Some Ghosts is a new collection of photographs from Scott Nichol emerging from the transcendent and ephemeral nature of feminine beauty.

Each photograph is printed on a wonderful Japanese Okawara paper.  The papers are hand coated and printed by the artist. a limited set of numbered prints will be available to collectors.

A gallery showing of this collection will be held on January 3, 2009 at the Quadrant Book Mart, 20 North 3rd Street, Easton, PA.  Artist’s reception starts at 7pm and is open to the public.

For more information, see: silverystars.com/someghosts

Fine art photographer and friend Scott Nichol will be speaking at the monthly Lehigh Valley Photographers Club meeting on Thursday, May 15th. What’s interesting is that Scott will not only be discussing his photography but also detailing the process he has gone through over the last year or so to produce a very short run, high quality book, in the still air. Press release is as follows:

Scott Nichol is a professional, published photographer whose works have appeared in American Photo and Photographer’s Forum magazines and is a regular contributor to Lehigh Valley Living Magazine. Scott’s fine art photography focuses on figurative work studied mostly in formal studio environments. Last summer, Scott took a step to move his figure photography into the great wide open. It was an adventure that found him in remote forests, lakes, and beaches seeking the seclusion of early mornings when the quality of light was good and onlookers were scarce.

From this series of photographs, Scott has produced a limited edition hard cover book of this work. The book will be produced in an edition of 50 signed and numbered copies. Pricing for this edition will be $125. Selected original signed prints from this series will also be available for $40 each. Orders for the book and prints are being taken at silverystars.com.

Scott will speak Thursday night about the process of producing the book from a photographer’s point of view. He will discuss details of how the how the page layouts were created, how the printer was chosen, and show slides of selected plates from the book.

Scott will be speaking 7pm to 9pm in the Banko Room at the Banana Factory, 25 W. 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA.

If you are into photography, fashion, and the 60’s culture or just really cool people and don’t know about Helmut Newton, you need to get up to speed on him. His photography was one of the greatest influences in the 50’s through the early 90’s in fashion and pushing the limits of photography in the mainstream media. I know his work has had a major influence and inspiration on me, even morose after I read his autobiography.

While going through a few blogs last week, I ran across one that had an interview with Helmut discussing his book. Some of the quotes out of it are great; he definitely has a great, dry sense of humor.

Your about to be published autobiography stops in 1982. What have the readers missed?

Nothing! People who reach their goals are very uninteresting. What could I have written about the last 20 years? I met a lot of awfully boring Hollywood bimbos. I earned a lot of money. I fly only first class.

When you arrived in Singapore you had five dollars to your name, which you immediately spent in a brothel.

My sound financial sense told me there was no difference between having five dollars and being completely broke.

The full interview can be found here. NSFW image at the top of the interview.