1/18/2023, 6:30pm -9pm

At this meeting we will be asking if participants would like a group show at Mpls Photo Center.
Also I have been looking into working on a photo book.
Alec Soth who has many personal insights into photo bookmaking and has made a number of videos on Youtube that are entertaining and educational. If enough people are interested I would like to have him speak to our group. Photo bookmaking can be complex or simple, it’s up to you. This can be a very effective creative driven endeavor, all of your creative experience will come into play. If interested we will award $$ for the best completed book (in our humble opinion). Let’s discus this and see where it goes.

Resource links:
Youtube videos on Newman and more
Did you know Jeff Beck played Rockabilly?
Newman Portraits
The Arnold Newman website
What Makes a Great Portrait

Arnold Newman

“As for myself, I work the way I do because of the kind of person that I am – my work is an expression of myself. It reflects me, my fascination with people, the physical world around us, and the exciting medium in which I work. I do not claim that my way is the best or the only way, it is simply my way. It is an expression of myself, of the way I think and feel.”

– Arnold Newman, A Life in Photography

Born in New York City, Newman grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Miami Beach, Florida. He was given a scholarship to study art at the University of Miami from 1936 to 1938. He began his career in photography working at portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and West Palm Beach, while making abstract and documentary photographs on his own. While socializing with students at what was then called the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts, he was introduced to an experimental approach to portraiture encouraged by Alexey Brodovitch, the influential art director of Harper’s Bazaar who was teaching there at the time. In 1941, Beaumont Newhall—the first director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art at the time—and Alfred Stieglitz discovered his work and gave him an exhibition at the A.D. Gallery. In 1945, a solo show titled “Artists Look Like This” was exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and attracted national attention. The following year, Newman moved from Miami to New York, opened his own studio, and became a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. His environmental approach to portraiture was influenced by symbolism and impressionism, and defined by the imperative of captivating the viewer no matter how well known the subject was. While he specialized in photographing artists, Newman captured the likeness of a vast range of figures, from athletes and actors to presidents and politicians. Among his many sitters, Newman’s impressive roster of subjects includes: Marlene Dietrich, John F. Kennedy, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Mickey Mantle, Audrey Hepburn, Igor Stravinsky, Salvador Dali, Georgia O’Keefe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

We will discus Newman’s exploration of portraiture and how to use his vocabulary in our own work

Even though we are not an assignment based photographic group we encourage members to be inspired by the focused photographers that we present and use their revealed visual language to make new images to share with fellow members.

Alfred Krupp, Essen Germany

With every meeting we have a book give away by a number lottery, this month’s book is, Arnold Newman

Bring some images to the next TOM meeting January 18th.
Let’s talk about how to bring our images to the next level.