Exposed: The Photographer x 4
On NJN’s State of the Arts
Friday, August 18 at 8:30 pm; and Wednesday, August 23 at 11:30 pm

STATEWIDE – NJN’s State of the Arts focuses on four photographers whose styles range from the journalistic to the painterly. This encore presentation of Exposed: The Photographer x 4 airs on NJN on Friday, August 18 at 8:30 pm, with a rebroadcast on Wednesday, August 23 at 1:30 pm.

• Aerial photographer Owen Kanzler takes fascinating landscapes from the vantage point of his own small plane that he flies himself. A professional photographer since 1969, Kanzler has been involved in aviation since the mid-1970s. One of his best-known images is of sunbathers in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Titled “Self Portrait,” the airplane he is piloting can be seen as a shadow on the beach. Kanzler’s images are shot primarily in New Jersey, where he is a resident of Linden.

• The subjects of Philadelphia photographer Don Camp’s portraits are all black men — usually solemn, seldom smiling. His first photos were of his own brothers, followed by a series of men of his faith with whom he prayed. Camp began his career as a staff photographer for the Philadelphia Bulletin. He realized early on that the media generally portrayed images of black men in a way that made the viewer feel uncomfortable. Camp uses his photographs to show nobility and dignity. His work, Dust Shaped Hearts, is the fruition of 56 years of observation.

• Ruth Bernhard is one of the pioneers of the nude in photography. Born in Berlin in 1905, she moved to New York in her early twenties where she began her career as a darkroom assistant. After a chance meeting with renowned photographer Edward Weston on a California beach, she studied with him and realized the potential of photography as a true art form. She went on to create her own unique style, taking portraits as well as pursuing her creative interest in photographs of the female nude. “Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush,” Bernhard said. “It is as vital as the model herself.”

• And Naomi Savage, a Princeton photographer who doesn’t take photographs at face value, has created an entire lifetime of work reinterpreting the same image of her sister. Savage’s uncle is the photographer and artist Man Ray, who was one of her early teachers. Her works are part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Princeton University.

State of the Arts, the award-winning, half-hour arts magazine airs every Friday at 8:30 pm, followed by an encore presentation each Wednesday at 11:30 pm.

The current episode of State of the Arts can be viewed online at www.njn.net. Individual stories will be available to view online following their broadcast by visiting the program online at State of the Arts.

Funding for State of the Arts is provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The series producer is Susan Wallner and the executive producer is Nila Aronow.