ENID FARBER
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“If we were to identify a JAZZIZ visual historian, her name would no doubt be ENID FARBER. For longer than a decade, her photography has taken readers on an odyssey, to experience the most adventurous music and to meet the most interesting personalities, from both the new and traditional worlds of jazz.”
Jazziz Magazine, 20th Anniversary Issue
HONORS/AWARDS
1983, Southeastern Center for Photography Photo Contest
1987, Society of Publication Designer’s 24th Annual Competition (w/David Carson, Art Director)
1998, Unique Photo Annual Contest
1997, Sole female of four names mentioned in the New York Times in as “one of the young generation of talented photographers documenting the current jazz scene”
2002, First of her generation to win the Jazz Journalist’s Association for Excellence in Jazz Photography” and as well as for “Best Photo of the Year”.
SAMPLE LIST OF PUBLISHED WORK IN PRINT
Magazines: Jazziz, Jazz Times, Downbeat, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, People, Vibe, GPI Publications, Guitar World, Village Voice, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Icon, Psychology Today, Oxford American, Option, Request, Schwann’s, Windplayer, The Wire, Musica Jazz/ Rusconi Editore, Rolling Stone Germany, Swing Journal Japan, Jazz Magazine France, Afrique France,
Newspapers: New York Times New York Sun, Village Voice, New York Newsday, New York Post, New York Daily News, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Montclair Times, All About Jazz, Allegro Musicians News New York, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Open City Atlanta, Southline Arts Atlanta, Creative Loafing Atlanta, Great Speckled Bird Atlanta, Jersey City Journal.
Books: Jazz, The First Century by Ken Burns, Future Jazz, by Howard Mandel, Sounding Salsa by Chris Washburne, Miles Davis: Running the Voodoo Down by Phillip Freeman, Smithsonian Institution’s, Latin Jazz, La Combinacion Perfecta by Raul Fernandez, Giants of Jazz Piano by Robert Doerschuk, The Essential Klezmer by Seth Rogovy, Art Blakey, Jazz Messengers by Leslie Gourse; Encyclopedia Brittanica, Branford Marsalis by Bob Bernotas, Growing Up With Jazz by Royal Stokes, Blue Rhythms by Chip Defaa, Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel, Salsa in New York: a Musical Ethnography by Chris Washburne, Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs by Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan Charles Traub and Alice Rose George.
CD’s & Other Media: Atlantic Records, RCA/BMG, JustinTime Records, Sony Music, Koch Records, Dreyfus Jazz, Savant Records, Sunnyside Records, VH1, A&E, Life Remembers in 1993, the TNT documentary produced in conjunction with Life Magazine, Ken Burn’s Jazz:The First Century, Jazz Tracks – 90.3 WCPN: Jazz Tracks Destinations, Interview by Bobby Jackson, Mogs Interviews, The Arts Series
VISION AND MUSIC by Mark McKinley.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo: WBGO Jazz 88 Gallery, Newark, NJ 1988, 1998, 2011; Club Breezin’, Soho, NYC, 1988; Weill Gallery, 92nd Street “Y”, NYC, 1990, Five Spot, NYC, 1993, Con Edison’s Corporate Headquarter’s, Brooklyn, 1993; David Ryan Salon, NYC, 1996, ASID Showhouse, Houston; Cloister’s, NYC, 1998, La Chapelle Gallery, NYC 2001, The Cosi Gallery, Jersey City Artist’s Tour, Jersey City, NJ, 2007, The Living Room Gallery at Saint Peter’s Church, NYC 2008, Orbit, NYC, 2009, Knitting Factory, WILLIFEST, 2010
Group: Sweet Basil’s, NYC, 1986; El Bohio Gallery, NYC, 1987; Van Vorst Gallery, Jersey City, 1990; Marihube Gallery, NYC, 1991; U.S. Information Agency’s Worldwide Traveling Exhibit on Jazz Performer’s, 1993; Jazz Gallery, NYC, 1996, 1997, 1998; Leslie Lohman Gallery, NYC 1997; Boone County National Bank, Columbia,MO, 1999; The Cankarj’ev Dom in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002; Smithsonian, Washington,D.C. 2003; Blink Gallery, Newport, R.I. 2003. Visions Festival, NYC 2005, Hudson Guild, NYC, 2007, Metro Center, Empire State College, 2009, 2010
SAMPLE CLIENTS
Jazz Foundation of America, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, WBGO FM, The American University in Cairo, The China Institute, S&R Technology Holdings, Rain Art Productions, Caramoor Jazz Festival,Jazz Reach, Harmony Music, Music With Friends
EDUCATION
Roger Williams College, Bristol, R.I. 1975-76
Southeast Center for the Photographic Arts, Atlanta, GA 1982
SUNY Empire State College, New York, NY 2007-2010 (Completed BA)
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