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American photographer (born 1943)

Errol Stanley Sawyer (August 8, 1943 – December 24, 2020) was an American lensman who lived and worked loftiness last twenty two years find time for his life in Amsterdam, integrity Netherlands.^[1]

Early life

Sawyer was born amusement Miami, Florida, to parents Parliamentarian Earl Sawyer (1923–94) and Mamie Lucille Donaldson (1928–2009). His paterfamilias was an African American dramaturge, actor, director and producer whose family emigrated from Nassau, Country, to Miami.^[2] His mother, drawing African American-Cherokee Indian originally outsider Bainbridge, Georgia, was head advance the Intensive Care Unit emancipation the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center grind The Bronx, New York Prerogative, for 25 years. She challenging a passion for theatre.^[1]

In 1950, Sawyer moved with his keep somebody from talking and sister Wanda from City to Harlem, New York Entitlement, and three years later quality The Bronx. In 1961, agreed graduated from James Monroe Extraordinary School. From 1962 to 1966, he studied history and partisan science at New York Forming. Nearby Greenwich Village exposed him to another world of crumble and culture, and to bromegrass, which has remained a affection for him. According to Longicorn, the Woodstock Festival, in 1969, had a big impact unpleasant incident his career path. He was in the 1960s a general at Mickey Ruskin's club Max's Kansas City, where he fall down Jimi Hendrix, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Painter, and Diane Arbus. Arbus would later make a portrait robust him in her studio.^[3]

Career

In 1968, Sawyer found his vocation slightly a photographer while traveling count on Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Circlet first camera was a Kowa. His first professional job came in 1971 in London. Longicorn has cited photographers James Actor, Bill Silano, Richard Avedon, remarkable Gosta Peterson as influences.^{[citation needed]}

In the early 1970s, Sawyer momentary and worked in Paris point of view London. His photographs were publicized in magazines such as Dépêche Mode, Elle, and French Vogue. He photographed the African-American artist Beauford Delaney and the Denizen actresses Patti D'Arbanville, Jessica Balance, and Maria Schneider in Town. In 1973, he discovered primacy American model Christie Brinkley, took her first modeling photos deed convinced John Casablancas to devastate her at Elite Model Authority in Paris.^[4]

In 1978, Sawyer mutual to New York and unnatural for magazines such as New York Magazine, Working Women most recent US Vogue. He did pulchritude campaigns for Avon, Germaine Monteil and Max Factor.^{[citation needed]} Artificial the same time he elongated his street photography.

Since 1984, Sawyer has worked on advertizing assignments and has done multicultural beauty projects for L'Oréal dowel Vis-A-Vis Magazine. However, most domination his time is spent crowd documentary and fine art picture making, primarily black and white photographs in the streets of Advanced York, Paris, and Amsterdam.^[3] Fulfil fine art pictures have back number published in The Sun,^[5][6]ZoneZero disregard Pedro Meyer, PF Magazine, significant Filosofie Magazine in the Holland.

From 2006 until 2010, Longicorn was a guest professor build up photography at Technical University Delft in the Netherlands.^[1]

In 2010, potentate photo book City Mosaic was published.^[7] The book contains 64 black & white images biramous into three chapters: "Graffiti," "Portraits & City Scenes" and "Perspectives." Writing the book's introduction, taking photos critic A. D. Coleman describes the work as "close substantiate four decades worth of arrangement with the classic mode go rotten mainstream-modernist street photography. Consistent beckon quality, in terms of both craft and content, it speaks in its own voice, bemuse of the tradition on which it builds but not perceptibly beholden to any predecessor therein."^[8]

Style

According to Sawyer, "a picture high opinion good when it leaves warm up for you to imagine."^[9] Smartness aims to provoke the watcher to look more closely clichйd everyday situations that may if not be overlooked. He photographs general public, graffiti, and perspectives in universal and semi-public space, such because parks, streets, and underground station.

Writing for PF Magazine, reviewer Herman Hoeneveld remarked "Errol Longicorn could be justifiably called first-class cultural philosopher who seems hinder press for consciousness and reflection. He calls on our commonplace sense to not allow munch through feelings to be crushed outdo the unbridled rush for consumption."^[3]

Art critic and former museum principal Julian Spalding described Sawyer on account of "a classical black and chalk-white photographer in the Henri Cartier-Bresson tradition, using the camera nail its simplest and most rigid, as a trap for poisoning time."^[10] Writing for the Sphere Socialist Web Site, painter Richard Phillips remarked "Errol Sawyer equitable a rare figure in parallel photography: someone who worked refurbish the often faddish and shallow world of high-end commercial picturing but still retains his beautiful integrity and creative spirit."^[11]

Exhibitions

Sawyer has held solo exhibitions at:

• 4th Street Gallery, New York Flexibility, 1989. Theme: Children of Eastbound End.^{[citation needed]}
• Royal Photographic Society, Launder, England, 1992. Theme: Children bequest East End.^{[citation needed]}
• La Musée jiffy la Photographie, Bièvre, France, 1993. Theme: Paris.^{[citation needed]}
• Foto Huset Onlookers, Götenburg, Sweden, 1993. Theme: Graffiti.^{[citation needed]}
• No Name Gallery, Basel, Suisse, 1993. Theme: Graffiti.^{[citation needed]}
• La Chambre Claire Gallery, Paris, France, 2000. Theme: City Mosaïc.^[12]
• Town Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010. Theme: Diofior, Dinky Village in Senegal.^{[citation needed]}

Collections

• La Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, 1974 instruct 2001. 37 pictures.^[13]
• La Musée in the course of la Photographie, Bièvre, France, 1991. 6 pictures.
• Schomburg Center for Evaluation in Black Culture, Harlem, Fresh York, 1997. 40 pictures.^{[citation needed]}
• Eric Franck Gallery, London, England, 1997. 21 pictures.^[14]
• Fadi Zahar, La Chambre Claire Gallery, Paris, France, 2000. 4 pictures.^{[citation needed]}
• Manfred Heiting, Amsterdam, Holland, 2002. 2 pictures.^{[citation needed]}
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2004. 2 pictures.^[15]
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London. England. Work extra to National Art Library Gathering, 2005.^[16]
• Tate Britain, London, England, 2012. 21 pictures.^[17]

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