Here are some early pics.  I will post more as the dust settles and I can contain it all in a blog post.

Lounge one

Lounge Four

Bar One

Opening night

Press for The Hawthorne:

The Boston Globe

Boston Magazine

Urban Daddy

Askmen.com

Chowhound.com

This month did not disappoint. Sally Moore’s show Human/Nature is stunning, playful and intellectually provocative.  I visited the gallery three days in a row, two times with my 2 different sections of photography students, and once with my 6 year old son who was particularly interested in the piece titled, Trophy.

Sally B. Moore holds a BFA in painting and an MFA in sculpture from MassArt, and a BA in Theater Arts from Vassar College. Shows include the 2005 DeCordova Annual, and solo exhibitions at the Barbara Krakow Gallery in 2005, 2008 and 2011. She recently completed a large commission of eight sculptures for the Ames Hotel in Boston. She was a finalist in 2003, 2005, and 2007 for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship Award and received an Artist’s Resource Trust grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2004. Her work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Sculpture, Art New England, and is included in the collections of the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity Investments, Simmons College, and Wellington Management. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Fitchburg State College.

Man Ray and Lee Miller!

click link for details of the amazing exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum.

From 1929 to 1932, Man Ray and Lee Miller — two giants of the European Surrealism movement — lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Their mercurial relationship resulted in some of the most powerful work of each artist‘s career, and helped shape the course of modern art and photography. Combining rare vintage photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exhibition tells the story of the artists’ brief but intense association and reveals the nature of their creative partnership.

A gallery of some of my favorite Man Ray images and objects, and of some of my favorite Lee Miller images and images of Lee Miller.

She appeared in front of the camera just when photographers as well as their models were beginning to attain celebrity. Arriving in Paris in 1929, Miller made a rendezvous not only with Man Ray but with her artistic destiny. She quickly moved behind the camera, in a milieu where the photographer was gaining acceptance as an artist rather than a purveyor of ersatz substituting for “real” art. In their studios, Miller and Ray worked with barely mobile devices recording images on sheet film or glass plates. When they went out to photograph in the streets of Paris, they used the simple folding cameras of the day.   Click for the complete article on Lee Miller from Columbia Magazine

A Link to The Man Ray Trust

http://tinyurl.com/3regcfm

Here is a photographic document of the process from scouting to sketching to installation.  Enjoy!

The artwork was printed, mounted and installed by ICL Imaging in Framingham, MA.

The Interior Design for ICOB was done by Bentel & Bentel, form NY, NY.

Wearing top hats and waistcoats and staring fixedly back at the camera, these men could have been posing for a family snapshot.

But these amazing images from the 1910s to 1930s are actually police  mug shots taken of convicted criminals arrested in Australia.

The collection of black and white pictures are from a series of around 2,500 ‘special photographs’ taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000227/They-dont-make-mugshots-like-anymore-Amazing-police-photos-1920s-criminals-arrested-Australia.html#ixzz1OeilWN5i

a.k.a. Dream Job!

Here is a photo document leading up to the final cover, inside pages and press kit photographs for an upcoming jazz disc from Branford Marsalis and Joey Caldrazzo, titled Songs of Mirth and Melancholy.

I have also been given permission to include an amazing track titled: Endymion.

Album cover artwork for Songs of Mirth and Melancholy

Label President Sherry McAdams, The designer, Steve Jurgensmeyer, and I had story boarded the shots we needed and were in desperate need of a location. After scouting for what seemed like weeks (maybe it was just days), we were given permission to shoot in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts newly constructed modern wing. Steve had pitched the idea to emulate, but not copy, the clean, cool look and feel of the great turn-of-the-century jazz album covers. The MFA turned out to be the perfect spot to cover all of our aesthetic needs, and being so full of natural light, all I needed was one excellent assistant and no lights whatsoever save for the occasional bounce card.

Call time was 6:30 am, and Branford had just come up from NYC after a four-day stint performing with the New York Philharmonic, and Joey had just returned from tour dates in Europe. They were NOT overjoyed to be dressed up and bossed around. The fact that we knew what we wanted and made every effort to keep the stress low and the mood light kept the shoot on schedule and the artists happy.

Here are some of the test photographs, outtakes from the shoot and favs of mine, as well as the images actually used on the CD packaging.

HUGE thanks to my amazing assistant (and a great artist in his own right) Darren Stahlman, stylist extraordinaire and great friend Jennifer Dunlea, and great friend and label president, Sherry McAdams, who asked me to join the team on this amazing project.

For more info on Branford Marsalis and many other amazing musicians, head to www.marsalismusic.com and be amazed.

Untitled (lovers)

Instant Connections: A Polaroid Themed Exhibition

Untitled (lovers), is the one ‘color’ photograph of mine included in the Instant Connections show at the Panopticon Gallery in Boston.

The print is from a scan from an uncleared Polaroid T-55 negative. The negative itself is black and white, but the caustic jelly that was left on the negative captured by the scanner has created a beautiful array of colors and a wonderful sense of decay.

Instant Connections, a Polaroid group exhibition to Open at Panopticon Gallery

BOSTON, MA: Panopticon Gallery is delighted to announce our Polaroid themed group

exhibition, Instant Connections, co-curated by advertising Creative Director, Independent

Curator, and former Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center Jim Fitts

The exhibition will run from March 31 – May 2, 2011 with an opening reception on

Thursday, March 31st from 5:30-7:30pm.

Instant Connections brings together some of the most noted photographers who have

made enormous contributions to the world of photography through their use of Polaroid

film coupled with some up-and-coming emerging artists. They include:

Andy Warhol Chuck Close Vik Muniz William Wegman

David Levinthal James Casebere John O\’Reilly Stephen Sheffield

Olivia Parker Marie Cosindas Ellen Carey Arno Rafael Minkkinen

John Reuter Bill Burke Tom Baril Len Gittleman

Anna Tomczak Elsa Dorfman Amanda Means Rick Ashley

Mimi Youn Nicholas Winter Sue-Yee Leung John Keough

Robert Siegelman Mark Younkle Samuel Quinn and a few surprises!

“The contribution that Polaroid has made to fine arts photography is both incredibly broad

and deep, and no single exhibition could do it complete justice,“ Jim Fitts, co-curator

states. “Instant Connections focuses on bringing together a number of photographers

whose work demonstrates just how diverse a medium Polaroid was. There is no question

that the work of each artist in the exhibition stands on its own, but it is fascinating to

compare and contrast it with the work of other artists in the exhibition.”

Currently celebrating our 40th Anniversary, Panopticon Gallery, (est.1971) is one of the

oldest fine art photography galleries in the United States specializing in contemporary,

modern and vintage photography. represent established and emerging photographers with

a primary focus on developing and expanding their careers. The gallery regularly assists

collectors in buying, selling and locating photographs and supports local educational

institutions and regional art museums. Panopticon Gallery is located inside the Hotel

Commonwealth in Boston, Massachusetts.

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