- Marvin Heiferman
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Marvin Heiferman (1948) is an American curator and writer, who originates projects about the impact of photographic images on art and visual culture for museums, art galleries, publishers and corporations.
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Biography
As Assistant Director of LIGHT Gallery, New York (1971-1974), and Director of Castelli Graphics and Castelli Photographs, New York (1975-1982), Heiferman organized exhibitions by photographers including Andre Kertesz, Eve Arnold, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston and Robert Adams (photographer). Between 1982 and 1988, he worked as an artist representative for photographers and artists, including Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Mitch Epstein, and Richard Prince, and continued to organized exhibitions for commercial galleries, alternate spaces, and museums. Known as an early champion of color, narrative and appropriation (art) photography, Heiferman, in 1989, shifted the focus of his work as he began to more specifically concentrate on projects exploring the impact of mediated and vernacular images on history, culture and everyday life.[citation needed] In 1991, Heiferman became a founding partner (with Carole Kismaric) of Lookout, a company that, for a dozen years, produced exhibitions, publications and cultural projects for arts and humanitarian organizations, commercial publishers, and imaging and media corporations. Since 2002, and working as an independent curator and producer, Heiferman has organized museum exhibitions and develops concepts and content for online projects for clients including the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and the Smithsonian Institution Archives.[1] A contributing editor to Art in America, Heiferman writes on visual culture for Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Bookforum, and ArtNews. He is a core faculty member in the International Center of Photography/Bard College MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, and teaches in the School of Visual Art’s MFA Program in Photography, Video and Related Media.[2]
Selected Exhibitions
- Bill Wood’s Business (International Center of Photography, 2008)[3]
- Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection (The Newark Museum, 2008)[4]
- City Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program (Center for Architecture, 2005)
- John Waters: Change of Life (New Museum, 2004)[5]
- Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution (Exit Art, 2000)[6]
- Fame After Photography (The Museum of Modern Art, 1999)[7]
- To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive (International Center of Photography, 1999)
- Talking Pictures (International Center of Photography, 1994)
- The Indomitable Spirit, (International Center of Photography, 1990)
- Image World: Art and Media Culture (Whitney Museum of American Art, with Lisa Phillips and John Handhardt, 1989)
- The Real Big Picture (Queens Museum of Art, 1985)
- The Family of Man, 1954-1984 (MoMA PS1, 1984)
- Still Life (Whitney Museum of American Art, with Diane Keaton, 1983)
- Love is Blind, (Castelli Photographs, 1981)
- Likely Stories, (Castelli Photographs, 1980)
- Pictures:Photographs, (Castelli Photographs, 1979)
- Some Color Photographs, (Castelli Graphics, 1977)
Selected Publications
Bill Wood’s Business, ICP/Steidl, New York (2008) with Diane Keaton; Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection, Princeton Architectural Press, New York and The Newark Museum, Newark (2008); John Waters: Change of Life, Harry N. Abrams, New York and The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York (2004); Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs (2002) with Lisa Phillips; The Amazing Case of Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys, Simon & Schuster Editions, New York (1999), with Carole Kismaric; Growing Up with Dick and Jane: Living and Learning the American Dream, CollinsSanFrancisco, San Francisco (1996) with Carole Kismaric; Love is Blind, powerHouse Books, New York (1996), with Carole Kismaric; I’m So Happy, Vintage Books, New York (1990) with Carole Kismaric; Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989) with Lisa Phillips and John Hanhardt, The Indomitable Spirit, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York (1989), Still Life, Callaway Editions, New York (1983) and Simon and Schuster, New York (1985), with Diane Keaton; collaborative projects with Nan Goldin, William Wegman, and Diane Keaton; and monographs on the work of Jack Smith, John Coplans, and Dennis Oppenheim for MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York.[8]
Selected Books Edited and Packaged
- City Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program, Merrell Publishers, London/New York, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York, (2005)
- The Art of the X-Files, Harper Prism, New York, in association with Twentieth Century Fox, and 1013 Productions, Los Angeles (1998)
- Flaming Creature: Jack Smith', His Amazing Life and Times, Serpent’s Tail, London/PS 1 Museum, New York (1997)
- Fay's Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood. Photographs and text by William Wegman, Hyperion Books for Children, New York (1993)
- Fay's Fairy Tales: Cinderella. Photographs and text by William Wegman, Hyperion Books for Children, New York (1993)
- The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, photographs and text by Nan Goldin, Aperture, New York (1986)
- Park City, photographs by Lewis Baltz, essay by Gus Blaisdell, Artspace, Albuquerque/Castelli Graphics, New York/Aperture, New York (1980)[9]
Online & Media Projects
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Photography at the Smithsonian. An interdisciplinary blog, launched in 2009 by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, that explores Smithsonian photographic archives, assets and issues. Heiferman acts as creative consultant and contributor. [10]
click! photography changes everything is an ongoing, web-based project, sponsored by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, that invites both experts is their fields, and the public at large, to explore the power and impact of photography on history, culture and everyday life. Heiferman was editor and creative consultant.[11]
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Producer of Nan Goldin's 800-slide projection presentation with accompanying soundtrack. Including presentations at the OP Screening Room- New York (1983); CEPA Gallery-Buffalo, The Rotterdam Arts Foundation (1984); The Collective for Living Cinema-New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston; the International Center of Photography-New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial-New York, the Pacific Film Archives-Berkeley (1985); Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation-New York, The Berlin Film Festival (1986), Queens Museum of Art-New York, St. Marks Poetry Project-New York (1986),
The Electric Blanket December 1, 1990, the first Day Without Art. An outdoor slide projection at Cooper Union, with live music. Worked with project directors Nan Goldin and Alan Frame to edit and sequence of images that depict the AIDS crisis, from political protests to care giving, including portraits of people with, and those who had died from AIDS.[12]
Sources & External Links
Articles on Heiferman and his work:
- Woodward, Richard. “Marvin Heiferman’s All Encompassing Eye Has Redefined Photography,” Vogue, November, pp. 284-87
- Heiferman, Marvin and Laurie Simmons. “Laurie Simmons and Marvin Heiferman” (Conversation), Art in America, (3 April 2009).
- Johnson, Ken. “A Businessman’s View of Mid-American Life” (Review), The New York Times (23 May 2008) []
- Kimmelman, Michael. “How Photography Makes Celebrity So Irresistible” (Review). The New York Times (9 July 1999) [
- Woodward, Richard B. “Art; Seeking a Suitable Way To Approach the Issue of AIDS” (Review). The New York Times (4 February 1990).
- Barry, Lynda. “Say ‘Cheese,’ America” The New York Times (29 April 1990)
- Ostrom, Saul. “Marvin Heiferman” (interview), Bomb (Fall 1989).
- Grundberg, Andy. “Photography View; A Big Show That’s About Something Larger than Size”, (review). The New York Times (23 February 1986)
- "Click! Photography Changes Everything." Jay Prosser. Photography and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 119-122.
References
- ^ http://siarchives.si.edu/
- ^ http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/index.jsp?FID=117774&page_id=313
- ^ http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/bill-woods-business]
- ^ http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_default_page.aspx?id=3844]
- ^ http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/381
- ^ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=paradise-now
- ^ http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1999/fameafterphotography/
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Marvin%20Heiferman
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Marvin%20Heiferman
- ^ http://www.blog.photography.si.edu
- ^ http://www.click.si.edu
- ^ http://creativetime.org/archive/index.php?cat=55
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