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Featured Artist: Amalie R. Rothschild


...Continued from the Spring 2015 newsletter

Rothschild shot film, of course, with two Nikons, one loaded with Tri-X at 800 ASA for black and white, and the other, for color, with High Speed Ektachrome 160 pushed one stop to 320 ASA.

It may have been a combination of "serendipity and initiative," as she remembers it, that made her archive possible. But it wasn't just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Her photos have won wide-spread critical fame.

"Rothschild demonstrates that she can elevate photojournalism into high art," wrote Jessica Dawson in, "The Washington Post," in 2001.

"Her frames give visual testament to an intimate diary of performance," wrote Mary Hrbacek in "The New York Art World," in 2002.

"I was raised as an artist," Rothschild says. Her mother and namesake was the highly regarded Baltimore painter, sculptor and printmaker.

She began photographing at the age of eight or nine with her first camera, a Brownie Hawkeye. In high school she borrowed her father's camera to photograph for the school yearbook.

Rothschild attended the Rhode Island School of design, where she studied photography with Harry Callahan and received a BFA degree.

She then went on to post-graduate study at NYU, where she studied with Paul Caponigro, received an MFA in Film Production, and began documenting cultural history at the Fillmore East.

In the same period, she chronicled the 1969 Woodstock Festival and other major music events such as the Newport Jazz Festival, the U.S. premier of the Who's rock opera, "Tommy," The Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden and Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival.

Considering that she has some 20,000 images from that time, it would be easy to focus on just her early work. And it would be a mistake.

Her photographs have appeared on magazine covers, CD reissues, in numerous books, and in many gallery exhibitions. Rothschild has devoted much of her time to filmmaking, producing and directing documentaries since 1969. Many of her films deal with social issues as revealed through the lives of people in the arts.

Her films include, "Painting the Town: The Illusionist Murals of Richard Haas," "Conversations with Williard Van Dyke," "Woo Who? May Wilson," "It Happens to Us," and "Nana, Mom and Me." Her films have been shown around the world and at numerous international film festivals including Sundance and the New Directors/New Films series presented every spring by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

Rothschild continues to photograph, as well. She began to transition to digital capture in 1999 with a Nikon Coolpix. She's worked with a number of digital cameras since, and currently uses a Sony Nex 7. She's also embraced other digital technologies including scanning and Photoshop, which she learned in 1994, starting with version 2.5.1.

"I miss film sometimes. I'm not completely comfortable with digital cameras," she says. However, she appreciates many advantages of digital capture, like the capacity to shoot in "unbelievably low light and to focus in the dark," Rothschild adds.

"Color is where I bless digital, because I wouldn't be able to make decent prints from my original transparencies the old fashioned way. With scanning and Photoshop, I can make gorgeous prints, even if the original transparency was underexposed," she explains.

Rothschild has worked with AutumnColor since 1997, dating back to the company's origin as EverColor. She does her own scans, from which AutumnColor makes color prints on Fuji Crystal Archive mat paper. Mark Doyle also was instrumental from the start in teaching her how to get her monitor colors calibrated correctly, she adds, and over the years with each upgrade of her system.

"Mark is easy to work with," Rothschild says. "I've worked with him at the lab many times. I love it there, and the whole process in a place like that."

"He's a brilliant technician and an artist in his own right in terms of his sensibility about how to judge an image and what kind of tweaks it needs. And as much as I know about Photoshop, and no matter how skilled I become, I realize it's so little compared to what Mark knows how to do with the program. Whenever I'm at the lab, I always learn some new little trick from him to add to my toolbox."

Upcoming Rothschild Shows
Amalie R. Rothschild's photographs will be featured in several gallery shows beginning in May.

Thirty-two of her photos will be featured in a two person exhibition entitled, "Rock Palaces of New York, The Fillmore East and The Academy of Music by Amalie R. Rothschild and Bill Green." The show runs from May 8 to June 3 at the Morrison Hotel gallery, 116 Prince Street, in SoHo, New York City. Five of her pictures will also be part of the Morrison Hotel, Los Angeles gallery’s group show, “Music Festivals,” opening at the end of March.

Additionally, eleven of her photos will be included in the upcoming, "Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution," at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The exhibit will be a comprehensive retrospective of the life and career of the legendary rock promoter. It runs from May 7 through October 11.

All photos this page © Amalie R. Rothschild






















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