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PressPausePlay

By Jon Roemer On 3 Feb ’12 · Leave a Comment

In a world of democratized media production what is king, where does value lie, and what becomes of quality?

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Susan Benedetto at the Sinatra School for the Arts, Astoria, Queens, NY.  July, 2011.

And the Tony goes to…

By Jon Roemer On 5 Oct ’11 · Leave a Comment

Tony Bennett is everywhere these days with an 85th birthday celebration and a best selling album of duets. I photographed his wife Susan this past summer for a profile on her and on their foundation, Exploring the Arts. ETA created the $70 million Sinatra School for the Arts in [...]

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The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

The Gehry Viñoly Symbiosis

By Jon Roemer On 1 Aug ’11 · 2 Comments

This past weekend I was on the Bard Campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and I got a chance to see the Frank Gehry designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Having spent almost a week photographing Gehry’s Lewis Library at Princeton it was invigorating to explore the Fisher Center. Where Lewis Library [...]

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Die Walkure intermission. May 2, 2011.

Ring Break

By Jon Roemer On 3 May ’11 · 1 Comment

On assignment yesterday in New York City, a twelve-hour day, but a break in the action afforded a balcony view of the Met from Avery Fisher’s balcony:

The plazas in Lincoln Center have been renovated and this was my first chance to get a glimpse of them.

The Barclays Grove is very nicely done. It [...]

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Mrs. Selma Schubart by Steichen or maybe Stieglitz (not known which), 1907.

We Can Be Heroes – Guitar and Photo

By Jon Roemer On 20 Feb ’11 · 2 Comments

I was at the Met yesterday afternoon to see the the Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand and Guitar Heroes exhibits.

S(3) was great and easily held its own against the contemporary work across the hall. I’m always amazed at how dark prints from this era look but always astounded by the detail, the [...]

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Does Hope Leave a Photographer Hanging?

By Jon Roemer On 12 Jan ’11 · Leave a Comment

Shepard Fairey and the AP have settled their differences regarding Fairey’s famous Obama poster. Sounds like they are going into business together:

“The two sides have also agreed to work together going forward with the Hope image and share the rights to make the posters and merchandise bearing the [...]

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The Sartorialist on Art, Life, and Lartigue

By Jon Roemer On 10 Jan ’11 · Leave a Comment

Documentary on Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist:

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The topmost dome. The scale is beyond words (it took three 17mm frames to capture this.)

Thank You for Coming to Loews

By Jon Roemer On 18 Oct ’10 · Leave a Comment

Sit back and relax; enjoy the show!

Or so went the jingle at every Loews theater, before every screening, in New York City in the late 80′s. It was best sung in a loud falsetto and it always got laughs from the audience.

Long before this though Loews had another chain with different [...]

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