ISO FALL 2010
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EDITOR’S LETTER A professor once told me, “If the only person you get to know in this life is yourself, then you’re off to a good start.” When we take pictures, whether of family, friends, foreign nations, or reflections in the mirror, there’s one thing we can’t escape – our eye. It’s the thing that makes our images ours. “I like your eye” is the best compliment we can receive as photographers. But it can take years for a photographer to see his or her own eye, just as it takes us years to learn ‘who we are.’ Curiously, the best way to find ourselves is often to look at those whom we surround ourselves with. We discover our eye by looking into the eyes of others. No matter our expertise – photojournalism, landscape, or editorial – we all take photographs of the people we are closest to. These snapshots are then tucked away in our drawers, stacked up in our closets, or stored on our Facebook pages. Our lenses turn to familiar faces. After all, they are what we recognize most easily. For this reason people are at the heart of this issue. We examine the portrait’s ability to place people in both time and space, to acknowledge presence and to mourn absence. Portraits are powerful reference points, and
we repeatedly look to them as markers of change. They capture age, haircuts, and clothing styles. They chronicle the birth and death of relationships and archive our development as human beings. As you flip through the following pages, you will see many different faces, but what you should also look for is the deeper vision of the contributing photographers. The diverse faces are only as diverse as the styles that have captured them. As for the projects not directly focused on people, such as Simon Pinter’s enigmatic exploration into the depths of our oceans, examine the photographer’s eye. ISO is proud to showcase submissions from a wide range of talented students within our university. If you find yourself inspired, please show us your eye and submit to upcoming issues, give us your voice and apply to our writing staff, or lend us your ear and subscribe to receive daily updates from our blog team. MICHAEL GEORGE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ISO STAFF AND CONTRIBUTORS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Michael George ART DIRECTOR
Danlly Domingo PHOTO EDITORS
Sasha Arutyunova Jenna Spitz EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Corinne Rapone DEPUTY EDITORS
Aaron Krol Shalla Yudelevich BLOG EDITOR
Alex Brown
STAFF WRITERS
Julia Pugachevsky Jonno Rattman Sam Reiss Pey Chuan Tan Katie Vogel Alison Wynn BLOG WRITERS
Nicole Cobb Vladimir Gintoff Irene Hartmann Kris Nolte Julia Pugachevsky Madeline Ricchiuto Katie Vogel
PHOTOGRAPHERS
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
Eugene Atget Sasha Arutyunova Alexander Brown Claude Cahun Peter Curtis Lianna Del Pizzo Danlly Domingo Andrew Ellis Jason Eskenazi Bradley Farwell Michael George Lauren J. Greenberg Chad Griffith Kristina K. Knipe Richard Learoyd Dennis Nazarov Yair Oelbaum Simon Pinter Gina Pollack Jonno Rattman Carlos Rojas Meredith Rom Cole Saladino Marissa Singer Jenna Spitz Adam Uhl Michelle Watt
Shivam Mathura EVENTS DIRECTOR / COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Jenny Eom COMMUNICATIONS TEAM
Francis Poon Laura Stephenson FACULTY ADVISOR
Editha Mesina SPECIAL THANKS Wafaa Bilal Irene Cho Yolanda Cuomo Dean’s Profunds Department of Photography & Imaging Thomas Drysdale Jason Eskenazi Richard Learoyd Megan Mannato Michael Messina New York University Tisch School of the Arts Tisch Undergraduate Student Council Deborah Willis