Well, this story started in January 2002 and ... well, it is a loooooong story!
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:35:06 -0600
From: ag
Subject: little faces prints
Dear Mr. Andrew Davidhazy,
I just returned from a trip to Clemson University to visit Sam Wang who
shared some of your prints from "Little Faces" with me. As a new
photography professor at Stephen F. Austin in Texas, I was very excited
about the images, especially knowing how much my students would enjoy
them. I find the work to be quite innovative and playful. I would love
very much to bring your work to our department for an exhition. If you
are interested in sharing your work with our art program, please feel
free to contact me at your earliest convenience.
I thank you for your time and consideration.
Thank you,
Amy Holmes George
Asst. Professor of Art
Department of Art
Stephen F. Austin State University
Box 13001 - SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3001
ageorge@sfasu.edu
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:38:35 -0500 (EST)
From: ADavidhazy
Dear Prof. Holmes,
Wow! Thanks for the note and the interest. It would be certainly possible to
get them to you. I have sort of an itinerary set up at the following website:
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/davidhazy.html
but I would be happy to work with you to make Little Faces available to you
even if it means making another set of prints. What would be good for you?
Is May too late? If so we can work on getting them to you earlier somehow!
This little "experimental project" seems to be doing quite well. I am glad
that Sam shared them with you and that you think your students would also be
interested in seeing them.
regards,
Andy
Andrew Davidhazy, Professor
School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT
andpph@rit.edu www.rit.edu/~andpph
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:00:40 -0600
From: ag
Dear Andy
Thank you for your speedy response. I was hoping for late February, March, or
April as my students will be working on a portrait project but as I can see from
your website, these times are already booked. If a second set of prints is not
available, September, October, or November of 2002 would probably work well. Let
me know what you think. Thanks for your willingness to work with me at such
short notice. I look forward to seeing more of these images.
Sincerely,
Amy George
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:58:40 -0600
From: ag
Subject: Re: little faces prints
Sounds great! Thank you
ADavidhazy wrote:
> Hi Amy,
>
> How would March of this year work for the "Little Faces" prints?
>
> Andy
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 18:43:09 -0600
From: ag
Subject: Little Faces "exhibit" info
Dear Andy,
I was just checking on the status of the "Little Faces" print show . . .
should I still expect them this week?
Thanks,
Amy
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:57:35 -0500 (EST)
From: ADavidhazy
Subject: Re: Little Faces "exhibit" info
Hi Amy,
> I was just checking on the status of the "Little Faces" print show . . .
> should I still expect them this week?
Well, it may be possible although I doubt it ... here is the note from Martha
Walton who just had them and my reply to her as sort of more background info.
Anyway, she says that shipping to you was imminent ... feel free to contact her
to get a first hand answer ... I would think she would not mind.
Andy
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:35:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Waltonmw@aol.com
Subject: Little Faces being sent this afternoon...hopefully
Andy,
I am going to mail off Little faces hopefully this afternoon or tommorow.
Thanks for sending around the traveling show. The students really
"tripped-out" on it.....that is using their exact words!!
Thanks for all your hard work...your ideas have been given me a lot of help
with my first year of teaching photography.
If you ever get anymore ideas please pass them on! RIT is lucky to have such
talent and energy on their teaching staff!
Thanks,
Martha Walton
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:36:43 -0500 (EST)
From: ADavidhazy
Subject: Re: Little Faces being sent this afternoon...hopefully
Hi Martha,
Glad to hear they raised some eyebrows! :)
A second set is "opening" in Sao Paulo tomorrow and a third one went to
Argentina where one of the Argentine photo magazines is doing a story on
the project (got a cover!!!) - no pay but NEAT!
As for other projects - I do have a "guest" gallery on the web set up to
host photographs by student groups from anywhere. I don't think that web
galleries are all that unusual anymore but, for what it is worth, this one
is at least a little associated with the School of Photographic Arts and
Sciences here and maybe that would lend some novelty anyway to any group
of images shown there. Right now I am working with a teacher from
Los Angeles, the Pilgrim School, and his student's photos/images will be
shown next here. You can check this out at:
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery-s.html
Right now there is an "open" exhibit by students from right here but I've
had schools from as far away as Russia show a set of photos there!
Anyway, thanks VERY much for hosting the prints!.
Andy
Andrew Davidhazy, Professor
School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT
andpph@rit.edu www.rit.edu/~andpph
Well, as things developed the set of prints never made it from Martha Walton to Amy George
and it took until the Fall for a new set of images to travel to Nacogdoches as the story goes:
From: ag
Subject: Re: little faces prints
To: ADavidhazy
Date: 30-SEP-2002 19:25:11.79
Organization: SFA Art Dept.
Dear Mr. Davidhazy,
Again, I am writing to you in hopes of exhibiting your group of prints: "Little
Faces." I understand that this is a family of work that is already in great
demand; however, if you could squeeze me into your schedule, that would be
wonderful. I hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you,
Amy Holmes George
Assistant Professor of Art
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas
936.468.4563
ageorge@sfasu.edu
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From: ADavidhazy
Subject: Re: little faces prints
To: ageorge@sfasu.edu
Hi Amy,
I am glad to hear you are still interested. I will get the prints to you as
soon as I have a set available. I am supposed to be getting the last set still
in existance soon but am also working on making two additional ones. I will get
the prints to you hopefully in less than a month.
OK?
:)
Andy
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From: ag
Subject: Re: little faces prints
To: ADavidhazy
Date: 1-OCT-2002 13:58:58.45
Organization: SFA Art Dept.
Please send to:
Amy Holmes George
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Box 13001-SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3001
Thank you,
Amy
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From: ADavidhazy
Subject: Little Faces Exhibition is on the way from Rochester
Date: 26-OCT-2002 16:31:25.44
To: ageorge@sfasu.edu
Dear Amy,
Well, the collection of little prints was mailed last week.
Hopefully it arrives shortly. I had to send you a new set
printed in a bit of a hurry because one of the original sets
that was supposed to be traveling your way from Panama
misteriously disappeared in transit. That made three sets
that were lost in the mail somehow! :(
Oh, well, I hope these images give your students something
to think about and make them aware of a "different" way of
seeing "the portrait". I will assemble a record of this
stop in the global itinerary of the photographs so any
news, reactions by students, etc. would be welcome - but
is not required of course!!
And, if the experience was a good one then letting others
know of this project would also be nice!
Once you are done with photos if you could let me know
and I will provide you with an address to where they
should be sent next, ok?
Well, that is assuming you get them in the first place!!
Andy
Andrew Davidhazy, Professor
School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT
andpph@rit.edu www.rit.edu/~andpph
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From: Amy George
Subject: Re: Little Faces Exhibition is on the way from Rochester
To: ADavidhazy
Date: 19-NOV-2002 13:09:11.66
Dear Andrew,
I am prepared to forward the prints to the next location. Do you have the
mailing info and such? Thanks again for allowing us the opportunity to view
these works. My students found them to be very exciting and inspiring.
Thank you,
Amy George
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From: ADavidhazy
Subject: Next Stop for Little Faces - note from Andy
To: Amy George
Date: 20-NOV-2002 22:40:23.35
Hi Amy,
Glad to hear that all went well and the images hopefully caused some spark of
conversation. Thanks for hosting them!!
Lately I have been asking every host to pick out a print or two that they
personally would like to keep and to forward the rest to the next venue.
Please feel free to take your pick before sending the prints on their way.
As for the next stop ... they will be shown at MIT's Media Lab during December.
The person organizing their visit to that venue is:
Mr. Sam Hill
29 Sedgwick St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
e-mail: shill@media.mit.edu
Thanks again - if you would like to consider my next venture into this realm of
low-tech traveling show activity let me know. You could be spurring me on to
finish the next, different subject matter, series!!
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From: Amy George
Subject: Re: Little Faces Exhibition
To: ADavidhazy
Date: 25-NOV-2002 16:51:50.68
Dear Andrew,
Thought you would like to know that I shipped the prints to the next site
today.
Thanks again,
Amy
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