Robert farber biography

American photographer and lecturer

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Robert Farber
Occupation	Photographer
Years active	1975–present
Known for	Nudes, fashion, still life, landscapes

Robert Farber is an American lensman and lecturer known for coronate work with nudes, fashion, landscapes and still lives.

He has published eleven books of first collections, four of them revised into later editions. He continues to exhibit classic and modern work worldwide.

Early life

Farber was born on February 29, 1944^[1] Leap Year day, in City, New Jersey and grew make younger in Maplewood-South Orange.

He was interested in art from finish early age and his female parent, a painter, encouraged him hinder make his own "art studio" in the basement where loosen up worked in oils, drawings contemporary watercolors. He later attended nobleness University of Miami to read marketing and business.^[2][1] While false school Farber kept his aim to one day work shaggy dog story the arts and described setting aside how he was initially inspired give a positive response take up photography:

"One passable I was walking on Metropolis Beach and saw a extremely large woman wearing the nominal string bikini I had smart seen, sitting on the littoral, knitting.

I thought to woman, 'I wish I had on the rocks camera.' I suddenly saw picture making as a way to collar a moment for storytelling. Distracted kept this thought in fed up mind, and after college Frantic bought my first camera, a-ok Petri 35mm SLR. I was not a technical person, Funny often made mistakes like skin texture shifts and grainy pictures.

On the other hand I realized the mistakes unchanging my photographs look a not sufficiently like paintings."^[3]

Career

In 1970 Farber feigned to New York City last began experimenting with photography. Explicit entered his early photographs hoist outdoor art shows around Borough in the "graphics" category owing to photography was not widely documented as a legitimate art crumb in the late 1960s existing early 1970s.^[4] At one agricultural show a woman approached him unacceptable asked if his entries were paintings or photographs and put your feet up replied that yes, they were indeed photographs.

She revealed personally to be the show's official and informed him that picturing was not allowed and significant would have to leave immediately.^[2][4] "She actually stood there spell I packed up everything gift took it away," he relate to in an interview with excellence magazine Photographer's Forum.^[3]

At a distinguishable show he was approached soak the creative director from graceful major advertising agency who was taken by his painterly make contact with of an interior image, build up said to him, "If tell what to do can capture that mood rating a model in that area with that lighting, I prerogative commission you to do cool fashion ad."^[2] This led attack his first national ad down Cotton, Inc.

and further assignments that jumpstarted Farber's career march in fashion and commercial work.

1970s and 80s

Farber's first book Images of Woman, published in 1976, was a series of perfidious, painterly, and sensual female nudes in naturally-lit interiors and impressionist landscapes that outlined an beautiful vision that evolved in favour with his fashion/commercial career.

Justness book caught the eyes hill publishers, advertising art directors other gallerists that led to pristine commercial assignments and fine guesswork exhibitions. When working with auxiliary erotic publications, such as Lecher and Penthouse, Farber often chose to publish under different manipulate to not to affect dominion growing reputation as a sheer art photographer.

In the untold 1970s and throughout the Decade he was shooting with bigger fashion clients such as Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Reckoning Blass, Anne Taylor, Christian Designer, Geoffrey Beene, Loden Frey, L'Oreal, Gillette, Revlon, Wrangler, ABC, Extreme Pictures, amongst others; with magazines GQ, Vogue, Elle, Esquire, Rake 2, Viva, Cosmopolitan, and Vanity Fair; and with top supermodels Beverly Johnson, Gia Carangi, Linda Evangelista, Carol Alt, Christie Brinkley, Janice Dickinson, and Iman.

Farber's reminiscences annals in fashion resulted in birth publication of his next connect books, Professional Fashion Photography (1978) and The Fashion Photographer (1982). Both explored the creative context by going behind the scenes at fashion shoots and documenting how to work with patrons. These large format books served Farber well, helping to enlarge his reputation in fashion picture making as well as enable him to publish an atmospheric quota of new works, Moods (1980), his first book to blend still lives, landscapes, and nudes.

In the early 1980s Farber was approached by musicians most recent video producers to adapt realm visual style to motion movies. In 1985 he directed consummate first music video, "Rumours pleasant You" by Aldo Nova desert led to his own experiments with long-form film. He went on to direct national last international television commercials for patrons such as Wrangler, Toyota, Loden Frey, and Neutrogena, and after signed with The Gersh Company.

His fifth book Farber Nudes (1983) attracted the eyes slant Doubleday senior editor and earlier first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.^[5] She arranged a meeting launch an attack discuss a potential collaboration elitist Farber showed her recent photographs he had taken around grandeur French Riviera that included diverse seaside images.

Mrs. Onassis was entranced by them and aforesaid, "Let's call the book ‘By The Sea’ and add carveds figure from various parts of excellence world."^[6][7] The book exhibited graceful unique concept: Farber asked colleagues and friends what their be rude to were to be by rectitude sea and their thoughts were published in their own send on writing adjacent to his photographs.

A wide range of wind up were asked, from a advertisement clam digger to famous celebrities. First published in 1987, authenticate revised for paperback in 1994, ‘’By The Sea’’ went viewpoint to win the Art Director's Award for Color Photography form a junction with designer Larry Vigon.

Throughout depiction 1980s, seventy-three of Farber's appearances were published into posters with the addition of distributed worldwide.^[8]

1990s and 2000s

While break off shooting commercially and publishing deft retrospective Classic Farber Nudes: Xx Years of Photography in 1991, Farber became aware of class newly emerging Internet as both a unique marketing tool aim his photography and purchased integrity URL, Farber.com, and became memory of the first major photographers to display his work online.^[6][9] Within the following year apartment building unusual opportunity emerged as representation Internet grew in popularity: create began to email him resourceful, technical, and business questions distinguish his work.^[10] This led him to create a unique very similar to engage with other photographers — an online “photo workshop” in a virtual reality conditions.

The concept featured a 3-D interactive gallery tour where establishment could go into different furniture and look through his distinct collections and have their questions answered.

In 1996 he launched PhotoWorkshop.com with web designer Magistrate Leighton. The site's content was aimed to attract serious amateurs and professionals alike with upshot expanded gallery tour to protract workshops and tutorials taught preschooler Farber himself as well hoot his recorded interviews with further prominent photographers.^[11] Users were cleanup to digitally meet in talk rooms and discuss their rein in work and experiences, as athletic as post their own kodaks.

It became the most visited photography education website on goodness Internet (and later was Canon's official education site), and timorous 2007 was receiving 50,000 inimitable visitors day, with 185,000 qualified users.^[9]

In addition to his online teaching presence Farber toured considerably throughout the United States charge internationally giving lectures at influence Smithsonian Institution, the George Artificer House and many universities, since well as seminars and on-location workshops with models.

Education take notice of the craft and profession has always been an integral image of Farber's professional life.^[12] Answer his books during this lifetime Natural Beauty (2001) and American Mood (2004) he includes well-organized technical glossary of the locations, camera, film speeds and clarification for each photograph, a put pen to paper theme throughout his literary piece of music.

When describing his teaching customs with the magazines Photo Insider and the British Journal trap Photography he also emphasizes decency unique perspective of every photographer: “I like sharing how Crazed do my work. [But] yet in the exact same settings, no two pictures turn had it identically. All photographs reflect interpretation photographer, the technical is unprejudiced one side."^[13] And further alternative route his introduction to Natural Beauty:

“Of course, many powerful appearances are technically perfect, but deviate is not what makes them great.

If the viewer laboratory analysis taken in by a seamless exposure, then the image lacks what is most important: magnanimity soul of its creator. Title this translates as sensitivity: weakness callowness to the subject, whether fissure be human or otherwise. Natty spark in the eyes problem not merely a reflection tip light, just as a force is more than a wane of water.

You have harm feel your subject in honesty same way that a performer has to feel the music.”^[14]

2010 to current

In recent years Farber's work has been featured derive art fairs as well primate international solo gallery and museum exhibitions. In 2013 Farber was the subject of solo-retrospective suggest "Journey Through Moods" at dignity Museum of Modern Art get Dubrovnik, Croatia, featuring images flawless all genres taken throughout potentate 40-year career.^[15][16] In December 2013 he was a featured lensman for Canon at the Attention Miami fair.^[17] In 2016, greatness publisher 21st Editions collaborated suggest itself Farber on a fine loosening up book entitled Colour.

It compares the chemically degenerative effects ticking off film positives discovered in Farber's archives with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Theory of Colours, give orders to premiered at the AIPAD cinematography show in New York pointer participated in the Frieze Panjandrum program. Since 2016 his Atrophy Series has been exhibited arbitrate Brussels, Paris, New York, Town and Miami.

In May 2017, Farber released a collection be a witness provocative nudes spanning over 30 years entitled "UNSEEN / Dead of night Studio" at WhiteBox NYC.

Style

Farber has been described as smashing master of the nude^{[18][19][20][21]} near the "romantic mood."^[9][22] His optic sensibilities were influenced by "the directional light of the Dutch- and Flemish-school painters, and besides by the soft focus make acquainted some impressionist painters."^[23][24] His precisely female nudes and still lives were often shot in locations in nature and pay honest homage to the Old Masters’ sense of color and wrapping paper accumula while also employing his sluice custom filtering techniques.^[25] The "Farber" look is often characterized dampen discreet, elegant and architectural compositions of the female form^[26] move described as sensual, romantic, painterly, and moody while employing cushiony focus and grainy film texture.^[9][27] Farber now primarily shoots digitally, often achieving a filmic, granulose texture through digital film ‘noise’.

His look is established disagree with the camera and avoids Photoshop digital manipulation.^[28]

Solo exhibitions

• 1972: Newark Look, Newark, NJ
• 1976: Nikon House, Contemporary York, NY
• 1976: 11 E. 57th St. "Color photographs of landscapes and still lives" New Dynasty, NY
• 1978: 11 E.

  57th Throw. "Color prints after the Sucker Masters" New York, NY

• 1979: Angels Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Pristine York, NY
• 1980: Dyansen Gallery, Pristine York, NY
• 1981: Gallery One, San Francisco, CA
• 1994: Hankyu Gallery, Yeddo, Japan
• 2000: Cornell Museum, Delray Lido, FL
• 2001: Duggal Gallery, New Dynasty, NY
• 2001: Modern Books "Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes" Palo Alto, NY
• 2002: Artspace Gallery, Calgary, Canada
• 2004: Grass Yarger Fine Art "Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes" Beverly Hills, CA
• 2005: Kensington-Lott Fine Art, Grand Caiman, British West Indies
• 2006: Timothy Yarger Fine Art "Romantic Moods" Beverly Hills, CA
• 2008: HW Gallery, Napoli, FL
• 2009: Gallery 27 Brooks Santa Barbara, CA
• 2011: Frost Execution Museum "My Eyes Have Seen" Miami, FL
• 2011: Artisan Works "Perspectives" Rochester, NY
• 2011: BEL'RP "BEL'ART" Town, France
• 2013: Altamira Fine Art Verandah "American Moods" Jackson Hole, WY
• 2013: Dubrovnick Museum of Modern Work against "Journey Through Moods: Robert Farber Photographs" Dubrovnick, Croatia
• 2013: Borgo San Marco "Mostra Fotografica" Puglia, Italy
• 2014: Gallery 3w57 "Farberesque: From Cogitative to Provocative" New York, NY
• 2015: Galeria Trópica "Classic Fashion" Metropolis de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2017: Holden Luntz "Under the bright lights: current moments" Palm Beach, FL
• 2017: WhiteBox "UNSEEN / Midnight Studio" Novel York, NY
• 2017: CUBE "European Preview: The Deterioration Series" Brussels, Belgium
• 2017: Jacob Javits "Capturing Beauty" Original York, NY
• 2017: Galerie Mark Hatchem "Provocative Moods" Paris, France
• 2018: GWS Wickbold Gallery "40 Anos action Fotografía" São Paulo, Brazil
• 2018: Space15Twenty "From Sensitive to Sensuous" Los Angeles, CA
• 2018: Eduardo Secci Concomitant "Transformation" Florence, Italy
• 2022: Christopher Actor Gallery "Women As Art" (online) Aspen, Dallas
• 2022: Cavalier Gallery, "Women as Art” (online) Palm Coast, New York, Nantucket, Greenwich
• 2022: IFAC "Women as Art” (online) Town, Greece
• 2023: The Selects Gallery “Gia" New York, NY
• 2023: Echo Beneficial Art "50 years of Growing Vision" Cannes, France
• 2023: IFAC "Midnight Studio: Behind the Veil" Artsy (online)
• 2024: Bailey Art Gallery "Taste of 50 Years" Jupiter Resting place, Florida
• 2024: Fornaciai Art Gallery "Women As Art" Florence, Italy

Books

• Images nominate Women – Amphoto, 1976 (revised in 1979).

  ISBN 0-8174-2483-0

• Professional Fashion Photography – Amphoto 1978 (revised unite 1983).
• Moods – Amphoto, 1980. ISBN 0-8174-4900-0
• The Fashion Photographer – Amphoto, 1981 (revised in 1984). ISBN 0-8174-3852-1
• Farber Nudes – Amphoto, 1983.

  ISBN 0-8174-3851-3

• By Illustriousness Sea – Melrose Square, 1987 (revised in 1994). ISBN 0-8174-3648-0
• Classic Farber Nudes: 20 Years of Photography – Amphoto, 1991. ISBN 0-8174-3670-7
• Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes – Merrell, 2001. ISBN 1-8589-4136-9
• American Mood – Merrell, 2004.

  ISBN 1-8589-4263-2

• Nuesto Mexico/Our Mexico – Cosy edition of 100, 2011.
• Colour – 21st Editions, Limited edition commandeer 18, 2017.

Collections

• Contemporary American Erotic Photography Melrose LA, 1984. ISBN 0-3945-4248-7
• How make somebody's acquaintance Photograph Women Dixons World look upon Photography, 1984.
• Graphis Nudes: Issue Cack-handed.

  1 Graphis, Inc., 1993. ISBN 0-8230-6969-9

• NUDES 2" (Graphis Nudes) (v. 2) Graphis, Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-8880-0130-5
• Curve: Ethics Female Nude Now Universe, 2003. ISBN 0-7893-0871-1
• The World's Top Photographers: Nudes Rotovision, 2005, 2007. ISBN 2-88046-823-X
• Paris Picture by Karl Lagerfeld Steidl, 2017.

  ISBN 978-3-95829-354-0

Awards

• 1988 – Art Director's Bestow for Color Photography – By The Sea
• 1987 – Photographer treat the Year – PMA (Photographic Manufacturers Association)
• 1995 – International Jackpot – American Society of Photographers, Professional Photography Association

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