Background
Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr. was born on April 17, 1941, in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Although he is a Japanese photographer who has lived in Tokyo for more than 45 years, Yasuhiro Ishimoto received his art education in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Harry Callahan. Ishimoto's photographs of Chicago document a period of profound social, political, and racial change and record the character of the city from its lakefront beaches and downtown streets to its South Side neighborhoods. Ishimoto returned to Japan in 1953 and began the documentation of Tokyo. In his work, Tokyo and Chicago have become sister cities in the personal vision of an artist whose patience as a photographer and tenacity of observation have enabled him to produce the extraordinary body of work evident in such books as Someday Somewhere and Chicago, Chicago. He has also produced two books on Katsura villa, another on flowers, and several others on Japanese subjects. Large as is the range of Ishimoto's tale of two cities, in recent years another side of his sensibility has come to the fore in very subtle studies of rotting leaves, footprints in the snow, cloud formations, and wind-ruffled water at his feet. Now 77, Ishimoto is revealing a meditative dimension that has brought him recognition as a "Person of Cultural Distinction" in Japan and serious regard worldwide for his artistic achievements.
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1999
(From 1916 until 1969, James VanDerZee operated a portrait...)
From 1916 until 1969, James VanDerZee operated a portrait studio at various addresses in Harlem. In his heyday, from the 20s to the 40s, he took pictures of prominent Harlem figures like Marcus Garvey, the preacher Daddy Grace and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. But in the latter part of his career, he spent more of his time on a mail-order business re-touching and restoring other people's old photographs. The same year that he closed his last location, however, his work was featured in the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although the exhibition was controversial, the attention that it attracted to VanDerZee's work finally brought the photographer, at age 83, the acclaim he deserved. This intimate catalog recalls the environment in which VanDerZee worked and lived. While he did make portraits of local celebrities, including the stars of the many legitimate theaters open in Harlem before the war, his real bread-and-butter were clients from the community's thriving middle class. Despite laboring under related commercial constraints, VanDerZee pursued his work with imagination and verve, photographing his clients before elaborate backdrops or sets, making complex group portraits of Elks' lodge members, jazz bands, and ladies' clubs in their own settings.
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2004
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In this book, the authors explore and discuss the development of one of the most interesting and dynamic photographic genres. Hailed as a landmark work when it was first published in 1994, Bystander is widely regarded by street photographers as the "bible" of street photography. It covers an incredible array of talent, from the unknowns of the late 19th century to the acknowledged masters of the 20th, such as Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and Levitt to name just a few. In this new and fully revised edition, the story of street photography is brought up to date with a re-evaluation of some historical material, the inclusion of more contemporary photographers, and a discussion of the ongoing rise of digital photography.
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2017
Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr. was born on April 17, 1941, in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
Colin Westerbeck, Jr. received a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (1963), and a Doctor of Philosophy in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York City (1972).
In 1980 Colin Westerbeck, Jr. was a photography critic for Artforum and Aperture. He has been a film critic for Commonweal since 1970 and has taught film and photography at Fordham University, New York City, since 1977. Colin Westerbeck, Jr. also taught literature and film at the City University of New York from 1970 to 1976.
(Although he is a Japanese photographer who has lived in T...)
1999(In this book, the authors explore and discuss the develop...)
2017(From 1916 until 1969, James VanDerZee operated a portrait...)
2004Quotations: "In my writing, I am trying to chronicle the cultural history of photography, to see this medium in the context of others I have studied. I don't see any essential difference between my tasks as a critic of new work in my columns and as a historian of the past."
Colin Westerbeck, Jr. has belonged to the National Society of Film Critics since 1973 and was its president in 1978.