Toni Greaves Recreation, 2008 from the series Radical Love
Archival pigment print photograph Available in two sizes, as follows: 17x22", limited edition of 25 numbered prints in this size: $700. 24x36", limited edition of 10 numbered prints in this size: $1,400.
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist and increase as the edition sells out.
The artist states, "21-year-old Lauren Franko was in college, leading a rich and full life out in "the World", as she calls it. She had a boyfriend and plans for marriage and children. But instead of this seemingly known path, she felt called to religious life and, after hearing God propose to her via a song on YouTube, has chosen to live her life as a cloistered nun. She now leads a hidden life of prayer and ritual, shielding herself from the outside world in order to focus on the spiritual realm, and a higher calling of praying to save all souls. Radical Love is a photographic narrative of the beginning of Sister Lauren's journey within a small monastic community in New Jersey, USA. Documenting her passage through the foundational years of religious life, the story is a window into her early love of God. The project reveals her daily interactions living within a small community of nuns who are in various stages of their own spiritual paths, the same path that lay ahead for her."
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Toni Greaves Recreation, 2008 from the series Radical Love
Archival pigment print photograph Available in two sizes, as follows: 17x22", limited edition of 25 numbered prints in this size: $700. 24x36", limited edition of 10 numbered prints in this size: $1,400.
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist and increase as the edition sells out.
The artist states, "21-year-old Lauren Franko was in college, leading a rich and full life out in "the World", as she calls it. She had a boyfriend and plans for marriage and children. But instead of this seemingly known path, she felt called to religious life and, after hearing God propose to her via a song on YouTube, has chosen to live her life as a cloistered nun. She now leads a hidden life of prayer and ritual, shielding herself from the outside world in order to focus on the spiritual realm, and a higher calling of praying to save all souls. Radical Love is a photographic narrative of the beginning of Sister Lauren's journey within a small monastic community in New Jersey, USA. Documenting her passage through the foundational years of religious life, the story is a window into her early love of God. The project reveals her daily interactions living within a small community of nuns who are in various stages of their own spiritual paths, the same path that lay ahead for her."
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Tony Mendoza Untitled, 2004 (white cosmos) Archival digital print photograph
24x35", produced in an open edition.
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist and start at $1,200.00.
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Tracey Freeman
Stardust No. 5, 2011 from the series Stardust
Archival pigment print photograph
18"x12", produced in an open edition.
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist and start at $650.00. The artist states, "Stardust No. 5 is from the series, Stardust, which is a series of photographs based on the idea that we and the Earth are all made of material from stars that exploded billions of years ago. The images are taken on or near the water. The fallen plant debris and water seem to remember their ancient history and echo their distant star ancestors."
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Archival pigment print photograph
13x20", limited edition of 10 numbered prints in this size (plus 3 artist's proofs).
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist, start at $650.00 and increase as the edition sells out.
The artist states, "I was coming home from shooting for the TRACKING series at sunset on the New Jersey Transit commuter train from New York to Trenton. I was hoping to miss a predicted blizzard, when the train stopped outside of Elizabeth. It stayed stopped for hours. The intercom squawked – "unavoidable", "sorry", "police activity" –and the blizzard began. Hours later another train pulled up and we were released. Around 10 pm, weary and hungry, I approached my car on a top floor of the station parking garage and spotted what seemed like thousands of black birds with glowing white eyes roosting in a tree so close I could touch them. Thick snow was falling and the night was lit by vari-colored safety lamps and street lights." Everything happens for a reason.
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Tara Bogart Sinead Purple, 2013 from the series A Modern Hair Study
Archival pigment print photograph
Available in two sizes, as follows:
14x11", limited edition of 12 numbered prints in this size: $1,100.
20x16", limited edition of 9 numbered prints in this size: $1,800.
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist and increase as the edition sells out.
The artist states, "In 2011, I visited the photo archives of the National Library of France. While everything was inspirational, one photograph haunted me for months following my visit. 'Hair Study', by Felix Nadar depicts just a woman's back and her hair. I couldn't stop thinking about what that same image would look like today. 'A Modern Hair Study' consists of portraits of young women photographed from behind. By focusing on the back, the viewer is forced to contend with all of the peripheral things that make each woman unique. In these intimate portraits I am a voyeur concentrating on a generation that is not mine. While certain ideals are often relevant to different generations, the ways in which women adorn and modify themselves often indicate the struggles of a young adult with their own ideology and individuality. After photographing these women, I can imagine these struggles are timeless. Existing today as well as when the original Nadar portrait was taken."
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Cheryle St. Onge
Untitled, 2011, from the series Natural Findings
Archival pigment print photograph
24x20", limited edition of 5 numbered prints in this size.
Signed by the artist.
Print prices are set by the artist, start at $1,000.00 and increase as the edition sells out.
The artist states, "The photographs from Natural Findings began with the idea, that our early foray into the natural world is not only innate, it is familial. When an older sibling offers up a jar of glowing fireflies, or grandmother puts a Winter Berry on your tongue, they are in a colloquial, familiar manner forging a path and beckoning to share the natural world.
Natural Findings explore the curiosity and awe of our early grasp of nature; a paper wasp nest that appears dropped from Mars, the frog egg masse that on close inspect, possible through a photograph, becomes a gelatinous constellation of soon to be tadpoles. The photographs become both the shared means of a longer examination and the conduit of our own private recollection of nature."
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Yousuf Karsh was the most renowned portrait photographer of our time. He worked tirelessly for over half a century recording unforgettable images of the statesmen, artists, literary and scientific figures who shaped our lives. He once commented: “To make enduring photographs, one must learn to see with the mind’s eye, for the heart and the mind are the true lens of the camera.”
Karsh passed away on July 13, 2002 at the age of ninety three. This image of Winston Churchill remains his best known.
Yousuf Karsh (born 1908)
Winston Churchill
Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
Negative Date: 1941
Print Date: later
20×16″
Mounted, signed in ink on mount, copyright and Studio stamps on verso.
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George Hurrell was dubbed the “Grand Seigneur of the Hollywood Portrait”. His work set a new standard for Hollywood portraits that has never been equaled. It even inspired a new name for the genre; glamour photography.
Born in Covington, Kentucky in 1904, he developed any early interest in painting and drawing. He learned how to use a camera so that he could photograph his own paintings. Hurrell attended the Art Institute of Chicago and after graduating he was commissioned in 1925 by an art colony in Laguna Beach, CA, to photograph painters and their paintings. Hurrell hoped to continue his art studies but soon found that photography was taking the place of painting.
One of Hurrell’s first known subjects was the Poncho Barnes, the famed aviatrix. As a result of that photo session Ms. Barnes introduced Hurrell to actor and silent film star Ramon Novarro, who commissioned a series of portraits. Novarro was thrilled with the results and showed them to his co-workers at MGM Studios. They immediately grabbed the attention of Norma Shearer, a leading lady of the day. Shearer had been trying to convince MGM production chief (and her husband) Irving G. Thalberg that she had what it took to play the sizzling lead role in The Divorcée. She hired Hurrell to take some provocative portraits. Not only did she land the roll, but Thalberg was so impressed that he hired Hurrell as the head of the MGM portrait gallery in 1930.
For the next two years, Hurrell photographed every star at MGM Studios; from Joan Crawford and Clark Gable to Wallace Beery and Greta Garbo. In 1932, after a disagreement with MGM publicity chief Howard Strickling, Hurrell left to set up his own studio on Sunset Boulevard. He soon became the toast of the town and all the major stars flocked to Hurrell for portraits.
Movies remained Hurrell’s first love and after six years he closed his studio and moved to Warner Brothers. It was there that he helped build the careers of Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Errol Flynn. Hurrell later moved to Columbia Pictures where he was instrumental in shaping the image of Rita Hayworth.
Shortly thereafter Hurrell served in the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Force, photographing Generals at the Pentagon and shooting training films. He returned to Hollywood to find that his grand old style of glamour photography have fallen out of fashion. In the early 1950s he relocated to New York, where he continued to shoot advertising and fashion lay-outs. He and his wife, Phyllis returned to Hollywood in 1952 and started a television production company on the Disney lot. After two years he returned to New York and then in 1956 he returned to Southern California, permanently settling in the area and returning to the film industry as a unit still photographer.
In 1965 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held an exhibition of his famous portraiture. This show was a great success and was followed by exhibitions in other museums throughout the world. Although he officially retired in 1976, Hurrell did continue to photograph the stars of the new Hollywood. Sharon Stone, John Travolta and Brooke Shields were among those fortunate enough to sit for the master of light and shadow. Among his last assignments were photographing Warren Beatty and Annette Benning for the motion picture Bugsy, and Natalie Cole for the cover of her best-selling “Unforgettable” album.
During the last years of his life, Hurrell worked with Producer J. Grier Clarke and Producer-Director Carl Colby on Legends in Light, the first major film retrospective of his work. George Hurrell died of cancer in 1992.
I would like to thank Mr. Mark A. Vieira for much of the information contained in this biography. I highly recommend his book, Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits: The Chapman Collection, Harry N. Abrams Publishing, 1997.
Other Recommended Reading:
The Portfolios of George Hurrell, by Gene Thornton, Graystone Books, hardcover published in 1991.
50 Years of Photographing Hollywood: The Hurrell Style, by Whitney Stine, The John Day Company, hardcover published in 1976 (reprinted by Greenwich House in 1983).
Hurrell Hollywood: Photographs 1928-1990, St. Martin’s Press, hardcover published 1992.
Other photographs by this artist are also available. Please contact Soulcatcher Studio if you are interested in these or any other images.
Rolfe Horn is one of the most promising talents to emerge in the field of fine art photography in recent years. He seeks to create a new style of visual storytelling, rather than simply copy the traditional views of Western landscape masters of the past. Having graduated with numerous honors from the prestigious Brooks Institute in 1996, Rolfe set out to record the subtle nuances found in his native California, producing dream-like imagery, often under cover of darkness. More recently he has embarked on numerous journeys that include time spent exploring the mystic landscapes of Japan, Cambodia and Thailand.
In 1998 Rolfe had the great fortune to be hired as an assistant for Michael Kenna. He worked intensely with Kenna for over three years, all the while honing his own craft. Through his collaboration Rolfe became keenly aware of the subtleties of the fine art print: the balance of tonality, composition, the movement of the eye within the image, as well as perfecting the finished piece. He has become a perfectionist in the darkroom, spending hour after hour, day after day perfecting his craft with incredible results. Each finished limited edition print is a true work of art, created by hand and unique unto itself.
Rolfe’s photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions since 1989 and are held in many private and public collections such as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Please inquire if you have other favorite images by this artist, as we can offer his entire portfolio of work for sale.
Print Information: All gelatin silver print photographs are made by the artist. They measure approximately 10 x 10 inches. They are mounted on 100% cotton rag, acid-free four ply museum board, over-matted to 18 x 20 inches and ready to frame. Each image is offered in a limited edition of 25 or 45 prints (depending on the series). Prices start at $800, increase as the edition sells out and are subject to change without prior notice.
Click here to view Rolfe Horn’s 2013 exhibition, The American West.
Click here to view Rolfe Horn’s 2009 exhibition, water earth sky – Photographs of Japan.
Click here to view Rolfe Horn’s 2006 exhibition, Italy 2005.
Click here to view Rolfe Horn’s 2004 exhibition, New Visions of Japan.
Click here to view Rolfe Horn’s 2002 exhibition, Rolfe Horn ~ 28 Photographs.
