YES Hell Did Freeze Over Author:Alan Miller A Note From Alan Miller: — "From Beautiful images we shall go to Beautiful thoughts...from Beautiful thoughts to a Beautiful life, and from a Beautiful life to absolute Beauty"... — Beauty makes me feel religious in my own way. I worship beauty. When watching light curve around a man's chest or dance in a woman's eyes I know it's the div... more »ine speaking to me. Seeking diversity in our lives is my comfort and inspiration and is my connection between my visible and invisible worlds.
Some people still argue about whether photography is an art. Photography has altered the way people believe, because it has brought us more and more in touch with ideas of the absolute. Aesthetics are mystical. If power and beauty cannot co-exist perhaps they can evolve as friends, but never lovers...
Beauty is all the religion I need... It's proof of the divine.
Featuring the Models of Alanworks Studios, Angela Caton, DaNae "Joy" Van Vickle, JoAnna Oches, Sarah Elaine, Rikki Curry, Shealyn Strode, Sonnie Shoaf, Lisa Brown, Nathaniel, Heidi Blais, Mia Brown and Ann Kelly.
About Alanworks Studio Productions
Emerging from ALANWORKS' interest in and examination of the process of image-making, fashion-in-art, and the photo-shoot as performance, ALANWORKS' aim is to capture the energy of the continuing upsurge in performance related practices that is happening in the contemporary art and fashion world. Many artists are using performative elements as a strategy within their larger working method, creating a strong dialogue between music, performance and fashion.
ALANWORKS' will be presenting a series collaborations that capture a portrait of a scene.
Working with guest artist and models, and to add program strands of the material that will be a mixture of artist-captured footage, short film, ephemera and live imagery. This energy of art is now currently under production at Alanworks Studio A, and Studio B in New York City and Colorado.
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All photographic are accurate. None of them tell the Truth.
Richard Avedon 1984
By Ann Kelly and Barb Miller
Alan Miller makes "wait-a-minute-look-at-this" photographs.
A photographer for more than 30 years, Alan brings the high voltage glitter of New York City's fashion industry to the spaces and architecture of a small southern Colorado town.
Alan's portraits open up the personalities behind the people. His images lay it out and highlight the contrast between uttermost glamour and mortal reality.
"I don't like to speak too much about the work," says Alan. "Too many viewpoints, like too many words, spoil the mystery."
Alan hopes the direct appeal of his work doesn't try too hard. "I like the connections and juxtapositions that reflect our culture in my images," he says.
Alan produces and edits shows for television and internet broadcast. His photographs and video works tell tales. Alan gives voice to the images that smile in the shadows or dance in the light. He shows us that mystery located behind the eyes. "The silent voices of the images stand still and ask only that we stop, and look," he says.« less