LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHER, WAYNE SCHOENFELD best known for his fine Art photography and doumentary photographs of humanitarian projects, breaks records with attendance at his Montreal exhibition ICONS and ICONOCLASTS. His fine art circus photographs, tableau vivant photograph recreations of the depression era circus, breathe life into the universal characters of the traveling depression era circus. The ICONS and ICONOCLASTS of the circus are real again, through his circus photographs.
Los Angeles Documentary Photographer and Fine Art Photographer Wayne Schoenfeld, a complete biography can be found on WIKIPEDIA
MUSEUMS, GALLERIES and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Schoenfeld's fine art photography and documentary photographs of humanitarian projects are regularly featured in private and museum photography collections. His circus photographs are in the collection of Cirque du Soleil, The Rape of the Sabine Women fine art tableau images, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), Complesso del Vittoriano (Rome).
DOCUMENTARTY FILMS The Memory Box Movie
Schoenfeld's first feature documentary was The Memory Box movie. The Memory Box movie is based on a series of his Ethiopia documentary photographs. Schoenfeld's Ethiopia documentary photographs capture the drama of the struggling African nation and have been exhibited in the USA and Canada and the subject of several books. The Memory Box movie earned its first Golden Wreath as an official entry at the Boston International Film Festival in 2009.
(Los Angeles Documentary Photographer) Wayne Schoenfeld takes pictures rather than photographs. His carefully orchestrated images are like classic paintings...
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Los Angeles documentary photographer, Schoenfeld is well known for his fine art photography especially his social commentary tableau vivant photographs as well as his documentary photographs of humanitarian projects. His elaborately staged tableau vivant photographs have been featured segments on BRAVO Television, MBC Network Television and the subject of several documentary films.
BOOKS
Seven monograph books have been published of Schoenfeld's tableau vivant photographs and photographs of humanitarian projects: Brittle Glory: The Face of Change, a collection of intimate street portraits taken in the Cuban countryside and the Kurdish territories of South Eastern Turkey, Surface Tension, a collection of portraits and impressions of the female form (Challenging...photos that treat the body simultaneously as sentient organism and as sculpture-voluptuously charged says Peter Frank, Art Critic, L.A. Weekly),Through the Eyes of Man erotic, revisionist, operatic interpretations of biblical lore and both English and Korean language editions of There Are No Answers,If the Questions Aren't Asked including "The Rape of the Sabine Women"..
Photographed in Vietnam, Almost Perfect chronicles a volunteer American surgical team and their tireless work to help children with disfiguring injuries and congenital conditions. Oscar winning Don Rogers: In "Almost Perfect" Wayne Schoenfeld documents a mission of peace, focusing on themes that are heroic and worthwhile. For a moment, the viewer is elevated to a place of hope and nobility. "Almost Perfect" was the Independent Publisher's Most Outstanding Book of 2004.
Great Circle Books in cooperation with American Photo Magazine has published Mission to India, a collaboration between Schoenfeld and respected journalist Rex Weiner. This heart rending book chronicles the heroism and dedication of a volunteer surgical team in Karaikal, India.
Sharing the joy in life, was the subject of Los Angeles documentary photogorapher's Ethiopia documentary photographs in Through This World But Once, published by Great Circle Books and HP. Schoenfeld chronicles the journey of a clown, from Clowns Without Borders visiting hospitals and health clinics in Addis Ababa and village Ethiopia. Published by Great Circle Books this was part of the Eye to I series co-sponsored by Hewlett Packard and A&I Color.
Los Angeles documentary photographer Schoenfeld's portraits of Hollywood's Movie Industry luminaries first appeared in the 1999 show L.A.’s BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS and have been featured in a variety of motion picture industry publications.
Schoenfeld's tableau vivant photographs are included in major private and museum photography collections. The Rape of the Sabine Women in the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul and the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome, Icons and Iconoclasts: circus photographs of the Depression era Circus in the permanent collection of Cirque du Soleil and his Black and White fine art photographs the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.
Los Angeles documentary photographer, Schoenfeld resides in Southern California. He is a member of the Santa Barbara Museum and Los Angeles County Museum Photo-Arts Commissions.
BA, Psychology, University of California MA, , Psychology, California State University MFTT License, , California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners Cerified Sex Therapist, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists Commercial Airline Pilot, Federal Aviation Administration
PLEASE SEARCH THE WEB: Los Angeles documentary photographer, Wayne Schoenfeld's work can be found in many private and museum photography collections. Major tableau vivant series are Rape of the Sabine Women, Circus of the Past, Circus of Life, Icons and Iconoclasts, There Are NO Answers, If the Questions Aren't Asked.
The Memory Box movie, produced by Exeko (www.projetexeko.com), is distributed by Locomotion Films (www.locomotionfilms.com)in Montreal.
ALMOST PERFECT Volunteer Surgeons to Vietnam Published SWC /Great Circle Books - 2003
