Bending Light by Eric Meola with David Schonauer | Rizzoli Bookstore

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Photographer Eric Meola launches Bending Light, an intimate account of his five-decade journey with light and color in 100 iconic photographs taken throughout his career. He will be in conversation with David Schonauer, editor-in-chief of Pro Photo Daily. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Can't attend?Order your signed copy(please specify that you would like it signed in the comments box at checkout). Bending Light: The Moods of Color showcases photographer Eric Meola's use of light and color throughout his career of editorial, advertising, and personal work. In one hundred iconic photographs, including recent experiments with color abstracts, and in dozens of stories and anecdotes, he examines his five-decade journey using color in photography, its symbolism, and how it affects our moods. Meola's work is informed by writers, painters, musicians, and the desire to create visual metaphors with his imagery -- whether intimate portraits, unique landscapes, or color-saturated abstracts, his use of geometry within the frame of the photograph creates a tension that is instantly recognizable. In awarding him its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023, the Professional Photographers of America noted that Eric Meola champions photography as a visual language capable of great emotion. He's a photographer with a love affair for color, light, and artistic freedom. As Meola says, Light and color are my subject as much as the subject itself. It's the confluence of color with light -- the movement within the color -- that's important to me. Although the end image is a still photograph, the story of its creation, the how and why it came to be, is part of every photographer's psyche. Telling the stories behind the photographs is my way to revisit the creative process, both as a means of introspection as well as expression. Photography has always been a way for me to create what I feel, and feel as I create. Bending Light: The Moods of Color takes us on a visual journey around the world as Meola tells the story behind the creation of each image, giving insight into the thought process behind creating photographs. A photographer from Rangefinder magazine referred to him as one of a handful of color photographers who are true innovators. Photo credit: © Joanna McCarthy Eric Meola studied photography at the Newhouse School of Journalism at Syracuse University and graduated with a B.A. in English Literature. Meola’s photographs are included in the archive of the American Society of Media Photographers, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the International Center of Photography in New York, and the George Eastman Museum. His previous books include Last Places on Earth (GRAPHIS, 2004), Born to Run: The Unseen Photos (Insight Editions, 2006), INDIA: In Word & Image (Welcome Books, 2008), and FIERCE BEAUTY: Storms of the Great Plains (IMAGES Publishing, 2019). He has received numerous awards, including “Advertising Photographer of the Year” in 1986 from the American Society of Media Photographers, a “Power of the Image” George Eastman award in 2014, and, in 2023, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Professional Photographers of America. David Schonauer is the editor-in-chief of Pro Photo Daily, a blog and newsletter focused on photography and visual culture. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of American Photo magazine. He has also written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and other publications. Information Source: Rizzoli Bookstore | eventbrite