About Face: Portraits Personalities Documentary    Nov 19 - Dec 15, 2011

Artist Reception: Saturday, November 19, 6-8PM

The Tulla Booth Gallery presents "About Face" the exhibit includes reveting portraits of the famous, infamous and everyday folks. The lure of portraits is very powerful it is about the seductive moment between the photographer and what the subject is willing to reveal. It is a trust, the moment of capture is majic in the right hands.

Burt Glinn Glinn became an associate member of Magnum in 1951 along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock - the first Americans to join the young photo agency -- and a full member in 1954. He made his mark with spectacular color series on the South Seas. Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. In 1959 he received the Mathew Brady Award for Magazine Photographer of the Year from the University of Missouri.

In collaboration with the writer Laurens van der Post, Glinn published A Portrait of All the Russias and A Portrait of Japan. His reportage's have appeared in Esquire, Geo, Travel and Leisure, Fortune, Life and Paris-Match. He has covered the Sinai War, the US Marine invasion of Lebanon and Fidel Castro's takeover of Cuba. In the 1990s he completed an extensive photo essay on the topic of medical science.

Steve McCurry known for the world changing iconic "Afghan Girl"image taken in December 1984, it appeared on the cover of National Geographic June 1985. McCurry has a mystical way of capturing the soul of his subjects in his portraits. He is recognized universally as one of today's finest image makers, has won many of photography's top awards. Best known for his evocative color photography, McCurry, in the finest documentary tradition, captures the essence of human struggle and joy. Member of Magnum Photos since 1986, McCurry has searched and found the unforgettable; many of his images have become modern icons.

Bert Stern is an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer.

Bert Stern is best known work is arguably a collection of 2,500 photographs, some nude or semi-nude, taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period, six weeks before her death. As they were the last posed photographs taken of Monroe, the portfolio has come to be known as "The Last Sitting." The photographs were taken for Vogue, who published several of them following Monroe's death. A book containing these photographs, including copies of proofs over which Monroe had written comments, or crossed out with lipstick, was published in 1992 with the title Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. These are known as the Lost Sitting where Bert posed Marilyn to mock Jackie O. They were not discovered for many years.