EXHIBIT
REVIEW: Intimate photography collection
displays Hollywood's elite
By
Kristen Wooley
Daily Forty Niner
When
Ellen Harrington met Pat York, a motion
pictures photographer, a few years ago,
she said she was blown away by the artist's
work.
Harrington
is the exhibition curator at the Academy
of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, where
150 of York's pieces will go on display
Friday.
The
title of the free exhibition is "Imaging
and Imagining: The Film World of Pat York."
"Pat's
work emanates who she is, which is a very
interesting person in her own right,"
Harrington said.
"Her photographs were a natural fit
for the Academy."
York's
work is nothing like paparazzi like photographs
of celebrities. There is a sense of atmosphere
in her pictures, Harrington said.
"If
the subjects aren't already friends, they
become friends. She develops relationships
and intimacies with her subjects."
Some
of the images on display at the exhibit
include actors such as Sean Connery, Jane
Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Anthony Hopkins,
Anjelica Houston, George Lucas, John Travolta,
Jack Nicholson, Gene Kelly and more. Many
of her celebrity relationships developed
by working on sets with her husband actor
Michael York and Harrington says that, "personally
and professionally she is connected to film
people."
York
began her career as a journalist working
for Vogue. She was a photographer and travel
editor for Glamour, and freelanced photographer
on film sets, capturing shots of celebrities
on and off the set as documentaries. Her
works have been published in magazines such
as Life, People, Town and Country, Playboy,
and Newsweek.
"Anyone
who is interested in photography and film
history should come to this exhibit. The
pieces span from the mid-60s, to photos
taken just last week," Harrington said.
The
printing of the photographs is amazing in
itself, as York has used some of the most
advanced, digital printing available, she
said. The photos range size; some are in
color and some in black and white. The exhibit
is the first of the academy to be entirely
digitally printed.
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