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2013 Photo Benefit Auction

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Roomful of Mirrors: Jen Davis and Tommy Kha Looking at Self

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Matthew Leifheit

Photo by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY Nir Arieli Born 1986 Tel Aviv, Israel   Nir Arieli’s photographs are beautiful. Picturing male dancers in glowing natural light Arieli steals the physical beauty of his subjects, elegantly transferring it into still images. A frenetic unrest scratches at the surface throughout his series, presenting signs of a struggle

Matthew Leifheit

  Aneta Bartos, photo by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY Boys Photographs by Aneta Bartos, curated by Jon Feinstein At the Carlton Arms Hotel, 160 E 25th Street NYC, rooms 1A and 4A 31 January — 21 February 2013   The Carlton Arms Hotel is entered by pressing a buzzer and then walking up a flight

Matthew Leifheit

Photograph by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY 1989 Brewster, NY www.bobbydoherty.net   Bobby Doherty is an oracle of the inane. Doherty chooses not to work within the bounds of a series. Instead, through a language of gestures that vary in subtlety yet maintain the same indefinable spirit, he creates an interchangeable index of obtuse symbols. The

Matthew Leifheit

Photograph by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY Ilona Szwarc Born 1984 Warsaw, Poland www.ilonaszwarc.com   In the summer of 2010 I was introduced to Ilona Szwarc. Then an intern at Mary-Ellen Mark’s studio, her work seemed to further the cannon of social documentary photography, bringing a fresh eye and a proclivity for vibrant color to the

Matthew Leifheit

Photograph by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY Elizabeth Renstrom Born 1990 Hartford, CT www.elizabethrenstrom.com   Elizabeth Renstrom keeps a diary. Out in public she’s always writing things down or sketching in a small black notebook. She fills these books with ideas. Every new photograph or series Renstrom comes up with in her mind she physically maps

June Kim

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Animals in Art

"Artists live by curiosity and enthusiasm, qualities readily evident as inspiration in dogs." Robert Adams Animals represent Nature and ourselves. It is a reminder of where we come from. They are uninhibited with a sense of innocence. In postmodern circles, animals equal creativity. William Wegman is probably the photographer one would immediately conjure up when thinking

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Dinner with Christian Witkin

I was recently invited to photographer Chrisitian Witkin’s Brooklyn loft for dinner.  The conversation ranged from art to inversion boots to family to Brad Pitt.  After dinner, I had the privilege of viewing a prototype of Witkin's upcoming book, Ordinary Beauty. Here are some photos and notes I took from that evening: