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'''Elaine Mayes''' (born October 1, 1936) is an American [[photographer]] and a retired professor at [[New York University|New York University's]] [[Tisch School of the Arts]].
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'''Elaine Mayes''' (born October 1, 1936) is an American photographer and a retired professor at [[New York University]]'s [[Tisch School of the Arts]].


==Early Career & Academia==
==Academia==


Beginning in 1968, she taught at the [[University of Minnesota]], and in 1971 joined [[Jerome Liebling]] as part of the founding faculty at [[Hampshire College]], where she taught for ten years.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Office of Communications|title=Elaine Mayes Grants for Division III Work|url=https://www.hampshire.edu/news/2012/01/03/elaine-mayes-grants-for-division-iii-work|website=Hampshire College|publisher=Hampshire College|access-date=January 28, 2015|date=January 3, 2012}}</ref> Her students included documentary filmmakers [[Ken Burns]], Michel Negroponte, [[Roger Sherman (filmmaker)|Roger Sherman]], Buddy Squires, [[Kirk Simon]], and [[Karen Goodman]].<ref>[http://www.documentary.org/content/ken-burns-cinematic-walk-park Ken Burns' Cinematic Walk in the Park | International Documentary Association<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.hampshire.edu/news/20480.htm Academy Award Win for ‘Strangers No More’<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1976, Mayes, and former students Burns and Sherman, founded a production company called [[Ken Burns#Florentine Films|Florentine Films]] in [[Walpole, New Hampshire|Walpole]], New Hampshire. The company's name was borrowed from Mayes' hometown of [[Florence, Massachusetts]]. She left the company after 1 year.
Elaine Mayes began as a photojournalist in the 1960's, capturing musicians and documenting current events at the seminal turning point in music. Mayes majored in painting and art history at [[Stanford University]] and then studied at the [[San Francisco Art Institute]]. During this time she was an independent photojournalist, working for different magazines and graphic designers. She photographed the ‘Summer of Love’ and the scene in the Haight Ashbury District, and in 1967 she went on assignment to the Monterey Pop Festival. Mayes became the official photographer for the [[Steve Miller Band]], and she and poster artist Victor Moscoso produced the innovative first Miller album cover, “Children of the Future.”
In 1968 Mayes became one of the first of three women to teach photography in the [[University of Minnesota]]. In 1971, Mayes joined [[Jerome Liebling]] as a part of the founding faculty at [[Hampshire College]], where she taught for ten years. Mayes served as the Chair of [[New York University]]'s [[Tisch School]] until her retirement in 2001. Mayes continued to photograph the music scene through the 1980’s including The Punk and New-Wave era in New York. <ref>{{cite web|last1=Office of Communications|title=Elaine Mayes Grants for Division III Work|url=https://www.hampshire.edu/news/2012/01/03/elaine-mayes-grants-for-division-iii-work|website=Hampshire College|publisher=Hampshire College|accessdate=28 January 2015|date=3 January 2012}}</ref> Her students included documentary filmmakers [[Ken Burns]], Michel Negroponte, Roger Sherman, Buddy Squires and Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman.<ref>[http://www.documentary.org/content/ken-burns-cinematic-walk-park Ken Burns' Cinematic Walk in the Park | International Documentary Association<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.hampshire.edu/news/20480.htm Academy Award Win for ‘Strangers No More’<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 2009 Hampshire established an endowment in Mayes' name to support student projects in film, photography, and video.<ref>[http://www.hampshire.edu/corc/hamp_funding.htm Hampshire College Hampshire Funding for Projects and Internships<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Mayes also taught at [[Pratt Institute]], The [[International Center of Photography]], [[Bard College]] and [[New York University]] where she retired as Chair of the Photography Department in the [[Tisch School of the Arts]] in 2000.<ref>[http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/MayesE.html Mayes: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


In 2009 Hampshire established an endowment in Mayes' name to support student projects in film, photography and video.<ref>[http://www.hampshire.edu/corc/hamp_funding.htm Hampshire College Hampshire Funding for Projects and Internships<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Mayes also taught at [[Pratt Institute]], The [[International Center of Photography]], [[Bard College]] and [[New York University]] where she retired as Chair of the Photography Department in the [[Tisch School of the Arts]] in 2000.<ref>[http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/MayesE.html Mayes: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Also a fine art photographer, Elaine has gained an international reputation for her landscape, conceptual documentary and candid photography. With the assistance of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992 she produced a book called Ki'i no Hawaii, which shows photographs covering a 20 year period of Hawaiian land and culture.
Since her retirement from teaching Elaine has continued with her photographic work. Her Monterey Pop photographs were exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, and are featured in their permanent collection. Pictures from her 1968 Haight Ashbury portrait series were shown recently at the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her music pictures also were included in an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art called San Francisco Psychedelic, and other musician photographs were exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum.

Elaine Mayes is currently represented by Steven Kasher Gallery in New York City.


==Subject matter==
==Subject matter==


Known for her portraits of [[San Francisco]]'s [[Haight-Ashbury]] residents in 1967-8 and for her iconic images of rock and roll performers in the late 1960s, Mayes' subject matter has also included landscapes and conceptual projects including her series, Autolandscapes, made with a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship from a moving car while traveling across the country in 1971. She also photographed the New York downtown rock scene of the 1980s.<ref>[https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographer/default.aspx?photographerID=66 Elaine Mayes | Debbie Harry, from television, 1983<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1982 received a New York State CAPS grant. In 1985 she and No Theater of [[Northampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]] received a Massachusetts State Foundation for the Arts grant in support of a collaborative work, 'Photoplay.'
Known for her portraits of San Francisco's [[Haight-Ashbury]] residents in 1967-8 and for her iconic images of rock and roll performers in the late 1960s, Mayes' subject matter has also included landscapes and conceptual projects including her series, Autolandscapes, made with a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship from a moving car while traveling across the country in 1971. She also photographed the New York downtown rock scene of the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographer/default.aspx?photographerID=66 |title=Elaine Mayes {{!}} Debbie Harry, from television, 1983<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=May 5, 2011 |archive-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002120544/https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographer/default.aspx?photographerID=66 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1982 she received a New York State CAPS grant. In 1985 she and No Theater of [[Northampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]] received a Massachusetts State Foundation for the Arts grant in support of a collaborative work, 'Photoplay.'


==Collections==
==Collections==


Mayes' photographic work is included in the permanent collections of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/photographs/taxi_and_landscape_san_francisco_elaine_mayes/objectview.aspx?collID=19&OID=190012529 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Taxi and Landscape - San Francisco<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The [[Museum of Modern Art]],<ref>[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?artistFilterInitial=&criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3861&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1 MoMA | The Collection | Elaine Mayes. Untitled. September 3, 1968<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Search: Elaine Mayes|url=http://www.mfa.org/search/mfa/elaine?search_api_views_fulltext=elaine+mayes|website=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|publisher=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|accessdate=28 January 2015}}</ref> The [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Telfair Museum of Art]] in [[Savannah, Georgia]] and a number of other art institutions across the United States.
Mayes' photographic work is included in the permanent collections of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/photographs/taxi_and_landscape_san_francisco_elaine_mayes/objectview.aspx?collID=19&OID=190012529 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Taxi and Landscape San Francisco<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The [[Museum of Modern Art]],<ref>[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?artistFilterInitial=&criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3861&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1 MoMA | The Collection | Elaine Mayes. Untitled. September 3, 1968<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Search: Elaine Mayes|url=http://www.mfa.org/search/mfa/elaine?search_api_views_fulltext=elaine+mayes|website=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|publisher=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|access-date=January 28, 2015}}</ref> The [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Telfair Museum of Art]] in [[Savannah, Georgia]] and a number of other art institutions across the United States.


Her [[videography]] was included in "[[Silverlake Life: The View from Here|Silverlake Life]]" (1992), an award winning documentary that observed the struggles of film maker Tom Joslin and his partner with [[AIDS]].<ref>[http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/132269/Silverlake-Life-The-View-From-Here/details Silverlake-Life-The-View-From-Here - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards - NYTimes.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Mayes' Hawaii photographs were exhibited at the [[Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House]] (formerly known as The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) in 2003.<ref>[http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_fhc3fall03.htm Honolulu Museum of Art » Spalding House<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In the same year her book of photographs of the [[Monterey Pop Festival]], "It Happened In Monterey", was published by Britannia Press. A selection of these photographs was included in the Criterion 2002 DVD release “The Complete Monterey Pop” along with commentary by Mayes.<ref>[http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/c/completemontereypop_cc.shtml The DVD Journal | Reviews : The Complete Monterey Pop Festival<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her Haight Ashbury portraits were exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, and her work was included in group shows at MOMA.<ref>"Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West", page x, Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, 2009</ref> In 2010 her work was included at SFMOMA’s 75th Anniversary Exhibition.<ref>[http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1528 SFMOMA | Exhibitions + Events | Calendar | 75 Reasons to Live: Day 1<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Her [[videography]] was included in "[[Silverlake Life: The View from Here|Silverlake Life]]" (1992), an award-winning documentary that observed the struggles of film maker Tom Joslin and his partner with AIDS.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104123555/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/132269/Silverlake-Life-The-View-From-Here/details Silverlake-Life-The-View-From-Here Cast, Crew, Director and Awards|work=The New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Mayes' Hawaii photographs were exhibited at the [[Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House]] (formerly known as The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_fhc3fall03.htm |title=Honolulu Museum of Art » Spalding House<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=April 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720023910/http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_fhc3fall03.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the same year her book of photographs of the [[Monterey Pop Festival]], "It Happened In Monterey", was published by Britannia Press. A selection of these photographs was included in the Criterion 2002 DVD release "The Complete Monterey Pop" along with commentary by Mayes.<ref>[http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/c/completemontereypop_cc.shtml The DVD Journal | Reviews : The Complete Monterey Pop Festival<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her Haight Ashbury portraits were exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, and her work was included in group shows at MOMA.<ref>"Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West", page x, Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, 2009</ref> In 2010 her work was included at SFMOMA's 75th Anniversary Exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1528 |title=SFMOMA {{!}} Exhibitions + Events {{!}} Calendar {{!}} 75 Reasons to Live: Day 1<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=May 5, 2011 |archive-date=January 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121054225/http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1528 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her 2014 book "Recently" grew out of her "unexpected nomadic life that lasted from 2006 until 2013. The photographs were taken in response to what I saw and experienced and can be seen as a visual diary."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elainemayesphoto.com/recently.html|title=Elaine Mayes Photographer – Recently|website=www.elainemayesphoto.com|access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref> In 2017 her photographs appeared in the [[De Young (museum)|De Young museum]] show "The Summer of Love Experience."<ref>{{cite news
| last = Hotchkiss
| first = Sarah
| title = She Photographed Jimi Hendrix Without Knowing His Name
| publisher = KQED
| date = June 5, 2017
| url = https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/06/05/she-photographed-jimi-hendrix-without-knowing-his-name/
| access-date = June 5, 2017 }}</ref>


==Fellowships and grants==
==Fellowships and grants==
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In 1978 she received two NEA Fellowships,<ref>National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report, 1971, page 125</ref> including an individual grant and support for participation in a Survey Grant that resulted in The Long Island Project, sponsored by Apeiron Workshops, now housed at [[Hofstra University]].<ref>[[National Endowment for the Arts]] Annual Report, 1971, pages 250 & 258</ref><ref>Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s, page 227, Mark Rice, University Press of Mississippi, 2005</ref>
In 1978 she received two NEA Fellowships,<ref>National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report, 1971, page 125</ref> including an individual grant and support for participation in a Survey Grant that resulted in The Long Island Project, sponsored by Apeiron Workshops, now housed at [[Hofstra University]].<ref>[[National Endowment for the Arts]] Annual Report, 1971, pages 250 & 258</ref><ref>Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s, page 227, Mark Rice, University Press of Mississippi, 2005</ref>


In 1991 Mayes received a Guggenheim Fellowship<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/9609-elaine-mayes Elaine Mayes - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> to photograph in Hawaii, and with an Atherton Foundation grant (2003) published this work in a [[limited edition]] book titled "Ki'i No Hawai'i" in 2009.
In 1991 Mayes received a Guggenheim Fellowship<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/9609-elaine-mayes |title=Elaine Mayes John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=April 19, 2011 |archive-date=September 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920180558/http://www.gf.org/fellows/9609-elaine-mayes |url-status=dead }}</ref> to photograph in Hawaii, and with an Atherton Foundation grant (2003) published this work in a [[limited edition]] book titled "Ki'i No Hawai'i" in 2009.


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.elainemayesphoto.com Official website]
*[http://www.elainemayesphoto.com Official website]
*[http://www.stevenkasher.com/artists/elaine-mayes#1 Elaine Mayes] at Steven Kasher Gallery


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Latest revision as of 14:49, 29 April 2024

Elaine Mayes
Born (1936-10-01) October 1, 1936 (age 88)
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute
Stanford University
OccupationPhotographer
Websitewww.elainemayesphoto.com

Elaine Mayes (born October 1, 1936) is an American photographer and a retired professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Academia

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Beginning in 1968, she taught at the University of Minnesota, and in 1971 joined Jerome Liebling as part of the founding faculty at Hampshire College, where she taught for ten years.[1] Her students included documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Michel Negroponte, Roger Sherman, Buddy Squires, Kirk Simon, and Karen Goodman.[2][3] In 1976, Mayes, and former students Burns and Sherman, founded a production company called Florentine Films in Walpole, New Hampshire. The company's name was borrowed from Mayes' hometown of Florence, Massachusetts. She left the company after 1 year.

In 2009 Hampshire established an endowment in Mayes' name to support student projects in film, photography and video.[4] Mayes also taught at Pratt Institute, The International Center of Photography, Bard College and New York University where she retired as Chair of the Photography Department in the Tisch School of the Arts in 2000.[5]

Subject matter

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Known for her portraits of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury residents in 1967-8 and for her iconic images of rock and roll performers in the late 1960s, Mayes' subject matter has also included landscapes and conceptual projects including her series, Autolandscapes, made with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship from a moving car while traveling across the country in 1971. She also photographed the New York downtown rock scene of the 1980s.[6] In 1982 she received a New York State CAPS grant. In 1985 she and No Theater of Northampton received a Massachusetts State Foundation for the Arts grant in support of a collaborative work, 'Photoplay.'

Collections

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Mayes' photographic work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] The Museum of Modern Art,[8] The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[9] The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia and a number of other art institutions across the United States.

Her videography was included in "Silverlake Life" (1992), an award-winning documentary that observed the struggles of film maker Tom Joslin and his partner with AIDS.[10] Mayes' Hawaii photographs were exhibited at the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House (formerly known as The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) in 2003.[11] In the same year her book of photographs of the Monterey Pop Festival, "It Happened In Monterey", was published by Britannia Press. A selection of these photographs was included in the Criterion 2002 DVD release "The Complete Monterey Pop" along with commentary by Mayes.[12] Her Haight Ashbury portraits were exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, and her work was included in group shows at MOMA.[13] In 2010 her work was included at SFMOMA's 75th Anniversary Exhibition.[14] Her 2014 book "Recently" grew out of her "unexpected nomadic life that lasted from 2006 until 2013. The photographs were taken in response to what I saw and experienced and can be seen as a visual diary."[15] In 2017 her photographs appeared in the De Young museum show "The Summer of Love Experience."[16]

Fellowships and grants

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In 1978 she received two NEA Fellowships,[17] including an individual grant and support for participation in a Survey Grant that resulted in The Long Island Project, sponsored by Apeiron Workshops, now housed at Hofstra University.[18][19]

In 1991 Mayes received a Guggenheim Fellowship[20] to photograph in Hawaii, and with an Atherton Foundation grant (2003) published this work in a limited edition book titled "Ki'i No Hawai'i" in 2009.

References

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  1. ^ Office of Communications (January 3, 2012). "Elaine Mayes Grants for Division III Work". Hampshire College. Hampshire College. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  2. ^ Ken Burns' Cinematic Walk in the Park | International Documentary Association
  3. ^ Academy Award Win for ‘Strangers No More’
  4. ^ Hampshire College Hampshire Funding for Projects and Internships
  5. ^ Mayes: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
  6. ^ "Elaine Mayes | Debbie Harry, from television, 1983". Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  7. ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Taxi and Landscape – San Francisco
  8. ^ MoMA | The Collection | Elaine Mayes. Untitled. September 3, 1968
  9. ^ "Search: Elaine Mayes". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  10. ^ Silverlake-Life-The-View-From-Here – Cast, Crew, Director and Awards|work=The New York Times
  11. ^ "Honolulu Museum of Art » Spalding House". Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
  12. ^ The DVD Journal | Reviews : The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
  13. ^ "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West", page x, Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, 2009
  14. ^ "SFMOMA | Exhibitions + Events | Calendar | 75 Reasons to Live: Day 1". Archived from the original on January 21, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  15. ^ "Elaine Mayes Photographer – Recently". www.elainemayesphoto.com. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  16. ^ Hotchkiss, Sarah (June 5, 2017). "She Photographed Jimi Hendrix Without Knowing His Name". KQED. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  17. ^ National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report, 1971, page 125
  18. ^ National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report, 1971, pages 250 & 258
  19. ^ Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s, page 227, Mark Rice, University Press of Mississippi, 2005
  20. ^ "Elaine Mayes – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
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