New to DVD from First Run Features, it is one of the very best nonfiction films of the past year. The former soda jerk and Korean War vet earned fame and fortune as a conceptual photographer in the Madison Avenue ad game, helping revolutionize the industry in the 1950s and ’60s with his creative thinking […]
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Southwest’s best
Jim Keffer’s Food for Thought Using sculpture, photography, painting and cardboard, four artists created works to portray their individual perspectives of the American Southwest for JRB Art at The Elms’ current exhibition. Joy Reed Belt, gallery owner and curator, selected artists Shirley Thomson-Smith, Jim Keffer, Jenny Gummersall and Jason Cytacki for the Art of the […]
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‘Eve’ plum
Lana Lumas Images and words from Oklahoma’s incarcerated women informed one local artist’s latest exhibition, currently on display at Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum. It also reflects his longtime hope to liberate a state that has led the nation in per capita female imprisonment for nearly 20 years. Photographer Yousef Khanfar shot 101 images of women […]
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Jail it
Jail it For his latest exhibition, Invisible Eve, local photographer Yousef Khanfar took black-and-white portraits of women behind bars for nonviolent crimes. Their personal messages appear beside the photos, which go on display at Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, beginning with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The exhibit runs through […]
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Puttin’ on the Ritts
Madonna — True Blue Profile (Hollywood, 1986) Photo: Herb Ritts Foundation Herb Ritts was a celebrity photographer in both senses of the term: a photographer of celebrities and, rarer still, a photographer who became a celebrity. His status was built upon his shots of fashion models and entertainment icons in stark black and white — […]
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‘Ghost’ world
“It’s a seductive and powerful landscape, with a beguiling charm that didn’t want to let me go,” said Santa Fe photographer Craig Varjabedian of the legendary Ghost Ranch landscapes in New Mexico. Oklahomans can share that experience when his exhibition of 69 large, black-and-white images of Georgia O’Keeffe’s one-time home opens Friday at the National […]
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This magic ‘Moment’
Shortt, along with potter Michelle Phillip Junkin and sculptor Dan Garrett, currently is displaying his work in the exhibit “Living in the Moment,” at In Your Eye Studio & Gallery, 3005-A Paseo. Each artist’s work is a reflection of moments in time, something that Shortt said he has enjoyed capturing since an early age. “I’ve […]