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What Is Left Behind features photographs of items at estate sales that explore themes of memory, mortality, and cultural history.
About the author
Norm Diamond has been photographing estate sales in Dallas for over a year. Photos from “What Is Left Behind – Stories From Estate Sales” have been shown at the Houston Center for Photography, the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, and at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Based on this series, he was named a finalist in the 2015 Photolucida Critical Mass competition. Pictures from his previous projects have been exhibited in juried group shows including A. Smith Gallery, TX, PhotoPlace Gallery, VT, Center for Fine Art Photography, CO (June 2016), as well as several online galleries. His work has also been featured on several blogs: Lenscratch, Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Slate.com, and PDN Photo of the Day,.
Diamond is now a fulltime fine art photographer after a career in interventional radiology. He has studied with Debbie Fleming Caffery, Sean Kernan, Keith Carter, Arno Minkkinen, Aline Smithson and, from 2013 to the present, he has been mentored by Cig Harvey. In addition to his teachers, he attributes much of his success in photography to his experiences as a physician.
Kat Kiernan is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Don’t Take Pictures, a print and online photography publication. As the former Owner and Director of The Kiernan Gallery, she has designed and managed numerous thematic exhibitions, curating both solo and pop-up shows. She has reviewed portfolios for Photolucida’s Critical Mass, FotoWeek DC, and PhotoNOLA, and lectured on photography at various institutions. In 2015 she received the Rising Star Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community. Kat resides in Brooklyn, New York where she works as an art critic photographer, and is the Assistant Director of Louis K. Meisel Gallery. She holds a BFA in photography from Lesley University College of Art and Design.
Her NY zip code is 11201.
Summary
What Is Left Behind features photographs of items at estate sales that explore themes of memory, mortality, and cultural history.
Foreword
Promotion by the photographer, Norm Diamond
Websites for promotion:
familyarchivists.com
inherited-values.com
Estatesales.org estimates that 12,300 estate sales are held each month in the US, with 100 million dollars in revenue each month
Newspapers to be notified and approached
Dallas Morning News
Dallas Observer
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Promotion and Publicity by Daylight Books Publicist
Local TV Stations to be notified – KXAS (NBC), WFAA (ABC), KTVT (CBS), KDFW (Fox)
Also local NPR affiliate – KERA
Bookstores:
Barnes and Nobles branches in my general vicinity, possibly.
Independent bookstores
Gallery Possibilities
The Dallas Contemporary
The After Image
In addition, Norm Diamond continually contact museums and galleries in other locations for solo exhibitions.
Presentations:
Dallas Camera Club
Houston Center for Photography
Book clubs
University Park, TX library
• Art and Photo magazines: Aperture, Photo District News, American Photo, Popular Photography, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, ARTnews, Shutterbug, The Photo Review, British Journal of Photography, Photographer’s Forum, Hot Shoe International, Photo-Eye, among others.
• Niche: All media in Dallas market (where artist lives and made many of the photographs), magazines covering the home, art & culture and aging: Dwell, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, AARP, Mother Jones, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic, W magazine, Town & Country, Paper, Vice.
• General interest publications (books, art, culture): The New Yorker, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, Bookforum
• Trade press: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Choice
• Top Market Newspapers: Dallas Morning News (Artist’s hometown), The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), Santa Fe New Mexican (Pasatiempo), Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman.
• Blogs/Online: Business Insider, Mashable, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Slate, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, aCurator, Musee magazine, We-Heart, Colossal, etc.
• Broadcast: NPR programs (national and local)
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"...one can’t help but feel a connection...and then, inevitably, a sense of loss.”,
- Hyperallergic, May 11, 2017
“… a poignant project on the transience of objects …”,
- Lenscratch, May 8, 2017
“Norm Diamond has found treasures that remind us of our own mortality...",
- F - Stop Magazine, July 22, 2017
