Salvatore Lopes is an American photographer and printer. He was a recipient of the 2013 Anchor Award from the University of Hartford's Alumni Association. Lopes received his BA and MA from the

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.Exhibition notice for Sal Lopes, the Water Project
Telfair Museums. June 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2021. After teaching in the Hartford school system and devising a photographic program to promote reading and writing skills, he joined Richard Benson's studio in

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, in the 1970s. There, exhibitions and edition portfolios were produced from images by

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and

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. Later, Lopes continued the printing business on his own and specialized in the archival 19th century technique of platinum prints, developing his own style of hand-coated prints.

Photographic work

Over a period of five years in the 1980s Lopes created a body of personal work documenting the newly built Vietnam Veterans Memorial in

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. He captured the intense emotions of mourning, healing and loss among its visitors. The work culminated in the book, ''The Wall: Images and Offerings From The Vietnam Veterans Memorial''. One-man exhibitions followed at the Chrysler Museum, International Center of Photography, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Art and elsewhere. This work was also shown on the

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'' in 1986. Lopes’ next project was another memorial, but this time dealing with AIDS. He produced a documentary in three sections: First, covering the traveling AIDS quilt in

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and Washington; second, a volunteer ''Buddy'' program through the AIDS Action Committee in Boston which paired volunteer companions with persons with AIDS; and third, documenting the daily life of a childless couple John and Sharon Boyce who adopted five HIV siblings, and of the care and love given to the youngest, Brianna, who received home treatments for AIDS for four years and died shortly before the book, ''Living with AIDS: A Photographic Journal,'' was published. There was a subsequent series of traveling exhibitions. More recently, he has resumed his work in street photography, which dates back to the late 1970s. He also continues the abstract work: Images of Water, which are no longer in the documentary vein. Some are printed in platinum, although he has also experimented with digital imaging and color printing. Other projects include: surrealistic macro images, Newport Jazz, Images of Horses, Macro Images, and Tree Forms. His photographs are found in permanent museum collections. Lopes has had experience as a workshop instructor, teaching at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Savannah Photographic Workshops, in Turin, Italy, in California with Cole Weston, and at his studios in Newport and Boston.

Photographic printer

Lopes' range of printing encompasses the Civil War photographers

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and Alexander Gardner to many contemporary photographers. His biggest client was

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until Horst's death. Lopes has printed the work of: Carrie Mae Weems, George Hoyningen-Huene, Alfred Stieglitz,

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, Herb Ritts, Mary Ellen Mark,

Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Early life and education Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Lucian Bernhard was known for his poster and typeface ...

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, Robert Rauschenberg, George Platt Lynes, Anderson and Low, James Fee, Linda Connor, Lisette Model, Lotte Jacobi, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Gere, Phil Trager, Greg Gorman, Mark Seliger, Keith Carter, Henry Horenstein, Philippe Halsman, Nadav Kander, Ralph Mecke, Jill Freedman, Louis Faurer, and others. He has had commissions from the Nickolas Muray Archives (portraits of Frida Kahlo), Aperture Foundation for David Wojnarowicz, the estate of

, Barbara Morgan,

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, Minor White, from the estate of

, ''Life'' Gallery of Photography (Margaret Bourke-White), Vision Gallery (Ruth Bernhard, Judy Dater, Paul Caponigro, Otto Hagel, Hansel Mieth, Mario Cravo), the estate of Edward Weston, Staley-Wise Gallery, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Debra Heimerdinger Fine Art (David Halliday), Light Work, Camera Work, Berlin, and Roger Urban.

Publications

*''The Wall: Images and Offerings From The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.'' Collins, 1987 *''Living with AIDS: A Photographic Journal.'' Bullfinch/Little Brown, 1994 *''Life behind the Metaphor:

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and the Dutch National Ballet.'' The Nureyev Legacy Project, 2007

Awards

*2013: Anchor Award, University of Hartford's Alumni Association. The award recognizes alumni "who have distinguished themselves by achieving the highest level of professional accomplishments and who possess absolute standards of integrity and character".

Exhibitions

* Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1974 * Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1987 *''The Wall: Photographed by Sal Lopes,''

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, Norfolk, VA 1987–1988Over West Wall from the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial
,

. Retrieved August 18, 2021. *

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, San Francisco, CA, 1988 *Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, 1988 *The

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, Chicago, IL, 1988 * Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, 1989 *

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, Aspen, CO, 1989 *Grove Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1989 *''The Indomitable Spirit,'' International Center of Photography (ICP) New York, 1990 *''Vietnam Memorial,'' International Center of Photography (ICP) New York, 1990 * Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, 1990 *''Living with AIDS,''

, Norfolk, VA, 1994 * Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1997 *''Horse Attitudes,'' The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, 1999 *

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, Framingham, MA, 2000 *

Musée de l'Élysée Musée de l'Élysée is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.

, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002 *

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, Mannheim, Germany, 2003 * Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA *

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, Savannah, Georgia: ''Water Works''

Collections

, Norfolk, VA

References

External links

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