Lee Isaacs
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Lee Isaacs is an American
photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama
.
Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass
. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.
He has involved himself with many different aspects of photography and photography over the last twenty years. He incorporates processes including digital
, polaroid
, polaroid transfer
, pinhole photography
, digital
as well as color photography
of all sorts and gelatin silver.
James Nelson, said, "Using the human torso as a point of departure, Lee Isaacs' digital photographs turn undulating flesh and bone into sand dunes that become beautiful landscapes."
As an active member of the Photography Guild of the Birmingham Museum of Art
, Isaacs helps provide support to the museum's photography collection through programming and fund-raising. Through this guild, Isaacs recently participated in the "Pinhole Camera" exhibit at Whatley Drake along with Sylvia Martin, Sonja Rieger and Wayne Sides.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
.
Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass
Pinky Bass
Pinky M. M. Bass is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta,...
. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.
He has involved himself with many different aspects of photography and photography over the last twenty years. He incorporates processes including digital
Digital
A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
, polaroid
Instant film
Instant film is a type of photographic film first introduced by Polaroid that is designed to be used in an instant camera...
, polaroid transfer
Polaroid transfer
Polaroid transfer is a photographic image-transfer process, or print making technique, which uses Polaroid film. This way an image can be put on textiles, cups, glass and many other surfaces.-Brief How-To:...
, pinhole photography
Pinhole camera
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box...
, digital
Digital
A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
as well as color photography
Color photography
Color photography is photography that uses media capable of representing colors, which are traditionally produced chemically during the photographic processing phase...
of all sorts and gelatin silver.
James Nelson, said, "Using the human torso as a point of departure, Lee Isaacs' digital photographs turn undulating flesh and bone into sand dunes that become beautiful landscapes."
As an active member of the Photography Guild of the Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
, Isaacs helps provide support to the museum's photography collection through programming and fund-raising. Through this guild, Isaacs recently participated in the "Pinhole Camera" exhibit at Whatley Drake along with Sylvia Martin, Sonja Rieger and Wayne Sides.
Media
- "UpSouth," Essays by bell hooksBell hooksGloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....
, Emma Amos and Antoinette Spanos Nordan. Poetry by Priscilla Hancock Cooper. [Traveling exhibition.], 76 pp., color illus. 4to (10 x 8 in.), wraps. 1999 University of Alabama Press.
- As the photography editor, Isaacs contributed photowork to over 20 editions of the Alabama Art Monthly published by AgnesAgnes (gallery)Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1993 to 2001. Shawn Boley, Jon Coffelt and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism,...
as the first statewide art magazine with photospreads, portraits and tableaux work.
- Isaacs was the still photographer for the film Johnny Flynton.
External links
- Lee Isaacs' website
- Alabama Art Monthly Noles-Ross lists this in her bio.
- "Johnny Flynton," 2002
- Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
- MedPartners Photo attribute by Isaacs
- Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
- University of Alabama, Birmingham Photo attribute by Isaacs