25.25 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one depicts a sports wristwatch over an aerial city or field landscape and is titled \"Time Frame\". It is signed and dated. I believe it might be Amsterdam or London. SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012) Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German\/American aviation pioneer, aeronaut and photo collage artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe played a very important role in balloon development and atmospheric exploration. Known for her photograph collage and photo mosaic (ala Maurizio Galimberti polaroid mosaics) technique. Vera Simons was born in Heidenheim (Brenz), Germany on November 23, 1920 to Max and Maja Habrecht. After emigrating to United States she was raised in Detroit, Michigan where his father was a very prominent social photographer. Vera had great interest in art, photo and sculpture so she studied formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, both in the twin cities area. In the early 40's she met who will become his second husband, Otto Winzen whom was then studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Otto left General Mills to found his own company specialized in plastic balloons, Winzen Research, Inc. using funds that Vera borrowed from his parents. There, besides helding the two-thirds ownership of the company, she played a key role as vice-president and chief of production. Vera excelled at running the factory. She supervised the personnel and trained them to handle the very delicate polyethylene used to build the balloons. She constantly improved construction techniques and redesigned the envelopes themselves. During her decade with Winzen Research, she obtained four patents and established herself as the finest plastic balloon builder in the world. Vera was very proud of the \"balloon girls\" she trained. Whenever a Winzen balloon was launched, Vera made sure the team that had built the balloon saw the liftoff. \"To see what you've made come alive,\" Vera would say, \"that's pretty damned exciting.\" She was a central figure in planning and executing the series of Air Force and Navy manned research flights of the 1950s, along with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957, after obtaining her licence as gas balloon pilot, Vera represented the United States at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races in Holland where she received a gold medal for her contributions to gas balloon research. On the human side, the end of the 1950s were the most turbulent years for the Winzen marriage. This would eventually lead to Vera to file for divorce in 1958. Vera enrolled in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Two years later she married another recently divorced balloonist, Dr. David G. Simons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960 she moved to Houston, Texas and started a time of her life mainly focused in his artistic career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoing work in the vein of Marianne Brandt and Hannah Hoch. During this decade she made several expositions alone and with other artists in galleries in San Antonio and Houston as well in Mexico City, San Francisco and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1971 she was chosen for a group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland that included\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Haacke, Bruce Nauman, Vera Simons and Alan Sonfist. In addition, the museum commissioned her to make a gas balloon flight from the museum grounds. She titled the project \"Drift Amsterdam\" and took time-lapse photographs while floating across Holland. Other installations include a silver helium filled structure, which she called \"The Elevator\" that floats in a plastic ceiling high case. Another project she developed, \"Sky Structure\", consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium. It flew above Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts in 1971. During this time she also made exhibitions in places as far as Brazil, Venezuela and Australia. The echoes of the \"Drift Amsterdam\" projects led her to try to perform a similar effort in America. Thus she conceived a project that would combine her two loves: art and ballooning in a series of flights called \"Da Vinci\" aimed to perform \"in situ\" research on atmospheric pollution along with installations of original kinetic art. The four manned helium gas balloon flights were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, General Electric, and the National Geographic which published detailed accounts of the feat in the magazine. The first flight was performed in 1974 over New Mexico while the second and third flights were launched from St.Louis in June and July, 1976. That same year in October, Simons was part of the team that supported the attempt of Atlantic crossing made by balloonist Ed Yost acting as operator to manage the flight operations from Ed's launch point near Bangor, Maine, to the halfway point in the Atlantic. She shot in color, black and white and polaroid film. Her collage technique was based in Dada and Bauhaus techniques similar to Jiri Kolar, Max Ernst and Man Ray. For the last flight of the Da Vinci project known as \"Davinci Transamerica\" which was carried out in 1979 Vera would spent two years designing and supervising the construction of a two-decker fiberglass gondola. During the flight (which established a new overland distance record in the U.S.) Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special lighting effects in the clouds for the spectators on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final involvement with the balloon field would come in 1984, when she staged \"Project Aeolus\" in which three plastic balloons, lit from within and connected between them were launched simultaneously into the night time New Mexico sky. The balloons were piloted by noted balloonists Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo (along with Vera) and Larry Newman. Vera continued his career as a recognized international artist. Her kinetic art pieces, collages and oils were shown in galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Dublin, San Antonio and Houston. Her work was featured in group shows alongside her contemporaries, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Christo. In great part of his art was always present his ballooning past. As she expressed in an interview with Craig Ryan for The Pre-Astronauts book, you never get it out of your blood. She lived in Austin, Texas where she established her art studio. She was still active, creating new art there the week of her death which occured on July 31, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628286279978,"sku":"a_13781412S1","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_67B70D2BB8884211942DB1E741A2AEE9_master_c1586064-ace5-479f-becd-d57fb6a444a2.jpg?v=1780508031"}],"url":"https:\/\/lionsgallery.com\/collections\/photography.oembed","provider":"Lions Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}