Harvey Lloyd
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Harvey Lloyd is a globe circling, multi-award winning American artist, photographer, photojournalist, writer, director and poet. Born and raised in the streets of New York City and now based in Santa Fe, NM. Lloyd is self taught in the arts. He studied and worked with the influential art director Alexey Brodovitch
. Lloyd has traveled a million and a half miles around the world "witnessing and recording life through his lens." He is a member of the National Arts Club
and the former president of the American Society of Media Photographers
.
The Indiana Jones of adventure-travel photographers, Lloyd has hung out of helicopters dangerously low over ice peaks and glaciers in Alaska, the Darwin Mountains and Cape Horn, flown the "dead-man’s curve" over the Panama Canal, Ayers Rock, Rio and Istanbul. He has survived eye-to-eye encounters with five full-grown lions in Kenya and an angry mother elephant in South Africa. His picture book Aerial Photography (1990) is the first book on the practice and technique of the art. His new Breaking the Light series of images shatter the myths of traditional photography to present the enigmatic invisible world of light.
His 2009 assignments went around the world vertically and horizontally from Antarctica to Alaska, from Istanbul to Cairo to Dubai to Singapore. Aerial photography in 2009 covered Yellowstone: The Devil's Volcano project, The Dead Sea Mirages, in Israel, and the Arizona and Utah National Parks on the Colorado Plateau. In 2010, Lloyd covered Costa Rica, the Danube, Rhine and Seine in Europe and the Volga and Neva in Russia.
Moonlight Sonatas Images of the moon in hyperspace in our Holographic Universe show our moon as light might see it in the eternity of time. Lloyd’s text proposes that Einstein’s relativity states that at the speed of light, time stops. Therefore if light”saw” the moon, all its movements would be simultaneous in the miraculous holographic universe of light.
YellowstoneBeneath the national park, the world’s largest, most dangerous volcano smolders. Lloyd’s aerial and ground level images use his new techniques of digital photography to “see” beneath the surface of the park. His images reveal the invisible to the eye raging fury of deep plumes of molten red and white hot lava that superheat the ground water and aquifers to make the spectacular geysers and thermal pools.
Dancing with Ghosts“The greatest meeting of land and water in the world,” wrote Australian emigre painter Francis McComas about Point Lobos Nature Reserve a mile south of Carmel California. Lloyd’s book covers twenty years of visiting Point Lobos. In the mist at dusk along the cliff trails you see ghostly white cypress skeletons. in the dusk. Many flocks of birds live on Bird Island and otters swim in the sea. Abstract colorful patterns of ancient rocks make up Weston Cove, where Lloyd had a memorable meeting with Ansel Adams. On windy and stormy days, huge surf crashes on the jagged rocks around the maelstrom near the point. Lloyd’s text is mixture of the natural beauty and a fantasy of rebirth and ghostly presences.
Halloween The fabulous costumed drama of the world’s largest Halloween Eve parade in Manhattan illustrate this book of unique astonishing images photographed by Lloyd over ten years. Witches, goblins, spooks, freaks, and weird costumes create a witch’s brew of spooky fantasy and eerie delight.
A Time For Peace, a Time for War Images of Israel and its people in the happy days of 1970 illustrate this book of poems written by Lloyd while photographing the nation building in the time after the Six Day War.
Brooklyn Bridge Harvey Lloyd’s single exposure abstract images of the Brooklyn Bridge lit up with colored lights on its 130th birthday illustrate the book. Hart Crane’s eloquent poem, “Brooklyn Bridge,” accompanies the images, and provides a great poet’s illuminating vision of the world icon.
The Tao of Cranes Lloyd's large scale closeup images of cranes in flight while wintering at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Reservein New Mexico are unique. Only a master photographer with half a century's practice of his way, "TheZen of Fluid Motion Photography" could capture these swiftly moving birds with 400 and 500 mm telephoto lenses. It may be compared to Olympic Skeet Shooting, but is more difficult.
Dead Sea Mirages, Lloyd’s new digital camera aerial photography techniques reveal the many saturated colors of the dried out seemingly colorless areas of the Dead Sea near Herod’s fortress of Masada in Israel. The book length unpublished poem, Macchu Picchu by Lloyd accompanies these first of their kind images of the Dead Sea.
Other published works include: Queen Mary 2 and The Samurai Way, debuted in 2005 and Fire in my Hair... Through my Eyes...and Voices from the Future... in 2009. Other published books include Sacred Lands of the Southwest (aerial photography); Voyages...The World’s 100 Most Exciting Ports of Call; Isles of Eden, The People of the Out-islands of the Bahamas; and Aerial Photography, (the first book on this subject).
Voyages, Around the World in Eighty Ways, Lloyd's spectacular fifteen slide projector, multi-screen sound and light show for Fujifilm USA traveled across America in 1999. The show was accompanied by an exhibition of 130 large state-of-the-art laser 5000 photographic prints taken from his global collection.
His documentary film Portrait of a Railroad won a dozen festival first prizes, was shown at Radio City Music Hall and the Modern Museum of Art in New York, and was declared on of the decade's ten finest industrial films.
Our Voices, Our Land In 1984, when the Heard Museum opened the permanent exhibit on Native American culture, it included a video (actually audio visual multi-screen show) called Our Voices, Our Land, (created and directed by Harvey Lloyd) which presented Native people telling their own stories, said Ann Marshall, director of collections, education and interpretation at the Heard. "It was like a lightning bolt," said Marshall, project director of the exhibit. "It's the first time I can recall hearing unmediated voices, where the voice of the commentator was absent...It was very powerful. I was moved by it."
Michael J. Fox, former director Heard Museum: "Our Voices, Our Land touches the heart. It was nearly 30 years ago that you created the single most compelling multi-media production of any public attraction at the time ...To think this show ran in the orientation theater for a good 15 years and it is still being shown in the Heard daily within their permanent exhibit!"
, Cunard Line
, Seabourn and Crystal Cruises
and Abercrombie & Kent
in the travel industry. In 2010 cataloged his travels on the waterways of the world with Viking River Cruises
.
Alexey Brodovitch
Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1938 to 1958.- Early life in Russia :...
. Lloyd has traveled a million and a half miles around the world "witnessing and recording life through his lens." He is a member of the National Arts Club
National Arts Club
The National Arts Club is a private club in Gramercy Park, New York City, New York, USA. It was founded in 1898 to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J...
and the former president of the American Society of Media Photographers
American Society of Media Photographers
The American Society of Media Photographers, abbreviated ASMP, is a trade association of professional photographers, including many photojournalists but also experts in architectural, underwater, culinary and advertising photography and other specialties as well...
.
The Indiana Jones of adventure-travel photographers, Lloyd has hung out of helicopters dangerously low over ice peaks and glaciers in Alaska, the Darwin Mountains and Cape Horn, flown the "dead-man’s curve" over the Panama Canal, Ayers Rock, Rio and Istanbul. He has survived eye-to-eye encounters with five full-grown lions in Kenya and an angry mother elephant in South Africa. His picture book Aerial Photography (1990) is the first book on the practice and technique of the art. His new Breaking the Light series of images shatter the myths of traditional photography to present the enigmatic invisible world of light.
His 2009 assignments went around the world vertically and horizontally from Antarctica to Alaska, from Istanbul to Cairo to Dubai to Singapore. Aerial photography in 2009 covered Yellowstone: The Devil's Volcano project, The Dead Sea Mirages, in Israel, and the Arizona and Utah National Parks on the Colorado Plateau. In 2010, Lloyd covered Costa Rica, the Danube, Rhine and Seine in Europe and the Volga and Neva in Russia.
Philosophy
A multi-faceted artist, Lloyd writes and creates documentary, adventure-travel, aerial, abstract photography, film, and ground breaking personal assignments. He bears witness to the human condition and to the exuberant human spirit around the world. Lloyd is an eternal optimist and rule breaker inspired by humanity, nature, and all of the arts and sciences. He lives for art and has worked twelve hours and more a day for half a century because he has a passion for it, and the sky’s the limit. He says with fervor, "There is nothing you cannot do, if you love it and want to do it badly enough."Works
Some of Harvey Lloyd's newest publications include Quantum GhostThis book argues that digital photography and quantum physics spell the end of traditional film photography. Illustrations are images from Harvey Lloyd’s vast collections of “BREAKING THE LIGHT” abstract photographs each made during single exposures in his digital camera. The scientific and metaphysical explanations of Quantum physics imply that what you see isn’t there until you see it, and it may only exist for your “realistic” vision. Two hundred years of “realism” in film photography will end. New eyes, young eyes and young minds will be the future.Moonlight Sonatas Images of the moon in hyperspace in our Holographic Universe show our moon as light might see it in the eternity of time. Lloyd’s text proposes that Einstein’s relativity states that at the speed of light, time stops. Therefore if light”saw” the moon, all its movements would be simultaneous in the miraculous holographic universe of light.
YellowstoneBeneath the national park, the world’s largest, most dangerous volcano smolders. Lloyd’s aerial and ground level images use his new techniques of digital photography to “see” beneath the surface of the park. His images reveal the invisible to the eye raging fury of deep plumes of molten red and white hot lava that superheat the ground water and aquifers to make the spectacular geysers and thermal pools.
Dancing with Ghosts“The greatest meeting of land and water in the world,” wrote Australian emigre painter Francis McComas about Point Lobos Nature Reserve a mile south of Carmel California. Lloyd’s book covers twenty years of visiting Point Lobos. In the mist at dusk along the cliff trails you see ghostly white cypress skeletons. in the dusk. Many flocks of birds live on Bird Island and otters swim in the sea. Abstract colorful patterns of ancient rocks make up Weston Cove, where Lloyd had a memorable meeting with Ansel Adams. On windy and stormy days, huge surf crashes on the jagged rocks around the maelstrom near the point. Lloyd’s text is mixture of the natural beauty and a fantasy of rebirth and ghostly presences.
Halloween The fabulous costumed drama of the world’s largest Halloween Eve parade in Manhattan illustrate this book of unique astonishing images photographed by Lloyd over ten years. Witches, goblins, spooks, freaks, and weird costumes create a witch’s brew of spooky fantasy and eerie delight.
A Time For Peace, a Time for War Images of Israel and its people in the happy days of 1970 illustrate this book of poems written by Lloyd while photographing the nation building in the time after the Six Day War.
Brooklyn Bridge Harvey Lloyd’s single exposure abstract images of the Brooklyn Bridge lit up with colored lights on its 130th birthday illustrate the book. Hart Crane’s eloquent poem, “Brooklyn Bridge,” accompanies the images, and provides a great poet’s illuminating vision of the world icon.
The Tao of Cranes Lloyd's large scale closeup images of cranes in flight while wintering at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Reservein New Mexico are unique. Only a master photographer with half a century's practice of his way, "TheZen of Fluid Motion Photography" could capture these swiftly moving birds with 400 and 500 mm telephoto lenses. It may be compared to Olympic Skeet Shooting, but is more difficult.
Dead Sea Mirages, Lloyd’s new digital camera aerial photography techniques reveal the many saturated colors of the dried out seemingly colorless areas of the Dead Sea near Herod’s fortress of Masada in Israel. The book length unpublished poem, Macchu Picchu by Lloyd accompanies these first of their kind images of the Dead Sea.
Other published works include: Queen Mary 2 and The Samurai Way, debuted in 2005 and Fire in my Hair... Through my Eyes...and Voices from the Future... in 2009. Other published books include Sacred Lands of the Southwest (aerial photography); Voyages...The World’s 100 Most Exciting Ports of Call; Isles of Eden, The People of the Out-islands of the Bahamas; and Aerial Photography, (the first book on this subject).
Voyages, Around the World in Eighty Ways, Lloyd's spectacular fifteen slide projector, multi-screen sound and light show for Fujifilm USA traveled across America in 1999. The show was accompanied by an exhibition of 130 large state-of-the-art laser 5000 photographic prints taken from his global collection.
His documentary film Portrait of a Railroad won a dozen festival first prizes, was shown at Radio City Music Hall and the Modern Museum of Art in New York, and was declared on of the decade's ten finest industrial films.
Our Voices, Our Land In 1984, when the Heard Museum opened the permanent exhibit on Native American culture, it included a video (actually audio visual multi-screen show) called Our Voices, Our Land, (created and directed by Harvey Lloyd) which presented Native people telling their own stories, said Ann Marshall, director of collections, education and interpretation at the Heard. "It was like a lightning bolt," said Marshall, project director of the exhibit. "It's the first time I can recall hearing unmediated voices, where the voice of the commentator was absent...It was very powerful. I was moved by it."
Michael J. Fox, former director Heard Museum: "Our Voices, Our Land touches the heart. It was nearly 30 years ago that you created the single most compelling multi-media production of any public attraction at the time ...To think this show ran in the orientation theater for a good 15 years and it is still being shown in the Heard daily within their permanent exhibit!"
Clients
As a commercial photographer he has a longstanding collaboration with the luxury cruise industry. Lloyd has done tradition-shattering photography for Royal Viking LineRoyal Viking Line
The Royal Viking Line was an upmarket cruise line that operated from 1972 until 1998. The company was the brain child of Warren Titus and had its headquarters at One Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.- History :...
, Cunard Line
Cunard Line
Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...
, Seabourn and Crystal Cruises
Crystal Cruises
Crystal Cruise Lines, most commonly seen as Crystal Cruises, is a Japanese luxury cruise line founded in 1988 and notable for its two medium-sized, high-end ships, Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity, which each hold about 1,000 guests. The line is a wholly owned subsidiary of the large Japanese...
and Abercrombie & Kent
Abercrombie & Kent
-History:Abercrombie & Kent began in East Africa, where Geoffrey Kent was born while his parents, Valerie and Colonel John Kent, were on safari. Though British by birth, the Kents were drawn to the freedom and beauty of life in Africa, qualities that made a powerful impression on Geoffrey, who...
in the travel industry. In 2010 cataloged his travels on the waterways of the world with Viking River Cruises
Viking River Cruises
Viking River Cruises is an international company that operates a fleet of 19 river cruising vessels along the rivers of Europe, Russia, Ukraine and China...
.
External links
- http://www.harveylloyd.com/newsite/
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