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Artist Statement:
My current preoccupations are
with photographing the sea and
sky near on the North Shore
coastline and transforming
photographs of flowers, stone,
metal, wood, and the sky into
mandala-like images. This work
is inspired by the paintings
of Georgia O'Keeffe and Claude
Monet, the nature photographs
of Andreas Feininger, and the
flower images of Harold
Feinstein, with whom I briefly
studied.
My personal motivation in
creating these more recent
images was to heal from a
decade of physical and
emotional trauma, the
consequence of a near-fatal
event in Albany, New York, in
1993. My choice of the
hexagram (the Star of David,
'beloved' in Hebrew) as the
organizing shape for most of
the mandala images was
subconscious, but I believe
this choice was no accident.
In many traditions, the Star
of David, composed of two
overlapping triangles,
represents the reconciliation
of opposites — male/female,
fire/water, and so on. Their
combination symbolizes unity
and harmony. Listening to what
the mandalas were telling me
led me out of a dark place
and, indirectly, to my
decision to become a
psychotherapist.
Making both the flower mandala
and the sea/sky images feel,
to me, like I am in
wordless...
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Artist Exhibitions:
AWARDS
Grant in Photography,
Massachusetts Cultural Council
(2007).
Best Picture of the Month,
Photography Unlimited
(2002-2003).
PUBLICATIONS
Portfolio publication, "Flower
Mandalas," LensWork Extended
69 (2007).
SHOWS
Two-person show, "Mandalas &
Mudras," Pond Circle Gallery
(Jamaica Plain, MA: 2007).
Group show, "Digital ’07:
Pattern-Finding, New York Hall
of Science (...
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David Bookbinder Biography:
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Age
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56
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Photography, digital art, writing, movies |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Color
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
not provided
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Georgia O'Keeffe
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," by James Agee and Walker Evans; the works of William Blake; the works of Philip K. Dick as translated to movies. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I had no real choice. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1951. I started photographing in high school where, as yearbook editor, I took most of the candid and 'art' pictures. After college, I moved to New York City. There, for several years, I did black-and-white street photography, took pictures of musicians for a book I wrote on American folk music, shot an occasional record album cover, and worked part-time as a photojournalist. I spent five years carrying at least one camera everywhere I went, seeing the street life of New York and attempting to capture it on film. I often wished I had a camera attached to my forehead, like a miner's lamp that I could actuate with my mind. My early influences included Walker Evans and Diane Arbus.
When I left New York in 1979, I left my darkroom — and photography, except for occasional snapshots — behind.
In 2001, after a 20+ year hiatus, I bought a digital camera and started shooting again. The shift from straight black-and-white, wet-chemistry photography to shooting in color and manipulating images on a computer was literally an eye-opener. Rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days, I found myself photographing patterns of color and light. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. |
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