NOMINEE: Len Speier
Hooded Figure in Snow, Nrw York City (
Single)
DESCRIPTION
I awoke early one moening in the midst od a snowstorm outside my window just in time to see a hooded figure walking up Riverside Drive, In my jockey shorts, I grabbed for my camera, opened the window, let in the swirling snow and took just a few frames before the person vanished!
I NEVER SAWTHE FACE OF MY SUBJECT, NEVER DISCOVERED ITS SEX. IT STILL REMAINS A MYSTERY! YEARS LATER THIS IMAGE WAS LEASED TO Macmillan Publishing of Sydney, Australia to illustrate the book jacket of a novel called "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, won the NY Times Best Seller Awaed for Juveniles. Recentlu, it was made nro a major film.
AUTHOR
Lifetime Achievement Award by B&H Photo 2014; Master Photographer from DarkRoom Gallery, Junction, Vermont, 2013; Manuel Alvarez Bravo awarg, First Place, Glimpses in Time cvompetition, awarded by Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA' First Priae, Salmagundi Club Non-Member Photography Exhibition plus Cash Award, NYC, 2012; Retrospective Photography Exhibition, Kimmel Galleries, NYU, 2013, Solo Photo Exhibition, Calumet Photo Gallery, January, 2014. Retired Associate Prof, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC; Graduate NYU Law School, 1952, now specialize in Intellectual Property. Admitted to practice in all courts State of NY; Federal District and Circuit Courts, NYC and the US Supreme Court. Work in permanent collections, Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris; International Center of Photography, NYC; Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA; Everhart Museum of Natural History, Scranton, PA,: Museum of the City of New York,; Photo Archive, New York Public Library. From 1900-1999, Photography Mentor for gifted children of color under the ACT-SO program of the NAACP, NYC. In all, a great life in photography - and at 87 YO, I hope I will be blessed for more!
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