ENTRY DESCRIPTION
New York Harbor 1964 with the ferry Somerville building up a full head of steam. To the right is the pier of the Venezuelan Line. Unknown to me at the time, my vantage point was almost identical to Alfred Stieglitz's when he made his image entitled "City of Ambition" featuring the same ferry and skyline in 1910. Shot with a Canon SLR, scanned and printed as a hand-pulled 11.5 x 7.75 inch photogravure print by printmaker Russell Dodd, who at the time was creating photogravure prints for LensWork magazine. This image is included in my Fine Art Series and was selected by Pendleton Woolen Mills to be woven on an antique Jacquard loom in Pendleton, Oregon, into a 67 x 47 inch wool tapestry. The finished tapestry can be viewed on my website under the "Tapestries" tab at www.frankbarnettphotography.com. In addition, Pendleton Woolen Mills also wove tapestries featuring six of my other fine art images in editions of fewer than ten. In 2012 I purchased Pendleton's entire inventory and today my tapestries are available only through my studio.

AUTHOR
Trained as a Cultural Anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles during the tumultuous 60s, author and award-winning commercial and fine art photographer Frank Barnett has had a rich, multi-faceted career. From heading marketing and public relations for the University of California Press to founding a carriage-trade bookstore and three fine art galleries, he also owned an advertising and public relations firm for 25 years. His specialty, photojournalism, has taken him from the center of the arena at the famous Pendleton Round-up to the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary, home of the Angola Prison Rodeo.

For the past 50 years, he has sought access to edgy, outsider subjects from the Berlin Wall to the bedside of his terminally-ill wife, aging nursing home residents, and prison inmates for whom life beyond confinement would never be realized.


His fine art photography includes masterfully executed photomontages. In 1988 Frank co-authored Working Together: Entrepreneurial Couples, published by Ten Speed Press and cemented his reputation as a thought leader in the family entrepreneurial arena. At 80, he is still active as a fine art and commercial photographer. He resides in Salem, Oregon, with his wife and creative collaborator, Martha Solomon. Together, the couple serves museums, corporations, and individuals with award-winning photography, publications, and curated installations. Their next exhibit, "The All American Toy Company – An Oregon Original," is scheduled to open at the Oregon Historical Society Museum in Portland, Oregon, in September, 2019.

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