Claire Rosen: Difference between revisions

| name = Claire Rosen

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1983}}

| nationality = American

| alma_mater = [[Savannah College of Art and Design]] (SCAD)

| known_for = Photography

| notable_works = ''Birds of a Feather''

| style = Conceptual

| website = {{URL|claire-rosen.com}}

'''Claire Rosen''' (born in 1983, in New York) is an [[List of American artists|American]]fine fine-art photographer based in New York. She was included in ''[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]'' magazine's "30 Brightest Under 30" list for 2012 and 2013 in Art & Design. for 2012<ref name=forbes2011>Adams, Susan. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2011/12/19/30-under-30-art-design/ "30 Under 30: Art & Design"], ''[[Forbes]]'', December 19, 2011. Retrieved on August 24, 2016.</ref> and 2013 in Art & Style.<ref name=forbes2012>Howard, Caroline and Noer, Michael. [https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30_art.html "30 Under 30: Art & Style"], ''[[Forbes]]'', December 12, 2012. Retrieved on August 24, 2016.</ref>

Claire Rosen's artistic style regularly incorporates [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] animals, along with [[archetype|archetypal]] heroines, and symbolic still-life arrangements. Influenced by the aesthetics of the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelites]], her work often references the [[Victorian era]]. Rosen'sHer photographs are foundheld in numerous public and private collections. <ref name="flanagan">Flanagan, Sharyn. [http://www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/2015/02/20/claire-rosenaes-formal-bird-portraits-on-view-at-center-for-photography-at-woodstock/ "Claire Rosen's formal bird portraits on view in Woodstock"], ''Almanac Weekly'', February 20, 2015. Retrieved on June 29, 2016.</ref>

Born in New York in 1983 and raised in [[New Jersey]], Rosen is the eldest daughter of Dolly and Edward Rosen. Her mother is a culinary historian specializing in Victorian-era cake baking, and her father is a banking and intellectual property lawyer. SheAs hasa younger sisters whomchild, she would drape her younger sisters in sheets and pose as Greek goddessesthem in the family's backyard when they were children. Her mother read to them from ''[[Grimm's Fairy Tales]]'', [[Beatrix Potter]], ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', and [[L. Frank Baum]]. <ref name="rogers">{{Cite web |date=2015-09-17 |title=Claire Rosen |url=https://www.commarts.com/features/claire-rosen |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=Communication Arts |language=en-us}}</ref> Rosen was also taken on frequentFrequent trips to the zoo, the circus, and the Museum of Natural History, which fostered aan loveinterest ofin animals and taxidermy, themes that hashave carriedappeared intoin her artlater work.<ref name="rosenberg">{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=David |date=2014-09-10 |title=Do You Think This Wallpaper Goes With My Feathers? |url=https://slate.com/culture/2014/09/claire-rosen-birds-of-a-feather-offers-a-whimsical-beautiful-look-at-exotic-birds-photos.html |access-date=2024-07-11 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}</ref>

As a youth, she wasWhile interested in art butas a youth, she did not expresspursue herselfvisual visuallyart until college, when she took her first photography class.<ref name=rogers /><ref name=rosenberg />

Rosen attended [[Bard College at Simon's Rock]], where she first pursued photography. She graduatedgraduating with a liberal arts degree in 2003. She then attended the [[Savannah College of Art and Design|Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)]], where she learnedfurther developed her technical skills and metwas mentored by Steve AishmanAshman, a physicist-turned-photo instructor who became a mentor to Rosen. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photographyphotography in 2006. <ref name=flanagan /><ref name="rogers" />

After graduating from SCAD, Rosen moved to Maine to completecompleted a three-month internship with [[Joyce Tenneson]] at the [[Maine Media Workshops]], in [[Rockport, Maine|Rockport]]. FollowingShe thethen internship, Rosen remained in Rockport to managemanaged Tenneson's studio for two- and- a- half years. <ref name="shoushany">Shoushany, Rudy. [http://rsphotography.co/2013/10/claire-rosen-exclusive-interview-fashion-and-fine-art-photographer/ "Claire Rosen Exclusive Interview, Fashion and Fine Art Photographer"], ''Rudy Shoushany Photography'', October 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2016.</ref> ItDuring wasthis there thatperiod, Rosen began reading the works of [[Carl Jung]], [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]], [[Joseph Campbell]], and [[Bruno Bettelheim]], which have subsequently inspiredinfluenced her workartistic development. <ref name=rogers /> She also met [[Cig Harvey]], whowhom becameshe cites as a role model for Rosen. ItWhile wasin alsoRockport, duringRosen thiscreated timethe thatphoto Rosen createdseries ''Fairy Tales and Other Stories'', which is a seriescollection of self-portraits, and ''Dolls in the Attic''. <ref name=rogers />

In 2009, Rosen moved backreturned to New York andto began working independentlywork as aan fineindependent artist. She exhibited photos, fromexhibiting her two serieswork in juried shows. <ref name=shoushany /> Her ''Fairy Tales and Other Stories'' receivedseries garnered attention, and some images were licensed by magazinesleading to runmagazine alongside articlespublications. RosenShe then began commercial work and she began, creating commissioned images for book covers, clothing designers, and other organizations. To date, Rosen has created commissioned work forincluding [[National Geographic Magazine]], [[Fujifilm]] US, Alex Randall Chandeliers, [[Neiman Marcus]] at Short Hills, Smithsonian Magazine, and Random House Book,. and several other businesses and magazines.<ref name=rogers /><ref name=shoushany />

In 2010, Rosen, photographed the vintage taxidermyas artist-in-residence the collection ofat the Millbrook School in DutchessDuchess County., Shephotographed wasthe selectedschool's asvintage antaxidermy artistcollection. inThe residencecollection, fordating back to the school.early The20th collectioncentury, containedincluded 10,000 eggs, and approximately 500 taxidermytaxidermied animals, birds, and reptiles, dating back to the early 20th century. This series documents the historyRosen ofdocumented these pieces, photographingoften them withincorporating their original records when possible and isolating each piecespecimen onagainst a black background. <ref name=flanagan />

''Birds of a Feather'' was createdCreated in 2012,<ref name="flanagan" /> and''Birds isof considereda toFeather'' beis one of Rosen's most widely seenrecognized photographic series.<ref name=rosenberg /> The imagesseries featuredfeatures portraits of exoticlive birds, againstranging coordinatedfrom wallpapercommon backgrounds.pets Livelike birdsparakeets wereto photographedexotic againstspecies complementarylike the Hyacinth Macaw, posed against historical and reproduction wallpaper and fabric from the Victorian Era.<ref name="flanagan" /> Rosen explainedhas ofdescribed the series: as referencing "that desire to possess the beautiful and exotic" that emerged from the Victorian Era's disconnect from nature juxtaposed with its increased awareness of faraway places and creatures.<blockquoteref name="flanagan" /> Inspired by Bird Paradise, a New Jersey exotic bird store,<ref name=rosenberg /> Rosen used traditional portrait lighting techniques and wallpaper backdrops to create the images.<ref name=flanagan /><ref name=rosenberg />

InRosen's 2014, Rosen created a photo series entitled ''Fantastical Feasts''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fantastical Feasts |url=https://claire-rosen.com/art-fantasticalfeasts |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Claire Rosen |language=en-US}}</ref>'','' whichdepicts featuredvarious animalsanimal eatingspecies gathered around banquet tables, consuming their preferred foods, in compositions thatreminiscent allude toof Leonardo da Vinci's ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)|The Last Supper]]''.<ref name=rosenbergrogers /> Each photo in the series featured a different species—including elephants, tapirs, sloths, miniature ponies, goats, mice, parakeets, honey bees, hedgehogs, etc.—eating the foods it prefers.<ref name=rogersrosenberg /><ref>{{Cite Ronweb Haviv,|title=The NewFantastical YorkFeasts photojournalist|url=https://claire-rosen.com/art-fantasticalfeasts and|access-date=2024-10-27 owner of VII Photo Agency, assisted with the project and New York retoucher Rebecca Manson worked with|website=Claire Rosen on the images.|language=en-US}}</ref>

Rosen has taughtled photography workshops aroundinternationally theat world,institutions including at [[B&H Photo|B&H]], Gulf Photo Plus, [[Savannah College of Art and Design|SCAD]], and the [[Hallmark Institute of Photography]]. She gavehas also given an artist talk at the [[National Geographic]] Photography Seminar in Washington, DCD.C.

AtEncouraged theby encouragementcreative ofconsultant Beth Taubner, creative consultant of Mercurylab, Rosento researchedresearch her ancestryfamily andhistory, Rosen discovered that her maternal grandfather, who died when her mother, Dolly, was sixteenyoung, was a Hollywood fashion photographer inwho Hollywood.often He photographed femaleposed starlets, posing them with animals., Rosena discoveredstriking thisparallel factto monthsRosen's afterown takingwork. similar photographs herself.<ref name=rogers />

*''Nostalgia: aA Study In Color'', 2013

*''Birds of a Feather'' [[Center for Photography at Woodstock]], Woodstock, NY, 2015<ref>{{cite web|title=PR: Claire Rosen|url=http://www.cpw.org/news/pr-claire-rosen/|website=CPW|accessdate=2016-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613045906/http://www.cpw.org/news/pr-claire-rosen/|archive-date=2015-06-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

*''Reverie'' SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2013<ref>{{cite web|title=Claire Rosen photography exhibition: 'Reverie'|url=http://www.scad.edu/event/claire-rosen-photography-exhibition-reverie%20|website=[[Savannah College of Art and Design|SCAD]]|accessdate=2016-08-25}}</ref>