ENTRY DESCRIPTION
NONAGENARIAN

A Nonagenarian is a person between the ages of 90 and 99.
Nonagenarian is also the name of a series of photos that I plan on shooting of friends who live at Shell Point.

I will not choose my models to pose for these photos because they are wrinkled or elderly looking but because of their positive attitudes and gusto for life. My goal in taking these photos is to capture the beauty of their wise and timeless personalities. Each photography is a mini story of a long live well lived. To be true to their generation I will be working in
analog format. The images will be graphic and honest.

The camera I will be using is a 30 year old medium format Mamyia 1000s, with black and white film. Black & white film has an
incredible huge dynamic range of detail in both highlights and shadows. The BOKEH* is outstanding in portraiture photography when using this kind of camera. The negatives will be scanned Hi-Res after they are developed which now makes them digital imagery.

AUTHOR
Born and raised in New York, Herb Sklar graduated from the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He worked in Manhattan for major advertising agencies as an art director and creative director for ten years. He then started his own advertising agency. Herb won more than 100 awards in juried competitions for outstanding concepts and designs in both print and television media.
Herb was an instructor at the Arts Academy at Edison State College (Florida SouthWest State) and is currently teaching at The Alliance for the Arts and the Academy at Shell Point. He is a collector of old American photographic images; daguerrotypes, tintypes and carte de visites. Also some contemporary images from Ansel Adams to Lee Friedlander complete his collections.

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