![]() “Dweck immortalizes these most beautiful mythological creatures ” "A magical interplay of light and movement" "The supernatural beauty of these fantastic underwater creatures will definitely take your breath away" Michael Dweck currently lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y., where he is finishing his first feature-length film. Two of his long-form television pieces are part of the permanent film collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Previously, Dweck studied fine arts at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and went on to become a highly regarded Creative Director, receiving more than 40 international awards, including the coveted Gold Lion at the Cannes International Festival in France. These and other works have also been published in large, limited-edition volumes. Notable solo exhibitions include Montauk: The End, 2004, a paradisiacal and erotic surf narrative set on Long Island Mermaids, 2009, which explored the female nude refracted by river waters and Habana Libre, 2010 an intimate exploration of privileged artists in socialist Cuba, which made him the first living American artist to have a solo exhibition in Cuba. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions around the world, and become part of important international art collections. Michael Dweck is an American photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. All color illustrations are color-separated and reproduced in the finest technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and color range. ![]() ![]() ![]() The duotone illustrations are made with a special treatment for black and white images that produces exquisite tonal range and density. Clothbound clamshell box 28 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.).Includes a chromogenic print "Mermaid 41", Miami 2007, signed and numbered by Michael Dweck.Each book numbered and signed by Michael Dweck.Clothbound hardcover: 25.4 x 33 cm (10 x 13 in.) 160 pages, 16 5-color plates, 65 tri-tone plates.Published by Ditch Plains Press, New York.101-200) with an alternative print signed by Michael Dweck. Printed in the USA by Finlay Press, each copy will be signed and numbered, and packaged in a handmade, cloth-lined clamshell case, with an exclusive 8 x 10 chromogenic print, also signed and numbered.Īlso available in a second Art Edition (No. Dweck also photographed in Montauk, Amagansett, and Miami, and the new images, while often abstracting the female body in a painterly swirl of watery refractions, celebrate the physical charm of the female form and the transformation that is achieved by the shedding of clothes and psychic baggage in the meditative isolation of the underwater world.Ĭollectors of fine art photography will relish this rare opportunity to own a signed, numbered, limited edition volume – as well as the chromogenic print of one of his Mermaids. He photographed them alone, together, and at play, but mostly at night in the depths of the Weeki Wachee River. And through her, Dweck met other island girls-so-called “waterbabies”-some of whom could hold their breath underwater for as long as five or six minutes. When Dweck scouted out the Weeki Wachee Spring, home of the famous mermaid shows, as a location for his mermaids project, he met a local young beauty who had been raised in Aripeka, an island fishing village on the coast nearby, and began photographing her. ![]() The book and exhibition feature a dazzling array of photographs in which the photographer explores the theme of the female nude submerged in water, and celebrates the modern mermaid, as represented by beautiful young women who appear very much at home in the water. Art Edition limited to 100 numbered copies - clothbound book (160 pages) packaged in clothbound clamshell box, each signed by Michael Dweck, includes the chromogenic print “Mermaid 41” (Miami, 2007) – format: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.). ![]()
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