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Michael Somoroff


Michael Somoroff is a conceptual artist, director, photographer, and communication consultant. Whether in moving pictures, still image or through his installation work, Somoroff has directed and created work for advertising agencies, publications and cultural institutions. He is also a teacher and cultural commentator who has worked with academic/cultural institutions including SUNY Stony Brook, The University of the Arts, The Rothko Chapel and the International Center of Photography.

The focus of his art is spiritual and philosophical. Somoroff's work is an expression of the Alexey Brodovitch model translated into postmodern culture.

Somoroff's father, Ben Somoroff, was a still-life photographer. Somoroff spent much of his youth at his father's studio, on 54th street in New York City. He became his father's studio manager and worked with the many artists who frequented the studio.

In October 1979, the first exhibition of Somoroff's photography was held at the International Center of Photography in New York City, under the supervision of Cornell Capa.

Somoroff had opened his photography studio in the mid-seventies, and started working for magazines such as Life, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Stern, in Europe and the US. He worked with designers and art directors, including Milton Glaser, who got him his first assignment for New York magazine.

He continued to develop his personal work, traveling throughout Europe, forming friendships that served as the foundation for his artistic efforts. Among his most important mentors was the photographer Gyula Halász, better known as Brassaï, Andreas Feininger, Louis Faurer, and André Kertész. He took their portraits as well as of many other photographers he met early in his career. Thirty five years later, he published these photographs in a book A Moment. Master Photographers: Portraits that was selected as Best Book of the Year by American Photo.


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