LEWIS
STEVEN SILVERMAN
Upcoming
Shows:
West Side Arts Coalition, January 14th, “Meditations”
New Century Artists Gallery, May-June, 2004, Travel Photography
Center For Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, February
7 - April 4, 2004, Photography NOW 2004 show
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 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, 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.
Contact:
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