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Video: Summer NYC Trip, Day 5
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Day 5: Brooklyn
“It’s Better (and cheaper) in Brooklyn.”
Our final day on the trip, we began our day with Isidro Blasco in his studio. His studio was a terrific place filled with wood, models, photographs and so many other goodies. He talked with us about his recent trip to Shanghai and all of the other projects he’s working on.
From Isidro’s, we ventured to the infamous Coney Island. Coney Island… the place where weird things happen. That’s about all I have to say about that.
For the evening’s activities we all went to the Park Bistro for our final dinner and then went to the top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to watch the sunset and see Manhattan. It was incredible.
The New York trip was a definite success. Hope you enjoy our video diary as much as we enjoyed creating it.
(Text by Rebecca Stern)
1 commentVideo: Summer NYC Trip, Day 4
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Day 4: SOHO
“Following an Obsession.”
The coolest day ever: we were given the opportunity to shoot with a 20×24 Polaroid camera. Everyone had to come up with an idea and had about 15 minutes to create the lighting and have Jen take the shot. Jen, who ran the studio and took the images, was great to work with and made the experience successful. Everyone created great and exciting images. Walker and I also ventured to Chinatown to find tubes to put the 20×24 images in and in doing so, Walker decided to trip in a hole and sprain his ankle.
We then booked it way, and I mean way uptown (94th street) to meet Len Jenshel who sat down with us for an hour and talked with us about his work, the National Geographic article with his photographs about the border between Mexico and the U.S. and just talked in general about being a photographer.
Slowly we made our way back down town to meet Harvey at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Harvey is a SCAD alum who now works at this amazing gallery and is in the presence of “works of art” everyday!
(Text by Rebecca Stern)
5 commentsVideo: Summer NYC Trip, Day 3
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Day 3: Midtown
“150 Million? Pocket Change…”
Today started out at the Today show watching a few songs from the musical Legally Blond as we made our way to Christies. Denise led us in to the beautiful building that once was a parking garage. She arranged for us to have a behind the scenes look at what goes on in Christies. It was an amazing experience- we saw a jewelry auction, the storage places for the art work and furniture and the photo studios where every single piece of art is photographed and catalogued. Quite an undertaking.
We then walked around Midtown and went to various galleries. Some of the galleries were, Laurence Miller Gallery, Project, Pace/Macgill Gallery, Cohen Amador Gallery, and Zabriskie Gallery.
We also ran into a Mitzvah Mobile, which will be quite obvious on the video when you see what happened!
We attended the opening of the Jen Bekman gallery in the evening, where Walker interviewed Jen Bekman and we saw some interesting work.
Walker and I also made our way to Times Square where we took an amazingly fast and sickening elevator to the top of the Marriot Marquis. There is a rotating restaurant on top that made me very dizzy, but the view was awesome!
(Text by Rebecca Stern)
3 commentsVideo: Summer NYC Trip, Day 2
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Day 2: Chelsea
“You can throw-up after you make the call, but make the call!”
Tuesday began with a trip to a law firm office on 5th avenue to meet with Greg Ceo, who we discovered was a SCAD alum and is planning on teaching at SCAD in the fall. He talked to us about the ins and outs of being a commercial photographer in the city. As a side note, we met at the law firm because his father-in-law is the owner; not because Greg is sued all the time.
Lois Greenfield’s studio was our next stop. She fit us into her busy schedule and talked with us about her work, being a photographer and once a photojournalist and we tried to help decide on images for a calendar she’s creating for next year! She was an inspiration for all of us.
We walked around Chelsea to see a few galleries: Clamp Art, Robert Mann Gallery (where Elijah Gowin was showing work), Stefan Stux Gallery, and Zach Feuer Gallery.
For the evening event, some of us endured torrential downpours and Steve flipping out for a few minutes while we took a trip on a schooner for a tour of the Hudson River and the Island of Manhattan. It was a terrific experience and one that took my jeans almost three days to dry.
(Text by Rebecca Stern)
4 commentsVideo: Summer NYC Trip, Days 0 & 1
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Day 1: Upper East Side
“I like opera because the women sure can menstruate.”
The 2007 New York trip began with an exciting trip to the Natural History Museum. There’s nothing like traveling to a museum with Steve to go into culturally sensitive areas of the world to see our stereotypical past; the Asian section, the Middle East area (where Aladdin’s lamp was strategically placed right next to the Koran), and the African peoples.
We traversed cross town to see the Goethe Institute where a Magnum photographer, Thomas Dworzak had a series called M*A*S*H. His show consisted of images from the televised 1970s series MASH along side images he took while embedded with medical companies in Iraq.
We then were given a behind the scenes look at the Jewish Museum. Danielle, who Zubair has a crush on, gave us a tour of the most interesting pieces in the museum. We began by looking at Louise Nevelsen, whose massive, overpowering wood sculptures in monochromatic colors (black and white) gave us a feeling that she was larger than life. Dateline Israel was an exhibit of photography and videos, which was fascinating, yet apparently the least visited part of the museum because of the controversy of the conflict. A piece by Barry Frydlender called, “The Blessing” 2005 greeted us by its massiveness. This exhibit pushed us to examine how we interact with photographs.
For the evening event, we attended a book signing/lecture by 4 Magnum photographers: Jonas Bendiksen, Elliott Erwitt, Larry Towell and Alex Webb. They discussed the publishing world, how to publish a book and what it was like to publish a book of photos.
This feature was produced jointly by Rebecca (text) and Walker (video) as part of their project for the class. There will be four more videos following the same format.Stay tuned. 4 comments
Video: Jen Bekman @ Spring 2007 Hey Hot Shot! Opening
My apologies for not having this video up sooner… work is under way for five videos from the New York trip last week. Also, I’m moving to New York in probably less than a week myself, so that may contribute slightly to the delay in having the posted. Just keep checking back and maybe one day you’ll be pleasantly surprised! Until then…
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Video: Whitney & Micah Stansell @ Used Film Studios
Sorry it’s taken over a week, but here’s the video from Whitney and Micah’s opening at Used Film Studios on May 27th, 2007:
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Video: Herman Leonard Book Signing @ Jackson Fine Art
From the Herman Leonard book signing at Jackson Fine Art on Cinco de Mayo!
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Video: APG Emerging Artists Show 2007
It’s up a mere 8 hours after it was shot. I love having a Mac at home.
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Video: Jessica Dodd @ Art House
Sorry for taking like ALMOST TWO WEEKS to get this video posted. Here’s JESSICA and ART HOUSE!
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