AKULE Product Number: EL3555 Retail Price: 29.95 $22.46 Author: Wayne Levin Page Count: 88 ISBN: 978-0915013555 Case Counts: 28
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About this title: " Capturing the big-eyed scad off the Kona Coast of HawaiæiÆs Big Island that gather and move in dazzling clusters in order to deter predators, akule have been bountiful in Hawaiæi for centuries. Their presence has commanded the attention of fisherman throughout the ages. The images command our attention, ôliving sculpturesö as Levin calls them, evoking emotions and sensations in the onlooker as only the purest forms of natural biology can. LevinÆs black and white imagery vividly presents the massive akule schools suspended in movement and lucidly carries the reader with these hundreds of individuals moving in unison. " About this author: "WayneÆs photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries including Tokyo Designer Space, Japan; New York University, Tisch School of Art Gallery, New York City; Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles; Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; High Museum, Atlanta; and the VIP room of the American Pavilion at the WorldÆs Fair, Japan. Major public collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. His work has been published in Aperture, American Photographer, Camera Arts, Day in the Life of Hawaii, Photo Japan, and most recently LensWork, among others. In recent years Wayne has continued to focus on depicting the underwater world in black and white. He has photographed sea life, surfers, canoe paddlers, free divers, swimmers, shipwrecks, seascapes and aquariums. In short, he has attempted to depict as many aspects of the ocean as possible within the boundaries of the black and white genre. In 2006 he received an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Currently Wayne is working on two book projects, a book of his extensive work on the schooling fish Akule, and a new book on Kalaupapa. Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; Clic Bookstore & Gallery, New York City; The Contemporary Museum Shop, Honolulu; gallerynorth, Kauai and 20ltd, London represent WayneÆs work." Reviews: " A while back, I stumbled across a mysterious school of photos, as it were, somewhere, way out at Internet sea. They were mysterious and magical scenes of underwater flora and fauna; schools of fish, sharks, coral clusters and free-divers ù all black-and-white and glowing in underwater light. READ THE FULL STORY on NPRÆs ôThe Picture Showö. ""In Wayne Levin's underwater oeuvre, heightened awareness is achieved in reverse: We are plunged forth into a tenebrous tableau, escaping the comfortable world we know, sinking ever deeper through the aquasphere as shifting elemental forces rearrange perception.... A glimpse through Levin's viewfinder leaves us breathless. Our response has little to do with lack of oxygen. It is, instead, a tingling visceral exclamation of how beautifulùand texturalùLevin's milieu is in the absence of color."" READ THE FULL REVIEW IN THE WILDLIFE ART JOURNAL HERE. ôThe thing that struck me most of all was that the schools were so massive and yet behaved like a single organism.... It really made me question which was the individual: the fish or the school?ö READ THE FULL STORY IN HANA HOU! HERE. öIn Wayne LevinÆs photographs of akule, we wonder at thousands of individuals cooperating in synchronous elegance, without a leader, and without dissent..."" READ THE FULL REVIEW IN THE HONOLULU WEEKLY HERE. ""Levin shoots in black and white, using polarizing filters to strip out reflected light, creating a world that is boiled down to its visual essentials. Special shout-out also for Barbara Pope's book design. The market is full of gaudy, four-color picture-postcard books of Hawaii scenery, but none are as magical as this. It is full of wonder...."" READ THE FULL STORY IN THE STAR ADVERTISER HERE. ""Levin transcends the technical and narrative aspects of the work to evoke awe and mystery. We detect a hint of sublime and a sense of our own place in the vastness of the universe."" Rex Weil, Art News ""Levin's photography probably isn't familiar to many outside of the United States, and the broader community of those fascinated by the ocean, but he's a Hawaii-based photographer who, working largely in black and white, has spent the best part of the last three decades documenting a very personal portrait of the ocean and its inhabitants....The best of his photographs capture something of the immensity and mysteriousness of the ocean, its elusive and constantly-changing beauty."" ùJames Bradley, City of Tongues"