Email Harvey@HarveyEdwards.com
It
all started when I was 10 and got my first camera and took a picture
of two people walking by. I then went home and developed the negatives and printed this one image. I said to myself I just stopped time forever for that one image I captured. From then on I knew this would
be my life. To express what I felt or had to say through images. I
did take some classes in school, matter of fact it was the first year
they offered photography as a class at Massapequa
High School where I graduated. It was very basic but it got me
started. Then in the Air Force during the Vietnam War I was a
photographer and they also taught me solid basics of photography, but it was the desire and the perseverance that pushed me forward to create. Content with creating images
and printing every day for years until I perfected a way to express
myself. I have had three books published "ART OF DANCE ", "FAIRFAX" which is a book about the Jewish survivors who were in concentration camps during World War Two. The Works by Harvey Edwards working on my fourth. I also have written one hundred and twenty four political blogs.
Several images i created titled "LEG WARMERS"
and "BALLET SLIPPERS " are now called iconic dance images known around the world and have sold over 3.2 million copies and still selling in 86 countries. CBS SUNDAY MORNING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZwNQrB-fw produced a segment about my work which received rave reviews. My works are in
over 256 TV shows, movies, music videos and
commercials ( list available). My images, "LEG WARMERS" and "BALLET SLIPPERS" are several of the most recognizable
dance images worldwide and will continue on selling long after I'm
gone. You ask yourself after some 42 years why
it's still one of the top selling dance prints and the answer is they convey one's determination, passion, love of work and most of all it
tells a story we can all relate to in life. From a major Car crash, Train wreck and Airplane crash and suffering from Depression, Panic attacks and Agoraphobia I have one life left I hope and will continue to create till my nine lives have run out.
Art is, for me, a means of communication.Thus, the camera
is a tool for focusing my perception, concentrating observation into an
image. The result is to evoke emotion. To evoke an experience; illuminations
as opposed to explanation. The image as a visual dialogue between the
artist and the viewer's perception.
To say that these images are "about" something is to translate
them into words, disregarding their power as art. If they were
about philosophy, they would be better written as thoughts, ideas and
beliefs. At best, they are informed by a philosophy. A philosophy of life,
evident in every photograph I have created. A manifestation of my political,
emotional, philosophical understanding of the world, focused onto the
visual plane.Now this brings me to why I have written this short version of who I am and the reason why I create. In my dance, music and figure studies series the photographs have been shot through my personal sense of wonder, artistic vision and my way of expressing emotions visually. The other images included are to show a small spectrum of my work.
Women breaking thru the political barriers that men have placed upon them.
GHOST SERIES
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PATH TO PEACE
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| You can't get blood from a STONE or can you ? |
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"Life on Edge"
"LIFE IS A WEB"
SCULPTURE
NOT THE END
" WITHOUT ART IN OUR LIFE WHAT IS LEFT "
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