Norman Seider photography — Kiesendahl + Calhoun Fine Art, Ltd.

Norman Seider

Sy Harper's Field, Bevins New Jersey, 1991, 16x20, silver gelatin print

Jewish Ghetto in Rome, 1996, 11x14, silver gelatin print

Castellina in Chianti 2001, 16x20, silver gelatin print

Woman in the Window, Christ Church New Zealand, 1998, 16x20, silver gelatin

Man in the Park, Budapest, 1981, 16x20, silver gelatin print

Chair in the Window, Cortona, Tuscany 2001, 11x14, silver gelatin print

Prague Family, Czech Republic, 1986, 16x20, silver gelatin print

Woman and Child in Window, Weimar 1998, 11x14, silver gelatin print

Boy on Steps, 16x20, silver gelatin print

Fox Glacier A, New Zealand, 1998, 16x20, silver gelatin print

House with 4.5 trees, Donegal, Ireland, 16x20, Silver Gelatin Print

Fox Glacier B, New Zealand, 1998, 16x20, silver gelatin print

Artist Statement

“Iam at heart a storyteller affected and attracted by mystery, by antiquity, by echoes of the past; by forms and shapes and empty places, by people in their everyday moments. My world is defined best in shades of black and white and grays. Throughout my life I have been intimately involved with motion pictures; they are part of my being. My grandfather and my father were pioneers in the motion picture industry, connected with cinema from its birth. I have been a producer-director, a motion picture industry executive, a university film educator and a documentary filmmaker. Not until I was 55 years old, did I turn to still photography as my art form. Those years when I was immersed in and in love with all aspects of cinema inevitably led to the developing and refining of my vision as a photographer. So I think of my photographs as cinematic. I am a filmmaker creating silent movies in single frames. I see movement in each frame, a story ready to unfold, or the ghost of a moment just passed. I come upon an image that resonates in me, which evokes thoughts, feelings and emotions from my life experiences and I am compelled to press the shutter of my camera. The connection to my subject forms the essence of the photograph. I recognize the German Expressionists in film, theater and art as a visual influence on my work as a photographer. I acknowledge Robert Bresson, the great French filmmaker, as a challenging and exciting intellectual influence on my perception of life as a human being and subsequently as a photographer. I also credit the thousands of films I've seen, the books of prose and poetry I've read, the art I have studied, the vast number of places in the world I've experienced and the people I know and have treasured through the course of my lifetime. All of them have left me with stories. Many of these stories have made their way into my photographs.Each of my photographs in this exhibition is a story, my story and maybe your story too if you look deeply and listen to what you might begin to hear.”

Jean Claude Lemagny, Director, Department of Photography, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris wrote: “Norman Seider's work has a European and American sensibility. There are stories and ghosts within each image. His light is mysterious. There is poetry and there are things to discover in the photographs which are very black and white."

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Galerie Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, The Ann Tucker Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of The Rhode Island School of Design, Newport Museum of Art, Rhode Island, Leica Camera Museum. Wetzlar, Germany, Museum of Art, Asheville, N.C., The United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

EXHIBITIONS:

Argentine Consulate, New York, (solo) "Patagonia", Whitney Museum, New York, (group), Museum of Modern Art, New York, (group), PBS, Boston, Leica Corporate Gallery, Solms, Germany (solo) "Odyssey; Patagonia to the Antarctic" Leica Corporate Gallery, Solms, Germany (solo) "Opening Scenes" Leica Gallery, New York, (group)Nabisco Gallery, New Jersey, (solo)Barbican Center, London, England (group), Leipzig International Film Festival, Leipzig, Germany (group), World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden. (group)

PUBLICATIONS:

Odyssey, Patagonia to the Antarctic, book of Black and White Photographs, Perpetua Press, Opening Scenes, book of Black and White Photographs, Safe Harbor Books, Leica Fotografie, various photographs, multiple yearly editions, B&W Magazine, featured photographer, selected photographs from "Opening Scenes", La Fotografia, Spain, featured photographer, selected photographs from "Odyssey; Patagonia to the Antarctic", Film and Photography articles, A member of FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Journalists, Munich, Germany