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LEWIS STEVEN SILVERMAN

Artist Statement:

For more than thirty years, Lewis Steven Silverman has been a photojournalist, reporting stories and taking photographs in far off places. His fine art black-and-white photographs have been shown around the world.

Group and solo exhibitions of his work include the following shows and collections:

Parsons School of Design – Paris
Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Paris
Private Gallery – Lucca, Italy
Private Gallery- Coyacan, Mexico
The Cork Gallery at Avery Fischer Hall in Lincoln Center – New York
The Soho Photo Gallery – New York
The Center For Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York
The Sedona Camera Club, Sedona, Arizona
The Lowenherz Gallery at the Alfred Stieglitz Camera Club of New York
The West Side Arts Coalition Gallery of the City of New York
New Century Artists Gallery – New York
Permanent Collection, Morgan Stanley – New York
Permanent Collection, Prudential Life Insurance Company
Numerous Private Collections

Silverman describes the philosophy behind his still-photo work as "counter-culture", in the sense that his photographs are the antithesis to the frenzy of non-stop images that bombard and desensitize us through the mass media. These simple and spontaneously composed, black-and-white pictures offer a respite from that frenzy, one that allows us to truly see with the eye, feel with the heart and remember with the mind’s eye. And, re-awaken an appreciation of what we are and what’s around us.

He uses a venerable, manually-controlled Nikon FE-2 camera body, with a 35 mm to 70 mm lens, which not only affords him mobility, but the relatively short focal distance of the lens also forces him to get close to his subjects; this heightens the intimacy between subject and the viewer.

In addition to photographing in his home city of New York, and his current residence of Sedona, Arizona, he regularly returns to Paris, Florence and Latin America to photograph life on the streets and in the countryside. He continues to look for new places and people to capture in his lens.

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