Katrin Freisager, a photographic artist born in Switzerland, won a World Press Photo Award in 1995 for her photographs of the Lakota. The recipient of a Swiss grant to continue her work in the United States, she is currently living and working in New York City.
David Seals, a Huron-Wendat, was born in Denver, Colorado in 1947, was a member of the American Indian Movement, and is founder of the Bear Butte Council. Seals is the author of The Seven Council Fires of Sweet Medicine: Seven Acts in Five Volumes of Indigenous Mythology (Sky and Sage, 1997); Crazy Horse: The Book and Screenplay (Sky and Sage, 1996); Sweet Medicine (Crown, 1994); and Powwow Highway (Sky and Sage, 1983/Plume, 1990; also a motion picture). He lives in South Dakota's Black Hills.
Neil Selkirk’s work has appeared in virtually all major magazines, including Esquire, Interview, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and can be found in numerous museum and private collections. Specializing in start-up publication projects, Selkirk has appeared in or shot the first covers for Wired, Paper, Vue, Spy, and Colors. Born in London, Selkirk lives in New York City.
Tibor Kalman, who died in April, 1999, was one of America’s preeminent designers, having founded his famed design firm M&Co with wife Maira in 1979, and worked with such clients as MoMA, Vitra, Chiat/Day, and the Talking Heads. After stints as art director for Artforum and creative director for Interview, he became editor-in-chief of the Benetton-sponsored magazine Colors in 1991. The Kalmans designed exhibitions for the Whitney and SFMOMA, and produced Op-Ed pieces for The New York Times. The book Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist (Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998) was published to wide acclaim.
Steve Hiett is a world-famous graphic designer and photographer whose work for French Vogue and Italian Vogue led to prestigious conceptual photo book projects, most notable of which was the genre-breaking Arthur Elgort’s Models Manual (Grand Street Press/D.A.P., 1993). Hiett also directed the launch for YSL’s Opium. His photography can be found in museums, galleries, and private collections worldwide. He lives and works in Paris and New York City.
Larry Clark is the author of four extremely rare and hugely influential photography books: Tulsa (Lustrum Press, 1971), Teenage Lust (self-published with Lustrum Press, 1983), 1992 (Thea Westreich and Gisela Capitain, 1992), and The Perfect Childhood (Scalo, 1993). His work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, all in New York, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
ANDY WARHOL
The Factory Years, 1964-1967
Nat Finkelstein was born in Brooklyn in 1933. He studied photography under Alexey Brodovitch, the legendary art director of Harper’s Bazaar, and he worked as a photojournalist for the picture agency Black Star, reporting primarily on the political developments of the subculture of New York City. In 1964 he entered Andy Warhol's Factory, where he participated as “court photographer” within the group for over two years. After his break with Warhol, Finkelstein turned to political activities, and it was only in the Eighties that he returned to photography. A highly-acclaimed photojournalist and video artist, he currently divides his time between New York and Amsterdam.
David Dalton was born in London and educated at Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts. Dalton is the author of some fifteen books, ranging from rock-dog memoirs to rants on the lives of rock saints (Sid Vicious, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison). His novel, Been Here and Gone, was published by William Morrow in May 2000. Dalton and his sister, Sarah, were Warhol’s first assistants.
Brooklyn Kings
New York City’s Black Bikers
Martin Dixon studied photography under legendary Harlem photographer Roy DeCarava. While Dixon has never pledged colors, he rides most frequently with the Imperials, Harlem Riders, and Corpians. He lives in Brooklyn, and rides in all five boroughs.
Greg Tate, a staff writer for the Village Voice and a writer-at-large for Vibe, is the author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk. Currently working on a novel about Harlem in the 21st century, Tate lives and works in the City.
Patrick Cariou’s first book Surfers (pH, 1998) was described by Vanity Fair as “awesomely beautiful.” Cariou’s work regularly appears in Vogue Hommes International, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, and Marie Claire among others. Cariou lives and works in New York City.
Perry Henzell is best known as the producer of the classic cult film The Harder They Come. Born in Jamaica, Henzell founded Vista Productions and made over 200 commercials there during the 60s. He is also the author of the novel Power Game. Henzell is currently casting The Harder They Come 2.
East Side Stories
Gang Life in East L.A.
Joseph Rodriguez is an award-winning photographer whose work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York, and at the California Museum of Photography, Riverside. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, the Village Voice, and Vibe. Rodriguez is the author of Spanish Harlem, (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995).
Rubén Martínez, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, is the author of The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and beyond (Vintage, 1999).
Luis J. Rodríguez is a renowned poet, journalist, and author. His work has been published in The Nation, L.A. Weekly, and Poets & Writers. He is the director of Tia Chucha Press in Chicago. His books include Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Press, and Touchstone).
Edward Grazda, one of the last photographers to leave Afghanistan before the Taliban ban on photography, is a well-respected observer on the region’s recent history, having spent 20 years photographing in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has photographed extensively in Latin America and Asia. In addition to teaching at Harvard, Grazda has lectured at Yale and Bennington. Grazda’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The author of Afghanistan: 1980-1989 (Der Alltag, Zurich, 1990), Grazda lives in New York City.
Greg Gorman’s previous books include Inside Life (Rizzoli, 1997) and Volume II (Treville, 1992). Gorman has taught at the Santa Fe, Toscana, and Albion River Inn Photographic Workshops. He has lectured at ICP, UCLA, USC, the University of Kansas, the Brooks Institute, and IADL in Lisbon. A native of Kansas City, Gorman lives in Los Angeles.
Lawrence Weiner, generally included in any overview of the originators of Conceptual Art, is a renowned artist whose work has been widely exhibited on four continents over the last 40 years. Headlining prestigious institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Weiner’s text-based artwork is accessible from any cultural perspective, and has found a huge and earnest audience worldwide. Weiner has authored scores of well-received artist’s books, and is represented by the blue chip Leo Castelli gallery in New York. Weiner splits his time between New York and Amsterdam.
Eve Sonneman’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Centre Pompidou and Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She’s received France’s Cartier Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and several grants from the Polaroid Corporation. She is the author of Where Birds Live (Random House, 1992) and America’s Cottage Gardens (Random House, 1990). Her next one-woman show opens this fall at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo. She lives and works in New York.
‘O’
Cirque du Soleil at the Bellagio
Véronique Vial is the author of the smashingly successful Women Before 10 a.m. (pH, 1998). She was born in France and moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Her first celebrity portraits appeared in A Day in the Life of Hollywood (HarperCollins, 1991). The exclusive backstage photographer for the famed circus troupe Cirque du Soleil, Vial’s first monograph Cirque du Soleil (Rizzoli, 1993) enjoyed enormous success. Her 1996 book Men Before 10 a.m. (in a heavily over-designed paperback edition by Beyond Words) will be reconceptualized and published by us next year. The recipient of a World Press Award, Vial has exhibited her work at the prestigious Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan and at the Fahey/Klein gallery in Los Angeles. Vial is represented by CPi.
William Claxton’s photographs have appeared in a wide range of national and international magazines, including The New Yorker, Time, Life, Vogue, Paris Match, Vanity Fair, and on countless album covers. He has had numerous one-man shows around the world, and has published several books, including Jazz (Twelvetrees Press, 1988); The Rudi Gernreich Book, with his wife Peggy Moffitt (Rizzoli, 1991); Young Chet (Schirmer/Mosel, 1993); Claxography: The Art of Jazz Photography (Nieswand Verlag, 1995); and Jazz Seen (Taschen, 1999).
Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since July 1992. During his tenure, Vanity Fair has won six National Magazine Awards, including two for general excellence for magazines with a circulation of more than one million, the highest honor in magazine publishing. Carter has been named Advertising Age’s editor of the year and is the first editor ever to be twice named Adweek magazine’s editor of the year. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, he worked as editor at The New York Observer and Spy, which he co-founded in 1986. Carter has also worked as a staff writer for Time and Life magazines. He is the author of What We’ve Lost (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004) and the editor of Oscar Night (Knopf, 2004) and Vanity Fair’s Hollywood (Abrams, 2000). Carter was an executive producer of 9/11, the highly acclaimed film that aired on CBS in 2002, for which he received an Emmy and a Peabody Award. Born in Toronto, Canada, Carter resides in Manhattan.
Thierry Le Gouès is the author of the bestselling Soul (pH, 1997). Born in Brittany, France and currently residing in New York and Paris, Le Gouès is a fashion photographer whose work is frequently published in Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, Vogue, German Elle, Trace, Arena, and Vogue Hommes International. His most recent campaign for Nike can be seen absolutely everywhere.
Ari Marcopoulos is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker. His photography has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and published in The New York Times, Interview, Blind Spot, and Paper, as well as in all the major snowboarding magazines like Transworld Snowboarding and Snowboarder. His films include Larry Wright, a documentary shown on PBS’s “P.O.V.”; a longform video for the Beastie Boys; and Key to the Riddle, a doc that received a San Francisco Film Festival award. Born in Amsterdam, Marcopoulos lives and works in Sonoma.
Louise Neri is the former U.S. Editor for Parkett, was a co-curator for the 1997 Whitney Biennial, and edited a book on Rachel Whiteread (Scalo, 1999). She lives in New York.
Nigel Parry, born in the UK, moved to New York to broaden his budding career as a photographer in 1994. Since then, his work has appeared in major publications including W, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and many, many more. Parry has won The Award of Excellence from the U.S. Society of Newspaper Design (1992), the American Society of Magazine Portrait Award (1994 and 1996), and the European Magazine Award (1997). His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and at Perpignan, an annual international photography show in France. In 1999, Parry had the honor of being the first portrait photographer to exhibit at the Cannes Film Festival.
Liam Neeson, born in Ireland, studied to be a teacher before turning to acting. He received an Academy Award™ nomination for his work in Schindler’s List, a Golden Globe™ nomination for Michael Collins, and a Tony Award™ nomination for Anna Christie. He has starred in numerous films including Star Wars: Episode 1—The Phantom Menace; Nell; and Husbands and Wives.
Jeff Burton received his MFA from Cal Arts, and his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Burton’s photographs have been published in Artforum, The Face, i-D, British Vogue, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Village Voice. His books include Untitled: Jeff Burton (Hugado, 1998), Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s (Walker Art Center, 1997), and Fashion: Photography of the 90s (Scalo, 1996). He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Dave Hickey has owned an art gallery, managed another, been an editor at Art in America and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, played in a band with Janis Joplin, and is currently a professor of art criticism and theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the renowned author of The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993) and Air Guitar (1997—both Art Issues Press). “Compared to enjoying Dave Hickey—who writes like a Raymond Chandler blessed with Giovanni Morelli’s eye—reading any other art critic (and I mean any other art critic) is like doing your taxes.”
—Peter Plagens, art critic for Newsweek
Polly Borland, widely acclaimed for her vivid portraits and off-beat reportage, shoots regularly for numerous leading U.S. and UK publications. Her work has been widely exhibited, and she is a past winner of the prestigious John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award. She shot stills and "specials" for the films Dogs in Space, directed by Richard Lowenstein, and Ghosts of the Civil Dead and To Have and To Hold, both directed by John Hillcoat. A major exhibition of her portraits of famous Australians living abroad opens at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery, London, in June of 2000. Born in Australia, Borland now lives in London, and travels quite frequently on assignment. She maintains several friendships with the people she documented on this project.
Susan Sontag is one of America’s best known and most admired writers. Among her books—which are translated in twenty-three languages—are four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. She has also published a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five books of essays, among them On Photography, which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for criticism, and Illness as Metaphor. Ms. Sontag has written and directed four feature-length films, and has also directed plays in the United States and Europe, most recently a production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in besieged Sarajevo. From 1990 to 1995 she held a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. In 2001 she received the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.
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Craig McDean, one of fashion's most exciting young talents, made a name for himself at I.D. and The Face. He has since photographed such heavyweight campaigns as Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, Givenchy, TSE Cashmere, and Versus. Born in Manchester, McDean now lives and works in New York City.
Neville Wakefield, another Brit, is an art writer and critic living in New York City, and is the author of the well, received Fashion (Scalo, 1996).
Susan Lipper earned an MFA from Yale. Her first book, Grapevine, out of print but available as a limited edition, received numerous awards, and is considered a classic. Her photographs can be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New York Public Library, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; National Portrait Gallery, London; and Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
Frederick Barthelme is the author of eleven books of fiction, the most recent of which is Bob the Gambler (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 1998). He directs the writing program at the University of Southern Mississippi, and edits the literary journal Mississippi Review.
Mattthew Drutt is Associate Curator for Research at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and serves as the lead curatorial advisor on photography, new media intiatives, design, and education. He is currently at work on developing the Guggenheim Virtual Museum.
François Nars is creative director and president of NARS cosmetics, with more than 145 boutiques worldwide. His work is featured on the runways of designers like Versace, Valentino, Dolce and Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, and Karl Lagerfeld, and on the covers of prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Italian Vogue, W, Elle, and Allure. He regularly collaborates with such legendary photographers as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier. Born in France, Nars lives and works in New York City.
Andre Leon Talley is the Editor at Large of Vogue, and is based in New York City.
Francesco Clemente has also published numerous books, including Francesco Clemente (Abrams, 1985), Black Book (Hansjorg Mayer, 1990), and Evening Raga & Paradiso (Rizzoli, 1992). He was a co-founder and co-editor, with Raymond Foye, of Hanuman Books. Born in Italy, Clemente has lived and worked primarily in New York City for 20 years. There will be a retrospective of Clemente's work opening at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in September.
Vincent Katz is an art critic, poet, and translator whose video co-production Hanuman Presents! will be released in June. His last book of poems, Pearl, with paintings by Tabboo! was released in 1998.
Christopher Griffith Christopher Griffith trained to be a research biochemist in the field of genetic engineering before quitting four months shy of his PhD to take up photography. He then spent eight years in Europe working for Arena, Wallpaper, and the international editions of Vogue and Elle. His corporate clients have included Issey Miyake, Armani, and Etro. Born in Canada, Griffith was raised in the U.S. and educated in Britain. He lives in New York City.
Douglas Coupland is a renowned novelist, essayist, and critic of art and pop culture. His books include Generation X, Microserfs, and the recently released Miss Wyoming. Canadian-born, Coupland lives in Vancouver.
Larry Fink is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a professor of Photography at Bard College. His monographic classic Social Graces will be re-published by us next year. A retrospective of his work is being prepared for 2000 by the Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey; a spectacular catalogue will be produced to accompany the travelling exhibition. Fink lives on a farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania.
Guy Trebay has written for The New Yorker, Details, Vibe, Conde Nast Traveler, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, Grand Street, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine, among other national publications, and his work has been widely anthologized, most notably in In The Place to Be: Guy Trebay's New York (Temple University Press, 1994). Trebay was born in the Bronx.
ENDURING JUSTICE
Thomas Roma, two-time recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, has exhibited internationally, had one-man shows at The Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. The Director of Photography at Columbia University, author of Come Sunday, Found in Brooklyn, Sunset Park, and Higher Ground, and founding contributing photographer to DoubleTake, Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife Anna and son Giancarlo.
ANNA GASKELL
Anna Gaskell, born in Des Moines, Iowa, received her MFA from Yale in 1995. Since then, she has exhibited her work around the world at museums and galleries including the Guggenheim Museum, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, and Casey Kaplan, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and White Cube, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Thom Jones’ fiction has been compared to that of Thomas Pynchon and Stanley Elkin. His 1991 collection of short stories, The Pugilist at Rest (Little, Brown & Co., 1994) won the prestigious O. Henry Award, and subsequent works Cold Snap (Little, Brown & Co., 1996) and Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (Little, Brown & Co., 1999) have established Jones as the leader of the genre.
EX LIBRIS
Ralph Gibson’s forty-year career has garnered him fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Leica Medal of Excellence. He is an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Maryland and Ohio Wesleyan University. Featured in hundreds of exhibitions, Gibson’s photographs are included in over 150 museum collections worldwide. Gibson lives in New York.
HOT AND COLD
Richard Hell, born Richard Meyers in Lexington, Kentucky, dropped out of school at age sixteen to come to New York. He played in various bands before founding the Voidoids, a group that spawned the nascent punk movement in the mid-70s and is best known for their album “Blank Generation.” Hell has written several books of poetry, and his first full-length novel, Go Now (Scribner, 1996) was received with acclaim. Hell is also a visual artist, actor, and general renaissance man. He lives and works in New York.
THE CITY
Mitch Epstein’s photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Pinewood Foundation, and Camera Works, Epstein has had eleven one-man exhibitions in New York City. He has also worked as a cinematographer and production designer on several award-winning films, among them Salaam Bombay! and Mississippi Masala. His three previously published books are: In Pursuit of India (Aperture, 1987); Fire Water Wind (Doyusha, 1995); and Vietnam: A Book of Changes (Norton/DoubleTake, 1996). Epstein lives in New York with his wife, Susan Bell, and daughter Lucia.
PRINCE EAGLE
Elizabeth Peyton, born in Danbury, Connecticut, received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has exhibited her work at venues around the world, including the Venice Biennale; the Saatchi Gallery, London; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Her work is in museums worldwide including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Prince Eagle is Peyton’s fifth monograph. She lives and works in New York.
SOCIAL GRACES
Larry Fink is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a professor of photography at Bard College. His two previous monographs, Boxing (1997) and Runway (2000) were published by powerHouse Books; and under contract with Condé Nast, his work has appeared in top publications including Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Detour, and The New Yorker. Fink lives on a farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania.
THE ADVENTURE
Sam Samore has been writing fairy tales and making images for many years. With three books of photographs and three books of collected stories to his credit, The Adventure is his first book to combine image and text. Samore has exhibited his photographs around the world. He currently lives and works in New York.
PASS THE MIC: BEASTIE BOYS 1991-1996
Ari Marcopoulos is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Interview, Paper, Blind Spot, Blue, and Raygun. His films include Larry Wright, a documentary shown on Public Broadcasting’s P.O.V.; a longform video for the Beastie Boys; and Key to the Riddle, a documentary on Forrest Bess. He is the author of Transitions and Exits (pH, 2000) and Portraits from the Studio and the Street (Bert Bakker, The Netherlands, 1987). Born in Amsterdam, Marcopoulos lives in Northern California.
CROSSTOWN
As early as 1943, Helen Levitt had a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her work was included in "The Family of Man" and several recent major exhibitions, including MoMA’s "Photography Until Now" and the National Gallery of Art’s "The Art of Fixing a Shadow." She has been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, New York. Her previous books include Mexico City (Norton, 1997) and In the Street (Duke University Press, 1994). Levitt lives in New York, of course.
WOMEN BEFORE 10 A.M.
Veronique Vial is the author of the soon-to-be smashingly successful Men Before 10 a.m.Too. Born in France, Vial moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Her first celebrity portraits appeared in A Day in the Life of Hollywood (HarperCollins, 1991). The recipient of a World Press Award, Vial has exhibited her work at the prestigious Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan. Vial is represented by the renowned photo agency CPi. She is also the author of the recent ‘O’: Cirque du Soleil at Bellagio.
STRIP FLIPS
Leslie Lyons was born in Louisville, Kentucky and grew up between there and New Orleans, Louisiana. A contributing photographer to the renowned “literate smut” website Nerve.com, as well as Nerve Magazine, Lyons has been published in Gear, Vibe, Time Out New York, and Black + White magazines, and has worked with Atlantic Records, among others. Lyons is a member of the SoHo Photo Gallery in New York City, where she now lives and works.
SIDEWALK STORIES
Salvo Galano’s work has been published in Newsweek and other international publications. Among other projects, Galano was commissioned by the region of Lombardy, Italy to do a series of portraits of its leading cultural and business figures. He was recently awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in support of Sidewalk Stories. Born in Milan, Galano now lives on the island of Ponza.
Jeff Bridges has appeared in over fifty films, four of which garnered him Academy Award nominations (The Last Picture Show, 1971; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, 1974; Starman, 1984; and The Contender, 2000). He is also highly accomplished behind the camera, as both a film producer and photographer. Bridges is co-founder of the End Hunger Network, an organization that raises political awareness of the growing hunger crisis in the United States and abroad.
Patrick Markee is Senior Policy Analyst at Coalition for the Homeless, where he has authored studies on affordable housing in New York City and on reforms of the homeless shelter system. He has also written articles and reviews for The New York Times Book Review and The Nation.
TALKING FASHION
Sarajane Hoare began her fashion career in the ’80s as a journalist for The Observer before becoming Fashion Director of British Vogue in 1987. In 1992, Hoare joined Harper’s Bazaar as Fashion Editor-at-Large. Photographs from Talking Fashion have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Pavillion, New York, and at Karl Lagerfeld’s Librairie 7L, Paris. Hoare lives and works in both London and New York. Talking Fashion is her first book.
THERE IS NO EYE
John Cohen’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Cohen studied under Joseph Albers and Herbert Matter at Yale, and his images have been published in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and Aperture. Cohen’s award-winning films have been seen around the world, and his band, The New Lost City Ramblers, has received several Grammy nominations. Born in 1932, Cohen lives and works in Putnam Valley, New York.
Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History, and Double Trouble, among other books, and writes a monthly column for Interview. Marcus was a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders until the ignominious dissolution of the all-author rock ‘n roll band in 1996. Born in San Francisco, he lives in New York City.
MAKEUP YOUR MIND
François Nars is president and creative director of NARS cosmetics, with more than 200 boutiques worldwide. His work has been featured on the runways of designers like Versace, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, and Karl Lagerfeld, and on the covers of such prestigious magazines as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Italian Vogue, W, Elle, and Allure. Additionally, Nars has collaborated with such legendary photographers as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier. Nars’ first monograph, X-Ray (pH, 1999) was published to instant acclaim and sold out in just over three months. Born in France, Nars lives and works in New York City.
Fabien Baron, president of Baron and Baron, is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed graphic designer who, in addition to famously redefining the look of Harper’s Bazaar in 1992, designed Madonna’s notorious art book, Sex. Baron is also Art Director for print and television advertisements for Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Kors, Prada, Valentino, Jil Sander, and Burberry; fragrance and makeup package designer for NARS, Calvin Klein, and Carolina Herrera; and Editor-in-Chief of Arena Homme Plus Born in France, Baron lives and works in New York City.
BACK IN THE DAYS
Jamel Shabazz’s work has appeared in publications such as The Source, Vibe, Trace, One World, Jalouse, and Honey. In addition, his photographs have been exhibited in “Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, at “Xhibiton Transition” in Chicago, and at “Trace Magazine: True Signs” in Paris. Shabazz has completed his first film documentary, also called “Back in the Days,” which he wrote and directed. Shabazz was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1960.
Fab 5 Freddy is a former host of Yo! MTV Raps, and is viewed as one of the founding fathers of underground hip-hop. He was one of the first graffiti artists to be taken seriously as a painter, exhibiting his work alongside that of Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and others. He has co-created and produced the soundtrack to Wild Style, which became the first film to feature the music, graffiti, and break dancing of hip-hop culture, and has directed the first music video for KRS-One and over 70 videos for other artists, including Queen Latifah, Shabba Ranks, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Nas. Fab also co-produced the film "New Jack City," and authored the book "Fresh, Fly, Flavor."
MEN BEFORE 10 A.M. TOO
Veronique Vial is the author of the smashingly successful Women Before 10 a.m.. Born in France, Vial moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Her first celebrity portraits appeared in A Day in the Life of Hollywood (HarperCollins, 1991). The recipient of a World Press Award, Vial has exhibited her work at the prestigious Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan. Vial is represented by the renowned photo agency CPi. Her most recent book is ‘O’: Cirque du Soleil at Bellagio
Jennifer Beals began her acting career starring in the acclaimed ’80s hit "Flashdance," earning her a Golden Globe nomination. She most recently acted in The Anniversary Party for Fine Line Features. Beals studied photography at Yale University under Thomas Roma and Richard Benson.
JOHN COPLANS (A BODY; PROVOCATIONS; BODY PARTS)
Over the past thirty years, John Coplans has been a painter, magazine editor, and museum director. The photographs he began making of his naked body in 1984 are in the collections of over sixty-five prestigious institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery, London; National Gallery, Edinburgh; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; I.V.A.M. Valencia, Spain; and Stockholm Konsthall. Coplans' photographs have been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, including retrospectives at The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1992); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1994); P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum, Long Island City, New York (1997); Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, (1998); and the National Galleries, Edinburgh (1999). A founding editor of Artforum magazine, Coplans became the editor-in-chief in 1971. In 1978, as the director of the Akron Art Museum, he founded the Midwest Art Journal Dialog. Recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and an award from the International Association of Art Critics, Coplans was the 2001 recipient of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. He is the author of nine books on art and photography, including Provocations (London Projects, 1996), a book of his critical writings. Born in London in 1920, Coplans lives and works in New York.
NEW YORK MASJID/MOSQUES OF NEW YORK
Born in New York City, Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the ’70s, he photographed Latin America, and in the ’80s he concentrated on Asia. In addition to teaching at Harvard, Grazda has lectured at Yale and Bennington. Grazda’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The New York Public Library, all in New York City, as well as The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and 1986. Author of Afghanistan Diary: 1992-2000 (powerHouse Books, 2000) and Afghanistan: 1980-1989 (Der Alltag, 1990), Grazda lives in New York City.
Jerrilynn D. Dodds is Professor of Architecture and Theory at the School of Architecture of The City College of New York at CUNY. Her work centers primarily on issues of artistic interchange and identity, and the problems surrounding architecture and minorities in pluralistic societies. She is the author of Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain (London and University Park, 1991); Al Andalus: The Arts of Islamic Spain (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992); and numerous other publications on the subject of Islam and cultural exchange as it is seen through architecture. A filmmaker as well as author, Professor Dodds has been writing and filming works concerning the dilemma of Muslims in contemporary society (“NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York,” and “Stari Most: The Bridge at Mostar [Bosnia]”). Among the other institutions at which Professor Dodds has taught are Harvard University and Columbia University.
SIBUSISO MBHELE AND HIS FISH HELICOPTER
Koto Bolofo was born in South Africa and until 1992 lived in exile in Europe as a political refugee. A top fashion and commercial photographer, Bolofo’s portrait work has appeared in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Interview, GQ, Vogue, and Marie Claire, among others. In addition to “Sibusiso Mbhele and His Fish Helicopter,” Bolofo has written, produced, and directed four other films shown at international film festivals over the past decade. He has exhibited his work in galleries in London and Paris, as well as at the Louvre. Bolofo currently resides in France.
William Sloan is the Head of the Circulating Film and Video Library at The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
UNFRAMED: ARTISTS RESPOND TO AIDS
The Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA) is a non-profit community-based AIDS research and treatment education center based in New York City.
Tony Morgan’s fifteen-year design career has included books by Brice Marden, Francesco Clemente, James Rosenquist, and more, as well as catalogues for Gagosian, Barbara Gladstone, and PaceWildenstein galleries of shows by Ed Ruscha, Philip Taaffe, and Sophie Calle. Morgan’s collaboration with Matthew Barney on publications, inspired by the artist’s Cremaster series, have been universally lauded for their ingenuity.
J.A. Forde assisted with the organization of “Unframed 2” and has been responsible for securing the participation of artists and event preparation for all succeeding sales. Since 1995, Forde has been CRIA’s Development Director, overseeing the agency’s fundraising.
Manuel Gonzalez is the Executive Director of the JP Morgan Chase art collection, perhaps the most important corporate repository of modern art in the world. He has curated dozens of major art exhibitions in the United States and worldwide. Gonzalez has contributed to numerous publications, including Artforum, Flash Art, and Parkett.
SHOW AND TELL
Giancarlo T. Roma, born in 1991, lives in Brooklyn and is in the fifth grade. He is an avid chess and baseball player, and is the shortstop for the Brooklyn Bonnies.
Thomas Roma, two-time recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, has exhibited internationally and had one-man shows at The Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. The Director of Photography at Columbia University in New York, author of Enduring Justice (powerHouse Books, 2001), Come Sunday, Found in Brooklyn, Sunset Park, and Higher Ground, and founding contributing photographer to DoubleTake, Roma lives in Brooklyn.
HEAD TO HAND
Keith Tyson was born in 1969 in England. Since 1990, Tyson has exhibited at galleries in New York, London, Paris, and beyond. His work has been profiled by a number of publications, including The New York Times, Esquire, Artforum, Bomb, Time Out New York, Frieze, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and others. Tyson received the ICA Arts and Innovation Award in 1996.
Patrice O'Shaughnessy was born and reared in the city, and has been a Daily News reporter for 20 years, covering its courthouses, precincts, and neighborhoods in human interest stories. She has written extensively on firefighters, chronicling their daring and compassion in the News’ “Hero of the Month” feature for the last decade. A special assignment writer, she is the 1998 recipient of the Mike Berger Award. She also received the New York Press Club’s Heart of New York Award in 1999 and 2000.
Shawn O'Sullivan is the picture editor for the features department of The New York Daily News.
Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council, Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has photographed his journeys to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Author of Portrait of Nepal, which won the 1993 Golden Light Documentary Book Award, and Power Places of Kathmandu (Inner Traditions), Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife and two children.
Richard B. Woodward has written about photography and art for more than 20 years. His feature articles, reviews, and criticisms have appeared in numerous books, catalogs, magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, The Atlantic Monthly, Film Comment, The New Criterion, and Vogue. A former assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts, Woodward is currently editor-at-large for DoubleTake magazine. He lives in New York City.
Magnum Photos, established in April 1947, summoned “concerned” photojournalists to unite in defense of free expression and individual copyright in an era of nascent magazine conglomerates who demanded total ownership of their correspondents’ pictures. Steeped in the euphoria of Europe’s liberation from wartime terror, the founders of Magnum envisioned a cooperative venture that would guarantee a truly independent media. It was this dream, tethered to the political foundations of social democracy, which brought together founders Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, Robert Capa, and David Seymour (Chim). More than fifty years later, the calling of Magnum’s peer-selected members has not changed. They continue the struggle to represent history through the lens of personal experience, competing against all odds in an age of predatory media giants.
Robert Dannin has edited the work of photojournalists for twenty-five years. As the editorial director of Magnum from 1985 to 1990, he produced Sebastiao Salgado Jr.’s “An Archaeology of the Industrial Age,” eventually published as Workers (Aperture). He was also the text editor for James Nachtwey’s Inferno (Phaidon). Dannin now teaches urban anthropology at New York University and recently published Black Pilgrimage to Islam (Oxford University Press).
Alice Harris is the author of The White T (Umbra Editions/ HarperCollins, 1996). She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. She is donating her royalties from The Blue Jean to the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. To contact Alice Harris, e-mail to: thewhitet@aol.com
Bob Morris is a regular contributor to The New York Times, a commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and a contributing editor of Travel and Leisure. The author of two books and two plays, Morris has also written for The New Yorker, Vogue, Details, Rolling Stone, and Elle.
Diane Keaton is one of Hollywood’s leading ladies. Since her screen debut in Lovers and Other Strangers, Keaton has proven to be an extremely versatile actress, director and producer. Her acting career spans three decades, having appeared in over 25 films, including The Godfather trilogy, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Annie Hall (for which she received an Academy Award for best actress ), Father of the Bride, and The First Wives Club. Keaton also received Academy Award nominations for her roles in the films Reds and Marvin’s Room. She is the director of a number of films including Heaven, Unstrung Heroes, and Hanging Up. Keaton most recently directed, as well as executive produced (along with Columbia Tri-Star and Brad Grey Entertainment) the TV pilot Pasadena. She is also the acclaimed author of Mr. Salesman (Twin Palms), Local News (D.A.P.), Still Life (Calloway), and Reservations (Knopf). Keaton lives and works in Los Angeles.
Michael Gray is the Director of the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock Abbey, as well as the Scientific Director of Ikons Centre Imaging Project at the University of Pordenone, Italy. Gray is an internationally recognized scholar and curator in the photographic arts, as well as a master printer of early processes. Gray and his wife Barbara reproduce modern photographs from early paper and glass negatives, evident in his contribution to The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Knopf).
Arthur Ollman, Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego since its opening, is the recipient of three NEA grants, and has exhibited his photographs in more than 30 solo shows and 45 group shows in galleries, museums, and libraries around the world. His work is in the collections of many major international institutions, academies, and museums.
Carol McCusker is the Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. She has curated several exhibitions on 20th-century American culture and is the co-author of Paul Outerbridge (Taschen).
Richard Misrach was born in Los Angeles in 1949 and received a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. His photographs have been widely exhibited and published, and are in the collections of over fifty major institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, all in New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris. Selections from his “Desert Cantos” have appeared in several award-winning monographs, among them Desert Cantos (University of New Mexico Press), Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West (Johns Hopkins University Press), Violent Legacies (Aperture), Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach (Bulfinch), The Sky Book (Arena), and Golden Gate (Arena). Misrach is the recipient of four NEA Fellowships, the PEN Literary Award, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, among others.
Weston Naef has been Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum since 1984, and the author of several books related to exhibitions, among them Era of Exploration (Little Brown), The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz (Oxford University Press), and The Truthful Lens (with Lucien Goldschmidt, University of Virginia Press). He is also general editor of the “In Focus” series of monographs.
Navjotika Kumar received her Masters degrees in Art History from the University of Notre Dame and Cornell University, where she is currently working on her doctorate with Hal Foster.
George Carr graduated from the University of Texas before moving to New York and working at Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. He left fashion to pursue a career in acting and writing, and has written two plays and a screenplay. Zack Carr is his first book.
THE IMAGINARY PORTRAITS OF GEORGE CONDO
George Condo was born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire. He has been exhibiting his work in galleries around the world since the 1980s, and has work in major national and international museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Fonds National d’Art Contem-porain, Ministère de la Culture and the Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Île de France, Paris; and the Museu d’ Art Contemporani, Barcelona. Condo lives and works in New York City.
Ralph Rugoff, author of the critically-acclaimed Scene of the Crime (MIT Press), is a California-based art critic and journalist who writes regularly for Artforum and Frieze.
Michael Spano, former director and curator of the non-profit Midtown Y Photography Gallery, holds an MFA from Yale University and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, CameraWorks, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Spano has exhibited his work at The Museum of Modern Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Harvard University’s Fogg Museum in Cambridge; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and the Los Angeles County Museum, among others. Represented by the Laurence Miller Gallery, Spano’s work is featured in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Boston Museum of Fine Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Susan Kismaric, a Department of Photography curator at the Museum Of Modern Art, has organized many exhibitions and authored numerous catalogues during her tenure, including the book, Judith Joy Ross (The Museum of Modern Art).
Valdir Cruz, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, spent eight months among the Yanomami Indians and contributed his photographs to Darkness in El Dorado (Norton), finalist for the 2000 National Book Award in Nonfiction. His work is part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, both in NY, among others, and has been exhibited to critical acclaim in galleries in North and South America. Born in Brazil, Cruz lives and works in New York City.
Kenneth R. Good lived among the Yanomami in Venezuela from 1975 to 1987. He is the author of Into the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami (Prentice-Hall), and his articles have been published worldwide. A National Geographic documentary about his expedition to the Amazon forest, “Yanomami Homecoming,” has been shown on the “Explorer” series.
Vicki Goldberg is a photography critic for The New York Times, and the author of The Power of Photography, (Abbeville Press, 1993) and has contributed to Jacques Henri Lartigue, (Bulfinch, 1998). She is also a prestigious exhibit curator who was honored with the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in 1997.
Eric Payson was born in Brooklyn and received a BA in Political Science from Tulane University, New Orleans. His photographs have been exhibited in New York, and are in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Judy McGrath Collection, New York; and the Mark and Jane Nathenson Collection, Los Angeles. Payson has also created three films, Gulf War (1991), Up the Hudson (1993), and Just Two Days (1994), a Vatican Memorial for the Holocaust.
Robert Sobieszek is a curator of Photography at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. For over 30 years, he has lectured and published widely on the art and history of photography, and has organized over 50 exhibitions.
Jim Jocoy was born in Chun Chon, South Korea in 1952 to an American father in the U.S. Army and a Korean mother. His family moved to Sunnyvale, California in 1969. In 1977, Jocoy began frequenting punk concerts and decided to capture the various characters he met on film. A few of the images were published in local punk fanzines at the time, including Punk Globe, Search and Destroy, and Widows and Orphans, but effectively all were stashed away until 2001, when they came to the attention of Thurston Moore. Jocoy lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Marc Jacobs became the youngest designer to receive the industry’s highest tribute, The Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent in 1987 at the age of 24. Jacobs launched the acclaimed Marc Jacobs label, and brought the “grunge” aesthetic to high fashion in 1993. Four years later he joined Louis Vuitton as Artistic Director.
Thurston Moore is a founding member of the avant-garde rock group Sonic Youth. He has been an archivist of punk and radical subgenre materials since 1977. Jim Jocoy’s photographs came to his attention through Cynthia Connolly at Dischord Records, who had received them from an acquaintance of Jim’s.
Exene Cervenka is a founding member of the legendary punk hardcore band X, which was formed in 1977 with Billy Zoom, John Doe, and D.J. Bonebrake.
Juliana Beasley, was born in Philadelphia in 1967. After graduating from the Photography Department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1990, she began her photographic career by working in a number industry-related jobs (assisting, lighting, studio managing). including a four-month stint printing Annie Leibovitz's project on the Mark Morris Dance Company. After completing a photographic report on Albanian child-laborers and refugees living in Italy, in 1992 she began her eight-year photo/text essay on her life as a professional nude dancer, a lapdancer. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice and The Christian Science Monitor in the United States, De l'Air in France, and Max magazine in Germany. Lapdancer is Beasley's first book and presently is working in New York City on another documentary book project. Beasely lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Thomas Roma, a two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, both in New York. He is the author of Show & Tell (powerHouse Books 2002), Enduring Justice (powerHouse Books 2001); Sanctuary; Higher Ground; Sunset Park; Found in Brooklyn; and Come Sunday. Director of Photography at Columbia University, Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son Giancarlo.
Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 1987, has
a Ph.D. in Art History from The City University of New York. Her many exhibitions and publications include Crossing
the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the present; Dorothea Lange: American Photographs; Police Pictures; Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog; and Ansel Adams at 100.
Anna Roma has been married to Thomas Roma for fifteen years; she’s got his number.
Arlene Gottfried was born in Brooklyn. After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, and The London Independent. Gottfried has exhibited at the Leica Gallery in New York and in Tokyo, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others. Her photographs are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Berenice Abbott International Competition of Women’s Documentary Photography, Gottfried is the author of The Eternal Light. A lecturer and a teacher, Gottfried lives and works in New York City.
Helen Levitt had her first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1943. Her photographs were included in “The Family of Man” exhibition, and in more recent major exhibitions including MoMA’s “Photography Until Now” and the National Gallery of Art’s “The Art of Fixing a Shadow,” both celebrating the invention of photography. Levitt has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, New York. Her previous books include Crosstown (powerHouse Books, 2001), Mexico City (1997), A Way of Seeing (1989), and In The Street (1987). Levitt lives in New York (of course).
Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he has been an art critic and Paris correspondent. His memoir Paris to the Moon was a bestseller. He lives in New York City.
George Mott was born in New York City, lived in Rome, and has traveled extensively photographing architecture and gardens. His numerous books include Follies and Pleasure Pavilions and The Houses of Ireland. The official photographer for the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, Mott works closely with the New York City Opera on many of their promotional campaigns. A film critic and frequent contributor to The Psychoanalytic Review, Mott now lives in New York City.
Luigi Ballerini is an Italian-based poet and translator. He wrote the introduction to Italy Observed (1991), and authored the widely acclaimed 1994 book Il Terzo Gode, published in English as The Cadence of a Neighboring Tribe.
Michelangelo Sabatino was trained as an architect and architectural historian in Venice. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto.
Giorgio Armani is the Italian clothier par excellence.
Joel Grey is best known for his Academy and Tony Award-winning performances as the emcee in "Cabaret." He also received The Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his portrayal of Amos Hart in the Broadway revival of "Chicago." Grey has garnered numerous awards for his bravura work in theatre, film, television, and concerts, from his Tony-nominated work in the musicals “George M” and “Goodtime Charley and the Grand Tour” to his Emmy-nominated appearance in the TV series “Brooklyn Bridge.” His film credits include "Dancer in the Dark," "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins," and "Kafka," among many others. Grey lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
Duane Michals has published more than twenty books, including Eros and Thantos (Twin Palms, 1992), Salute, Walt Whitman (Twin Palms, 1996), and Questions without Answers (Twin Palms, 2001). He lives in New York City.
Julia Calfee studied journalism at NYU and art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. She has exhibited in Madrid and Barcelona, and at the Fondation Miro of Palma de Mallorca, which published Photogenese, a limited, large-format edition of her photographs in its permanent collection (1995). After going to Mongolia in 1997, she worked with an NGO to organize a horse-and-cart medical caravan covering over 2,000 miles in the Steppes, documenting human conditions in prisons and work camps. Calfee
consequently became friends with a woman shaman and her family of reindeer herders. The exhibition of their winter migration,“Mountain Spirits of Mongolia” will travel to the United Nations in New York. Calfee lives in Brussels.
Antonin Kratochvil, born in the Czech Republic in 1947, is a photojournalist whose work appears internationally
in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times magazines, Newsweek, Esquire, and Detour, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Recipient of the Emmy Award (1976); the Clio Award (1977); the International Center of Photography Award for Photojournalism (1992); The Pictures of the Year Award (1992); the Leica Medal of Excellence (1994); the First World Press Photo Award (1998); the Supravivere (2001); and the Erna & Victor Hasselblad Grant, Kratochvil has published Broken Dream (1997), and Incognito (2001). He lives in New York City.
Jamel Shabazz was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1960. The author of Back in the Days (powerHouse Books, 2001), his photographs have appeared in publications such as The Source, Vibe, Trace, Flaunt, Black Book, Mass Appeal, One World, Jalouse, and Honey. Shabazz’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, by Kangol at the Dazed and Confused Gallery in London, by Adidas and Lowdown at Adidas Originals in Berlin, Kravets/Wehby Gallery in New York, and at Trace’s “True Signs” show in Paris. His blockbuster debut book Back in the Days received astounding critical acclaim and commercial success since its initial release in January 2001. “One can probably overplay the mysterious workings of that strung out spirit of the age, the zeitgeist,” wrote Guy Trebay in the “Sunday Styles” section of The New York Times, “but occasionally a book or a movie or a song comes along whose influence springs up simultaneously in all kinds of unexpected places. Back in the Days is that book.” Shabazz lives in Long Island.
Emil Wilbekin is the Editor-in-Chief of Vibe magazine, which won the 2002 National Magazine Award for General Excellence under his guidance. Prior to joining Vibe in 1992, Wilbekin held reporting positions at Metropolitan Home, the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, and at People; he has also contributed to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Emerge. Frequently called upon as an expert on music, culture, and fashion for television commentary, Wilbekin was a former stylist for music videos and fashion shows. He lives and works in New York City.
Kelefa Sanneh is a pop music critic for The New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Source, and a glossy Indian "lad rag" called Man's World. Since 1999, he has been Deputy Editor of Transition Magazine, an international journal of race and culture based at Harvard University. Sanneh lives and works in New York.
Jeff Mermelstein was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1957. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, and is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; New York institutions International Center of Photography, The Jewish Museum, The New York Public Library, and The Buhl Collection; the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester; New Jersey’s Princeton Museum of Art and the Johnson & Johnson Collection; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Cologne’s Museum Ludwig. The author of Sidewalk (Dewi Lewis, 2000), Mermelstein’s photographs have also been published in a number of publications, including Aperture, Artforum, Details, DoubleTake, Fortune, GQ (US & UK), Life, Nest, Newsweek, Stern, Telegraph Magazine, The London Sunday Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Currently working as a commercial photographer and as a member of the faculty at the International Center of Photography, Mermelstein lives and works in New York City.
Dietmar Busse, born in 1966 in Germany, is a portrait, fashion and fine art photographer working in New York City. His editorial work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and W, among others. A permanent installation of his work can be seen at the Astor Hotel in Miami, and a rotating exhibition of his work can be seen at Claank Design in New York. Dietmar has shown at Ralph Pucci Gallery, also in New York, and is currently working on his second solo exhibition to coincide with a major window display and supporting events at all Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide in the Spring of 2003, in conjunction with The New York Botanical Garden. Dietmar lives in Brooklyn.
International designer Anna Sui attended the Parsons School of Design, then launched her own business in 1980 which grew from producing a small clothing line, to featuring runway shows, 200 internationally-recognized boutiques, and lines of Sui shoes, fragrances, cosmetics, and skin care products. In 1993, Sui won the prestegious CFDA Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent. She counts Patricia Arquette, Christina Ricci, Cher, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola, Courtney Love of Hole and James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins among her clientele.
Sarah Brown is the Beauty Editor of Vogue.
Tom Breidenbach is a contributing writer to Artforum.
Britta Jaschinski was born in Bremen, Germany, and received a degree in photography from Bournemouth Art College. Her work on zoos and their inhabitants quickly achieved recognition, resulting in a solo exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery, London, in 1995, and is currently touring around England. The recipient of the Photography Award in Arles, France, Jaschinski is the author of Zoo (Phaidon, 1996). She lives and works in England.
Phil Stern, born in 1919, began his photography career in 1937 in New York City, working days as a studio apprentice and nights as a photographer for the Police Gazette. He later joined Friday magazine and was sent to LA, where he began photographing Hollywood stars and freelancing for Life, Look, and Colliers magazines. After his World War II stint as a combat photographer, Stern returned to LA, where he worked as both a freelance photographer and a “special” on the set of over 100 feature films, including Some Like it Hot, West Side Stories, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In 2001, Stern donated his library of Hollywood images to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The author of Phil Stern’s Hollywood (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), Stern lives in Los Angeles.
Patricia Bosworth is a critically acclaimed biographer whose works include Marlon Brando (Viking, 2001), Diane Arbus (W.W. Norton, 1995), Montgomery Clift (Harcourt, 1978), as well as her memoir, Anything Your Little Heart Desires (Simon & Schuster, 1997). Bosworth lives and works in New York City.
Nat Hentoff is a prolific author and journalist who has written numerous articles, essays, and books about politics, human rights, and his personal passion, jazz, in addition to his weekly column for The Village Voice. He now lives in New York City.
Herbert Mitgang practiced law in New York until he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to the intelligence section in North Africa and Algeria, joining the main Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, and earning six battle stars in the process. After the war, Mitgang joined the editorial board at The New York Times, initiating the Op Ed page and becoming their first publishing correspondent. He lives in New York City.
Véronique Vial was born in France and moved to Los Angeles in 1989. An exclusive backstage photographer for the famed Cirque du Soleil and recipient of a World Press Award, Vial has exhibited her work at the prestigious Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan. Vial is the author of numerous bestselling photography books, including Women Before 10 a.m., Men Before 10 a.m. Too, and ‘O’: Cirque du Soleil at Bellagio, all from this famous publishing house.
Jeff Bridges is the son of Lloyd Bridges and the younger brother of Beau. He has appeared in over fifty films and has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his work in The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, and The Contender. In 1988, he became the youngest actor ever to be honored by the National Film Theater in London. In addition to being an exhibited photographer, Bridges is an accomplished musician, songwriter, and painter. His album of original songs, Be Here Soon, was recorded with Michael McDonald and David Crosby, among others. An advocate for the homeless and hungry, Bridges also wrote the introduction to Sidewalk Stories by Salvo Galano (powerHouse Books, 2001). Married to Susan Geston since 1977, Bridges and daughters Isabelle, Jessica, and Hayley divide their time between Montecito, California, and Montana.
Peter Bogdanovich, acclaimed director, producer, writer, actor, and historian, has made an indelible mark on American filmmaking, directing such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What's Up, Doc?, Daisy Miller, and Mask. Having written extensively on film for newspapers and magazines, Bogdanovich has published over twelve books on the subject. He currently plays Dr. Elliott Kupferberg on “The Sopranos” and lives in New York City.
Reagan Louie received a BA from UCLA and a MFA from Yale University. Louie’s photographs are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Modern Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1997 Fulbright Fellowship, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Louie is the author of Toward a Truer Life: Photographs on China 1980-90 (Aperture, 1991), and contributed to China: Fifty Years Inside the People’s Republic (Aperture, 1999). Louie is a professor in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since 1976. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Tracy Quan is the author of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel (Three Rivers Press, 2003) which has been translated into four languages. Quan's novel will soon be appearing in China and in Japan. Her essays, reviews, and other writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Men's Health, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Lingua Franca, AsianAvenue.com, and Salon.com, as well as the anthology Whores and Other Feminists (Routledge, 1997). Quan is a contributor to NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America (Scala, 2002). She lives and works in New York City.
Patrick McMullan was born in New York and raised in Huntington, Long Island. Educated at NYU, McMullan majored in business and “minored in Studio 54.” The premier nightlife photographer in New York City, McMullan’s work appears regularly in his weekly New York Magazine column, the “Scene.” His monthly columns include: Allure, Interview, Elle, Vanity Fair, Hamptons, Ocean Drive, and Gotham, among others. He is a contributing editor to British Elle and Men’s Health. His fashion photography has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, German and Italian Cosmopolitan, Details, Marie Claire, and Out, to name a few. McMullan is also the subject of a smash weekly cable show on the Women’s Entertainment called “Party Flash.” Patrick lives in New York City.
Jay McInerney is the infamous author of Bacchus & Me, Model Behavior, and Brightness Falls, as well as Bright Lights Big City.
Tom Ford works with both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent as Creative Director. The recipient of numerous awards, Ford won a Council of Fashion Designers of America Award and four VH-1 Fashion and Music Awards.
Tama Janowitz is the author of five novels, including Slaves of New York and A Certain Age.
Michael Musto, a long-standing fixture of New York City nightlife, writes “La Dolce Musto,” a regular column for The Village Voice.
Brett Ratner has established himself as one of Hollywood’s most successful directors in a very short time. His first film, Money Talks, was a 1997 surprise box-office hit starring Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker, Paul Sorvino, and Heather Locklear. His second film, the 1999 action comedy Rush Hour, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, earned $250 million worldwide. Moving into romantic fantasy, Ratner made The Family Man with Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni in 2000. A year later, Rush Hour II grossed more than $342 million worldwide. Ratner has directed more than 100 music videos for artists including Madonna, Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, Wu Tang Clan, D’Angelo, Heavy D, Mary J. Blige, Foxy Brown, Public Enemy, and P. Diddy, among others. In 1999, Ratner won the MTV Award for Best Video for a Film for Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger,” from the Austin Powers soundtrack.
Robert Evans’ lengthy career has touched every facet of the entertainment industry. He was chief of worldwide production for Paramount Pictures for the longest period of time of any studio head since World War II. Under his auspices, Paramount produced such landmark hits as Barefoot in the Park, Romeo and Juliet, Goodbye Columbus, The Longest Yard, Harold and Maude, Rosemary’s Baby, Lady Sings the Blues, The Godfather, and The Godfather Part II. Evans is the only living producer to have two of his films singled out by the Library of Congress for preservation in perpetuity—Chinatown and The Godfather.
Iris Tillman Hill, editorial director of Lyndhurst Books, co-edited Beyond the Barricades: Photographs by Twenty South African Photographers (Aperture, 1989), and has edited books by Larry Towell, Mitch Epstein, and Wendy Ewald, among others. As chief editor of university presses in Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, she edited groundbreaking titles in American studies, Southern history, and gender studies. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Lauren Greenfield’s award-winning book, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood (Knopf, 1997), placed her at the forefront of new American photographers; she received the 1997 International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Young Photographers. Her latest book is the best-selling Girl Culture (Chronicle, 2000). Greenfield lives in Venice, California.
Tom Rankin is Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. A photographer, teacher, folklorist, curator, and filmmaker, Rankin’s books include Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (W. W. Norton, 2000), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of River Life (University of Mississippi, 1995). He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Lyndhurst Books is the new imprint of the famed Center for Documentary Studies, where DoubleTake magazine was founded. This edition of 25 Under 25 launches an ongoing series of 25 Under 25 publications, to be published every few years by powerHouse Books in association with Lyndhurst Books at the Center for Documentary Studies.
Ed Kashi was born in New York City and received a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University. Kashi’s first major documentary project, a study of the Protestants of Northern Ireland, garnered him a NEA grant. His book, When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds was the result of his first assignment for National Geographic. Kashi has received numerous awards, including the World Press and Pictures of the Year competitions. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Smithsonian, Newsweek, Natural History, and U.S. News & World Report, among others. He lives in San Francisco.
Julie Winokur co-edited We the Media: A Citizen’s Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. This work led to her involvement in the second annual Media & Democracy Congress in 1997. A freelance writer and editor, Winokur’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Examiner, and The Boston Globe, among others. She lives in San Francisco.
Doris Roberts has won two Emmy Awards for her role as Raymond’s meddlesome mother in "Everybody Loves Raymond," and an additional Emmy for "St. Elsewhere." Her memoir, Are You Hungry, Dear? will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2003. She lives in Los Angeles.
Dr. Robert Butler won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his book Why Survive? Being Old in America, and is the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. He is a founding chairman of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, and is CEO of the International Longevity Center.
Joseph Rodríguez’s photographs have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Esquire, Newsweek, and Stern. He has received awards and grants from numerous foundations, including the Open Society Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, and has been awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers’ Association in 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2002. Previous publications include: Spanish Harlem (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution/D.A.P., 1995); and East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A. (powerHouse, 1998).
Rodríguez teaches courses in photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography in New York, and has lectured at universities in Europe and Mexico. He is affiliated with the Black Star agency and Pacific News Service, in the U.S., and Pressens Bild in Sweden. He lives in Brooklyn.
Nell Bernstein was a longtime editor of Pacific News Service’s monthly magazine YO! (Youth Outlook!). In 2000 she published “A Rage To Do Better: Listening to Young People from the Foster Care System,” a Pacific News Service report based on interviews with and surveys of teenagers currently and formerly in foster care and juvenile hall. Bernstein later organized and moderated a series of panels on foster care at the California State Legislature, and delivered the keynote address at the Foster Family-Based Treatment Association’s annual convention in Atlanta.
Bernstein has received a Soros Justice Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute’s Criminal Justice Initiative in New York, and the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. She has also been awarded a Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy from the University of Maryland School of Journalism. Bernstein’s writings have appeared in publications such as Mother Jones, Legal Affairs, Redbook, Self, Health, and The Washington Post. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Charles Peterson was born in 1964 in Longview, Washington, and received a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Washington in 1987. At that time he met up with a group of musicians (future members of Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and others) and record promoter Bruce Pavitt, who decided to use Peterson’s gritty, populist style for his new label, Sub Pop. Peterson’s photographs have graced hundreds of record covers, and have appeared in publications like The Village Voice, NME, The New York Times, Newsweek, MOJO, People, Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Rockin’ On, and Guitar World. He has two previous monographs, Screaming Life: A Chronicle of the Seattle Music Scene (HarperCollins) and Pearl Jam: Place/Date (Vitalogy). His images have appeared in many other books, including The Blue Jean (powerHouse Books), Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, and Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, and was featured in the film Hype, in addition to several video documentaries. His work is in the collection of Seattle’s Experience Music Project, and is repped by Getty and Retna Ltd. Peterson currently lives in Seattle with his dog Barkley.
Eddie Vedder was born in 1964 in Evanston, Illinois, and is the lead singer of the multi-platinum, internationally renowned band Pearl Jam. Vedder relocated to Seattle from San Diego in 1989 to sing with ex-members of Green River and Mother Love Bone. Since then, Pearl Jam has played sold-out shows from Turkey to Thailand. The band released "Riot Act," their sixth album, in 2002. Vedder had a cameo in Cameron Crowe’s film Singles, and has collaborated with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking. Active in many social and political causes, Vedder plays a mean game of Scrabble. He lives in Seattle.
Jennie Boddy was born in Detroit, Michigan. She relocated to Seattle on the cusp of the grunge explosion and became the publicist for Sub Pop Records. She pursued music writing as well, mostly for small but highly influential, independent zines such as Alternative Press and Your Flesh. Now a head publicist for Interscope Records, Boddy lives in New York City.
David Bowie is one of rock's most influential figures. For over thirty years of recording and performing, his innovation has inspired and influenced a generation of performing and visual artists. He has continually and masterfully reinvented himself, from the glam rock days as “Ziggy Stardust” to the goth-cyber of “Low” and “Heroes,” and from the soulful rhythm and blues of “Young Americans” to the post-punk “Scary Monsters.” Unlike many recording artists of his generation, Bowie remains insistently on the cutting edge of the popular culture. He now lives in New York City with his wife Iman and daughter Alexandria.
Myriam Santos-Kayda has been a portrait photographer for the music and entertainment industry for the past ten years. In addition to David Bowie, she has worked with Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Tool, Garbage, Ben Harper, David Gray, Lisa Kudrow, Billy Bob Thornton, Tricky, System of a Down, Incubus, and Rob Zombie, among others. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Detour, Spin, Uncut, Entertainment Weekly, Q, Alternative Press, and New York Magazine. Her record label clients include Capitol Hollywood, Sony Music, Columbia, Geffen, and Interscope Records. She received her degree from The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and lives in Los Angeles.
John Cohen’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Cohen studied under Joseph Albers and Herbert Matter at Yale University, and his images have been published in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Aperture. Cohen’s award-winning films have been screened around the world, and his band, The New Lost City Ramblers, has received several Grammy nominations. Born in 1932 in Queens, he was professor of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase from 1972–1997. Cohen is the author of There Is No Eye (powerHouse Books, 2001). He lives upstate in Putnam Valley, New York.
Magnum Photos, established in April 1947, summoned “concerned” photojournalists to unite in defense of free expression and individual copyright in an era of nascent magazine conglomerates who demanded total ownership of their correspondents’ photographs. Steeped in the euphoria of Europe’s liberation from wartime terror, Magnum’s visionary founders sought a cooperative venture that would guarantee a truly independent media. It was this dream, tethered to the political foundations of social democracy, which brought together Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, Robert Capa, and David Seymour. More than fifty years later, the calling of Magnum’s peer-selected members remains the same. They continue the struggle to represent history through the lens of personal experience, competing against all odds in an age of media giants.
Max Kozloff, who wrote the art column for The Nation in the 1960s, was Executive Editor of Artforum from 1974 to 1976. His essays on art have been published in over twenty-one volumes, including Social Graces (powerHouse Books, 2001), Cultivated Impasses (Consortium, 2000), Lone Visions (University of New Mexico, 1997), and Now Becoming Then (Twin Palms, 1991), a study of Duane Michals. Most recently, Kozloff guest-curated and wrote the catalog for “New York: Capital of Photography,” a major exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York. Kozloff’s photographs have been exhibited at the Holly Solomon and Marlborough galleries, among others. The recipient of many fellowships, including the Pulitzer, an Ingram Merrill, a Guggenheim, and a Fulbright, as well as numerous awards, Kozloff lives and works in New York.
Doug and Mike Starn, identical twins born in 1961, currently live and work in New York City. They have been recognized among a group of artists in the 1980s making conceptual use of photography, following the introduction of their work at the 1987 Whitney Biennial. The Starns work collaboratively in the territory between photography, video, installation, sculpture, and painting, and occupy a unique position within contemporary art practices. They have had numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally; retrospectives in the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia; and are the recipients of numerous awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1987 and 1995) and the 1992 International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography. Major works are in the permanent collections of more than thirty prestigious institutions around the world, among them the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; and the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
Demetrio Paparoni is the editor of several important monographs, including Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes (Alberto Cetti, 2002), I Dormienti (Alberto Cetti, 2002), and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (Alberto Cetti, 2001), amongst others. As an independent curator, Paparoni has worked as the commissioner for the Italian Pavilion at the 1993 Venice Biennale, and for the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He is also the founder of the Italian art magazine, Tema Celeste, and currently collaborates with Anna and Capital magazines. Paparoni lives in Milan.
Victor Pelevin is one of the most highly esteemed Russian writers of the younger generation. Pelevin has written for The New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Open City and was selected by The New Yorker as one of the Best European Writers Under Thirty-Five in 1998. He is the author of Buddha’s Little Finger (Viking, 2000), The Blue Lantern (New Directions, 1997), and Omon Ra (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), to name a few. Pelevin lives in Moscow.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), the exiled Russian master and one of the twentieth century’s most insightful, innovative, and darkly humorous writers, was also an acknowledged lepidopterist that worked for Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Nabokov’s personal obsessions with memory and butterflies pervades his writing through illusive transactions made between art and life. Among his most well-known works are the classics Lolita (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955), Pale Fire (Lancer Books, 1962), and Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (McGraw-Hill, 1969).
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) was born in New York City. His first major exhibition was in 1949 at the Charles Egan Gallery, New York, and he was the only photographer invited to participate in the famed Ninth Street Show of abstract expressionist painters, which included Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Jack Tworkov. His first book, Aaron Siskind Photographs, with an introduction by respected art critic Harold Rosenberg, was published with the help of Kline and other artists who provided financial support. Siskind’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Cleveland Art Museum; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the Canadian Center for Architecture, Quebec; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence; and the Fogg Art Museum, Boston, among others. Siskind died in Rhode Island.
Bill Burke was born in 1943 and received both his BFA and MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and his works are in the collections of the the International Center of Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; among others. Burke has received numerous honors, including five National Endowment for the Arts grants, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Burke lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Bernard Fall was a French journalist and historian; he died in 1967.
Prince Sirik Matak, Sihanouk’s brother and Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1970–1975, was executed in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge. The letter published here was written to John Gunther Dean, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, who urged the Prince to leave his country as the U.S. was pulling out, leaving it to the Khmer Rouge, intent on “liberating” the capitol. The Prince declined, knowing he would be killed with his family by day’s end.
Bobbito Garcia does it all: as Writer-at-Large for Vibe, his signature “Soundcheck” column has appeared in every issue for the past eight years. As a DJ, he broke such acts as Wu Tang, Jay-Z, and Nas on his legendary “Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito” radio show on New York’s WKCR radio. His passion for sneakers has found many outlets over the years; he was one of the first writers to pen an article on the subject in a national magazine (The Source, in 1991), and he has consulted for Nike, Adidas, and Converse. He has appeared in six Nike ad campaigns from 1994 to 2002, and has displayed his prodigious basketball skills in halftime shows for the NBA. His writing has appeared in books such as The Vibe History of Hip Hop (Three Rivers Press, 1999) and Ego Trip’s Book of Rap Lists (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). A genuine hip hop legend, Garcia lives in New York City, where he is working on “Basics to Boogie,” an instructional basketball video/DVD series.
Paola Gianturco is the founder of the Gianturco Company, a consulting, marketing, and communications firm in Mill Valley, California. She has co-taught courses about women and leadership at Mills College and the Stanford University Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She lives in San Francisco.
Toby Tuttle is secretary-treasurer of the Lone Pine Group, an independent investment banking company in Evergreen, Colorado. She has held account management and media positions with advertising agencies in Seattle, Denver, and Los Angeles, and she worked with Gianturco at the first women-owned advertising agency in the United States. She divides her time between San Francisco and Denver.
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple. Her latest collection of stories is The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart. She lives in Mendocino, California.
Linda Troeller, an award-winning photographer, has traveled from Beppu, Japan, to Hot Springs, Arkansas over the past ten years to capture the poetic ecstasy of healing waters. She specializes in what has been described as “photojournalism seen through an artist’s eyes.” The author of Healing Waters (Aperture, 1998) and Erotic Lives of Women (Scalo, 1998), Troeller’s work has been praised by The New York Times and many other publications. Troeller frequently gives lectures and workshops worldwide. She lives in New York City.
Annette Foglino, an award-winning journalist, is a former writer and reporter for Life, and has written on social and health issues for Glamour, Marie Claire, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and Family Circle. A Contributing Editor to Spa Finder Magazine, Foglino also contributes to history and travel books published by Reader’s Digest, including Discovering America’s Past (1993). She lives in New York City.
Fragments From the Delta of Venus
Judy Chicago, born in Chicago in 1939, is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans four decades. Her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” a monumental multimedia project symbolizing the achievements of historic women in Western civilization, has been seen by more than one million people during its sixteen exhibitions held at venues in six countries; it was recently acquired by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where it will be the centerpiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Her other projects include “Birth Project,” “Powerplay,” “Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light” (with husband and photographer Donald Woodman), and “Resolutions: A Stich in Time.” Chicago has published seven books and is the recipient of four honorary doctorates and numerous awards and grants. In 1996, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America in Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the repository for her papers. Chicago lives in Belen, New Mexico, with her husband and their six beloved cats.
Anaïs Nin’s most acclaimed works are her Diaries, originally published in 1966. She is also widely recognized for her fiction, including Delta of Venus, A Spy in the House of Love, and Under a Glass Bell, among many others. A celebrated figure in the history of feminism, Nin’s work continues to gather new audiences all over the world. She died of cancer in 1977.
Witness Iraq: A War Journal, February - April 2003
Marcel Saba began his photographic career with Gamma Liaison Agency, working his way up to Senior International Representative. Seven years later, he became director of the Picture Group photo agency. In 1989, he formed his own agency, SABA Press Photos, which represented the some of the finest journalists and portrait photographers worldwide. In 2000, Saba sold his company to Corbis and joined them as Vice President for Editorial Photography. Saba resigned his position at Corbis in February 2002. Saba has helped produce and edit books including Sarajevo and Christmas Around the World. He has judged competitions such as The Overseas Press Club and Pictures of the Year. He has participated in workshops such as Photo Fusion, The Atlanta Seminar and The World Press Master Class. For the last several years, Saba has taught a summer course at the ICP, and currently sits on the board of the W. Eugene Smith Foundation.
Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers
Peter Sutherland is a filmmaker and photographer who was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1976 and raised in Colorado. A move to NYC in 1998 prompted his first feature documentary, Pedal, a film about NYC bike messengers that is currently airing on the Sundance Channel. Sutherland also worked as director of photography on Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator, a documentary about Gator, a famous skateboarder who was convicted of murder in 1991. Directed by Helen Stickler, Stoked premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically by Palm Pictures in August 2003. Sutherland is a contributing photographer to magazines including Vice, Tokion, Nylon, Paper, and XLR8R, and has done commercial photographic work for Nike and Vice Records. He has shown his work at the Rivington Arms gallery and at 255 Elizabeth Space, both in New York. Sutherland lives and works in NYC.
Nathaniel Welch was born in 1966 in Miami. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Interview, among other publications. Welch lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles.
Evan Wright is a staff writer at Rolling Stone, and also writes for The New York Times Magazine. His first book, Generation Kill, an account of his time with the Marines during the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, will be published in Spring 2004. Wright lives in Los Angeles.
Steve Appleford is editor of Los Angeles CityBEAT, a weekly newspaper. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, and the Los Angeles Times.