Gary Beeber
{{Short description|American photographer and filmmaker}}
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Gary Beeber (born 1951) is an American photographer and filmmaker.{{cite web |url= https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/1012/gary-beeber|title= GARY BEEBER|author= |date= |website=photo.com |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}
Early life and education
Gary Beeber grew up in suburban Ohio.{{cite web |url=https://shuttertalk.blog/ |title= A Conversation With Gary Beeber|last=Versair |first=Lannie |date=December 9, 2018 |website= shuttertalk.blog|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} When he was 12 years-old, he parents bought him his first camera.{{cite magazine |author= |title=Interview with photographer Gary Beeber |url=https://monovisions.com/interview-with-photographer-gary-beeber/ |magazine= MONOVISIONS |location= |publisher= |date= June 30, 2019|access-date=}}
He attended Miami University's College of Art, where he "focused on learning drawing and painting technique; egg tempera, watercolor, oil," graduating in 1971.{{cite web |url= https://events.miamioh.edu/event/photography_artists_talk_reflections_of_the_lens_alumni_artists_moderated_by_jon_yamashiro_virtual|title=Photography Artists Talk: Reflections of the Lens Alumni artists moderated by Jon Yamashiro |author= |date= 2021 |website= miamioh.edu |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} Next, he moved to New York City, where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and took courses with R. O. Blechman and Charlie Slackman. In New York City, he worked as an exhibit designer at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and other galleries and exhibition spaces.{{cite web |url= https://www.laphotocurator.com/certain-places-curator-karen-klinedinst/exhibition-2/1|title= CERTAIN PLACES-Exhibition #2 |author= |date= |website= laphotocurator.com |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}
In the early 1990s, moved to Southampton (village), New York, where he met the photographer Jay Hoops.{{cite web |url= https://lenscratch.com/2022/12/jay-hoops-polaroids/|title=JAY HOOPS: POLAROIDS |last=Beeber |first=Gary |date=December 11, 2022 |website= lenscratch.com |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} After Hoops' death in 2004, he obtained a collection of her Polaroids from her estate, which formed the subject of an exhibition that he co-curated at the Galleries at Wright State University in 2022.{{cite web |url=https://www.fotofocus.org/fotofocus-exhibition/jay-hoops-polaroids/ |title= JAY HOOPS: POLAROIDS|last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} In 2017, he moved from Long Island to southern Ohio.{{cite web |url=https://readframes.com/moonlight-by-gary-beeber/ |title="Moonlight" by Gary Beeber [Interview] |author= |date= June 22, 2020|website= readframes.com|publisher= FRAMES Magazine|access-date= |quote=}}
Career
Beeber began his professional career in photorealistic watercolors, mostly using his camera to make reference photographs of subjects. He eventually abandoned painting altogether for photography.{{cite magazine |author= |title= Gary Beeber - The Mona Series |url=https://lensmagazine.net/gary-beeber-mona/ |magazine= Lens Magazine|location= |publisher= |date= February 2016|access-date=}} He has taken photographs in Italy, Morocco, German, and the United States, with subjects ranging from somber spaces of death, through deteriorating objects, architectural details, plants, portraits, and rituals, to the exuberant figures of neo-burlesque.{{cite web |url= https://hamptons.com/the-arts-in-the-galleries-21384-beauty-is-in-the-details-hamptons-exhibit-html/|title= "Beauty Is In The Details:" Hamptons Exhibit Centers On Worldwide Architecture |last= Barylski|first=Nicole |date= September 30, 2015|website= Hamptons.com|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}
Beeber filmed and produced the 2010 feature-length documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, which won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 2010 Coney Island Film Festival and was an Official Selection of the 2010 USA Film Festival.{{cite news |last= Robbins|first=Robbins |date=March 10, 2011 |title= DIRTY MARTINI & THE NEW BURLESQUE Documentary to be Screened at Highline Ballroom, 4/16|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/NEW-BURLESQUE-DIRTY-MARTINI-Documentaries-to-be-Screened-at-Highline-Ballroom-416-20110310 |work=Broadway World |location= |access-date=}}{{cite news |author= |date= August 10, 2010|title= Burlesque documentary and live performance to come to Sag Harbor|url=https://www.27east.com/arts/burlesque-documentary-and-live-performance-to-come-to-sag-harbor-1371365/ |work= |location= |access-date=}} From 2011 to 2014, he produced a neo-burlesque show, Gotham Burlesque, on the Upper West Side.{{cite magazine |author= |title=Gotham Burlesque (slide show) |url= https://www.timeout.com/newyork/clubs/gotham-burlesque-slide-show|magazine= TimeOut |location= |publisher= |date= August 5, 2013|access-date=}}
Works (selection)
File:Mona posing in her little room NYC (Mona series) Gary Beeber.jpg
File:Suburbia (slideshow series) Gary Beeber.jpg
File:Shed Sylvester Manor (Sylvester Manor series) Gary Beeber.jpg
Beeber has had many solo photography and juried exhibitions and a number of large companies, including Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs, and Chase Bank have purchased his work. His work is held in permanent collections in Tennessee, Ohio, Massachusetts, Florida, and New York.{{cite web |url= https://www.garybeeber.com/cv-bio-statement|title= About (Gary Beeber)|last=Beeber |first= Gary|date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}
= Documentary film =
- WATER (Feature Film)
- us Chickens
- EMILY'S DO
- Michael Malone, Portrait of an American Organic Farmer (Short film)
- The Savior of Coney Island (Short film)
- Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque (Feature Film)
- Mister D
- Ballymaster
- Insectavora
= Solo photography exhibitions =
- 2024: “Who the ... is Michael Malone” FotoFocus
- 2022: Personalities, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN,
- 2022: Gary Beeber, Artist and Collector, Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
- 2022: The Relevant and the Absurd, Museum Mile Contemporary
- 2020: Sylvester Manor, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, (Yorgos Efthymiadis)
- 2018: Ladies & Gentlemen, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, (Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully)
- 2017: Personalities, Griffin Museum of Photography (Paula Tognarelli)
- 2017: Personalities, RICPA, Providence, RI (Paula Tognarelli)
- 2015: Beauty is in the Details, Dodds & Eder, Sag Harbor, NY
- 2005: Happy Ride, Coney Island, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn
- 2004: Happy Ride, Coney Island, Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY
- 2002: Details of Sight, Egizio's Project, New York City (Egizio)
- 2002: Photographs from Cemeteries of the Saints, Morocco, NYC Center for Jewish History
- 2002: Dachau, Photographs of the Concentration Camp, ALP Galleries, New York City
- 2001: Immortal Reflection, Recent Photographs by Gary Beeber, Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC
- 1998: Time Passages, Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.garybeeber.com/}} of Gary Beeber Photography
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Category:20th-century American photographers