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Raymond Meeks
Raymond Meeks (born 1963) is an American photographer. "Much of his work focuses on memory and place, and captures daily life with his family." He has published a number of books including ''Pretty Girls Wander'' (2011) which "chronicles his daughter's journey from adolescence to adulthood"; and ''Ciprian Honey Cathedral'' (2020), which contains symbolic, figurative photographs taken in and around a new house, and of his partner just before waking from sleep. Meeks is co-founder of ''Orchard Journal,'' in which he collaborates with others. In 2016 he received a Siskind Fellowship Grant from the Aaron Siskind Foundation and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is held in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Light Work in Syracuse, NY, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Life and work Meeks was born in Columbus, Ohio. He has lived in Providence, Rhode Island and the Catskill Mountains, New York. He once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Times
The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nikkei, with core editorial offices across Britain, the United States and continental Europe. In July 2015, Pearson sold the publication to Nikkei for £844 million (US$1.32 billion) after owning it since 1957. In 2019, it reported one million paying subscriptions, three-quarters of which were digital subscriptions. The newspaper has a prominent focus on financial journalism and economic analysis over generalist reporting, drawing both criticism and acclaim. The daily sponsors an annual book award and publishes a " Person of the Year" feature. The paper was founded in January 1888 as the ''London Financial Guide'' before rebranding a month later as the ''Financial Times''. It was first circulated around metropolitan London by James Sherid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Bass
Rick may refer to: People *Rick (given name), a list of people with the given name *Alan Rick (born 1976), Brazilian politician, journalist, pastor and television personality *Johannes Rick (1869–1946), Austrian-born Brazilian priest and mycologist; also his botanical author abbreviation *Marvin Rick (1901–1999), American middle-distance runner Units of measure *Rick, a quantity of firewood, related to a cord, in some parts of the US *Rick, a stack or pile of hay, grain or straw Other uses *Tropical Storm Rick (other) * ''Rick'' (film), a 2003 film starring Bill Pullman *RICK, stock ticker symbol for Rick's Cabaret International, Inc. See also *Richard (other) *Ricks (other) *Ricky (other) *Rix (other) Rix may refer to: Places * Rix, Jura, a commune in France * Rix, Nièvre, a commune in France People * Rix (surname) * Rix Robinson (1789–1875), Michigan pioneer Other uses * ''Rix'', a Gaulish word meaning "king"; cognate w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Foglia
Lucas Foglia (born 1983) is an American photographer, living in San Francisco. "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture. Foglia's ''Human Nature'' has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago and at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. His work is held in the collections of Denver Art Museum, MoCP, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Portland Art Museum. Early life and education Foglia was born on Long Island, New York. His parents were part of the back-to-the-land movement and he grew up on their farm, 30 miles from Manhattan. He received his BA from Brown University in 2005 and received his MFA from Yale School of Art, at Yale University, Connecticut in 2010. Work Foglia's first two books ''A Natural Order'' (2012) and ''Frontcountry'' (2014) merge landscape photography and portraiture. According to Sean O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biography Iturbide was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1942, to traditional Catholic parents. The eldest of thirteen children, she attended Catholic school and was exposed to photography early on in life. Her father took pictures of her and her siblings, and she got her first camera when she was 11 years old. When she was a child, her father put all the photographs in a box; Iturbide later said: "it was a great treat to go to the box and look at these photos, these memories." She married the architect Manuel Rocha Díaz in 1962 and had three children over the next eight years: sons Manuel and Mauricio, and a daughter, Claudia, who died at the age of six in 1970. Manuel is now a composer and sound artist and has lectured at California College of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Directions Publishing
New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City. History New Directions was born in 1936 of Ezra Pound's advice to the young James Laughlin, then a Harvard University sophomore, to "do something useful" after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing, each titled ''New Directions in Poetry and Prose'' (until 1966's ''NDPP 19''). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions later broadened their focus to include writing of all genres, representing not only American writing, but also a considerable amount of literature in translation from modernist authors around the world. New Directions also published the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Zellar
Brad Zellar (born November 16, 1961) is an American author and journalist. Zellar's writing often is accompanied by photographs; he has collaborated several times with photographer Alec Soth. The Coen brothers film ''A Serious Man'', nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, took some inspiration for the visuals based on Zellar's book the ''Suburban World: The Norling Photos''. His book ''Conductors of the Moving World'' was named in ''Time'' "Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved", and was the recipient of the 2012 Photography for Design Professional Award from D&AD (British Design & Art Direction). Biography Childhood Zellar described his childhood as having grown up in "a very active and loving family" as well as being a fairly "social kid". At the same time, he notes that much of his work was inspired from his "lonely" adolescence despite having been in an always "crowded house". The desire for "privacy and solitude" brought about his affection for isolati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Mills
Wes or WES may refer to: * Westmorland, county in England, Chapman code __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Wes (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Wes Madiko (1964–2021), Cameroonian musician better known as "Wes" * William Wesley (born 1964), basketball facilitator known as "Worldwide Wes" * Wesley "Wes" Correa (born 1962), American-Puerto Rican professional basketball player Computing, science, and technology * Warehouse execution system, a software system used in distribution centers * Whole exome sequencing, a technique for sequencing the expressed genes in a genome * Windows Embedded Standard, an embedded operating system * Workplace Exposure Standards, a set of chemical exposure limits established by the New Zealand Department of Labour - see Threshold limit value Organizations * Wiltshire Emergency Services, the collaboration of emergency services in Wiltshire, England * Women's Engineering Society. A professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mack (publishing)
Mack (stylised as MACK) is an independent art and photography publishing house based in London. Mack works with established and emerging artists, writers and curators, and cultural institutions, releasing around 40 books per year. The publisher was founded in 2010 in London by Michael Mack. Details Mack was founded in 2010 in London by Michael Mack, who previously worked as managing director of Steidl, founding the SteidlMack imprint. Mack takes part in various art and book fairs, showcasing new titles, participating in talks, and organising artist book signings. These annual events include The London Book Fair in March; AIPAD in NYC in April; LA Art Book Fair in April; PhotoLondon in May; Rencontres d'Arles, in July; the NY Art Book Fair in September; Frankfurt Book Fair in October; Paris Photo in November. In 2011, Michael Mack was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Plymouth for his contribution to art publishing. Awards for Mack titles *Deutsche Börs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Lavalette
Shane Lavalette (born 1987) is an American photographer. Life and work Lavalette was born in Burlington, Vermont. He studied photography at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he received a BFA in 2009. In 2010, Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to contribute to their ''Picturing the South'' series, His work was exhibited there in 2012 and received media coverage from ''CNN'', ''Time'', ''NPR'', and ''The New York Times.'' His book ''One Sun, One Shadow'' is an extension of this body of work. In 2011, Lavalette was hired as the associate director of Light Work, a non-profit photography organization in Syracuse, New York. He was appointed director two years later, in 2013. At Light Work, Lavalette oversees the organization's Artist-in-Residence Program, exhibitions, and publication of ''Contact Sheet'', a photography journal. In 2017, Lavalette was commissioned by Fotostiftung Schwiz to follow the footsteps o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photographer – and also the first non-British person – to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal,"The RPS 2015 Awards announced" Accessed 16 September 2015 the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's |
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) is an American photographer. A number of her works have been published and she is a member of Magnum Photos. She has received multiple awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Life and work Born in New York City, Sanguinetti moved to Argentina at the age of two and lived there until 2003. Currently, she lives in California. Her main bodies of work are ''The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams'', a more than twenty year long documentary photography project about two cousins—Guillermina and Belinda—as they grow up in the countryside of Buenos Aires; ''On the Sixth Day'', which explores the cycle of life and death through farm animals' lives; ''Sorry Welcome'', a meditative journal on her family life; and ''Le Gendarme sur la Colline'', documenting a road trip through France in 2018. She has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2007 and is a Magnum Workshop teacher. Publications Books of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Patterson
Christian Patterson (born 1972, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.) is an American photographer known for his ''Sound Affects'' and ''Redheaded Peckerwood'' series which have received solo exhibitions and been published as books. ''Redheaded Peckerwood'' was awarded the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award in 2012 and Patterson has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Vevey International Photography Award. Biography In 2002, Patterson moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee to work with the photographer William Eggleston. In 2005, he completed his first project, ''Sound Affects,'' a collection of color photographs that explore Memphis as a visual and musical place, and use light and color as visual analogues to sound and music. In 2008, a ''Sound Affects'' book was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf. Also in 2005, Patterson began working on his second project, ''Redheaded Peckerwood'', which is loosely inspired by the late 1950s killing spree of Charles S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
