Here is the latest newsletter from Morris Warman:
Pres. Ray Stubblebine's book "Stickley's Craftsman Home" is a 20 year effort of 525 pages collecting all of Gustav Stickley's House designs published in The Craftsman magazine between 1904 and 1916 with a thousand illustrations and current photo-graphs. The book is selling well. Ray is on the Board of The Craftsman Farms Foundation and is a writer and speaker on The Arts and Crafts movement in America. Ray's articles and photographs have been published in Style 1900, Old House Journal, Old House Interiors, New Jersey Monthly among others. Ray: "This book is something I always wanted to do."Susan Watts, NY Daily News, groundbreaking photographic Celebration of the rebirth and revitalization of lower Manhattan after the terrorist destruction of The Twin Towers is a show of super size color enlargements "Milestones to Recovery" in Battery Park. Susan also covered the disaster.
Our Association is grateful to NYPD Detective Mindy Diaz for her work on the photographers Press Credentials.
Robert L. Forbes, Pres. Forbes Life, opened our 72nd Annual Exhibition of prize-winning pictures at the Forbes Galleries on 5th Av. & 12 St. Mr. Forbes said show was impressive.
Robert Rodriguez, Senior Photo Editor, Gannett- The Journal News and former Pres. of our Ass'n- his son Evan, 18, is a student at NorthEastern University in Boston.
Vincent Laforet in The New York Times Sunday Style Mag. photographed hedges cut in special designs from a helicopter. "There are such intense vibrations from the wind." Vince is currently doing an aerial series for National Geographic.
Marilynn K.Yee, NY Times, her daughter, Alexandra D. Chew, 19, is in her second year at Sarah Lawrence College.
Man Ray's 1932 vintage print "Glass Tears" was sold to collector John Prtzker for a record $ 1.3 million dollars.
Actor Sean Penn in Britain's Daily Telegraph- "I still think photographers should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter- but not in a hostile way, just for giggles."