Posts in Category : PWP Board
30 By 30: Claudia Sohrens / Martha Rosler
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Claudia Sohrens is visual artist and educator who was born in Germany and now lives and works in New York City. She is the recipient of the 2010 NYFA fellowship in Photography, and has participated in several artist residencies, including one at the Bronx Museum. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Artists Space, as well as the international Electronic Language Festival in Sao Paulo, the Project Space at Kunsthalle Wien, KW, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and the Kampnagel KX in Hamburg. Sohrens received her BFA [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Lisa Kahane / Jill Freedman
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Lisa Kahane is a professional photographer specializing in portraiture and documentary work. Her images have appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Artforum. They have also been featured in many books, including her own Do Not Give Way To Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx 1979-1987. In addition to solo shows, her work has been featured in exhibits at the Bronx Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, and was included in documentation for The American Century at The Whitney. Her images are in the permanent collections [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Caroline Coon / Ida Kar
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Caroline Coon is a multi-talented artist born and based in Britain. She is a painter, designer and photographer whose work has been exhibited at major London galleries, including the Saatchi Gallery and the Tate. Her photographs are in the National Portrait Gallery, and currently on display at the Strand Gallery in She-Bop-a-Lula, an exhibit celebrating female singers captured by women photographers. In the 1970′s and 80′s, Coon wrote about, designed for, and photographed a number of Punk Rock bands, including The Slits and The Clash. Her New Wave Punk Rock Explosion is an inside, “as it happened” story [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Nora Kobrenik / Cindy Sherman
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Nora Kobrenik was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and moved to United States when she was twelve. She has a B.A. in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, and received a Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award upon graduating for a body of work that “embodied originality and courage.€ Kobrenik works as a Visuals Coordinator at Uptempo Magazine, recruiting young and talented photographers for publication. She splits her time between Connecticut and New York City. Which woman photographer inspired you most? NK: Cindy Sherman. What inspired me most was her ability to transform herself into a completely different character photograph after [continue reading...]
30 by 30: Susan May Tell / Lilo Raymond
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Susan May Tell is an award-winning fine art photographer whose work has been showcased in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale; the Griffin Museum of Photography; the University of California at San Francisco; and the Avenue B Gallery. Solo exhibitions include A Requiem: tribute to the spiritual space at Auschwitz; Structured Moments; and Real / Unreal: urban landscapes of the 1980′s. Tell’s photographs are in the Smithsonian’s Samuel Wagstaff Collection, and have been featured in group exhibitions at the Monmouth Museum; the Phoenix Art Museum; and the Barrett Art Center, where Malcolm Daniel, [continue reading...]