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=== Fine art photography === === Fine art photography ===
After closing the ad agency, in 2002 Dweck began to photograph subjects and scenes around Montauk, focusing on its surfing subculture. The photos evoked "the paradise of summer, youth, and erotic possibility, and of community and camaraderie in a perfect setting."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_history_view.asp?aid=425452479&info_type_id=9 |title=Michael Dweck Catalogue |publisher=Artnet.com |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02}}</ref> The work is a blend of nostalgia, documentary, and fantasy. ] Dweck would parlay this collection of art photos into the 2003 solo show at ] in New York and the 2004 first published book of his photographs titled ''The End: Montauk, N.Y.'', published by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/books-a-tale-of-montauk-and-naked-women.html |title=BOOKS; A Tale of Montauk And Naked Women - New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=2004-07-18 |accessdate=2010-11-19}}</ref> The 5,000-print run was sold out in less than three weeks.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mead |first=Julia C. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E3DA1E3EF936A35751C1A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=al |title=BOOKS - For This Publisher, the East End Is a Profitable Subject - NYTimes.com |location=Long Island (NY); Hamptons (NY) |publisher=New York Times |date=2004-12-05 |accessdate=2010-11-19}}</ref> The brisk sell-out of the book was attributed to its local interest, the beauty of the photography, and the allure of the nude models.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/books-a-tale-of-montauk-and-naked-women.html |title=BOOKS; A Tale of Montauk And Naked Women - New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=2004-07-18 |accessdate=2010-11-19}}</ref> After closing the ad agency, in 2002 Dweck began to photograph subjects and scenes around Montauk, focusing on its surfing subculture. The photos evoked "the paradise of summer, youth, and erotic possibility, and of community and camaraderie in a perfect setting."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_history_view.asp?aid=425452479&info_type_id=9 |title=Michael Dweck Catalogue |publisher=Artnet.com |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02}}</ref> The work is a blend of nostalgia, documentary, and fantasy. ] ] in 2004]] Dweck would parlay this collection of art photos into the 2003 solo show at ] in New York and the 2004 first published book of his photographs titled ''The End: Montauk, N.Y.'', published by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/books-a-tale-of-montauk-and-naked-women.html |title=BOOKS; A Tale of Montauk And Naked Women - New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=2004-07-18 |accessdate=2010-11-19}}</ref> The 5,000-print run was sold out in less than three weeks.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mead |first=Julia C. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E3DA1E3EF936A35751C1A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=al |title=BOOKS - For This Publisher, the East End Is a Profitable Subject - NYTimes.com |location=Long Island (NY); Hamptons (NY) |publisher=New York Times |date=2004-12-05 |accessdate=2010-11-19}}</ref> The brisk sell-out of the book was attributed to its local interest, the beauty of the photography, and the allure of the nude models.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/nyregion/books-a-tale-of-montauk-and-naked-women.html |title=BOOKS; A Tale of Montauk And Naked Women - New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=2004-07-18 |accessdate=2010-11-19}}</ref>


Many of the photos from ''The End'' were exhibited at numerous galleries and solo exhibitions in New York, ], ], ], and the Blitz Gallery in ], and the Gallery Orchard in ].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.michaeldweck.com/index.php?option=com_igallery&view=gallery&id=42&Itemid=101 |title= Gallery Orchard, Nagoya, Tokyo, 2006 |publisher=Michaeldweck.com |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02}}</ref> Dweck's work was also presented at art fairs in ] and ]. Many of the photos from ''The End'' were exhibited at numerous galleries and solo exhibitions in New York, ], ], ], and the Blitz Gallery in ], and the Gallery Orchard in ].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.michaeldweck.com/index.php?option=com_igallery&view=gallery&id=42&Itemid=101 |title= Gallery Orchard, Nagoya, Tokyo, 2006 |publisher=Michaeldweck.com |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02}}</ref> Dweck's work was also presented at art fairs in ] and ].

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Michael Dweck
Michael Dweck
Born (1957-09-26) September 26, 1957 (age 67)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forFine art photography
Websitehttp://michaeldweck.com/

Michael Dweck (born 26 September 1957) is an American fine art photographer. In 2003, he was the first living photographer to have a solo show at Sotheby's in New York. He currently lives and works in New York City and Montauk, NY.

Life and career

Early life

Dweck was born in Brooklyn to David and Sydelle Dweck. He was raised in Bellmore, New York, a town on Long Island about 27 miles east of Manhattan and close to beaches.

Education

Dweck graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, New York in 1975. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, first as an architecture student, then switching to communication and fine arts in 1976. After graduating in 1979, he went on to study with artist James Wines and with semiotician Marshall Blonsky at The New School for Social Research.

Advertising career

In 1993, Dweck founded the advertising agency Dweck & Campbell with Lori Campbell. In a 1998 interview with CNN Money, Dweck was quoted as saying "Advertising is the quintessential sitcom. The love affairs with clients, the breakups, the coming back together again and, of course, the constant reruns." A highlight for the firm in 1998 was its Dial-a-Mattress television commercial featuring an angry, man-sized squirrel who wants to hibernate for the winter. The ad, noted for its comic abrasiveness, was pulled from the airwaves after only 13 days. But it went on to win a coveted Gold Lion award at the Cannes International Advertising Festival, and it was selected for inclusion in both the Gale Group publication of the 100 most influential marketing campaigns of the year and the Boards magazine Top 10 Boards awards of 1999.

After the agency won the American Association of Advertising Agencies 1999 award for small agencies, Campbell departed the firm, and it was renamed Dweck, Inc. The firm continued with its "usual creative mischief", doubling its previous year's billings to $50 million.

In 2001, Dweck closed his company and left advertising to concentrate on photography. He was quoted in The New York Times as saying he wanted to "concentrate on what I love, which is creative development."

Fine art photography

After closing the ad agency, in 2002 Dweck began to photograph subjects and scenes around Montauk, focusing on its surfing subculture. The photos evoked "the paradise of summer, youth, and erotic possibility, and of community and camaraderie in a perfect setting." The work is a blend of nostalgia, documentary, and fantasy.

Michael Dweck preparing his Sotheby's installation, New York, September 2003
File:Sonya, Poles - Paris exhibition 2004.jpg
Dweck's Sonya, Poles on exhibit at The Louvre in 2004

Dweck would parlay this collection of art photos into the 2003 solo show at Sotheby's in New York and the 2004 first published book of his photographs titled The End: Montauk, N.Y., published by Harry N. Abrams. The 5,000-print run was sold out in less than three weeks. The brisk sell-out of the book was attributed to its local interest, the beauty of the photography, and the allure of the nude models.

Many of the photos from The End were exhibited at numerous galleries and solo exhibitions in New York, Belgium, San Francisco, Monaco, and the Blitz Gallery in Tokyo, and the Gallery Orchard in Nagoya. Dweck's work was also presented at art fairs in Paris and Bologna.

In 2005, Dweck released a series of triptychs entitled Three, which were exhibited in Tokyo. Ninety images set on 15 foldout pages, only one hundred copies of Three were printed, each signed and numbered.

At about that time, the artist's attention turned to extensive waterborne photography that would culminate in his second published book, Mermaids, released in 2008 by Ditch Plains Press. The work, stemming from Dweck's fondness for water and the beauty he saw around it, celebrates the form of women who appear like mermaids to be very much at home underwater. One gelatin silver print from the collection sold at auction in 2009 at Christie’s in London for over $17,000. The Mermaids art was then featured by Playboy under the title "Sirens' Dance", with an introduction by Christopher Sweet that described Dweck's mermaids as "lovely, aloof and bare". Photo art from Mermaids was exhibited at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, London, Belgium, Hamburg, and Tokyo.

Snoecks published a series of Dweck's work titled Sex Bombs which features photographs of nuclear and other military missiles. Dweck also produced another project that features oversized Polaroid instant camera pictures, called Giant Polaroids: Pin Up. The Polaroids were taken with a rare Polaroid 20x24 large format camera.

Published Works

  • Mermaids - ISBN 978-0-9818465-0-7
  • Mermaids (Special edition)
  • The Girls of Montauk - Playboy Magazine 2007 - (also with model Reby Sky)
  • The End: Montauk, N.Y. - 2004 - ISBN 0810950081
  • Major photos: Sonya, Poles, Dave and Pam in Their caddy, Mermaid 1, Mermaid 18, Surf’s Up, Lilla

Exhibitions

  • Staley-Wise Gallery - 2010
  • Louvre Museum - Paris - 2004
  • Sothebys - 2003


Awards

  • 1998 Gold Lion - Cannes International Festival for Arctic Ground Squirrel
  • 2004 - Advertising Excellence - AICP - Work entered into the permanent collection of the Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Lawsuits

On 22 March 2002, Dweck filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a New York based clothing company, accusing them of using his Sonya, Poles photograph in their advertisements without permission.

References

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  12. "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Co-Founder Departs The Dweck Agency". The New York Times. 29 April 1999. Retrieved 15 November 2010. Ms. Campbell, 36, had been partner and creative director at Dweck & Campbell, which has gained a reputation in the industry for unconventional creative work.
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  14. "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Dweck to Shut Doors After a 9-Year Run". The New York Times. 29 June 2001. Retrieved 15 November 2010. Dweck in New York, an agency known for producing award-winning, attention-getting campaigns for smaller advertisers, said yesterday that it would close after nine years.
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  36. "Photog sues Malibu Denim over purloined pic". New York Post. 23 March 2002. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
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