For the film formats associated with the Instamatic and Pocket Instamatic camera ranges, see 126 film and 110 film respectively. Image Kodak Instamatic 100.jpg thumb right The Instamatic 100, the first Instamatic sold in the US Image Kodak Instamatic 404.jpg thumb right Instamatic 404, with selenium meter and spring wind The Instamatic was a series of inexpensive, easy to load 126 film 126 and 110 film 110 camera s made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing ... was so ubiquitous that the Instamatic name is still frequently used erroneously to refer to any inexpensive ... of instant camera instant picture camera s. The Instamatic name was also used by Kodak on some Super ... by Kodak in the 126 format. The lead designer for the Instamatic program was Dean M. Peterson , also ... Instamatic to be released was the Instamatic 50, which appeared in the United Kingdom UK in February 1963, about a month before the 100. The first model released in the US was the basic Instamatic ... Flash photography Flashcubes, Magicubes and Flipflash flashcube s. The top of the line model was the Instamatic ... S mount photographic lens lenses . Commercial success The Instamatic was an instant success more than 50 million Instamatic cameras were produced between 1963 and 1970. Kodak even gave away a considerable ... attempted to capitalize on the popularity of the Instamatic with their own 126 cameras ... by an X in the model number e.g. X 15 or 55X . Pocket Instamatic 110 format File Kodak pocket instamatic 100 1972 .jpg right thumb Kodak Pocket Instamatic using 110 film. In 1972, Kodak introduced the Pocket Instamatic series for its new 110 format. The 110 cartridge had the same easy load design ... . The top of the line model was the Pocket Instamatic 60, which featured a stainless steel ... In 1976, the Instamatic X line was updated for use with the new Flash photography Flashcubes, Magicubes ... 2767 4422345979 a6b809a865 b.jpg was the last Instamatic sold in the United States, remaining on sale ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 orphan date November 2009 Infobox Album Name Imperial Cheerleader Type EP Artist Michael Kulas Cover imagesize 175px Released 2006 Genre Alternative rock Alternative Length 19 01 Label Interloper Records Producer Michael Kulas Last album Another Small Machine br 2001 This album Imiperial Cheerleader br 2006 Imperial Cheerleader is the third of three albums by Canadian songwriter Michael Kulas . Track listing Instamatic Camera The Days Of My Life Sweet Lips You Only Come Out At Night Starland Category 2006 EPs Category Michael Kulas albums 2000s alt rock album stub ... more details
by Kodak under the brand name Kodapak , together with the Instamatic camera. Although the Instamatic ... 110 format cameras, which they called Pocket Instamatic and on its M series 8 mm film 8mm movie cameras ... cat126.htm 126 Instamatic film in the Frugal Photographer catalog Bot generated .... ref http www.adox.de ADOX Filme ADC200 Instamatic.html ADOCOLOR Instamatic Bot generated title ... more details
unreferenced date April 2012 File Instamatic film.jpg thumb 250px Ferrania 126 film 126 format photographic film cartridge Ferrania S.p.A. is a manufacturing company located in Ferrania Liguria , Italy . The original firm was started in 1923 as a maker of photographic films, papers, and equipment. The company was purchased in 1964 by the 3M company, who spun it off to their Imation Division. The firm was acquired by Schroder Ventures in 1999 and then spun off as a separate company. Subsequently it was acquired by a Genoese shipping company, GRUPPO MESSINA Ignazio Messina & Co. S.p.A . The firm manufactured photographic film and sold it under the Solaris brand, as well as private label products. Ferrania remained the only manufacturer of 126 film 126 Instamatic films after Kodak discontinued them in 1999, but 126 was discontinued by Ferrania in early 2007. Fact date March 2007 In July, 2008, the company s President announced to its unions that manufacture of color film products would cease in December, 2008. As of March 2009, Ferrania customer service states that they are producing only 135 format color film in 200 and 400 ASA. They also manufacture Ink Jet Media, X ray film and digital health imaging equipment, Graphic Arts materials, and specialty plastics. The company has struggled under the ownership of Messina to find business opportunities outside the imaging industry, and has made forays into heavy construction, steel processing, and business services. External links http www.ferrania.it ferrania.it &ndash Official company website Category Companies of Italy Category Manufacturing companies of Italy Category Photography companies Category Photography in Italy Category Photographic film makers manufacturing company stub Italy company stub it Ferrania Technologies ja ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Labrador is a band who was formed in 1998 by Denmark Danish legend Flemming Borby from the remains of the band Greene band Greene . Labrador combines vocals with electronica and an indie music indie sensibility. The music of Labrador draws inspiration from the classic age of pop music pop . Albums Goodbye Susanne 2002 Divine Records Instamatic Lovelife 2004 Divine Records Caleidoscope Aeroplane 2009 Divine Records Talk Of This Town EP 2010 Divine Records Compilations Hanging By a Moment 2002 Universal Music, Denmark Daft, wild. sparkling, strawberry soda 2003 Apricot Records, Germany Poprenaissance 2004 Excellent Records, Japan Sunday In Bed 2007 Clubstar, Germany Sunday In Bed 2 2008 Clubstar, Germany The Trendy Eastern Hong Kong2 2009 High Note, Hong Kong Singles In a Blue Balloon 2001 External links http www.labrador.dk Labrador homepage Denmark band stub Category Danish musical groups ... more details
orphan date December 2007 Dean McCormack Peterson 1931&ndash 2004 was an American inventor, responsible for two of consumer photography s largest revolutions the Kodak Instamatic camera, introduced in 1963, and the panoply of point and shoot cameras introduced in the late 1970s. Both of these inventions had a huge impact on consumer photography, and nearly every snapshot taken since the mid 1960s, and virtually every photo of any kind since the 1980s, have benefited from Peterson s pioneering work. Background Education Peterson was born and raised in South Dakota . He graduated from Aberdeen Central High School South Dakota in 1950 ref http www.aberdeen.k12.sd.us Foundation dean.peterson.htm Dean Peterson 50 Bot generated title ref and attended Northern State College for two years before transferring to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology . He went to work for Eastman Kodak after earning a BS from Mines in 1954, marrying his high school sweetheart and serving two years in the Army at the end of the Korean War. He later received a Master s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1963 . The Instamatic Revolution Peterson s invention and development of the Instamatic camera at Eastman Kodak in the 1960s heralded an unprecedented explosion in amateur snapshot photography. With over 70 million units sold by 1970, there were very few American households without an Instamatic . ref http www.signonsandiego.com uniontrib 20040618 news 1m18peterson.html Dean M. Peterson helped develop the Instamatic camera The San Diego Union Tribune Bot generated title ref Based on the simple idea that loading and unloading the film in a camera ought to be a one step process, the development of the drop in film cartridge and a line of easy to use cameras for it created a phenomenon. Not since George Eastman s introduction of roll film had there been such a sales spike in the photo industry. The Point and Shoot Revolution In the 1970 s Peterson was pri ... more details
Cleanup date December 2008 Otto Wunderlich Stuttgart ,1886 Madrid ,1975 was a German photographer that worked mainly in Spain . He started working for a mineral trading company when he arrived to Spain in 1913. He became a professional photographer in 1917, travelling around Spain and selling albums and postals with the title Paisajes y Monumentos de Espa a Landscapes and monuments of Spain . His photos were published in magazines like Blanco y Negro , La Esfera and El Mundo . In 1931, he worked for the National patronage of Tourism of Spain. In 1927, he established his studio in n 47 of Doctor Esquerdo Street in Madrid where he continued working and publishing in newspapers and magazines until mid 20th century. References Enciclopedia Summa Artis tomo XLVII , Various Authors. Editorial Espasa Calpe Del daguerrotipo a la instamatic , Juan Miguel Sanchez Vigil. Ediciones Trea 2007 See also Wunderlich disambiguation Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wunderlich, Otto ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION German photographer DATE OF BIRTH 1886 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1975 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wunderlich, Otto Category 1886 births Category 1975 deaths Category German photographers Category Spanish photographers Category German expatriates in Spain Category People from Stuttgart Germany photographer stub es Otto Wunderlich ... more details
File Fra Aschehoug Forlag.jpg thumb right 180 px Arne Berggren Arne Berggren born 1960 is a Norwegian novelist, children s writer, songwriter and rock musician. He made his literary debut in 1991. In 1992 he published Stillemannen , which was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature Critics Prize for the year s best children s or youth s literature . Among his novels are Instamatic from 1994 and Webers lov from 1998. ref name snl cite encyclopedia title Arne Berggren encyclopedia Store norske leksikon publisher Kunnskapsforlaget location Oslo url http www.snl.no Arne Berggren language Norwegian accessdate 27 February 2011 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Berggren, Arne ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1960 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Berggren, Arne Category 1960 births Category Living people Category Norwegian novelists Category Norwegian children s writers Category Norwegian songwriters Category Norwegian musicians Norway writer stub no Arne Berggren sv Arne Berggren ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Rafael Garz n was a Spanish photographer born in Granada, Spain Granada in 1863 and died in 1923. His studio was opened until 1935. He held studios in Calle Triunfo 127, C rdoba, Spain C rdoba . The name of this studio was Estudio fotogr fico Hispano rabe Casa del Califa Calle Alhambra 24, Granada inside the Alhambra of Granada . Calle Mendez Nu ez 5, Seville . He recorded with his camera the landscapes and monuments of Andaluc a . He became famous because of his photographic portraits made in his studio inside The Alhambra . His photographs illustrated the Commercial Guide of Granada . In Seville, where he arrived in 1901, he hold a studio with a sumptuous Arabic scenery in order to use it for his photographs. He made portraits of the aristocracy of Seville and also of the first tourists of the 19th century who used to travel to Andaluc a. This is why his photographs are spread outside Spain too. He also made albums and postcards of monuments of Seville. References Historia General de la Fotografia en Sevilla by Miguel Angel Ya ez Polo Del Daguerrotipo a la Instamatic by Juan Miguel S nchez Vigil External links http rafaelgarzon.webcindario.com RG Rafael Garzon.htm Garz n grandson s web http www.mcu.es archivos MC AGA CME CME.html Cat logo Monumental de Espa a . In this application of the Spanish Ministry of Culture for Google Earth, there are pictures of Garz n of Toledo Spain Toledo Town s Hall squeare , Seville Cathedral or C rdoba, Spain C rdoba Mezquita de C rdoba Mezquita Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Garzon, Rafael ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1863 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1923 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Garzon, Rafael Category 1863 births Category 1923 deaths Category Spanish photographers es Rafael Garz n fr Rafael Garz n ... more details
, which was designed to be as easy to use as the Instamatic camera, but use the 135 ... A26.jpg thumb Rollei A26, for Instamatic format For Wirgin Small format cameras Edixa Reflex also ... 25mm 2.8 lens 126 film Instamatic Film Rollei A26, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 40 3.5 lens As independent designer ... more details
Roxanne Lowit is a New York based fashion and celebrity photographer who is said to have become as much a celebrity as those she photographed. ref http www.photographerslimitededitions.com index.php?cPath 1 7&bio 1 Lowit at photographerslimitededitions.com. ref She is represented by Stockland Martel . Career Lowit did not go to school to be a photographer. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York with a degree in art history and textile design. It was during her successful career as a textile designer that she realized something. I paint and there were people who I wanted to sit for me but had no time, so I started taking pictures of them. I liked the gratification of getting the instant image so I traded in my paintbrushes for a camera. Fact date April 2008 Lowit started making pictures in the late 70s with her 110 Instamatic, photographing her own designs at the New York fashion shows. Before long she was covering all the designers in Paris where her friends models like Jerry Hall would sneak her backstage. It was there that she found her place and career in fashion. For me, that s where it was happening, she says. No one thought there was anything going on backstage, so for years I was alone and loved it. I guess I made it look too good because now it s so crowded with photographers. But there s enough room for everybody. ref http www.stocklandmartel.com lowit Lowit at stocklandmartel.com. ref Today, her photographs have appeared in many magazines, such as Italian Vanity Fair magazine Vanity Fair , French Elle magazine Elle , V American magazine V Magazine , and Glamour magazine Glamour , and become a vehicle for much of her advertising work, including campaigns for Dior , Barney s NY and Vivian Westwood . Fact date April 2008 Solo exhibitions 2011 Legendary Privacy Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery, Cologne, Germany Publications Roxanne Lowit Moments 1990 Roxanne Lowit People 2001 Roxanne Lowit Backstage Dior foreword and fashion by John Gallian ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Image Viavelez 1938 Marques de Santa Maria del Villar.jpg thumb 200px right Viav lez Asturias , 1938. Picture for the Ministerio de Interior 1938 1939 Diego Quiroga y Losada , Marqu s de Santa Mar a del Villar , Marquess of Santa Mar a del Villar , was born in Madrid in 1880 and died in San Sebasti n in 1976. He took pictures of many places of Spain, its landscapes, monuments and people. Biography He started his work in the early 20th century and ended in the 1960s. Because he belonged to the nobility, he was closed to Alfonso XIII , king of Spain . He took pictures of the daily work of the king and he also took photos when the king was doing some sport hunting . He was asked to be the president of the National Patronage of Tourism, but he did not accept this post. However, his photos represented the same image of Spain as the kind of images encouraged by the National Patronage. His pictures were published in magazines and newspapers like Blanco y Negro , V rtice and Trenes . Before the Spanish Civil War 1936 , he had more than 120,000 photographs, but many of them were destroyed during this war. His photographic style was pictorialism, but lately he changed to documental and ethnographic photography in order to show the way Spain looked like after the war. Most of his collection is in the Archivo Real y General de Navarra in Pamplona , which held several exhibitions of his work. He was also founder of photographic societies in Madrid and Guip zcoa . References El fot grafo Santa Mar a del Villar , by Jorge Latorre Summa Artis XLVII Del Daguerrotipo a la instamatic , by Juan Miguel Sanchez Vigil External links http www.mcu.es archivos MC AGA index.html Archivo General de la Administraci n http photocollection.alonsorobisco.es spanish ministerio paisajes.html Pictures of the Ministerio de Interior 1938 1939 http www.cfnavarra.es agn fondos fototeca.htm Photolibrary of the Archivo general de Navarra Including Marquess personal collection Pers ... more details
Multiple issues orphan January 2010 BLP sources February 2010 John Johnnie Shand Kydd is an internationally exhibited photographer , the youngest son of Peter Shand Kydd and Janet Munro Kerr , and the stepbrother to Diana, Princess of Wales . Kydd has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery London National Portrait Gallery . Life and work Shand Kydd studied Art and English at university, but said that, by then, he had done enough painting to know that he did not want to pursue it, There s so much crap art around and what s the point of being a mediocre artist? ref cite news last Barber first Lynn title The accidental artist url http www.guardian.co.uk artanddesign 2004 may 09 photography accessdate 7 May 2011 newspaper The Guardian date 9 May 2004 location London ref After working at a Bond Street art gallery selling 19th Century paintings for a number of years Shand Kydd began taking photographs of his artist friends and those in his social sphere, using an Instamatic camera . As a participant rather than solely an observer he captured the community of the Young British Artists before they became household names. As an emerging photographer, Shand Kydd served as the silent chronicler of the movement by capturing his friends, including Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst , on film. That work was soon collected into the book Spit Fire . The collection was featured in the Sensation art exhibition Sensation show at the Royal Academy in 1997. From this portfolio the National Portrait Gallery London National Portrait Gallery acquired 42 prints. His second book, Crash , documented the progress of his friends. About 200 exposures in strict black and white capture art society luminaries like Gilbert & George , Sam Taylor Wood , Nan Goldin , Richard Prince , Juergen Teller , Maurizio Cattelan and Tracey Emin . His most recent publication and photographic exhibition, Siren City , is the result of eight years of photographic research in Naples , a place defined by Shand Kidd as on ... more details
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refimprove date January 2012 Jamel Shabazz born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York is an African American documentary photographer . Shabazz has gained international recognition through his various books, exhibitions, and editorial magazine works. His photographs have appeared in the 2007 documentary film Planet B Boy ref IMDB ref and such exhibition s as the 2008 Street Art Street Life From the 1950s to Now in the Bronx Museum of the Arts ref name carter cite news author Holland Carter title Finding Art in the Asphalt publisher The New York Times date September 11, 2008 url http www.nytimes.com 2008 09 12 arts design 12stre.html?n Top Reference Times 20Topics Organizations B Bronx 20Museum 20of 20the 20Arts accessdate 2012 01 24 ref and as the album cover art for the 2011 hip hop album Undun by The Roots. Shabazz also appeared in the Cheryl Dunn 2010 documentary Everybody Street , about photographers who have used New York City street life as a major subject in their work . ref http www.newyorker.com online blogs photobooth everybody street Everybody Street , Rollo Romig, 8 September 2010, The New Yorker retrieved 24 January 2012 ref In 2008, fellow photographer Ayana V. Jackson paid homage to Shabazz with The Shoot Out A Lonely Crusade, Homage to Jamel Shabazz . Vague date February 2012 What is this? Works Untitled Two Boys Sizzlin Chicken 1981 ref name carter Back in the Days Last Sunday in June A Time before Crack Seconds of my Life Back in the Days A Remix Early life and career BLP unsourced section date February 2012 At the age of fifteen, Jamel picked up his first camera, a 110 Kodak Instamatic , and started to document his friends and family. Inspired by photographers Leonard Freed and James Van Der Zee , Jamel was marveled with their documentation of the African American community. A few years later, Jamel purchased a Canon AE 1 camera and embarked upon a 35 year journey documenting various cultures and people, both in the United States and abroad, building a massi ... more details
of Loving John . Image Instamtic Karma Cover.jpg right thumb The cover of Instamatic Karma ... death. sfn Lennon 2005 p 379 Pang s book of photographs, Instamatic Karma , was published in 2008 ... 7, 2007 accessdate June 9, 2011 ref ref name AmazonRef cite web url http www.amazon.com Instamatic Karma Photographs John Lennon dp 031237741X title Instamatic Karma publisher Amazon accessdate June ... May Pang Lennon planned to visit McCartney in 1974 http www.instamatickarma.com Instamatic Karma ... more details
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Al Coury was a 1970s vice president of United States American record label Capitol Records . He joined the label in 1957 and rose to the position of vice president of marketing, sales and promotion. Coury helped develop the careers of many recording artists, including The Beatles , Nat King Cole , The Beach Boys , Pink Floyd , Glen Campbell , Bob Seger and Linda Ronstadt . Coury was important to several solo Beatles releases in the 1970s, particularly Paul McCartney s 1973 album Band On The Run , and John Lennon s 1974 album Walls and Bridges , both of which reached the top of the charts and yielded 1 singles. It was Coury who persuaded McCartney to include the successful single Helen Wheels on the US version of Band On The Run because it was last minute, the lyrics to the song were not included on the lyric sheet . He then chose the song Jet song Jet as the second single, which helped make the album the most successful of McCartney s solo efforts. ref Eight Arms To Hold You The Solo Beatles Compendium, Madinger Easter, 44.1 Publishing 2000 ref The following year, Lennon invited Coury to work his magic promoting Lennon s Walls and Bridges album. It was Coury who chose the first single, Whatever Gets You Thru The Night , which became Lennon s first 1 solo hit and the only one in his lifetime . ref name PangInstamaticKarma Pang Instamatic Karma 2008 ref Coury was also instrumental in the long awaited release of Lennon s 1975 album Rock n Roll John Lennon album Rock n Roll , bartering with record producer producer Phil Spector to retrieve the master recording master tapes from their abandoned 1973 recording sessions. Coury s last signing to Capitol Records was the group Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart , made up of former Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones actor Davy Jones , and songwriters Boyce and Hart Tommy Boyce and Boyce and Hart Bobby Hart , who d written several Monkees hits. He then left Capitol to become president and co founder of RSO Records , with Robert Stigw ... more details
Retina Reflex III, Retina Reflex IV, and the Kodak Instamatic Reflex . As for the original Retina .... Lenses for Retina Reflex S, II, IV, Instamatic Reflex, and Retina IIIS Schneider Kreuznach Retina ... Retina Xenar 45mm f 2.8 for Instamatic Reflex, can be used with Retina Reflex but not with the Retina ... more details
Image 127mm film.jpg thumb 127 film roll with Baby Brownie in the background unreferenced date October 2011 127 is a film format for still photography . The image format is usually a square 4 4 cm, but rectangular 4 3 cm and 4 6 cm are also standard. Oddly, C. F. Foth & Co. used 36 24 mm the same size as is standard for 135 film 135 for its first Derby model. Technical details 127 is a roll film , 46 mm wide. Frame number markings for the 4 4 and 4 6 image formats are printed on the backing paper, while 4 3 cameras typically have two frame counter windows, exposing the left and right halves of the 4 6 frame. Using the square format, there are 12 exposures per roll 4 3 and 4 6 give 16 and 8, respectively. There are alternative uses. For its Alfax model circa 1940 , Kimura K gaku had 4 4.5 cm frames, spaced by markings on the wind knob. History The format was introduced by Kodak in 1912, along with the Vest Pocket Kodak folding camera , as a compact alternative to larger portable cameras using 120 film 120 . The folding 127s were in fact smaller than most 35 mm cameras today. The 127 format made a comeback during the 1950s as the format of choice for small inexpensive cameras such as the Brownie and Satellite, and continued in wide use until surpassed by the 126 film and 110 film Instamatic cartridges introduced in 1963 and 1972 respectively , and especially by 35 mm. 127 cameras from that era were often characterized by simple box like construction. Slides shot on 127 slide film were often preferred over 35 mm for example for sets of slides sold at tourist gift shops, because of the larger photo area and completely square dimensions of a 127 slide. The format was part of the ISO 732 standard until it was dropped in the third 1991 edition of that standard. Variations Not all 127 films were labeled as such. After 1913, many Kodak cameras included the Autographic feature, and Kodak s 127 films which had Autographic backing were identified as A127. Other film manufacture ... more details
Infobox artist name Martin Wong image Martin Wong.jpg imagesize 180px birth date Birth date 1946 7 11 df y birth place Portland, Oregon death date death date and age 1999 10 12 1946 7 11 df y death place San Francisco, California , USA ethnicity China Chinese field Painting , Drawing , Sculpture , Printmaking , Ceramics art Ceramics training movement works patrons awards Martin Wong 11 July 1946 12 August 1999 was a U.S. Visual arts of the United States painter of the late twentieth century. Biography Early years Wong was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, California . He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University , graduating in 1968. Through college and for another 10 years he was active in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene, including stints as a set designer for the performance art groups The Cockettes and Angels of Light. He was coming out openly gay . ref name glbtq cite web last Mann first Richard G title Wong, Martin work glbtq.com date 4 July 2007 url http www.glbtq.com arts wong m.html accessdate 2007 10 15 ref In 1978 he moved to Manhattan , eventually settling in the Lower East Side, Manhattan Lower East Side , where his attention turned exclusively to painting. According to Wong, his move to New York was precipitated by a friendly challenge cquote I made ceramics and did drawings at arts fairs. I was known as the Human Instamatic. It was United States dollar US 7.50 for a portrait. My record was 27 fairs in one day. Friends said to me, If you re so good, why don t you go to New York? ref name trebay Career Wong s mature work ranged from gritty, heartfelt renderings of the decaying Lower East Side, to playful, almost kitsch y depictions of New York s and San Francisco s Chinatowns, to traffic signs for the hearing impaired . He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Nuyorican poet Miguel Pi ero , paintings that often combined Pi ero s poetry or prose with Wong s painstaking cityscapes and styli ... more details
Infobox artist bgcolour 6495ED name Steve Pyke image Pyke in Cal 1.jpg imagesize caption Pyke in Cali, by Jonathan Worth birth name birth date 1957 birth place Leicester , United Kingdom death date death place nationality United Kingdom British field Photography training movement works patrons influenced by influenced awards Order of the British Empire MBE Steve Pyke Order of the British Empire MBE b. 1957 is a British photographer living in New York City . ref name pyke eye.com http pyke eye.com biography.html ref From 1981 to 1984, he worked for diverse publications including The Face magazine The Face and NME . Pyke has been a staff photographer at The New Yorker since 2004. Life and career Born in Leicester , Pyke left school at 16 to work in the local textile industry as a factory mechanic. He became involved in the turbulent music scene of the late 1970s, a move which led him into his first experiments in photography . ref name pyke eye.com Pyke moved to London in 1978. He became a singer in a number of bands and was involved with establishing a record label and fanzines. During an extended motorcycle tour of the USA in 1976, he assembled a collection of Instamatic pictures. On his return he Xerox ed and coloured them and, fascinated by the results, purchased a Rolleiflex camera. By 1980 he had abandoned rock music for the visual arts. Pyke s early work was sold to magazines and the music press, and exhibited from 1982. It helped to define the emergent visual signature of the iconic 1980s magazine, The Face magazine The Face . ref http www.npg.org.uk live search person.asp?LinkID mp08016&role art ref His first cover subject was John Lydon , and Pyke s predilection for distinctive, graphically adventurous portraiture was immediately evident. He sought to develop his style by joining the Film Centre Stream course at the London College of Printing in 1982, though he was an unconventional student, working as much on his own projects as college assignments. His ind ... more details
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