SEVENGREATAMERICAN

PHOT0 ARTISTS

THE BELSKIE MUSEUM OF ART & SCIENCE PRESENTS

MARCH 16, 2012

CARL FISCHERRYSZARD HOROWITZ

TODD HAIMANMICHAEL O’NEILLSHEILA METZNER LEONARD NONESDENNY TILLMAN

Carl Fischer, photographer and graphic designer, was born in 1924 and raised in Brooklyn.

He graduated from The Cooper Union and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London

as a Fulbright Fellow, and began his career as an advertising agency art director in New York working with Paul Rand

and Herb Lubalin.

A self-taught photographer, he opened a studio in New York and

produced work which won The Mark Twain Journalism Award, the

Cleo Award, The Art Director’s Club gold and silver medals and the

Augustus St. Gaudens Medal. His portraits of Southern segregation-

ist leaders were exhibited in The Museum of Modern Art’s “The Photo

Essay” and his work is in the permanent collections of The Interna-

tional Center of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, George Eastman House, The Spencer

Museum of Art, The Rose Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum

of Art, the Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Opera Archives

and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Monographs of his work have

appeared in the United States, Europe and Japan and he is the

author of “Photographs : 1958 to 1988,” “Portraits : 1953 to

1984” and “Afterthoughts, a memoir.”

He has lectured and taught as an adjunct professor and gave the William A. Reedy Memorial Lecture at the Rochester

Institute of Technology. A member of the Directors Guild of America, he has directed television commercials and has

served as President of The Art Directors Club.

His work has been exhibited at the Moti Hasson Gallery (New York), the Gallerie Colette (Paris), the Galleria Carla

Sozzani (Milan), Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen(Amsterdam) and the Pentagram Gallery (London). His work was shown

in the Ludwig Museum, Cologne-Koblenz, and he is represented in The National Portrait Gallery, London, and in the

BBC documentary “World’s Most Photographed.” Five of his photographs for Esquire covers were exhibited in the

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Ryszard Horowitz was born in Krakow in Poland on May 5th 1939. Four months

later the Nazis had invaded his homeland and his entire family ended up being sent to a series of concentration

camps. They miraculously survived and at the war’s end were amongst the few Jewish families who were able to

re-establish their lives in Krakow. Ryszard is one of the youngest

known survivors of Auschwitz.

Ryszard studied art at the High School of Fine Arts in Krakow and

then went on to major in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in

his home city. In 1956 during a brief political and cultural thaw in

Poland the government awarded subsidies to encourage new and

original art forms and Krakow suddenly emerged as a center of

avant-garde jazz, painting, theater and filmmaking. Ryszard, who

was seventeen at the time, took full advantage of being at the heart

of the action and consequently became fascinated with American

photography.

In 1959, he finally achieved his ambition of immigrating to the

United States and enrolled at New York’s famed Pratt Institute.

While still a student at Pratt he was given a scholarship to be ap-

prenticed to Alexey Brodovitch, one of the most influential figures in the world of editorial design and photography at

the time. After graduating from Pratt in 1963, Ryszard then worked for a number of film and design companies and

as an art director for Grey Advertising.

In November 1967 he opened his own photography studio. Photography would be his lifelong career and passion. In

the ensuing four decades his work has been exhibited, published and collected around the globe and Ryszard has

been awarded every major accolade that can be bestowed on a photographer including Gloria Artis Gold Medal of

Merit to Culture Awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland and Doctor Honoris Causa Awarded

by Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography predating digital imaging.

A native of New York City, Todd Haiman

began his career in the visual arts as an award-winning photogra-

pher shooting editorial assignments for LIFE magazine + News-

week, movie posters for Warner Bros., and advertising campaigns

for Nike, American Express and other high profile clientele. In more

recent years, he has challenged his aesthetics from the two-dimen-

sional frame of photography to transitioning into four dimensions

with designing landscapes.

Now a Landscape Designer and Researcher, he received his

graduate degree with an M.S. in Landscape Design from Colum-

bia University. As a precursor to entering the graduate program at

Columbia University, Haiman studied at the prestigious New York

Botanical Gardens within the Horticulture, Gardening and Landscape

Management programs. His work has been honored in the 2011

Biennale on Landscape Architecture, featured in the International

Exhibition on Vertical Gardens and recognized as a recipient of the

James Rose award for Landscape Architecture and Sustainable

Design.

His parents instilled in him a passion and integrity for the arts. He

resides in Manhattan with his loving wife and wonderful daughter.

Michael O’Neill was born in the United States in 1946.

His love of photography began with shooting underwater and in the

jungles of Mexico.

Seduced by the black and white darkroom process, he started

working as an assistant in New York studios with various world-

renowned photographers. After his apprenticeship, he worked as a

still-life photographer and a television director for ten years. In the

eighties, he began a transition to platinum printing and large format

portraiture that continues today.

He has traveled the world photographing celebrities, politicians,

and dignitaries from Orson Welles to the Dalai Lama, including

every U.S. President since Richard Nixon.

During the last decade, Michael has published a book of black and

white animal portraits, and continues to work on book projects on

Venice, Italy and the world of yoga.

Michael O’Neill is a contributing photographer to VANITY FAIR and FORTUNE; and

he has won numerous awards photographing assignments for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED,

InSTYLE, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY,

ROLLING STONE, INTERVIEW, GLAMOUR, and OUTSIDE, as well as major film

studios and advertising agencies.

Michael O’Neill’s platinum prints of Venice and his platinum prints of animals are on ex-

hibition in galleries in San Francisco, New York, and Boston. His prints are also included

in many private collections throughout the world.

Sheila Metzner’s unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary

master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography.

Born in Brooklyn, she attended Pratt Institute, where she majored

in Visual Communications, and was then hired by Doyle Dane

Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director. She took

pictures all the while, amassing them slowly over the next thirteen

years, while raising five children. One of these photographs was

included in a famous and controversial exhibition at the Museum

of Modern Art - Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since

1960 - and became the dark horse hit of the exhibition. Gallery

shows and commercial clients soon followed. Her first commercial

client was Valentino, followed by Elizabeth Arden, Perry Ellis,

Shiseido, Fendi, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s

Secret, Revlon, and in recent years Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, Club

Monaco, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus.

Sheila’s fine art photographs are featured in the collections

of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The International Center of Photography,

The Getty, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Chrysler Museum, The Art Institute

of Chicago, Agfa and Polaroid Corporations, Saks Fifth Avenue, as well as many personal collections. She has

published four monographs: Objects of Desire, which won the American Society of Magazine Photographers Ansel

Adams Award for Book Photography; Sheila Metzner’s Color; Inherit the Earth, a collection of landscapes shot

during her travels, and Form and Fashion, a collection of images culled from twenty years of her work in fineart

and fashion.

Leonard Nones was born in Philadelphia, PA. in 1930. At age 16, he became inter-

ested in photography. He worked as apprentice to John Condax and Burt Corman, prominent Philadelphia photog-

raphers. In 1951 Leonard moved to NYC where he became an assistant to several photographers. Then in the mid

1950’s, he began working as a freelance photographer. His career started on the first day he showed his portfolio

at Grey Advertising. He received an assignment to do an ad for NBC TV. When he delivered the job, he was given

another assignment. Thus, began a career that spanned the next

thirty-five years.

Because he loved all aspects of photography, he allowed his

work to cover a wide veriety of subject matter: including men’s

fashion, watches, automobiles, boats, airplanes, food, liquor, and

portraiture. Each assignment for Nones was comprised of building

the image in his mind, constructing the set and finding the perfect

location, props, models, and refining the elements until the image

was perfect. He traveled around the world creating unique illustra-

tions for complete issues of Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) magazine.

He creatively solved art directors’ requests by hanging out of

airplanes and helicopters capturing images that would seem

impossible without today’s computer manipulation. Nones created

precursors to pop art imagery by taking broccoli from the kitchen to

the torch of the Statue Of Liberty.

His many advertising accounts came from well-known ad agen-

cies including: Kenyon and Eckhadrt, N.W. Ayer, Grey, Y&R and

McCaffery McCall. He did editorial work for Parents Magazine, GQ, Red Book, McCalls and True Magazine.

Amoung the many celebrities Nones photographed throughout his career were President Lyndon Johnson, Peter

Lawford, Audrey Hepburn, Melvin Douglas, Gig Young, Walter Pigeon, Arnold Palmer, Jimmy Connors, Joe Namath,

Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Mayor John Lindsay, along with governors, senators and congressmen and leading

corporate executives.

Nones’ commercial photography represented many companies including: Kraft Foods, Betty Crocker Cake Mixes,

Volkswagon automobiles, Rossignol Skis, Avis Auto Rental, Rolex watches, Cris Craft boats, Dingo Boots, Robert

Bruce Sportswear, Pan Am, Air Jamaica, Stetson Hats, Calvert Whisky, Beefeater Gin and Atlas-Copco mine drilling

equiptment.

Leonard Nones is retired and lives in New York City with his wife Sondra.

Denton Tillman

After studying Art and Architecture at Pratt Institute I found that Photography was, and is, my passion.

After shooting a street assignment for the New York Times Magazine, and seeing my photograph full page

opposite the headline, I was hooked. I wanted to be the next Cartier-Bresson. Instead I was offered a job as

a staff photographer for a leading Madison Avenue advertising

agency, Young & Rubicam, where I stayed for four years shooting

pictures for “Comps”, test ads. I learned to shoot concepts;

portraits, beauty, still-life, photo-illustration, travel – every type of

photography, whether in the studio or on location. At Y&R I worked

with 60 art directors, most of whom were (and are) brilliant.

I opened my own studio in 1970 as Denny Tillman, and have

shot over 3,500 national ads for the country’s top corporations;

hundreds of portraits of leading executives, celebrities, sports stars,

scientists, actors, etc, hundreds of annual reports, travel photogra-

phy for Jamaica, FWI, The Bahamas, The U.S. Virgin Islands and

many others as well as the major airlines serving the world.

My web site, www.dennytillman.com, shows my client list and has a

more extensive biography. My new web site www.dentontillman.com

will be online by the Spring 2012.

I’ve been teaching photography almost since I began shooting – first in 1970 at the School of Visual

Arts, then again for a thesis class in 1989, and now for the last 13 years as an Adjunct Assistant

Professor at FIT. More recently I’ve also been teaching at New York University, The International Center

of Photography, and The New York Open Center. I am about to teach a summer course at the University

of Hawaii, Maui College.

THE BELSKIE MUSEUM OF ART & SCIENCE

The Belskie Museum, a tax exempt non-profit

corporation, was founded in Closter, New Jersey

in 1993 to save, restore and exhibit the works

of Abram Belskie (1907-1988), one of our

country’s most accomplished sculptors and one

of the most eminent medical illustrators of

our time. Mr. Belskie was a resident of Closter

his entire adult life. The museum’s 3,900 sq. ft

modern building was built entirely by the Closter

Lions Club and donated to the Borough of Closter

upon its completion in 1994. In addition to hous-

ing the many works of Abram Belskie, the museum

also hosts monthly art exhibits by local, national and

international artists and, as a result, has become

one of Bergen County’s leading forum for the arts. Past exhibitors include the estate

of world famous photographer Andre Kertesz and Italian painter/sculptors Emilio

& Ugo Baracco. A featured exhibit of photography in March, 2003 was by

Academy Award and Tony Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn. The museum is operated

entirely by volunteers under the direction of a six-member Board of Directors

(also entirely volunteer) apointed by the Borough of Closter, The Closter Lions Club and

the Closter Public Library Trustees. Funding is from grants, memberships, fundraising

exhibitions and donors.

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