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Dana's Photography Personal Photographer/Artist I LOVE LOVE LOVE Photography! I have had a camera in my hand since I was 9 years old! I strive to put on paper that PERFECT shot!

I am easy going and try to make everyone feel comfortable while catching you in the moment. It's those "moments" that we want to preserve, share and hold on to for our future.

The artist of the day is:Dora Kallmus1881 - October 28, 1963) was an Austrian-Jewish fashion and portrait photographer w...
03/12/2014

The artist of the day is:Dora Kallmus1881 - October 28, 1963) was an Austrian-Jewish fashion and portrait photographer who went by the name of "Madame D'Ora".Born Dora Philippine Kallmus in Vienna in 1881, she came from a respected family of Jewish lawyers. In 1905 she was the first woman to be admitted to theory courses at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Graphic Training Institute).[1] That same year she became a member of the Vienna Photographic Society. She trained at Nicola Perscheid's studio in Berlin, where she became friends with his assistant Arthur Benda.
In 1907 she opened a photography studio with Benda in Vienna called the Benda-D'Ora Studio. The name was based on the pseudonym "Madame d'Ora", which she used professionally throughout the rest of her life. She was popular among the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy, and their gallery was so popular that they opened another studio in Paris in 1924. Three years later she left Vienna for Paris and worked there for many years. In Paris, she became internationally known for her society and fashion photography during the 1930s and 1940s. Her subjects included Josephine Baker, Tamara de Lempicka, Alban Berg, Niddy Impekoven, Maurice Chevalier, Colette, and other dancers, actors, painters, and writers.
When the Germans invaded France she fled to a convent in the countryside. She returned to Paris in late 1946 and reopened the studio.
In 1959 she was involved in a serious traffic accident that left her an invalid. She died in Frohnleiten, Steiermark, Austria, in 1963.

Todays artist is: Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer. After becoming a notable soc...
03/11/2014

Todays artist is: Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer. After becoming a notable society photographer in Vienna in the 1920s, she re-established her business in New York in 1940.Born in Vienna in December 1895, Fleischmann was the second of three children in a well-to-do Jewish familyIn 1920, at the age of 25, Fleischmann opened her own studio close to Vienna's city hall. Her glass plates benefitted from her careful use of diffuse artificial light.[3] Photographing music and theatre celebrities, her work was published in journals such as Die Bühne, Moderne Welt, 'Welt und Mode and Uhu. In addition to portraits of Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos, in 1925 she took a n**e series of the dancer Claire Bauroff which the police confiscated when the images were displayed at a Berlin theatre, bringing her international fame. Fleischmann also did much to encourage other women to become professional photographers.[1]
With the Anschluss in 1938, Fleischmann was forced to leave the country. She moved first to Paris, then to London and finally, together with her former studient and companion Helen Post, in April 1939 to New York. In 1940, she opened a studio on West 56th Street next to Carnegie Hall which she ran with Frank Elmer who had also emigrated from Vienna. In addition to scenes of New York City, she photographed celebrities and notable immigrants including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Oskar Kokoschka, Lotte Lehmann, Otto von Habsburg, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Arturo Toscanini.[2] She also worked as a fashion photographer, contributing to magazines such as Vogue. She established a close friendship with the photographer Lisette Model.[3]

Todays artist is:Gerti Deutsch(birth name Gertrude Helene Deutsch, married name Hopkinson) born Vienna 19 December 1908;...
03/10/2014

Todays artist is:Gerti Deutsch
(birth name Gertrude Helene Deutsch, married name Hopkinson) born Vienna 19 December 1908;[1] died Royal Leamington Spa, England, 9 December 1979.[2] Austrian-born photographer, who worked on Picture Post magazine from 1938-1950. She received a British residency and work permit in 1937 and was naturalised British in 1938.
Gerti Deutsch was an only child, born to Jewish parents from Olomouc, Moravia (mother) and Bielsko-Biala, Eastern Silesia (father) and grew up in an apartment behind the Karlskirche in the centre of Vienna. Home-educated by a French governess as a young child and then at school in Vienna, she briefly attended an English boarding school at the age of sixteen, before entering the Wiener Musikakademie. On graduation, her goal was a career as a concert pianist, but owing to neuritis in her right arm, her recitals were not to go far beyond entertaining her parents’ social gatherings. From 1933-1934, she retrained as a photographer at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna.[3][4]The first work she brought to show in London included a selection of portraits, taken on glass plate negatives, at the 1935 Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg Festival), with iconic images of both the silver-haired Arturo Toscanini and the stunning young Black American soprano, Marion Anderson. There was also a small portfolio of very different images, steeped in the graphic culture of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), and the geometric compositions of the Bauhaus. They showed a Vienna that was about to be swept away by Na**sm and then War: an old Jew peering at postcard portraits of opera stars in a shop window; an old man on an iron bench, sunning himself and pulling on a meerschaum pipe, a sack of his possessions at his feet; a toothless newsvendor, knitting and chatting, copies of the Telegraf pegged to her waistband. Small wonder that Queen magazine wrote to the Home Office that: "Fraulein Deutsch is doing valuable artistic work of a kind not usually found in this country".
With the advent of war, Deutsch temporarily abandoned portraiture and street scenes, and began to work in a new medium, that of photojournalism. Her first story for Picture Post [12/1938] was called "Their first day in England", about the arrival of Jewish refugee children on the Kindertransport bringing them from N**i Germany to the relative safety of England. Also outstanding is a photo-reportage made in late 1947, and published in January 1948 as Home from Russia. In it, she documented a Vienna divided by the occupying powers, into whose eastern zone former prisoners of war were still being returned from the former Russian front. The harrowing scenes she witnessed in compiling this and A Foreign Correspondent’s Life (with Anthony Terry) may well have affected her decision not to return to live in Vienna once her two daughters had grown up.

03/10/2014

New week, new set of artists. I know... most of you aren't REALLY interested in this, but it is sort of self learning for me, so you just get to join along!

03/09/2014

So, who was your favorite Artist of the week?

I can't really say that I can Pick one. They all have their own style and talent.

Little late on the artist of the day... so sorry, was at the ER. All is well, well, will be well, when I'm finally over ...
03/09/2014

Little late on the artist of the day... so sorry, was at the ER. All is well, well, will be well, when I'm finally over this stuff!

Anyway, the artist of the day is: Claire Beck Loos
Sadly, I couldn't find a lot of her "Photographic work", I think she contributed in other ways during her life that ended tragically in a concentration camp with her mother. Therefore, I will honor her with her Self Portrait.

Born in 1904 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. She was the third wife of early modern Czechoslovak-Viennese architect Adolf Loos.
Claire Beck's immediate and extended relations - the Beck, Hirsch, Turnowsky and Kraus families - and friends the Semmlers, were some of Loos' first clients. They hired him to remodel apartment interiors in Pilsen and Vienna, and it was there that Loos first began to open up the "interstitial spaces" between walls to create continuous rooms.[1] These projects, among others, are highlighted in the traveling exhibition "Learning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands" sponsored by the City of Prague Museum, which opened in Prague in 2008 and has travelled to Brno, Czech Republic; Torino, Italy; and the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.
Claire and Loos were engaged after Loos invited the Beck family to see a Josephine Baker performance in Vienna in the spring of 1929.[2] They had a short and rushed engagement, due to her parents' opposition. They were married in Vienna on 18 July 1929. She was thirty-five years younger than he was. Because it was a mixed marriage, the Jewish community refused to execute the marriage. Loos and Claire were divorced on 30 April 1932.[3]
Claire Beck Loos wrote Adolf Loos Privat, a literary work of snapshot-like vignettes about Loos' character, habits and sayings, which was published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna in 1936. The book was intended to raise funds for Adolf Loos' tomb, as he died destitute on 23 August 1933.[4]
Following his death in 1933, Loos' body was later moved to Vienna's Zentralfriedhof to rest among the great artists and musicians of the city – including Arnold Schoenberg, Peter Altenberg, and Karl Kraus, all some of Loos' closest friends and associates.[5]
Claire Beck Loos and her mother Olga Feigl Beck moved to Prague at the beginning of World War II, and were later deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1941. They died in 1942 at the N**i concentration camp at Riga, Latvia

Todays artist is: Ruby Spowart (born 1928) is an Australian photographer whose award-winning images of outback landscape...
03/07/2014

Todays artist is: Ruby Spowart (born 1928) is an Australian photographer whose award-winning images of outback landscapes are based on some 40 safari tours in Australia and New Zealand. Co-founder of the Brisbane Imagery Gallery in 1982, she exhibited there until 1995. From Polaroid colour photograms in the 1980s to large-scale photo mosaics in the 1990s and photobooks since 2000, she has created a considerable body of work. Spowart is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photographers (AIPP).[1]
In March 2009, Ruby Spowart was one of six Australian female photographers who were celebrated by the AIPP. The others were Bronwyn Kidd, Kate Geraghty, Karen Gowlett-Holmes, Lyn Whitfield-King and Jackie Ranken.[2][3]

(Notice the name Kate Geraghty...she was one of our previous artists!)

AND, this is the Last of our Australian Artists, next we move to Austria.

The artist of the day is: Alexia Sinclair: born 1976, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian fine-art p...
03/07/2014

The artist of the day is: Alexia Sinclair: born 1976, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian fine-art photographer.
In high school, Sinclair became interested in various artistic endeavours, studied ballet for over ten years, and has used it as a source for the large amount of role-play in her work.[3] Sinclair attended the National Art School where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography.[2] Sinclair has attributed a lot of her creative success to her upbringing in her family restaurant, where she finds meditation in cooking.[4]

I am so excited about the artist of the day! After reading what I have about her, she has had a very exciting and profou...
03/06/2014

I am so excited about the artist of the day! After reading what I have about her, she has had a very exciting and profound career. Therefore, I must PICK one area to share with you.

The artist of the day is: Polixeni Papapetrou
(born 1960) is a female photographer from Melbourne, Australia noted for her themed photo series about people's identities. Photo series she has made include Elvis Presley fans, Marilyn Monroe impersonators, drag queens, wrestlers and bodybuilders and the recreation of photographs made by Lewis Carroll using her daughter as a model.

Here's the interesting part!....Papapetrou engages part reality, part fantasy moving through the mysterious landscape of her home country, using the rich terrain as a backdrop for narratives about the transitional space of childhood. Series about childhood include 'Phantomwise' (2002; 'Haunted Country' (2006), 'Games of Consequence' (2008), 'Between Worlds' (2009); 'The Dreamkeepers' (2012) and 'The Ghillies' (2013). In 2006, Papapetrou moved her work from the realm of fantasy into the natural world. This was a natural as the children were now moving beyond the home into the freedom of the world beyond. Haunted Country (2006) was inspired by nineteenth century real and fictional accounts of children who went missing in the Australian bush. To make these photographs, Papapetrou went to the sites of the most notorious disappearances in Victoria, Australia including the Wimmera, Daylesford, Victoria and Hanging Rock, Victoria, where she staged scenes proposing what the physical and psychological circumstances may have been like for these lost and wandering children. It is the awkward evolution of youth that informs the in‐between spaces she creates in 'Between Worlds (2009)', 'The Dreamkeepers' (2012) and 'The Ghillies (2013)'. In unreal theatrical guises, the children emerge enigmatically; they are present but their child identity recedes: new archetypes emerge as apparitions that speak to us about transformation and self-realizing periods in our lives. Papapetrou's work reflects her continuing interest in metaphors for portraying transitional stages in life. She creates spaces of transformation that the child actors inhabit: a constructed theatrical world, a space of an almost unreality to parallel the liminal period of the children’s lives. Papapetrou trained as a lawyer, graduating with a BA/LLB from the University of Melbourne in 1984. In 1997 she graduated with a Master of Arts, (Media Arts) from RMIT University, Melbourne and in 2007 with a PhD from Monash University, Melbourne.

Today's artist is:Tracey Moffatt(born 12 November 1960) is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video...
03/05/2014

Today's artist is:
Tracey Moffatt
(born 12 November 1960) is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.[1]
Born in Brisbane in 1960, she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982.
Her works are held in the collections of the Tate,[2] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,[3] National Gallery of Australia,[4] and Art Gallery of New South Wales

If you look up some of Tracey's work, you will recognize it right away. She is quite talented, and has some very well known pieces. I chose this piece. It really spoke to me. Enjoy!

Today's artist is:Carol Jerrems(1949–1980) was an Australian photographer who produced the image Vale Street.[1][2] Jerr...
03/04/2014

Today's artist is:
Carol Jerrems

(1949–1980) was an Australian photographer who produced the image Vale Street.[1][2] Jerrems studied photography at Prahran College 1967-70. She is mainly known for documenting the counter-culture spirit of Melbourne in the 1970s. Jerrems was born on 14 March 1949 at Ivanhoe, Melbourne[1][2] and died from a rare form of cancer in Melbourne 1980. Her life and work is partly described in the documentary Girl in a mirror, 2005.

This is one of the pieces I have chosen, she has some incredible shots that very much make a statement!

01/21/2014

Well, Foot surgery postponed. Perhaps some new photos will magically appear on here!

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