Sunday, September 15, 2013

Christianne Harmon weekly post #4


Howard Schatz was born in 1940 He is an American ophthalmologist and photographer. After a career as a retina specialist, primarily in the San Francisco area, he turned his photography hobby into a successful second career. The photographs of Howard Schatz are exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and are included in innumerable private collections. He has received international acclaim for his work.
Schatz has had eighteen monographs published of his photographs. H2O, Schatz's most recent book, published in 2007, is the third in his series of explorations of imagery made on, over and underwater. Schatz first established a following for this uniquely expressionistic underwater imagery in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool Light. He photographed dancers, models, and performers. The photgraphs are so stunning and graceful. 
Schatz's editorial work has been published in magazines around the world, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Vogue Italia, GQ Italia, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Stern, Life, Black/White, American Photo, Photo France, and Photo Italia. His work has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, Fox Sports Network, the Discovery Channel and widely in Europe.
Howard Schatz's fine art work is represented in New York by the Staley Wise Gallery, in Denver, by Gallery M, and in Los Angeles by the David Gallery. Find out more about Schatz at www.howardschatz.com




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