Amy Stein

Amy Stein
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Faraway Nearby
Overland Park, KS
- through May 16, 2010

If You Are in Sidney, Australia

Amy Stein | Domesticated
Friday March 12 - Sunday April 11, 2010
Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford St
Paddington NSW 2021

Artists Talk: Saturday, March 13, 1pm

Tomorrow: Amy Stein , Brian Ulrich @ Caption

from the Stranded series © Amy Stein

Amy Stein, Brian Ulrich
Instruments of Empire
Caption Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
January 28 -Mar 25, 2010
Opening Reception January 28, 2009

Amy Stein @ Harvard Museum

© Amy Stein

Amy Stein
Domesticated (Solo Show)
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge, MA
Jan 22 - Apr 18, 2010

Amy is also speaking at the museum tomorrow at 2 PM. More info to be found at: www.network.nature.com

Re-visit our conversation with Amy by clicking here.

If You Are in Charlotte, NC

Amy Stein & Others
The Romance of The Road
The Light Factory
345 North College Street
Charlotte, NC
- through April 11, 2010

Say NO

Artist Amy Stein just started an action on the Say NO to Violence Against Women site called Photographers Say NO. Please join the campaign by clicking and then reposting this URL http://j.mp/1lRD2U and using #photosayno on Twitter.

Spread the word!

We Hope You Had A Happy Halloween!

from Halloween in Harlem © Amy Stein

Brian & Amy - The F Stop

From Domesticated © Amy Stein

Head over to www.thefstopmag.com to read about how Brian Paul Clamp discovered Amy Stein's work and came to represent Amy with his Chelsea Gallery.

Domesticated opened last Thursday at ClampArt.


Amy Stein
Domesticated
ClampArt
521-531 West 25th Street (Ground Floor)
New York, NY
Sept 10 - Oct 31, 2009

You can re-visit our conversation with Amy by clicking here.

Opening Tomorrow: Domesticated @ CLAMPART

From Domesticated © Amy Stein

Amy Stein
Domesticated
ClampArt
521-531 West 25th Street (Ground Floor)
New York, NY
Sept 10 - Oct 31, 2009

You can re-visit our conversation with Amy by clicking here.

Amy Stein Artist Talk

© Amy Stein

Amy Stein: Domesticated
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave
Portland, OR
-through Aug 2.

Artist talk Saturday, Aug 1, at 3 pm. Free.

Amy Stein: Seeing in Color

(via www.andersonranch.org)


© Amy Stein

Workshop @ AndersonRanch arts center

Amy Stein: Seeing in Color (P0921)
Jul 27, 2009-Jul 31, 2009

Concept: Is your photographic vision stuck in black and white? Awaken your photography and tell stories in vivid details using the language of color. In this class we will examine the expressive possibilities of color photography. Through artist presentations, field trips and interactive exercises we will explore the emotions and energy associated with color as we push the boundaries of your expression. We will explore the magnificent natural areas surrounding Anderson Ranch and work in classroom to review portfolios and the photographic products of our photo journeys.

Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. In 2007, she was named one of the top 15 emerging photographers in the world by American Photo and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. A monograph of Domesticated won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. Amy teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and Pool Gallery in Berlin. www.amysteinphoto.com

Amy Stein @ MOPA (San Diego)

Amy Stein is giving a lecture tomorrow night at the Museum of Photographic Art.


© Amy Stein

Amy Stein Lecture
Museum of Photographic Art
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
619-238-7559 (Phone)
info@mopa.org
July 9, 2009 -7:00 pm

(via MOPA.org) Amy Stein opens the annual Grossmont Workshop series with a lecture and workshop based on portraiture. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture, and the environment. Amy Stein will discuss her beginnings, inspirations, and work process. Stein will also be discussing her series and first book, Domesticated and her current portrait series, Stranded.

Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection. In 2007, she was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Opening Tomorrow: Amy Stein's Domesticated at Blue Sky Gallery

Amy Stein's Domesticated opens at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

July 2-August 2
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon

Amy Stein on NPR

© Amy Stein

Head over to NPR's The Picture Show to read Claire O'Neill's post about Amy Stein's Domesticated series: www.npr.org.

Stacy Mehrfar edition available through Humble

from Humble Arts Foundation:


Magnolia, Texas. April 2006 from This Was What There Was: American Palimpsests © Stacy Arezou Mehrfar

Stacy Arezou Mehrfar Limited Edition Print

Magnolia, Texas. April 2006 #1, 2006

C-print / Paper: 16 x 20 / Image: 15.25 x 19.25 / Signed and numbered / Edition of 5

$425.00 available through Humble Arts Foundation

Stacy was featured on Flak Photo last week. Amy Stein just posted some questions that she had for Stacy about her American Palimpsests project and her new experience of being an ex-pat in Australia on her blog. You can also revisit our Conversation with Stacy right here.

Friday Wrap Up

Beth outside Tallahassee, Florida ©Amy Stein

Amy Stein has posted new images to her website: www.amysteinphoto.com. And you can purchase a print of Amy's a great price via the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Joanne Ratajczak was highlighted on www.featureshoot.com.

Emily Shur and Liz Kuball had lunch in L.A this week. AndEmily Shur also blogged about the importance of keeping at it and how Stephen Shore continues to inspire her.

Have a great weekend everyone! And see you next week when we hope to announce the line-up for the Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf show!

Next Wed: Stein & Hetherington @ Apple Soho

from Stranded © Amy Stein

Photographers Who Blog: Andrew Hetherington and Amy Stein
APA/NY Apple Image Maker Lecture Series

Apple Store Soho Theatre
103 Prince Street
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
6:00-8:00 PM

You can revisit our conversation with Amy by clicking here.

Upcoming: Amy Stein Artist Talk

Struggle © Amy Stein

Amy Stein - Artist Talk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
January 22, 2009 -5:30 p.m.

You can revisit our recent conversation with Amy by clicking here.

A Conversation with Amy Stein

From Domesticated © Amy Stein

We are honored to start 2009 by presenting a conversation with photographer Amy Stein - an artist that all of us at the collective greatly respect. Amy Stein does not require introduction. If you are interested in contemporary photography, you most likely have encountered her work. And once you have seen Amy's images, they will stay with you for a long time. You'll find yourself pondering Amy's exact message, how she did it , how others perceive the work and in the end you might find yourself rethinking the images again.

From Domesticated © Amy Stein

Nymphoto: Tell us a little about yourself.

Amy Stein: I am stricken with an insatiable curiosity into the lives of others. I love delicious meats and Charm School and I think those two interests are related somehow. I own fourteen pairs of jeans, twelve black shirts and five pairs of clogs. My greatest childhood memory was traveling from Pakistan to Washington, DC without flying. Someday I hope to become a word class violinist, but I have never played the instrument and have no musical background. I would leave my husband for Jonathan Richman.

from Domesticated © Amy Stein

NP: How did you discover photography?

Amy Stein: I discovered photography in a moment of couch-bound inspiration. I was in my early thirties and doing the dot-com bubble thing and wanted more from life. I decided I would be a photographer and have been shoveling coal into that fire ever since. It's only been a couple of years since I picked up a camera, but I know this is what I should be doing with my life and that is very satisfying.

from Halloween in Harlem © Amy Stein

NP: Where do you find inspiration?

AS: Police blotters, grocery store checkout lines, talk radio, truck stops, the ingredients on the side of soup can...It can come from anywhere. Recently I heard interviews with Bob Dylan and Neil Young where they both talk about not being in charge of their creative output. It just shows up and they are fortunate enough to recognize it and invite it down on paper. I kind of feel the same way about my own inspiration. I don't own my ideas, I just rent them for a while.

from Women and Guns © Amy Stein

NP: How do your projects come about?

AS: Interest in a subject or idea is the primary motivator and then it's a lot of plumb and vigor. I usually begin with a basic concept and then start doing a lot of research. That research usually opens up new meanings and new tangents and the idea starts to become a project. After that I put my nose down and work like the devil to make it happen. Travel, scouting, interviews, requests for access and then finally I begin to shoot. With each image I question my concept and search for opportunities to push the images farther. I refine and review constantly and then seek input from people who's opinions I respect.

from Stranded © Amy Stein

NP: What's next?

AS: My goals for 2009 include turning my Stranded series into a book, finishing my new project where I examine the origins of the universe in a parking lot in Queens, secure grants for the compliment project to Domesticated, and finding the right New York gallery for my work.

NP: Thank you so much!

To see more of Amy's work , please visit: www.amysteinphoto.com. The prolific & award winning Domesticated series was recently published as a book by Photolucida and is availble for purchase via www.photoeye.com.

A Quick Glance Back

from Discarded Delights © Jane Tam

2008 was a good year for Nymphoto. We gained an invaluable new member: Jane Tam, connected with some other great people in the community, laid the ground work for new Nymphoto Projects and we started the Nymphoto Conversations series.
We are excited about 2009 and much pleased to start of 2009 with a conversation with the formidable Amy Stein. The conversation will publish at it's usual time: 12:01 AM EST Thursday on this blog.

We all wish you a fantastic 2009 and thank you for your support!