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{{short description|American photographer from New York (born 1957)}} |
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'''Brian Kosoff''' (born 1957) is an American photographer from New York who has worked as both a [[Commercial photography|commercial]] and [[Fine-art photography|fine arts photographer]].<ref>[http://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/our-five-favorite-of-afterimage-gallerys-40-exceptional-photographs-7084349 "Our Five Favorite of Afterimage Gallery's 40 Exceptional Photographs"]. ''Dallas Observer'', by Catherine Downes, November 4, 2011</ref> |
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'''Brian Kosoff''' (born 1957) is a photographer from New York who has worked as both a commercial and fine arts photographer. While in his teens, Kosoff began capturing images of urban landscapes, a genre that is indicative of his later work.<br /> |
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In 2002 Kosoff left his commercial career to devote himself to the production of personal work; he subsequently had exhibitions throughout the United States. In addition to writing articles for magazines and newspapers, he has been interviewed and featured in a variety of publications<ref name="ND 2012">{{cite journal|last=Stavars|first=Martin|title=Brian Kosoff|journal=ND Magazine|year=2012|month=March|url=http://nd-magazine.com/brian-kosoff/|accessdate=6 August 2013}}</ref> . Kosoff states, “While photography is inherently a two-dimensional medium, incorporating only height and width, I work to include two other dimensions: depth and time.”<ref name=rangefinder>{{cite journal|last=Carol|first=David|title=Lone Pine Peak|journal=Rangefinder Magazine|date=Feb 2013|year=2013|month=Feb|pages=138|url=http://digitalmag.rangefinderonline.com/rangefinder/201302#pg139}}</ref> A critic for the Dallas Morning News similarly noted that his images are “example[s] of two-dimensional work that operate with magic akin to the three-dimensional shimmer of rolling mercury.”<ref name=DMN>{{cite news|last=Mora|first=Patricia|title=Gallery Gourmet, Shows by Roger Winter, Martin Rico and Brian Kosoff|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/arts/headlines/20130511-gallery-gourmet-shows-by-roger-winter-martin-rico-and-brian-kosoff.ece|accessdate=22 July 2013|date=May 12, 2013}}</ref> <br /> |
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Kosoff worked as an assistant for Irving Penn, famous for his fashion and still-life images, as well as other accomplished photographers, including Arnold Newman. The latter is widely known for his environmental portraiture. <br /> |
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== Early life == |
== Early life == |
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Kosoff was born in New York City and spent his early years in Brooklyn. His uncle, an amateur photographer, introduced him to photography when he was 15 years old. While in high school, he began an internship that allowed him to assist several Manhattan-based editorial and advertising photographers. During his subsequent studies at the [[School of Visual Arts]], he continued to work as a photographer's assistant and was encouraged to bring his portfolio to newspapers and galleries. This resulted in assignments for the Village Voice and the first solo exhibition of his photography at Third Eye Gallery. The exhibition was noted on the "short list" in ''[[The New York Times]]'' for recommended shows. As a result, Kosoff left school to pursue photographic assignments, the first of which was for ''[[New York magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=ISSUE NO. 19|url=http://www.bandwmag.com/back-issues/bw-no-19|publisher=Black & White Magazine|accessdate=February 22, 2016}}</ref> |
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== Commercial career == |
== Commercial career == |
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Starting in the late seventies, Kosoff worked for magazines, corporate clients and advertising agencies |
Starting in the late seventies, Kosoff worked for magazines, corporate clients and advertising agencies. After a 25-year career in commercial work, Kosoff embarked on a very different path that he found more rewarding. In the late nineties he made a trip to [[Death Valley]] and Kosoff, enamored by the sand dunes and mountains of California, was intrigued by the peace and serenity they conveyed. He began attempting to capture in images both the landscapes he saw and the mood they invoked. That became his life's work and, in 2002, Kosoff closed his commercial studio in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite web|title=In Focus: Brian Kosoff|url=http://blog.susanburnstine.com/post/13443862065|publisher=[[Susan Burnstine]]|accessdate=June 26, 2016}}</ref> |
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== Fine art photography == |
== Fine art photography == |
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In 2002 Kosoff left his commercial career to devote himself to the production of personal work; he subsequently had exhibitions throughout the United States. |
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His skills learnd while producing projects for commercial clients carried over into his work photographing landscapes.<ref name="Digital photography 2012">{{cite journal|last=Bell|first=Ewen|title=How to Shoot Black and White Landscapes|journal=Digital Photography Magazine|year=2012|pages=92-97|url=http://ewenbell.com/inprint/2012/092-97_DP_BW.pdf|accessdate=6 August 2013}}</ref> He began applying methodical precision to work he found moving on an emotional level. He uses early-morning light and a minimalist sensibility to document his travels in North America and Europe.<br /> |
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In addition to writing articles for magazines and newspapers, he has been interviewed and featured in a variety of publications.<ref name="ND 2012">{{cite journal|last=Stavars|first=Martin|title=Brian Kosoff|journal=ND Magazine|date=March 2012|url=http://nd-magazine.com/brian-kosoff/|accessdate=August 6, 2013}}</ref> Kosoff states, "While photography is inherently a two-dimensional medium, incorporating only height and width, I work to include two other dimensions: depth and time.”<ref name=rangefinder>{{cite journal|last=Carol|first=David|title=Lone Pine Peak|journal=Rangefinder Magazine|date=February 2013|pages=138|url=http://digitalmag.rangefinderonline.com/rangefinder/201302#pg139}}</ref> A critic for the [[Dallas Morning News]] similarly noted that his images are "example[s] of two-dimensional work that operate with magic akin to the three-dimensional shimmer of rolling mercury."<ref name=DMN>{{cite news|last=Mora|first=Patricia|title=Gallery Gourmet, Shows by Roger Winter, Martin Rico and Brian Kosoff|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/arts/headlines/20130511-gallery-gourmet-shows-by-roger-winter-martin-rico-and-brian-kosoff.ece|work=The Dallas Morning News|accessdate=July 22, 2013|date=May 12, 2013}}</ref> |
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Joe Farace, spoke about Kosoff’s work in a 2012 edition of ''Shutterbug Magazine.'' He said the following: “With his pristine compositions Kosoff has created an idealized world that sometimes strays into the allegorical, as in his image of three telephone poles titled ‘Three Crosses’ that may generate internal debate within the viewer. And then it hit me: Kosoff is a poet with a camera, rendering stanzas in grayscale using the rhythm of minimalistic images of pier pilings (‘Pier Pilings with Bird’) where you have to work to see the bird. It’s as if Kosoff wants to make his work accessible while at the same time not too accessible, holding back part of an image’s mystery for discovery and interpretation by the viewer.”<ref name=shutterbug>{{cite journal|last=Farace|first=Joe|title=Celebrating Camera Day|year=2012|month=June|pages=24|url=http://www.shutterbug.com/content/celebrating-camera-day-racing-around-web-june|accessdate=22 July 2013}}</ref><br /> |
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His skills learnd while producing projects for commercial clients carried over into his work photographing landscapes.<ref name="Digital photography 2012">{{cite journal|last=Bell|first=Ewen|title=How to Shoot Black and White Landscapes|journal=Digital Photography Magazine|year=2012|pages=92–97|url=http://ewenbell.com/inprint/2012/092-97_DP_BW.pdf|accessdate=August 6, 2013}}</ref> He began applying methodical precision to work he found moving on an emotional level. He uses early-morning light and a minimalist sensibility to document his travels in North America and Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gallery Gourmet: Shows by Roger Winter, Martin Rico and Brian Kosoff|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/arts/headlines/20130511-gallery-gourmet-shows-by-roger-winter-martin-rico-and-brian-kosoff.ece|work=The Dallas Morning News|accessdate=June 26, 2016}}</ref> |
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In a review in The ''Dallas Morning News'', Patricia Mora stated, “Brian Kosoff’s images in his show at AfterImage Gallery crackle with the voluptuousness of jewelry. He gives us vision after vision of night skies and planetary rotations coupled with sailing vessels, churches, highways and Southwestern landscapes. Because he photographs at night, he calculates directions, angles, exposure times and weather with the precision of a sailor navigating with an astrolabe.” <ref name=DMN /> The latter review refers to Kosoff’s most recent work, landscape photography depicting night skies and images that include star trails and the contours of mountains, roads, telephone wire and train tracks.<br /> |
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Joe Farace, spoke about Kosoff's work in a 2012 edition of ''[[Shutterbug (magazine)|Shutterbug Magazine]]''.<ref name=shutterbug>{{cite journal|last=Farace|first=Joe|title=Celebrating Camera Day|year=June 2012|pages=24|url=http://www.shutterbug.com/content/celebrating-camera-day-racing-around-web-june|work=Shutterbug Magazine|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> |
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== Exhibitions == |
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2013<br /> |
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== External links == |
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AfterImage Gallery, Dallas,TX<br /> |
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*[http://www.kosoff.com Official website] |
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*[http://www.artnet.com/artists/brian-kosoff/biography Brian Kosoff] at the [[Artnet]] |
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*[https://www.artsy.net/show/gallery-270-brian-kosoff-landscape-retrospective Brian Kosoff : Landscape Retrospective] |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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2009<br /> |
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AfterImage Gallery, Dallas,TX<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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2008 <br /> |
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Gallery 270, Westwood, NJ<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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Iris Gallery, Great Barrington, MA<br /> |
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Two Artist Exhibition<br /> |
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2007<br /> |
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Migration Gallery, Charlottesville, VA<br /> |
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Group Exhibition "We all Live in Bordertowns"<br /> |
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Photographer's Gallery, Los Angeles, CA<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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Gallery 270, Westwood, NJ<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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Indian Hill Gallery, Wells, VT<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR<br /> |
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Group Exhibition<br /> |
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2006 <br /> |
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Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "The Black and White Photograph"<br /> |
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The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, Director's Choice<br /> |
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June Bateman Gallery, NYC<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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2005 <br /> |
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June Bateman Gallery, NYC<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Objects of Desire"<br /> |
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2004 <br /> |
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Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Moore, Christopher, Kosoff"<br /> |
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2003 <br /> |
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Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Leipzig, Plowden, Kosoff"<br /> |
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2002<br /> |
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AfterImage Gallery, Dallas, TX<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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2001<br /> |
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Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Ontario<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Terrain"<br /> |
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The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition<br /> |
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Edward Carter Gallery, NYC<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Fire & Ice"<br /> |
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JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "In the Stillness of Time"<br /> |
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The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Delicate Objects"<br /> |
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The Photography Room. Grand Rapids, MI<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "Visions of Iceland" <br /> |
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Edward Carter Gallery, NYC<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition, "Horizons".<br /> |
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Edward Carter Gallery, NYC<br /> |
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Group Exhibition, "America the Beautiful"<br /> |
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Piermont Flywheel Gallery, NY<br /> |
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Solo Exhibition, "West of Here"<br /> |
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“Bones, the Unity of Form and Function”<ref name=Bones>{{cite web|last=Alexander|first=R. McNeill|title=Bones, the Unity of Form and Function|url=http://ewenbell.com/inprint/2012/092-97_DP_BW.pdf|accessdate=6 August 2013}}</ref> Macmillan Publishing, 1994, all original photography by Brian Kosoff <br /> |
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== References == |
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== External Links ==<ref name=website>{{cite web|url=http://www.kosoff.com}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 03:05, 11 July 2024
Brian Kosoff (born 1957) is an American photographer from New York who has worked as both a commercial and fine arts photographer.[1]
Early life
[edit]Kosoff was born in New York City and spent his early years in Brooklyn. His uncle, an amateur photographer, introduced him to photography when he was 15 years old. While in high school, he began an internship that allowed him to assist several Manhattan-based editorial and advertising photographers. During his subsequent studies at the School of Visual Arts, he continued to work as a photographer's assistant and was encouraged to bring his portfolio to newspapers and galleries. This resulted in assignments for the Village Voice and the first solo exhibition of his photography at Third Eye Gallery. The exhibition was noted on the "short list" in The New York Times for recommended shows. As a result, Kosoff left school to pursue photographic assignments, the first of which was for New York magazine.[2]
Commercial career
[edit]Starting in the late seventies, Kosoff worked for magazines, corporate clients and advertising agencies. After a 25-year career in commercial work, Kosoff embarked on a very different path that he found more rewarding. In the late nineties he made a trip to Death Valley and Kosoff, enamored by the sand dunes and mountains of California, was intrigued by the peace and serenity they conveyed. He began attempting to capture in images both the landscapes he saw and the mood they invoked. That became his life's work and, in 2002, Kosoff closed his commercial studio in Manhattan.[3]
Fine art photography
[edit]In 2002 Kosoff left his commercial career to devote himself to the production of personal work; he subsequently had exhibitions throughout the United States.
In addition to writing articles for magazines and newspapers, he has been interviewed and featured in a variety of publications.[4] Kosoff states, "While photography is inherently a two-dimensional medium, incorporating only height and width, I work to include two other dimensions: depth and time.”[5] A critic for the Dallas Morning News similarly noted that his images are "example[s] of two-dimensional work that operate with magic akin to the three-dimensional shimmer of rolling mercury."[6]
His skills learnd while producing projects for commercial clients carried over into his work photographing landscapes.[7] He began applying methodical precision to work he found moving on an emotional level. He uses early-morning light and a minimalist sensibility to document his travels in North America and Europe.[8]
Joe Farace, spoke about Kosoff's work in a 2012 edition of Shutterbug Magazine.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Our Five Favorite of Afterimage Gallery's 40 Exceptional Photographs". Dallas Observer, by Catherine Downes, November 4, 2011
- ^ "ISSUE NO. 19". Black & White Magazine. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ^ "In Focus: Brian Kosoff". Susan Burnstine. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
- ^ Stavars, Martin (March 2012). "Brian Kosoff". ND Magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
- ^ Carol, David (February 2013). "Lone Pine Peak". Rangefinder Magazine: 138.
- ^ Mora, Patricia (May 12, 2013). "Gallery Gourmet, Shows by Roger Winter, Martin Rico and Brian Kosoff". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
- ^ Bell, Ewen (2012). "How to Shoot Black and White Landscapes" (PDF). Digital Photography Magazine: 92–97. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
- ^ "Gallery Gourmet: Shows by Roger Winter, Martin Rico and Brian Kosoff". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
- ^ Farace, Joe (June 2012). "Celebrating Camera Day". Shutterbug Magazine: 24. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
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