Call For Entry - LensCulture Portrait Awards 2020

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Photos courtesy LensCulture

Photos courtesy LensCulture

The LensCulture Portrait Awards are open to photographers at all levels of experience and all interpretations of portraiture. Your work may be made in the studio with professional lighting or snapped on a smart-phone during your travels, what matters is not your method but your ability to move your audience. From quirky self-portraits to candid portrayals of family and friends, from staged and conceptual photographs of public figures to environmental portraits, we want to see your work! Winners will enjoy career-changing opportunities including exhibition in New York in April 2020, extensive media coverage, projection at international photography festivals, cash prizes and more.

Entry Deadline: Wednesday, February 19, 2020

 

Call For Entry - ArtCenter Black Alumnni Exhibition 90/300

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In commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of ArtCenter College of Design, the Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, in partnership with ArtCenter DTLA, has organized a series of exhibitions and programs to honor the impactful achievements and celebrate the College’s Black alumni. 

90/300 explores themes of representation and identity through the contextual lens of cultural impact and influence.  In 90 years of existence, ArtCenter has helped shape the careers of no more than 300 designers and artists of African descent. While only making up about 1% of the total number of graduates, this underrepresented group of alumni continue to have a huge impact on the global creative economy.  The 90/300 Exhibition serves to document the significant contributions ArtCenter’s Black alumni have made in developing the narrative of Black identity in mainstream culture and their influence in cultural discourse. 

90/300 consists of three exhibition projects: A video survey of alumni work and interviews titled Impact/300; a retrospective of pioneering photographer Barbara DuMetz titled Trailblazer: The Photographs of Barbara DuMetz (BFA ’73); and Minority Report, a group exhibition of alumni works curated by acclaimed contemporary artist Devin Troy Strother (BFA 09 Illustration).

 Deadline is January, 15th, 2020

If you have any questions about the exhibit or submissions, please contact dei@artcenter.edu.

 

Alum Rae Huo - HILuxury Article "Swatch Out!"

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Photo courtesy of HILuxury.com

Photo courtesy of HILuxury.com

Photographer Rae Huo shares her Swatch Collection with Hawaii HILuxury Magazine.

“For over 30 years, Rae Huo has worked in Hawai‘i as a commercial and editorial photographer, shooting lifestyle, food, interior design and product photos for clients, such as HMSA, Hawaiian Telcom, Hawaiian Airlines, as well as for most local publications”

She shares her story, love of new things and her unique Swatch collection with HiLuxury Magazine.

 

Alum Gizelle Hernandez Photographs J-Lo, Constance Wu for Entertainment Weekly

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Congratulations to Photo alum Gizelle Hernandez (BFA 2014) ON on this beautifully-done shoot for Entertainment Weeky!

gizellehernandez:

“🔥J to the L-O!!!!🔥👋🏽 ...when I got the email for this job I was excited....then I got the email telling me WHO I was shooting and I stood up out of my chair and was like NO F’ing Way?!!! Jenny from the block in front of my camera?!!! and Constance from Fresh off the boat?! Yeah I’m pretty pumped on this one. Shot motion + stills of @jlo & @constancewu for the 2nd-ever digital cover of @entertainmentweekly!!! @hustlersmovie is out now and I can not wait to see all these bad ass women take charge and own that screen.”

 

Alum and Bésame Cosmetics founder Gabriela Hernandez featured in Los Angeles Mag

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Gabriela Hernandez, BFA in Photography 1989

Gabriela Hernandez, BFA in Photography 1989

Vintage Cosmetics Maven Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 89 PHOT) Knows Her Makeup History

The Bésame Cosmetics founder walks us through the changing face of beauty from the 1890s to the 1990s

By Chris Nichols -August 16, 2019

When she was a little girl in Buenos Aires, the beauty rituals of Gabriela Hernandez’s older relatives fascinated her. The Burbank-based artist spent years studying vintage cosmetics and after graduating from ArtCenter College of Design, she began designing makeup packaging. Digging deeper into the history, she wrote the book Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup, and in 2004 she created her version of a 1920s lipstick and started her company Bésame Cosmetics. Today the company manufactures mascara, lipstick, and powders; offers period beauty classes; and runs a boutique where patrons, including makeup designers on period films and TV shows, can immerse themselves in the charms of earlier generations. The ingredients, design, and packaging are drawn from a century of techniques and products. Hernandez shares with us the evolution of painting faces.

 

ArtCenter Alum Josh Schaedel Featured in Aperture's 2019 Summer Open

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Congratulations to ArtCenter Alum Josh Schaedel (Photo & Imaging 2014) for being featured in Aperture’s 2019 Summer Open: Delirious Cities. The show is currently on view in the Aperture Gallery in New York City until August 29th.

The city is an ever-changing landscape, a place of contested freedom, a laboratory of identity, a supermarket of desires. When the architect Rem Koolhaas first published his 1978 manifesto, Delirious New York, he wrote of density and ecstasy, of the epic visions of Manhattan skyscrapers and the otherworldliness of capitalist congestion. Through their photographs, videos, and lens-based installations, the twenty-three artists selected for the 2019 Aperture Summer Open propel Koolhaas’s curiosity into the present, defining the contours of metropolitan life in the twenty-first century—from the parks of Washington Heights to the bustling blocks of Luanda, Angola. They question the role of surveillance in Brussels, portray the opulent voguing scene in Amsterdam, saunter along the sidewalks of Istanbul, confront the specter of gun violence in Miami, and chronicle the dreams of Mumbai. Some apply bold colors to archival images, while others work beyond the city’s outskirts, in imaginative studios or mysterious environments. Together, they offer urgent statements about how images are shaping the contemporary city as an endless project, a delirious machine for living.

 

Honor Society Signs Director Anna Wolf

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Congratulations to photographer, director, and ArtCenter alum Anna Wolf who was just signed by production company Honor Society Films!

Anna has shot for Target and Amazon and directed campaigns for such top brands as Levi’s, Microsoft, Keds, LeSportsac, Verizon and Fossil, among others. She has also shot for editorial clients such as Marie Claire, Glamour and The Zoe Report.

She is currently wrapping up projects for Keds, Smartwater, Sally Hansen, and a collaboration with Amazon and Bustle. With versatile expertise across all aspects of production and an eye for creating sleek, stylish and authentic campaigns, Anna brings over a decade of commercial experience with her to Honor Society.

 

Photographer and ArtCenter Alumnus Marvin Rand's Work is Chronicled in a New Book

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Marvin Rand is one of the best architectural photographers you’ve never heard of. When it comes to the documentation of Mid-Century buildings, the work of photographers like Ezra Stoller and Julius Shulman often dominate the narrative. California Captured (Phaidon) hopes to change that, delving into Rand’s archives and bringing his work—and his love of his native Los Angeles—to light.

The son of a furniture maker and clothing designer, Rand studied photography at Los Angeles City College prior to a post as an aerial photographer during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at ArtCenter College of Design, his background of studying both photography and design providing him a unique perspective with the lens. “He really respected it. He loved architecture, but he also loved L.A.,” says Lubell, who co-wrote the book alongside Emily Bills and Pierluigi Serraino.

Link to the full article here