We are all en route.... From the beginning.... to the end
The photographs are about people who are in between places.... in transit.... en route.
an ongoing series of photographs I am making as I pass through life.
E.Y.
EDWARD YANOWITZ was born May 25,1946 in Miami, Fl., raised in Nassau, Bahamas and Miami Beach, Fl. He has been a photographer since 1967, working in the Fine Art, Social Documentary and Commercial fields. In 1972, he received a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Photography, from The San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught photography at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fl., Barry University, Miami Shores, Fl., Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus, and The New World School of the Arts located in Miami Fl. He was head of the photography program at American InterContinental University School of Design South Florida, formulating the curriculum and facilities from its inception in 2002 until 2008. In 2009 he began teaching at Ai Miami International University of Art & Design in Miami,Florida.
From 1972 until 1990, he was the managing director of Williamâ??s Overseas Ltd., a family corporation est.1926, located in Nassau, Bahamas. During that time Mr. Yanowitz also gave photography workshops, exhibited photographs and produced commercial assignments, he was invited by Bahamas Ministry of Education and Culture to curate the national photography exhibition celebrating the Independence of the Bahamas, on July 10,1973.
Four of his photographs were selected by John Szarkowski for the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, in New York City in 1974. Six photographs were chosen by the government of the Bahamas for a series of 1979 Christmas definitive postage stamps with an official first day cover, this was the first time photography or a local theme had ever been utilized. In 1992, Mr.Yanowitz was retained as an expert witness, documentary photographer and coordinator of photography for the defense, in the William Kennedy Smith vs. the State of Florida trial.
He has produced documentary and commercial assignments for the Oakland Redevelopment Agency, The San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone Book of Days, Decca Records, The Nassau Guardian and Nassau Tribune Newspapers, Cable Beach Hotels, Bank Leu of Belgium, British-American Trust Corporation, and The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. He is a member of the Society of Photographic Educators and is a former P.A.D.I underwater photography instructor. His photographs have been in numerous exhibitions and are held in corporate and private collections both nationally and internationally.
