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The New England Beacon – 2017

Photo by Jon Atherton, Yale

Paul Messier

Paul Messier is a photograph conservator working at Yale and in private practice in Boston. He is the founder and Pritzker Director of the Lens Media Lab at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.  Established in 2015, the focus of the LML is the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of large datasets derived from museum and reference collections of artist materials. Notable among these is the LML’s collection of historic photographic papers which is the largest of its kind in the world and was assembled by Paul over the course of decades.  Paul’s Boston-based private conservation practice was founded in 1994. The practice serves collectors, galleries, auctions houses as well as public institutions included leading museums, libraries, and archives worldwide.  This practice has served as a training platform for numerous pre- and post-graduate interns all of whom have filled photograph conservation positions within prestigious cultural intuitions, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives.  Paul has published widely, holds two patents covering innovative techniques for the characterization of cultural materials, served elected terms to the Board of Directors of the American Institute for Conservation, and recently completed a multiyear Mellon-funded initiative to establish a department of photograph conservation at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

 


ipch.yale.edu/people/paul-messier
Presented by: Melissa Banta

Melissa Banta is Projects Curator at the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library, where she works to preserve, exhibit, and publish photograph collections throughout Harvard’s museums, libraries, and archives. Ms. Banta was formerly Director of the Photographic Archives at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. She also serves as consulting curator at Baker Library, Harvard Business School and at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Her exhibitions and publications include From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery; A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan; The Invention of Photography and Its Impact on Learning; A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard; and At the Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Collection, The Formative Years.

The New England Beacon – 2016

Karen-Haas

Karen Haas

Karen Haas

The Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Presented by: Arno Minkkinen

Photographer and Educator

The New England Beacon – 2013

Photograph of Phillip Prodger courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum

Phillip Prodger

Phillip Prodger

Phillip Prodger, is an art historian, writer, curator and head of the photography department at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts


www.npg.org.uk/research/staff-research-profiles/phillip-prodger.php
Presented by: Jared Bowen

Jared Bowen will present the award to Phillip Prodger

The New England Beacon – 2012

Stephen Jarecke in a Red Sox cap

Stephen Jareckie

Stephen Jareckie

Stephen Jareckie, is currently the Photographic Advisor for the Fitchburg Art Museum and Curator of Photography Emeritus for the Worcester Art Museum.


Presented by: Kristina Durocher

Kristina Durocher will present the award to Stephen Jareckie.

The New England Beacon – 2011

Susan Mosser

Susan Mosser

Susan Mosser

Susan Mosser, is Special Services VP of the New England Camera Club Council.


Presented by: Barbara Rozavsky

Barbara Rozavsky will present the award to Ms. Mosser.

The New England Beacon – 2010

Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor

Web developer Alan Taylor created the photo blog The Big Picture for The Boston Globe/Boston.com.


Presented by: Finbarr O’Reilly

Chief Photographer, West & Central Africa, Reuters O’Reilly will present the award to Taylor.

The New England Beacon – 2009

Rosalind Smith

Rosalind Smith

Rosalind (Roz) Smith, a native of Newton, is a features writer for Shutterbug, Photographers Forum, View Camera, Black and White and Camera Arts. She has also written feature articles for the Robb Report, Photo District News, and the Boston Globe. She has written articles on scores of photographers including Richard Avedon, James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, John Isaac, Jill Enfield and Duane Michals.


Presented by: John Isaac

Photographer, John Isaac will present the award to Roz Smith.

The New England Beacon – 2008

Henry Horenstein

Henry Horenstein

Henry Horenstein, Photographer, Author and Educator


www.honkytonkeditions.com
Presented by:

Award-winning hosts of Car Talk on National Public Radio

The New England Beacon – 2007

Clifford Ackley

Clifford Ackley

Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Curator of Prints and Drawings and Chair of the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the MFA, Boston


www.mfa.org
Presented by: Susan Paine

President of the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The New England Beacon – 2006

Barbara Hitchcock

Barbara Hitchcock

Cultural Affairs Director, Polaroid Corporation and Curator, Polaroid Collection


www.fep-photo.org/curator/hitchcock/
Presented by: David Levinthal

Photographer presents award to Barbara Hitchcock

 

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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