In-Sight Photography’s Ninth Annual Silent Auction and Exhibit
Friends of In-Sight
- Oct 2007
A sampling of the notable artists contributing to this remarkable exhibit:
Susan Measles has worked extensively in Central America, Indonesia and the United states and has published several monographs on subjects ranging from the Nicaraguan revolution to New England county fair carnival strippers. The recipient of a Mac-Arthur Fellowship in 1992, Measles has exhibited her work in galleries and museums worldwide.
Danny Lyon’s immensely popular work chronicling the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle club in the 1960’s earned him a Guggenheim fellowship, one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Lyon represents the “New Journalism” style, immersing himself in and becoming a participant in the settings of the subjects he photographed. He has been recognized and honored with numerous publications and awards.
Mark Shaw is best known for the extraordinary photographs produced when Jacqueline Kennedy invited him to documentpersonal and intimate scenes of the First Family. He also produced an impressive body of fashion work and celebrity portraits that appeared in Life Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle and others. Among his many well-known subjects were Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hep-burn, Melina Mercouri, Danny Kaye, Cary Grant, Pope Paul VI, Yves St. Laurent and Chanel.
Laura McPhee is a Boston-based portraiture and documentary photographer and a Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1998 for her work in India and Sri Lanka and has been honored with a New England Foundation of the Arts fellowship as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. In 2006, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston mounted a solo exhibit of her work documenting a two-year period in the Sawtooth Valley in rural Idaho. Two of McPhee’s prints with collaborator Virginia Beahan are featured in this year’s exhibit.
Phil Borges has lived with and documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world for over twenty-five years. His work, ranging from portraits of marginalized Tibetans to drought stricken areas of East Africa, illuminates challenges faced by people in the developing world. His work hangs in galleries across the nation, and he has published four books of portraits. Borges is also the founder of two nonprofit organizations benefiting endangered children, environments and cultures.
Clemens Kalischer has sensitively created personal and intimate images of people from all walks of life for more than 50 years, since he arrived in New York City at age 21. His “Displaced Persons” series bears witness to the arrival in the Unites States of Holocaust refugees in the 1940s. He has chronicled everyday scenes of life in New York, impressions from travels in Europe, and candid images from the lives of well known musicians. Kalishcer was a New York Times photographer for 35 years, and contributed to Edward Stephen’s seminal “The Family of Man” exhibit.
Photographs made by Marlboro professor and In-Sight founder John Willis are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others. His rich and detailed large format images range from evocative landscapes and portraits from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, to intimate reflections of domestic life. His book, Recycled Realities, produced in collaboration with photographer Tom Young, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.
The public is invited to an opening reception during Gallery Walk on Friday, October 5, from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m. at the Vermont Center For Photography, located at 49 Flat Street in Brattleboro. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 1:00-6:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00-5:00 p.m.. A closing reception will be held on Sunday, October 28, from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m.. Prints can also be viewed and bids made online at insight-photography.org.
A selection of images from the exhibit
