Figure 1
Print, Photographic
1968 (Date manufactured/created)
Photographic monoprint
Measurement Notes: Frame size.
Measurement Notes: Print size: 32 1/4" x 24 1/4"
Measurement Notes: Print size: 32 1/4" x 24 1/4"
Norman Lerner worked as a fashion and commercial photographer in New York City from the early 50's to the 70's. He states that, "my photography did not end when the model left the studio. The city and its people were a part of me and I was part of them. Everything about the city fascinated me so it seemed only natural for me as a photographer to record the people and places in which I lived. When I left the studio the camera was always with me and it became an extension of my being. It was as natural as breathing."
Dean Brierly states in Black & White Magazine, "I can't think of many photographers who excelled at both fashion and documentary photography".
On The Window People, Jim Jordan of Art Week states, "Lerner's series is straight documentary photography in the best sense...A number of prints are masterpieces of character study."
However, Lerner's work was not limited to only documentary street photography. Every aspect of life is material for his creative explorations including the human figure, the structure and design of such unlikely subjects as raspberry jam in the Biomorphics, the landscape and still-lifes.
Peggy Sealfon of Popular Photography Magazine writes "Lots of photographers shoot landscapes, but few infuse their images with the same passionate warmth of color and tactile dimension as that of photographer Norman Lerner and which embraces a kind of emotional intimacy."
Guido Organshci, editor of Camera Magazine commented that, "few artists show the continued artistic development and growth in so many different areas that Lerner demonstrates."
Arnold Newman, the world renowned portrait photographer commented that "Norman is a superb photographer" and Bruce Davidson, documentary photographer par excellence wrote that Norman's "work is challenging and innovative."
Finally, Jeanne Davis, Arts Editor of the Westport, CT News writes that, "Norman Lerner's photography is Art, Period. His work serves to remind us just how gifted a man with a camera can be, and how emotionally beautiful this art form should be. Lerner is a poet working through the photographic visual medium."
In between assignments, I have always wound down through my painting and now I devote my time principally in front of the easel.
Norman's work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and published in Color Magazine, Black and White Magazine, Popular Photography, US Camera, Look, New york Times Magazine, GQ, Glamour, Men's Wear, Photographer's Forum, Boy's Life, 35mm Color, Camera and Darkroom, and highlighted on The Today Show, and Casey Allen's WNDT show, "In Focus." In addition he was founder and chair of the first fashion degree program in the United States at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and was a coordinator of the photography studies program at the California Polytechnic State University and is Prof. Emeritus from there. Born in 1927, Lerner's standard response to people who often urge him to slow down is, "I can't take time off. There is this new project that I"m working on and..."
Dean Brierly states in Black & White Magazine, "I can't think of many photographers who excelled at both fashion and documentary photography".
On The Window People, Jim Jordan of Art Week states, "Lerner's series is straight documentary photography in the best sense...A number of prints are masterpieces of character study."
However, Lerner's work was not limited to only documentary street photography. Every aspect of life is material for his creative explorations including the human figure, the structure and design of such unlikely subjects as raspberry jam in the Biomorphics, the landscape and still-lifes.
Peggy Sealfon of Popular Photography Magazine writes "Lots of photographers shoot landscapes, but few infuse their images with the same passionate warmth of color and tactile dimension as that of photographer Norman Lerner and which embraces a kind of emotional intimacy."
Guido Organshci, editor of Camera Magazine commented that, "few artists show the continued artistic development and growth in so many different areas that Lerner demonstrates."
Arnold Newman, the world renowned portrait photographer commented that "Norman is a superb photographer" and Bruce Davidson, documentary photographer par excellence wrote that Norman's "work is challenging and innovative."
Finally, Jeanne Davis, Arts Editor of the Westport, CT News writes that, "Norman Lerner's photography is Art, Period. His work serves to remind us just how gifted a man with a camera can be, and how emotionally beautiful this art form should be. Lerner is a poet working through the photographic visual medium."
In between assignments, I have always wound down through my painting and now I devote my time principally in front of the easel.
Norman's work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and published in Color Magazine, Black and White Magazine, Popular Photography, US Camera, Look, New york Times Magazine, GQ, Glamour, Men's Wear, Photographer's Forum, Boy's Life, 35mm Color, Camera and Darkroom, and highlighted on The Today Show, and Casey Allen's WNDT show, "In Focus." In addition he was founder and chair of the first fashion degree program in the United States at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and was a coordinator of the photography studies program at the California Polytechnic State University and is Prof. Emeritus from there. Born in 1927, Lerner's standard response to people who often urge him to slow down is, "I can't take time off. There is this new project that I"m working on and..."
Gift of Irving Schild
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