Don Shaw

"Beach House Series #3" Mixed Media Landscape Photo Collage

1981

Colored photograph of the St. Marks Square in Italy. The photograph is matted to a thick board to protect against bending. The photograph is not framed.

Colored photograph of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany. The photograph is matted to a thick board to protect against bending. The wo...

Color wildlife photograph from 1991 by photojournalist Thomas Mangelsen. The work features a herd of zebras gathered around a watering hole. Signed, dated, and editioned 33/950 along lower from margin. Currently hung a complementary black frame with a cream matting. Dimensions Without Frame: H 24.5 in. x W 35 in. Artist Biography: A Nebraska native, Mangelsen’s love of nature, his life outdoors and business success were heavily influenced by his father. An avid sportsman, Harold Mangelsen took his sons to favorite blinds along the Platte River in Nebraska to observe the great flocks of ducks, geese and cranes that migrate through the valley. From these adventures, Mangelsen learned important lessons for photographing in the field, most notably patience and understanding animal behavior. In 1965, Mangelsen began studying business at the University of Nebraska. In 1967, Tom transferred to Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, where he changed his major and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Tom continued postgraduate study in zoology and wildlife biology at the University of Nebraska and Colorado State University. In 1970 Mangelsen moved to Nederland, Colorado. He spent two years living in the Rocky Mountains in an old mining shack without electricity or running water with his English setter, black lab and raccoon. Tom continued to work on his photography and studied arctic alpine ecology at the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station near Nederland. There he met Bert Kempers, a CU film producer, who later hired Tom as cinematographer and film editor for his company Westwind Productions, making educational and nature documentaries. Tom longed to make a documentary about the Platte River and its great wildlife resource. He returned to the Platte each spring to film the great crane migration. These experiences led to Tom traveling to the cranes’ nesting grounds in Alaska and their wintering areas in Texas. National Geographic television wanted to produce a documentary, which would chronicle the plight of the endangered whooping crane...

A seemingly candid c-print photograph of a man in a suit wearing a white fedora walking down the street by Houston, TX artist Amy Blakemore. The composition is expertly balanced betw...

Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of more than 10 different styles of Color Photography generations ahead of his time. In the pre-digital world of the 1970s, 80's and 90's Funk had more th...

Graphic depiction of a regional airport on Long Island.

Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs. Mitchell Funk doubles down...

Vanilla Sky by Frank Schott a series of images capturing the epique infinety of White Sands 48 x 72 inches / 122cm x 183cm edition of 7 signed 27 x...