Portrait of Miriam
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Photographer
Wendy Paton
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Date of Photograph
2015
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Technical Info
Gelatin silver prints
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Socials
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Website
Miriam Levine was an international opera singer and one of the dynamic residents living at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey. This portrait is part of the series An Intimate Encore; a fine art, multi media photographic series shot in one unique location, The Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey; an assisted living and nursing home for retired performing arts and entertainment professionals. This series of black & white portraits creates a respectful and honest visual narrative of the individual subjects’ state of mind and their emotional, physical and mental health as they cope with and overcome the challenges of aging, while still continuing to share their talent, living together in an innovative and caring atmosphere.
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Biography
Wendy Paton is an award winning American photographer, best known for her dramatic B & W gelatin, silver images printed in her studio darkroom in Lambertville, NJ, USA. The artist has exhibited in solo U.S. & international gallery & museum exhibitions & is professionally represented by galleries in NY, Cologne, Germany & Moscow. Paton?s photographs are included in the permanent collections of SpallArt Collection, Biblioth?que Nationale de France, Mus?e de la Photographie, James A. Michener Art Museum, Lumiere Brothers Center of Photography in Moscow as well as notable private collections
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Awards
2018, JMC Award for Women Photographers,
Finalist, Abstract; Honorable Mention, Portrait
2017, MIFA, Silver Award
2017, TIFA, Honorable Mention
2009, First Place, Editor's Choice Award, Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico
