PORTRAITS
(work in progress 2010)

My current work, portraits of friends, acquaintances and some strangers, are albumen contact prints from 5x7 negatives made in a 100 year old camera.

Prospective sitters: The portrait session will be arranged by appointment. You are welcome to bring a friend. The sitting will cost you nothing. On the contrary, you will receive 1-2 hand-crafted albumen prints in compensation for your time. You will be asked to sign a model release for artistic (not commercial) use of your portrait(s). References available upon request.

Other portrait projects have included “The Third Wave” (1977 – 1982): environmental portraits and interviews of emigrants from the Soviet Union; portraits of People in Photography (1978 – 1983), including Ansel Adams, Leo Castelli, Cornell Capa, Ralph Gibson, Eikoh Hosoe, Ben Maddow, Mary Ellen Mark, Arnold Newman, John Szarkowski, Brett Weston, Lee Witkin, and others; Portraits of Israeli Women Activists (1990), made possible by the Koret Israel Prize, and consisting of environmental portraits and interviews in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Safed with women active in politics, art, music, education and social services; and an ongoing series of portraits of people over a long period of time.