Current Exhibit at the Rubin-Frankel Gallery
FROM THE LAND OF MIRACLES
Photographs by Wendy Sue Lamm
| August 27th – October 22nd, 2008 |
| Opening Reception: |
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 :: 6:00-8:00pm |
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From the Land of Miracles is a photographic reflection on the fragile balance of the daily lives of Israelis and Palestinians in peace and in war. |
“Wendy Sue Lamm…has managed to capture a portrait of reality in a constantly unreal situation.” - Andrea Jaccia, Il Diario, Milan, Italy
“Wendy Sue Lamm’s vision… does not so much frame the scene as enter into it, drawing us in as well and forcing is to participate. …It is hard not to see these truly intense images as a powerful metaphor for the forces that tenaciously block the road to peace – a peace that would be a great sign not only for the Middle East, but also for the whole world.” - Giancarlo Pauletto, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Pordenone, Italy
Wendy Sue Lamm
Renown for Wendy Sue Lamm and her photographs is due in great part to her unerring ability to express the underlying, enduring beauty of real, daily events.
Ms. Lamm’s photographs are exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in Europe and Asia including Stockholm Stadsmuseet, Milan’s FORMA International Center of Photography, the Louvre in Paris, and Japan’s Asahi Museum; and are featured in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Elle, Geo, Der Spiegel, L’espresso, Republica, Figaro, among other international publications. Her portraiture is highly sought after by major artists in recording and entertainment.
Ms. Lamm’s first book From the Land of Miracles, published in Europe and North America, is a reflection on the fragile balance of the daily lives of Israelis and Palestinians in peace and in war. Within days of its release American Photo Magazine and the Scandinavian Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden, selected From the Land of Miracles as one of the best books of the year.
After earning a BA in Humanities from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, Ms. Lamm accepted photographic assignments for the next eight years that spanned America--from the border towns of El Paso, Texas & Juarez, Mexico, to metropolitan daily newspapers & magazines in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. As a member of the Los Angeles Times team reporting on the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, CA her photos were part of the coverage that earned the Times a Pulitzer Prize.
From 1996 to 2005 she was based in Jerusalem, Paris and Stockholm. Acclaim for her journalistic work in those years includes World Press Photo Awards and the National Press Photographers Picture of the Year Awards. In 2005 Ms. Lamm returned to her native Los Angeles