Geof kern biography of albert

Neiman Marcus’ “The Art of Fashion,” a multi-page advertising insert that appears biannually in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and the Neiman-Marcus publication The Book, is a recurring lesson in great photography. First shot by Richard Avedon, it debuted in Spring 1994; Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, and Geof Kern soon followed. In the years since, Tim Walker, Nadav Kander, Norman Jean Roy, Ruven Afanador and Albert Watson have all taken a turn. Creativity carries more weight than the photographers’ fashion portfolios. And for Spring 2017, Kern has returned to scoop up the photographic honor for a second time.

To meet the somewhat conflicting criteria that the series be photographed outdoors and in November, Los Angeles became first choice for location. Art Director Peggy Bennett requested “blue skies,” so Kern began to envision “a sprawling landscape always in motion” and Angelenos’ “utter dependency on cars, planning life around travel time, planes landing every fifteen minutes at LAX, rows and rows of petrol tanks.” The city’s urban bustle and vast, cloudless skies became his backdrop. Sketches were made and shoots were booked at the Los Angeles International Airport, the Los Angeles Harbor, and at a refinery in Long Beach.

Bennett and Randy Elia brought the creative force of Bennett-Elia to the project; also instrumental were hair and makeup artists Renato Campora and Beau Nelson from The Wall Group, stylist Lauren Ehrenfeld from Elyse Connolly Agency, and model Sarah Brannon from New York Models. “Art of Fashion” is the brainchild of NM Vice President of Creative, Georgia Christensen.

American artist (born 1978)

R. J. Kern (born 1978) is an American artist, known for his photographs exploring identity, culture, and philosophical questions about nature and heritage through the interaction of people, animals and landscape. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada, China, England, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Japan and Norway, at venues including the National Portrait Gallery, London, Rourke Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art Tbilisi, and Yixian International Photography Festival (Anhui, China) among many. Kern has received awards and recognition from the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, the photography non-profit CENTER, and the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, and was chosen one of PDN's "30 New and Emerging Photographers" in 2018.

Kern's work has been showcased by PBS,The Guardian (London),The Telegraph (London), the Star Tribune, and National Geographic, with a feature of his "The Unchosen Ones" and "Out to Pasture" series. In 2018, Kehrer Verlag published Kern's monograph, The Sheep and the Goats, which features a conversation with noted photographer Stuart Klipper and was named one of "The Most Beautiful German Books 2018" by design foundation Stiftung Buchkunst. Kern's next self-published monograph, The Unchosen Ones, won a 2018 Communication Arts "Award of Excellence." Public collections holding Kern's work include the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Plains Art Museum, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Biography

Kern was born Robert James Kern in Peekskill, New York in 1978. T

1905 Albert Kern
Early Photographs of Champion Hill

By Rebecca B. Drake

Albert Kern was born in Germantown, Ohio, in 1848 and was a lifelong resident of Montgomery County. He moved to Dayton, Ohio, in the early 1870s where he became a successful lawyer. From 1890 to 1922, he was an enthusiastic photographer in the Dayton area. At one time, Kern served as vice-president of the Dayton Camera Club. He was very interested in the American Civil War and made numerous trips to the major battlefields - documenting them with his camera. In May 1905 he traveled to Vicksburg for the dedication of the Ohio monuments in the Vicksburg National Military Park. During this time, he took the opportunity to join an excursion group who visited the Champion Hill Battlefield. Kern not only photographed major battlefields of the Civil War but also the lesser known battlefields where Ohio regiments from Montgomery County once fought. Other battlefields captured through the eye of Kern's camera include Stone Mountain and Murfreesboro (Tennessee) and New Hope Church and Resaca (Georgia).

Kern’s collection of 15,000 glass plate negatives is housed in the archives of the Montgomery County Historical Society of Dayton, Ohio. A recent indexing has brought to light and made available his extensive collection of battlefield photographs.

To see more of Kern’s photography visit http://daytonhistory.org/glance_camera.htm.
 

Three major roads are associated with the Battle of Champion Hill: the Old Jackson Road (bottom road) which ran near the railroad track; the middle road (now known as the Billy Fields Road) and the upper road, known as the Edwards-Raymond Road. The above photograph, based on the writing as seen on t