Biography of Ted Astor

           A native of Mount Vernon, NY, Ted Astor attended the public schools in the Edgemont School District before graduating from the University of Rhode Island where he received a degree in photography. He did graduate work at Manhattanville College.

           He has worked as a photo-journalist for national and Westchester publications and done illustrations for a number of books. He  has exhibited his work at the Hammond Museum, the Hudson River Museum, Westchester Community College, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art,  River Gallery in Irvington, the Foto Forum in New York City and shown in an international collection organized by the International Center for Photography.

            He lives in Ardsley with his wife Karen and their daughter Lindsay.

“My work combines images taken in different places and times to create an overall new image that is made up of multiple views. The works evoke personal reactions based upon individual memory and sensibility. I started combining images in the 1970’s in a conventional darkroom. I now shoot with conventional cameras and digital cameras, combine the images using the tools that the computer provides.

A native of Mount Vernon, NY, Ted Astor attended the public schools in the Edgemont School District before graduating from the University of Rhode Island, where he received a degree in photography. He did graduate work at Manhattanville College.

He has worked as a photojournalist for national and Westchester publications, and done illustrations for a number of books. He has exhibited his work at the Hammond Museum, the Hudson River Museum, Westchester Community College, The Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, River Gallery in Irvington, The Foto Forum in New York City, and shown in an international collection at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Ares, Argentina.

Ted Astor,  2002

STATEMENT

         After obtaining a degree in photography from the University of Rhode Island, I started out doing both photojournalism and fine arts photography.  Looking at the paintings of Sonia Sacoder Astor I saw how she incorporated multiple images from multiple vantage points. Her Maximal Art was an art of addition, an approach that is inclusive. It incorporates multiple images from multiple vantage points. I began to do that in the darkroom with my own work.

.       By the mid 1990s, I had begun to develop an expertise with digital images.  Instead of the laborious, time-consuming trial and error with exposures in the darkroom, I could scan images of photographs into the computer. Working on a PC and with Adobe Photoshop, it was possible to manipulate instantly the position of images and color in a unique fashion.    The printer produced prints of high quality. The technology enabled me to create works much more quickly, more easily produce variations on a theme, and turn out uniform quality prints.        

     Ted Astor Photography

Shows:                Scarsdale, NY  Library w/ Sonia Astor  2005

                            Greenburgh, NY  Multi-Purpose Center, 2004

                            Westchester Land Trust,  2004-2006

                            Southampton  NY “Inn Artists”  2003  

                            Westchester Arts Council Open Studios Exhibitions, White Plains, NY

                            River Gallery, Irvington, NY                                                

                            Blumberg Building, North White Plains, NY

                            Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY

                            Hammond Museum, North Salem,  NY

                            Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

                            Palisades Room, Hudson River Museum, Dual Show with Sonia Astor

                            Gallery at Hastings on Hudson,  NY

                            World Future Society Meeting, New York City

                            Wainwright House,  Rye, NY

                             Foto Forum, New York City

                             Fine Arts Gallery, Gallimaufry,  Croton, NY   

                             ICP Traveling Exhibition                    

                             Museum of Modern Art,  Buenos Aires, Argentina

Journalist:            New York Times

                             Sports Illustrated

                             Westchester

                             County Life

                             Baseball Hall of  Fame 50th Anniversary Book

Commercial:         Commercial Arts Inc.                 

                              Zachys Murals  4′ x 7′    20″  x 48″

                              Book Jackets for Charles Scribners & Sons;  New American Library; 

                              Donald I. Fine Books

                              Portraits for Various Clients

                              E-Bay 

Teacher:                 Children’s Village (Photography)  Dobbs Ferry, NY

Education:               University of Rhode Island (Degree in Photography)  Manhattanville.

Photographic Prints in Collections Throughout the United States 

Photographs Online: http://astorart.com

Critic’s Review: “I really liked the contrast of huge scale and micro-detail and the way it metaphorically translates into ideas about the planet, the environment, the human race, war, etc. I was also struck by the degrees of similarity and dissimilarity between your work [S.S. Astor] and Ted Astor’s. It looks like a good working relationship, good give and take of ideas.”–Lucy Lippard