Working,

Work is going well, went to the Gary Winogrand Show, Women are Beautiful, black and white photos form 1967-1969 about forty images.  The images today would be considered a sexiest look upon women.  The time frame that that where taken capture the moment of history, in fashion, politics,and social behavior.

Mentor:  My Mentor is Karen Haas curator of the Lane Collection at MFA in Boston
The Lane Collection, begun in the 1960s, was long renowned as one of the world's most remarkable private collections of fine photography. Given to the MFA in the spring of 2012, it shines not only for its wealth of top-quality prints by the great modernist triumvirate of Edward Weston, Charles Sheeler, and Ansel Adams, but also for its breadth, from the historically significant to the cutting edge.MFA site.

We have met 4 times so far and each time is amazing. Her insight about my work is the most compelling yet out of the MFA program, simply put she gets my work!

Ms. Haas pushes me, to delve deeper into my work and stand back and look to see where I am going. We discuss work, artists, gallery shows, processes, contacts, books and ideas. 

Shows looked at:

Reality Check, Mass Art Gallery

The shows exhibits seven artists works who's photographs seem to fall into the realm of the  computer manipulated image.  However each in photograph in the show is a vision that is captured by the artist with no digital alteration.  The works are true to the nature of 
photography of the essence of the real world. Matthew Brandt, Daniel Gordon, Stephen Mallon, Chris McCaw, Christina Seely, Angela Strassheim, Gastón Ugalde

Conversations: 

Edward Weston, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Goron Parks, Bruce Davidson, Elsa 
Dorfman,Arron Siskind, Christopher James, Ron Cowie

Paul Strand and Charles Wheeler, film Manhatta 1921

Paris Photo Show: Connections for galleries

BOOKS and Films Purchased:

Contemporary Photographers 1982 Michael Engler
Mike Brodey, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Josef Koudelka, WALL
Iriving Penn, Studio works
Diane Arbus, Picture Magazine


I also worked with Costa Manos, MAGNUM Photographer,
We looked at work talked of direction of my work and of the possibilities of publishing a book and how to get work out to galleries and museums. 

Alex Webb of MAGNUM photos sent email to meet but we missed each other maybe next month