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FOREVER MARILYN: THe Enduring Legacy of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) photographs 1992 - 2011
--Mary Ann Lynch gives us the Marilyn Monroe of today--
2012
marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn's death and passage from pop culture icon
into the timeless realm of myth, legend and worldwide permanent fame. Lynch is gearing up for a book and traveling exhibition for 2012-2013.
The Valentine's Day special feature on Forever Marilyn, in the well-known blog Lenscratch, published by Aline Smithson, goes deep inside Lynch's 20-year odyssey
throughout the world photographing Marilyn today. as depicted in images, media,
artworks, architecture, events and performances -- in private spaces and
public places, in a wide variety of contexts and locales.
For the Lenscratch article of February 14. 2011, go to www.lenscratch.blogspot.com.http -- when the page opens, find the index of contributors on the right and scroll down to Mary Ann Lynch --it takes a while to get there -- and that will take you to the February 14 article, which includes 25 photographs, text, and a cover mock-up
See also the Marilyn page on this site.
"If I've got to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the other things there are symbols for. . ."
----- Marilyn Monroe
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2011 Lucie/International Photography Awards (IPA) ♦♦Lynch received two awards/ pro division for the series Seen/Unseen: Artists & Their Work Fine Art/Portrait & People/Portrait.
at right: Kendall Messick, AIPAD 2010, with an image from his series "Conflagration." Below him is Maartje Roos (Amsterdam), with a detail from her photograph shown during NYPH11, in Dutch Delights
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The International Photography
Awards is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three
winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony.
The awards
event will be held at the Lincoln Center in New York on October 24,
2011, before returning to Los Angeles in 2012 in celebration of the
10-year anniversary.
Over 8,000 submissions from 90 countries were
received for the 2011 International Photography Awards with over 70
jurors, the largest to date.
The Lucie Foundation's mission is to honor master
photographers, discover new and emerging talent, and promote the
appreciation of photography.
IPA is dedicated to recognizing
contemporary photographers' accomplishments in this specialized and
highly visible competition.
LightLeaks magazine lit a bright trail. . . .
Sorry to report that the fine Toy Camera print publication Light Leaks, out of Canada, has fallen victim to the economic turbulence, spurred by a Canadian mail strike. My Holga image "Sleepwalkers, 2011" (at left) was included in the gallery, "Secrets: Mysterious and Often Beyond Common Understanding" in Issue 19 -- the final Light Leaks to be printed. Guest editor for "Secrets" was Quinton Gordon, Creative Director, Luz Gallery Light Leaks was an inspiration to toy camera publishing, photographers and aficionados, with always timely, often cutting-edge, articles and inventive calls for the gallery. It was held together by a dedicated passionate crew, with writers, guest editors, jurors, and contributors loving what was destined to leave too soon -- an independently founded, run, and financed publication to hold in your hands and even keep for your library. The risky publishing waters in this terrain of everything virtual--not to discount the importance of online publishing--claimed Light Leaks, but not before it had made a wave in toy camera publishing history.
Check out their store for great vintage toy cameras cheap! as well as back issues (pdfs).
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ARCHIVES
A featured exhibit of the Society for Photographic Education 2011 National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia
Science, Poetry & the Photographic Image
Juried by Mary Ann Lynch & Deb Willis Sponsored by the SPE Women's Caucus
March 9 - April 1, 2011
Opening Reception Trois Gallery, Saturday, March 12, 2011 Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta, Georgia
EXHIBITORS
Mariette Pathy Allen * Linda Alterwitz
* Bennie FloresAnsell * Tatyana Bessmertnaya * J.T. Blatty * Linda
Brooks * Kathleen
Campbell * Joy Christiansen-Erb * Tammy
Cromer-Campbell * Dornith Doherty * Lola Flash * Collette
Fournier * Dana
Fritz * Sharon Harper * Laura Hartford * Margaret Hiden
* Aspen Hochhalter* Barbara Houghton * Kirsten Hoving * Kitty Hubbard * Megan Jacobs *Angela Kelley * Katherine
Kreisher *Annie Lopez * Kally Malcolm * Sandra Matthews * Sarah Cusimano
Miles *
Sandra-Lee Phipps * Emma Powell * Ashley Samuela
Raasch * Raleigh Crowder Rodger * Elva Salina * Gayle Stevens * Suzanne E.
Szucs *
Lupita Murillo Tinnen * Colette Veasey-Cullors * Sommer Wood * Rebecca Zeiss * Zelda Zinn Exhibit photographs by Mary Ann Lynch --can be viewed separately or as a slide show--
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Happy Mother's Day 2011
To celebrate mothers, Aline Smithson of Lenscratch has once again gathered a wonderful group of portraits, this time portraits of our mothers. She writes movingly about the origins of the idea, and her own work is extraordinary.
My photo collage here is included in that online exhibit. Cream of the Crop,Flora Bowman, Greenfield Center, NY 1940, My mother, Marion Flora Bowman,(shown before she married my father, Joseph Bruchac) stands in front of the pumps at the Splinterville Gas Station, which was owned and operated by my grandfather, Jesse E. Bowman --and his wife, Marion Dunham Bowman.The portrait of my mother is from a family album; the Lucky Strike ad is from one of her many movie scrapbooks-- from a time when she still had her dreams. When I became a filmmaker she gave me this scrapbook.
Life Support Japan Auction Raises $50,000+for relief efforts in Japan ---from sales of donations by more than 350 photographers worldwide--- On March 13, 2011, soon after the announcement of the tsunami that ravaged Japan and its people, gallerist Crista Dix, of Wall Space Gallery of Santa Barbara and Seattle, and photographer Aline Smithson, initiated Life Support Japan, calling upon the global photographic community in fundraising for relief efforts for Japan. Using Facebook and email, they put out a call for photographers, inviting each to make and donate a limited edition of ten signed and numbered prints, with all prints to be sold for $50 online.
Dix posted the prints in a total of six separate auctions on her WallSpace Gallery site. She had previously developed a system for fundraising when she inaugurated Life Support Haiti, a similar fundraising relief endeavor. Auctions are staggered and volunteers gather at the gallery to handle packing and shipping. Mary Ann Lynch donated an edition of "Calling All Angels,2011" She was was just one of more 350 photographers who donated work. Many of these fine-art prints are still available at $50 each, in 8 auctions, posted online at Wall Space Gallery.
For each auction, prints still available are shown at the beginning, and sold-out editions at the end.
photo below: "Calling All Angels" 2011 by Mary Ann Lynch, is available in auction #5. Links at the bottom of auction #5 page take you to all other auctions.
"Calling All Angels" 2011 by Mary Ann Lynch
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Hal Gould at Camera Obscura Gallery, 2008
Legendary Photographer/Gallerist Hal Gould Hits "The Big Time"* *well, "The Big Picture," really-- in Denver
--Lynch recounts the story behind the photograph--
"I photographed Hal Gould in 2008, when Ted Engelmann, a photographer friend of mine who lives in Denver, walked me over to Hal's famous Camera Obscura Gallery and introduced us. We hit it off and before long Hal wanted to make a portrait of me with his very vintage Polaroid. I hammed it up a bit, so when I asked to do his portrait, I invited him to do the same.
That's when I made this picture, as I tried to keep from laughing -- Hal's clown face was so unexpected. Funny thing is that Hal doesn't even remember making the face.
When the annual Month of Photography rolled around again in 2010 and the calls went out for work, I read "The Big Picture"-- the call for work from Illiterate Gallery--and I felt compelled to print Hal's portrait and enter it. Accepted works were to be enlarged to xeroxes up to four feet and bigger.Some would hang in a gallery, and most would be pasted up on walls and buildings throughout Denver.
Hal was in the process, then, of closing his gallery, and I could think of no better tribute than to have his very large portrait up throughout that grand month of photography.Camera Obscura Gallery was not only synonymous with the inception and rise of the gallery world in Denver, but a constant presence on the national gallery scene throughout the country.The greats and luminaries who walked his stairs to see fine art photography or to exhibit or purchase it are countless. Hal Gould was the Big Picture.
Moreover, Hal Gould was an incredible human being, a bit of the Old West but a gentleman/visionary ahead of his time, whose stamina and passion overshot his calendar years and kept him in the land of the young and restless.
And so it was that Hal Gould wound up embedded within this newest, freshest development in the Denver Photo World, the Month of Photography, as part of "The Big Picture" --- on the side of the very building where my friend Ted Engelmann lives. Ted photographed the portrait in situ for me, and Mark Sink, the tireless force behind the Month of Photography since he started it in 2008, also fully documented exterior locations and posted them on Facebook.
I wish I could have been at the recent gallery closing to hoist a glass, stand up and toast Hal. Since I was not there, I'll have to do it here. This may not be the most original toast, but it's from the heart: "Here's lookin' at you Hal -- I'll always remember our grand afternoon of 'clowning around'."
"By the way, when Ted was at the closing of Camera Obscura Gallery, he asked Hal what he thought of my portrait of him. 'I'm usually very serious,' Hal said, 'But I like it.'" ---------------------------------------------------
Here's a recent article on Hal by Michael Paglia, from Denver Westword Arts
Mary Ann Lynch is included with her self-portrait, "A Self Divided, 2011," in a collection of images by photographers from all over -- posted on the Lenscratch blogazine May 2, 2011, through May 8, and after that, available in the archives. This photograph won two IPA awards, pro division, 2011.
www. lenscratch.blogspot.com
A Self Divided 2000 Mary Ann Lynch
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New Holga camera work debuts in Holga Out of the Box juried show
Holga Out of the Box plastic camera show, February 19 to March 26 2011 at TCC Photo Gallery in Longview, Tx. Lynch has one of 25 photographs in the gallery show and one in the 25-piece online show. Lynch, well-known as a Diana Camera photographer, turned to the new Holga TLR 120 (twin-lens reflex) to begin the series Home Grown, photographs made within 15 miles of where she was born & raised, and now lives--in the foothills of the Adirondacks in New York State. "Sleepwalkers, 2011" and "Phoenix, 2011" are among the first in that series.
Jurors: Christine So of Holga Inspire (show sponsor) and gallerist Tammy Cromer-Campbell.
Lucie/ International Photography Awards 2010 Editorial, Fine Art & People Categories--Professional
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Mary Ann Lynch Lucie IPA Awards 2010 Professional Category
Entry title: "Lou Reed" from "The Masters Series" Awards: Fine Art: Collage Fine Art: Portrait _________________________
Entry title: "The Masters" "The Masters"(series of 4): Lou Reed, William Klein, Duane Michals, Gary Snyder Award: Fine Art: Other
“The Masters” is an outgrowth of my decades of portraiture of people who have inspired or influenced me. I photograph in public places, not in studio set-ups. These recent digital portraits stylistically owe a debt to 16th and 17th etchings, drawings and artworks, Durer to Rembrandt. I’m drawn to their burnished quality, minimal palette, and heightened use of color to invoke the surreal or extra-ordinary. I experiment with different techniques, from solarization to hand-coloring and collage -- to capture a quality of each Master."
-"The Masters" thumbnails, click to enlarge -slide show, click arrow/bar to start/stop -slide show when stopped, click image to enlarge even more
"The overall, ongoing Masters series, in which I work with both film and digital capture, covers a broad spectrum, from Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Alice Neel, Keith Haring, Yasunari Kawabata, Gabby Pahinui, Iolani Luahine, and Farley Granger to Robert Bly, Alice Walker, W.S. Merwin, Amiri Baraka, Christopher Walken, Lou Reed, Duane Michals, William Klein, Gloria Steinem, Colette, Robert Frank and many more. "
Final prints are editioned, either chromogenic or Epson digital.
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Mary Ann Lynch Lucie IPA Awards 2010 Professional Category
"Native Hawaiian Ways" This series won four awards in the "People" division: Culture, Lifestyle, Editorial, and Other
Background to the work:
"From 1971-1975 I photographed Kalapana, an ancient Hawaiian village, where people spoke Hawaiian, living subsistence-style-- until Kilauea volcano’s 1990 eruptions buried the region. The native Hawaiians welcoming me in the 1970s had wanted their way of life passed on, and allowed me to make oral tapes and photograph them going about their daily lives. We succeeded, and I continue to exhibit the work from the 1970 as well photograph the Kalapana ohana (family) today. The winning images were among those recently published in Big Island Journey (Mutual Publishing, 2009)."
at right, top: Maria Roberts cracks coconut with her machete in her yard, 1970. at bottom: Fisherman Sus Matsuowith his take of opihi (a limpet prized by Hawaiians for eating)-- after braving ocean cliffs and tides while he "picked" them from the rocks with a knife.
All photographs and text are copyright 2012 Mary Ann Lynch unless otherwise noted. No materials can be copied, reproduced, used, or altered in any manner or by any form of reproduction without written permission from Mary Ann Lynch. Email: mlynch3424@aol.com
