About Sam Notarbartolo
Biography
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Currently, I am re-editing the fashion as art images, adding extra layers using mixed media. While also developing a series, of new images "Liquid Dreams." Models are photographed from above water, underwater, their bodies suspended, weightless in water. Water creating, abstractions of colors, with fabrics and textures reflecting light, natural or artificial, while models are submerged in water. Their shapes interacting with shadows and light.
Reanimation V 2 are images created from found objects, man made and organic. V 2 have been digitally manipulated adding multiple layers of textures .
During college, opportunities appeared and I began assisting. Working with New York's leading fashion and fine art photographers during the 70s, an explosive period for fashion photography. My assisting with Mel Dixon and Ken O'Hara, who both worked with Avedon and Hiro, taught me not only technique but valuable lessons on humanity. I'am forever grateful to have been a part of that lineage. I have worked both nationally and internationally, and photographed for the International Inside Out Project through a grant from Broward County.
