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Larry C. Price

BIO:

Bio:

As a photojournalist, Larry C. Price has amassed a wide range of experience and developed a versatile style that enables him to move easily from editorial work to corporate and advertising photography. Now based in Denver, Price has worked for five metropolitan newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Sun in Baltimore, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram and The Denver Post. During the early 1990s, Price worked on contract with National Geographic.

His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Geo, National Geographic, LIFE, Audubon, Communication Arts and other national and international magazines and newspapers. Corporate clients, including IBM, HarperCollins Publishers and Olympus America Inc., also have used Price's photographs. At Olympus, Price is a designated "Visionary," one of 20 professional photographers contracted by the camera company to produce images and provide feedback on new product lines.

As a photographer at the Star-Telegram, Price won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography for his coverage of the 1980 coup in Liberia. He won a second Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 1985, as a photographer for the Inquirer, for a portfolio documenting civil wars in Angola and El Salvador.

Price has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, World Press Photo Awards, the Pan American Press Association, the National Press Photographers Association and the Society of News Design. He also has participated in 13 Day in the Life projects, including the acclaimed "Day in the Life of America" and "Day in the Life of Africa."

Price is available for editorial, corporate or advertising assignments anywhere in the world.

Larry C. Price is an United States photojournalist and has received two Pulitzer Prizes during his journalism career. In 1981 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography while a photojournalist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He was honored again in 1985 for his feature photographs from Angola and El Salvador depicting their war-torn inhabitants while a photojournalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Price received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. He was a member of The Daily Texan staff during his senior year in college.

His journalism career has spanned three decades. After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He then worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. During that time [1979-1983], Price also was a visiting professor at UT.

In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as a photojournalist and later director of photography. After leaving the Inquirer in 1989, Price worked on contract for National Geographic before returning to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as an assistant managing editor in 1991. In 1996 Price joined The Baltimore Sun photography staff. He was named assistant managing editor for photography for The Denver Post in 2000 where he remained until mid 2006. He is currently director of photography for The Dayton Daily News and the Cox Ohio Publishing Group.

Price also has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards. His images have appeared in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, U.S. News & World Report, Audubon and other national publications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_C._Price

1981 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography

1985 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography

Larry Price has received two Pulitzer prizes during his journalism career. Price was honored in 1981 for his spot news photography while a photojournalist at the Fort Worth-Star Telegram. He was honored again in 1985 for his feature photographs from Angola and El Salvador depicting their war-torn inhabitants while a photojournalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Price received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. He was a member of the The Daily Texan staff his senior year in college.

His journalism career has spanned more than two decades. After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He later worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and later as assistant managing editor and associate editor. During that time, Price also was a visiting professor at UT.

In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as a photojournalist and then left to join the Baltimore Sun photography staff. He returned to The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1987 to become its director of photography and work at its Washington bureau.

Price also has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards.

http://communication.utexas.edu/alumni/pulitzers/DEV75_006939.html

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• Did anyone critique your work this week? If so, what were their impressions?

yes. paul looked a few of my prints. the options of how to reveal the titles were discussed. he thought a title card with every image was the best way to go at this point. also, i need to work on my prints.

• What was the most motivational or creative moment of the past week?

hanging for the show.

• What do you want to achieve in next week's studio practice?

more prints for final crit.

• What did you achieve in your studio this past week?

more shooting, printing, and hanging

• What has been an artistic failure this week?

a pudgy army reserve unit jogging down my street at 6am and waking me up with their loud ass cadence. there isn't even a base around here!!!! WHY?! Why do you jog down a residential street at 6 am chanting?! this has made me even more sleep deprived. jerk faces!

• What was the most profound thought in relation to your practice this week?

i can't remember at this point of brain deterioration. seriously, i can't remember what's happened this past week.

• If there was a visiting artist this week, what is your impression of their work and process in relation to your own?

n/a

Complete

Paul Thulin has read your blog up to this point/entry. Your blog is currently up to date and complete.

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Kai-Olaf Hesse

(no website)

Kai-Olaf Hesse (b. 1966) has
lived as a freelance photographer and book designer in Braunschweig since 2006.

Completed photographic apprenticeships in Hamburg, including freelance work for daily newspapers, news supplements, sport picture and picture agencies. Worked as a photo assistant before studying Communication Design
at the University of GHS Essen; subsequently received a Diploma at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst HGB in Leipzig with Professor
Joachim Brohm. Worked at the Bauhaus, Dessau before spending several years abroad. Worked from 1998 to 2006 in Berlin. Has had numerous international exhibitions and publications and held various teaching positions. He is a member of the German Photographic Academy (DFA).
His most recent book, 'Topograpy of the Titantic' (2007) has been published by ex pose verlag and Belfast Exposed Photography.
Kai-Olaf Hesse heads the seminar The Built Environment and Documentary Strategies.

Projects (selected)

Through the means of an art-documentary visual language, the work engages within the area of ‘social-historical landscape photography’.
City and topographical sited projects put an emphasis on questions, where the conceptualisations are visually represented by means of referential metaphors. These are often presented alongside the artefactual, including text modules and/or historical pictorial material and represented in book as well as exhibition formats.

2007 Twentysix Gasoline Stations (revisited)
since 2005 SeeStücke – Mare Balticum (work in progress)
2005 1945 – Letzte Schlachtfelder (work in progress)
2004 Periphery or What?, Ostrava, Czech Republik
2002/03 Topography of the Titanic, Belfast
2001 67/89 : Ortsbesichtigungen
2000–06 Depot_Bilder
1998–06 Bilder_in_Berlin
1995–98 65/66 – 24 views
1995–98 AfterImages from America
1995 An American Space: The National Mall (with E. McNeil)
1995 Dawn to Dusk Walk (with E. McNeil)
1994 Landing Zones: Social Landscapes of D–Day
(with T. Krüger und E. McNeil)
1992–95 Bauhaus Dessau – Industrielles Gartenreich
(with A. Boesten)
1992 Braer-oilspill , Shetland-Isles (with A. Boesten)

Publications (selected)

2006 Topography of the Titanic, ex pose verlag, Berlin;
Belfast Exposed Photography
2004 Within and Beyond the Wall, Toronto, Canada
2003/04 photosynkyria 2003 and 2004, Thessaloniki
2003 67/89, edition365, ex pose Verlag, Berlin
2000 65/66, edition365, ex pose Verlag, Berlin
2000 Berlin on the Move, Goethe Institut Singapore
2000 Die Welt als Ganzes, ifa/Hatje Cantz
1999 The Imperfect West
International Biennal Exhibition of Photography Torino
1998 photoFest 98, Houston
1997 Contemporary German Photography, Taschen
1996 Kunstpreis des Landkreis Gifhorn
1996 Bauhaus Dessau – Industrielles Gartenreich,
ex pose Verlag, Berlin (with A. Boesten)
1990 Polaroid Award Final Art

Collections

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart/Berlin
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Photographische Sammlung der Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin
Private Collections

Exhibitions in (selected)

Berlin, Dresden, Ostrava, Cobh, Toronto, Thessaloniki, Athens, Prague, Singapore, Manila, Seoul, Torino, Houston, Leipzig, Munich, Cologne, Krefeld, Dortmund, Herten, Bowling Green, Dessau, Essen, Braunschweig

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• Did anyone critique your work this week? If so, what were their impressions?

no

• What was the most motivational or creative moment of the past week?

reading bb crit feedback.

• What do you want to achieve in next week's studio practice?

have images prepped and ready for show.

• What did you achieve in your studio this past week?

reshoots and new shoot

• What has been an artistic failure this week?

not enough time to do my work

• What was the most profound thought in relation to your practice this week?

busy work=life.

• If there was a visiting artist this week, what is your impression of their work and process in relation to your own?

n/a

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Julie Blackmon and her Domestic Vacations series. (click link for her website.)

Galleries that represent her:

Catherine Edelman Gallery (edelmangallery.com) 300 W. Superior Chicago, IL 60610 312-266-2350 Gail Gibson Gallery (ggibsongallery.com) 300 South Washington St. Seattle, WA 98104 206-587-4033 Claire Oliver Gallery (claireoliver.com) 513 W. 26th St. New York, NY 10001 212-929-5949 Photoeye Gallery (photoeye.com) Santa Fe, NM 87501 Photoeye.com or call 505-988-5159

Statement: The Dutch proverb “a Jan Steen household” originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, helped inspire this body of work. I am the oldest of nine children and now the mother of three. As Steen’s personal narratives of family life depicted nearly 400 yrs. ago, the conflation of art and life is an area I have explored in photographing the everyday life of my family and the lives of my sisters and their families at home. These images are both fictional and auto-biographical, and reflect not only our lives today and as children growing up in a large family, but also move beyond the documentary to explore the fantastic elements of our everyday lives, both imagined and real.

The stress, the chaos, and the need to simultaneously escape and connect are issue that I investigate in this body of work. We live in a culture where we are both “child centered” and “self-obsessed.” The struggle between living in the moment versus escaping to another reality is intense since these two opposites strive to dominate. Caught in the swirl of soccer practices, play dates, work, and trying to find our way in our “make-over” culture, we must still create the space to find ourselves. The expectations of family life have never been more at odds with each other. These issues, as well as the relationship between the domestic landscape of the past and present, are issues I have explored in these photographs. I believe there are moments that can be found throughout any given day that bring sanctuary. It is in finding these moments amidst the stress of the everyday that my life as a mother parallels my work as an artist, and where the dynamics of family life throughout time seem remarkably unchanged. As an artist and as a mother, I believe life’s most poignant moments come from the ability to fuse fantasy and reality: to see the mythic amidst the chaos.

Bio: see her page enitled "Bio." This is just a list of past exhibitions and awards. No education CV is listed.

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• Did anyone critique your work this week? If so, what were their impressions?

yes! i had a studio crit with sonali and the rest of the class. it went well. i've made some great leaps from last crit. sweet relief! next steps: edit, reshoot a few images, and decide on how to reveal the title of the images.

• What was the most motivational or creative moment of the past week?

a very successful critique with a lot of feedback.

• What do you want to achieve in next week's studio practice?

shoot a pet psychic, pet loss support group, and reshoot pet massage therapist.

• What did you achieve in your studio this past week?

PRINTING!

• What has been an artistic failure this week?

research assignment overload makes me wanna take a big ol nap.

• What was the most profound thought in relation to your practice this week?

i am hopeful about my outcome here. i am not as terrified of december 4th as i was 1 month ago.

• If there was a visiting artist this week, what is your impression of their work and process in relation to your own?

N/A

I miss my chinchilla Ozzy who died on Tuesday...

50 word statement + new work

Far from being deviant or extravagant, the majority of pet owners are normal rational people who make use of animals to improve their existing social relationships, and enhance their own psychological and physical welfare. Keeping a pet for companionship is no more outlandish than wearing a coat to keep warm.

Because it would take hours to upload all my new work, I've decided to show a few images from the 2 types of images I've been shooting: studio and spaces.

essay/article + questions

ARTICLE: http://www.deltasociety.org/AnimalsHealthFamiliesAmerican.htm

What are some of the reasons why people don’t keep pets?
Economic constraints, inadequate housing, lack of time and health are some of the major reasons for not keeping a pet. Many people are discouraged from having a pet due to these kinds of circumstances.
Also, individuals who were brought up with pets in the household are more likely to have pets as adults than those who did not have pets as children.
Social change has impacted pet keeping. Less than one hundred years ago most people lived their lives in fairly small groups, encompassing many generations of kin. The advances of the last century have substantially increased human mobility. This monumental change has caused disruption and disintegration in the traditional family system. This change has increased the search for alternative sources of emotional support. So therefore, if a group of people are not disjointed, they would not be as prone to seek out different forms of companionship.


What are some positive aspects to viewing pets as family members?
Dr. Myrna Milani says, “People who relate to their pets as family members pay more attention to them. Rather than keeping Rex chained to a doghouse in the backyard, the Johnsons share their home with him. Because of this, they immediately notice when he throws up, doesn't eat his dinner, or even just acts a little out of sorts. "What's the matter with Rex?" asks 7-year-old Billy. "He doesn't want to play hide-and-seek with me today." His mother agrees that something definitely must be bothering the dog because he loves the game as much as his human playmate, and she makes an appointment for a veterinary exam. Owners who don't share such intimate relationships with their pets can easily miss these sometimes subtle early signs of problems.”
Pets can also benefit from our bond. It is widely known that animals can be very therapeutic and beneficial to humans. However, animals also benefit from our relationship in a very similar way.

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NATE MATTHEWS website

Bio: Columbia College MFA Photography
his website is under construction.
his blog: http://www.natemathews.com/blog/
exhibitions: ???
statement???
review:???
i'm sorry i couldn't find anymore info on him. he seems to be a very new artist.