{"id":1277,"date":"2016-04-21T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lti-lightside.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2016-04-25T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:26:35","slug":"paulette-tavormina-in-t-magazine-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Paulette Tavormina in T Magazine \/ The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
Paulette Tavormina’s Seizing Beauty<\/em>
Vivid Images That Aren’t Old Masters – but Look Just Like Them
<\/em>T Magazine \/ The New York Times
By Gay Gassman, April 20, 2016<\/h5>\n

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Reposted from T Magazine \/ The New York Times online:<\/h5>\n

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The photographer Paulette Tavormina began her professional career working with antiques, food styling and photographing works of art for an auction house. She\u2019s also spent many years collecting bits and pieces \u2014 the insects, objects and flowers that fill her studio \u2014 from markets and little shops. Her new book \u201cSeizing Beauty,\u201d out next week, took six years to photograph and brings together all these experiences: It features 65 sumptuous color images inspired by old master still lifes. (The book\u2019s release coincides with a show at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md., which opens April 23.)<\/em><\/h5>\n

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<\/a>L: Jacob van Hulsdonck<\/strong>: Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Pomegranate<\/em>, c. 1620-40
R: Paulette Tavormina:<\/strong> Lemons and Pomegranates, After J.V.H<\/em>., 2010<\/p>\n

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At first glance, you might easily mistake one of Tavormina\u2019s images for a Zurbar\u00e1n or a work from the Dutch Golden Age of painting \u2014 many of the book\u2019s photographs are built up with flowers, fruit, insects, objects, jewelry, butterflies and broken bits of porcelain. Others are inspired by the symbolic Vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries, with skulls and the reminder of death and the passing of all worldly goods.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m in love with the old masters, totally fascinated with them,\u201d Tavormina says. \u201cBut I create my own personal story within each work. The themes are so universal \u2014 love, loss, death \u2014 so it is all pretty simple.\u201d Each image takes several months to produce: several weeks to conceive, research and gather the props from flower and farmer\u2019s markets, followed by sketching the image out in pencil, staging it and then setting it all up. The process of getting the lighting and composition just right takes days \u2014 sometimes so long that the flowers wilt, the fruit changes color and she has to start over.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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The artist also includes a third series of works, \u201cBotanicals,\u201d which are much more contemporary in feel, shot from above on black backgrounds and inspired by flowers from her mother\u2019s garden. They, too, are deliberately constructed (and Instagram-friendly).<\/em><\/h5>\n

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\u201cPaulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty\u201d is out April 16 (The Monacelli Press, $65) and is available to pre-order at monacellipress.com<\/a>. \u201cPaulette Tavormina\u201d is on view April 23-July 10 at Academy Art Museum, 106 South Street, Easton, Md., academyartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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LTI-Lightside has been working with Paulette Tavomina since 2009, much of which, can been seen in our Project Archive here<\/a>. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Moscow among other venues around the world. For more of Paulette\u2019s work, please visit her website here<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

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