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Artist Statement:
Although for the past 30 years
I have been primarily a
painter and sculptor with work
in museums throughout the
country, over the past two
years I have added photography
to my creative endeavors. As
a photographer, I have been
concentrating on a series of
sepia-toned black and white
images. As well as being
inspired by French erotic
photographs of the 19th
century, and by the
“Storyville Portraits” of
E.J.Bellocq, the work has
also been informed by my
background in painting,
decorative arts, sculpture and
performance.
With this series of images, I
have allowed myself to be
concerned solely with beauty,
and the simple pleasure of
looking at it. I am not
interested in standardized,
polished notions of the
“perfect woman” but in the
beauty of real women. I
therefore prefer to work with
inexperienced or
non-professional models. Each
woman’s particularities and
“imperfections” are what I
find most interesting and
beautiful. I try to
photograph each model as if
through the eyes of a lover,
seeing each as if they were
the most beautiful woman in
the world.
The modernist aesthetic of
faceless human forms on a
blank background has always
left me cold. Never ...
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Exhibitions for Michael Berkowitz:
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Awards
2001 Second place award, New York Camera Club Annual Competition
Group Exhibitions
2002 Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, “Regarding Beauty”
2002 Camera Club of NY, Annual Awards Exhibition, Juried by Andres Serrano
2002 “Illuminance, 2002”, Lubbock, Texas, Juried by Judy Dater
2001 Eleven East Ashland Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, “For Adults Only”
2001 Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, Group Exhibition
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY, Solo Exhibition
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