About Stan
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Stan Shire
Stan Shire is Professor Emeritas and former chair of the Photographic Imaging department at Community College of Philadelphia.
He has a BFA degree in Photography and Film from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and a Masters degree in Education from Arcadia University. He has studied with Ansel Adams, Ray K. Metzker, Ron Rosenstock, Bert Monroy and John Paul Caponigro.
With Adobe Expert Certification in Photoshop, Stan is the author of the HandsOn Photoshop Tutorial Workshop book series. He is a member of the International Leica Society (LHSA)
His work is in the Mamiya Masters of the Medium Gallery (U.K.), Museo Hollander (Fuengirola, Spain), Leica Gallery, Blue Cross – Corporate Headquarters, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, Comedy Central, National Football League Player’s Association, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and in other private and corporate collections.
From 2002 to 2015, Stan worked in collaboration with painter and printmaker Shelly Lependorf. Their work has been shown in numerous galleries and is represented in many corporate and private collections.
Gallery affiliations and exhibitions
2013 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Hudson, NY
2013 Philadelphia Print Center, Invitational Exhibition
2012 Packard-Reath Gallery, Solo Show, Lewes, DE
2012 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Represented Artists Show, Hudson, NY
2011 Art of the State, Juried Show, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Works on Paper Award
2011 The Emotional Landscape, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, NY
2010 Intercontinental Hotel, New York City (Commissions for public spaces)
2010 Art of the State, Juried Show, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2010 Carrie Haddad Photographs, “P.O.V.”, Hudson, NY
2010 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 National Football League, Upshaw Building, Opening Exhibition – Washington, DC
2009 Carrie Haddad Photographs Gallery – Group Show – Hudson, NY
Contemporary Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
2008 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 Sande Webster Gallery, “Water Signs”, Philadelphia, PA
2007 ArtsWalk – Cannonball Factory Juried Show – Hudson, NY
2007 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, “Eastern Light”, Newport News, Virginia
2007 Perkins Center for the Arts,”Photography 26”, Moorestown NJ
2007 CCCA 12th Annual Juried Show, Hudson NY
2006 Sande Webster Gallery, “Horizon Fields”, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Iraqi National Museum, Baghdad Museum Project, International Print Show
2006 Gallery Siano, “Theatre of the Absurd”, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Art at the Airport, “Horizon Fields”, Philadelphia International Airport
2006 Carrie Haddad Gallery, solo show, Hudson NY
2006 Holland Art House, “The Big Picture”, West Chester, PA
2006 Fine Museum, “Continuum”, solo show, San Francisco, CA
2005 Gallery Siano, “Shirokuro”, Philadelphia, PA (December)
2005 JMS Gallery, Solo Show, “Horizon Fields”, Chestnut Hill, PA (November)
2005 Pocketbook Factory Gallery, “Waves of Light”, Hudson, NY
2005 Sande Webster Gallery, “The Art of the Garden”, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Carrie Haddad Gallery, “Theatre of the Absurd,” Hudson, NY
2005 Sande Webster Gallery, Contemporary Photography, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Bi-annual Group Photography Show, Hudson, NY
2004 Holland Art House, Photography and Metal, West Chester, PA
Collections
Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, New York
NFL - Players Association, Washington, D.C.
Blue Cross, Corporate Headquarters
Comedy Central, New York
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Philadelphia, PA
AAA Mid Atlantic Headquarters, Wilmington, DE
Intercontinental Hotel, NYC
Orrick International, Washington, D.C.
Knott Capital Management, Corporate Headquarters
Savannah Partners, Corporate Headquarters, Wilmington, Delaware
Mamiya Masters of the Medium,
UK Museo Hollander, Fuengirola, Spain
Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA