Gallery 408 hosts Lionel Lippmann retrospective
By Virginia Watson-Jones
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/gallery408_0208_vert.jpg align=right border=0 hspace=5>Carrizozo NM– Gallery 408 announces the exhibition “Lionel W. Lippmann: The Man, The Photographer and The West 1941 - 2007,” opening on Saturday, March15, 5 pm to 7 pm, with a wine and cheese reception.
The gallery is located at 408 Twelfth Street, Carrizozo, New Mexico.
Lippmann was a photographer, archaeologist, journalist, historian, collector, community advocate, political advisor, substance abuse counselor and a man of the West. After completing his education, including schooling in England, Lippmann secured a position with the National Park Service as a Ranger Archaeologist and served at most of the archaeological parks in the Southwest. He left the park service to open a professional photographic studio in LaVillita in San Antonio, Texas where he specialized in fashion, editorial advertising, location work and portraiture.
Lippmann did not return to the Southwest for many years fearing that it would have been ruined. When he did return to Capitan, New Mexico to open a gallery with his wife, sculptor /writer, Virginia Watson-Jones, he felt the same magic about the Southwest that he had experienced in the 1960s. He had always felt a longing, “greater than nostalgia, for the frontier days of the Southwest.”
Lippmann communicated his artistic vision beginning in the vast spaces of Big Bend where he photographed the raw, natural beauty of Texas. Eloquent grave-markers, which he consistently photographed, symbolize the love and devotion of the Spanish-American. In his portraits he sought the magic of the moment with no wish to change or touch up the image. People, places and events attracted his observation wherever he traveled.
The retrospective exhibition runs through Saturday, March 29, 2008. For additional information about the exhibition, please contact Gallery 408, (575) 648-2598.
By Virginia Watson-Jones
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/gallery408_0208_vert.jpg align=right border=0 hspace=5>Carrizozo NM– Gallery 408 announces the exhibition “Lionel W. Lippmann: The Man, The Photographer and The West 1941 - 2007,” opening on Saturday, March15, 5 pm to 7 pm, with a wine and cheese reception.
The gallery is located at 408 Twelfth Street, Carrizozo, New Mexico.
Lippmann was a photographer, archaeologist, journalist, historian, collector, community advocate, political advisor, substance abuse counselor and a man of the West. After completing his education, including schooling in England, Lippmann secured a position with the National Park Service as a Ranger Archaeologist and served at most of the archaeological parks in the Southwest. He left the park service to open a professional photographic studio in LaVillita in San Antonio, Texas where he specialized in fashion, editorial advertising, location work and portraiture.
Lippmann did not return to the Southwest for many years fearing that it would have been ruined. When he did return to Capitan, New Mexico to open a gallery with his wife, sculptor /writer, Virginia Watson-Jones, he felt the same magic about the Southwest that he had experienced in the 1960s. He had always felt a longing, “greater than nostalgia, for the frontier days of the Southwest.”
Lippmann communicated his artistic vision beginning in the vast spaces of Big Bend where he photographed the raw, natural beauty of Texas. Eloquent grave-markers, which he consistently photographed, symbolize the love and devotion of the Spanish-American. In his portraits he sought the magic of the moment with no wish to change or touch up the image. People, places and events attracted his observation wherever he traveled.
The retrospective exhibition runs through Saturday, March 29, 2008. For additional information about the exhibition, please contact Gallery 408, (575) 648-2598.