Career Highlights

Selected Group Exhibits

2005- Israel Museum,Jerusalem "Camera Sacra-Capturing the Soul of Nature "
2002- The Landscape Show Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson NY
2001- Selected Works Michael Shapiro Gallery San Francisco CA
2000- " Roadshow " DFN Gallery NY
2000- Recent Aquisitions Show Frances Loehman Loeb Gallery Vassar College Poughkeepsie
1997- "Under the Darkcloth" Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego
1995- P.L.A.N Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1995- The Page Collection Exhibit Monterrey Peninsula Museum, CA

Selected Solo Exhibits

2004- TSL Museum Hudson NY
2002-Libre Gallery
2001-Kinderhook Memorial Library
2001-Jan Kesner Gallery
2000- Carrie Haddad Gallery
1999- Edward Carter Gallery NYC
1998- Jan Kesner Gallery LA
1997 -Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
1995- Jan Kesner Gallery LA
1992- Ayala Museum Manila
1992- Jan Kesner Gallery CA


Works in Selected Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Amon Carter Museum
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Daum Museum
Frances Loehman Loeb Museum Vassar College
Brookings Institute
Norton Simon Museum
Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego
Library of Congress Washington DC
Bibliotheque Nationale Paris
Ayala Museum of Art Manila
Page Collection
Vernon Collection
Sack Collection

Monographs

1992- Time Frames: Photographs by J. Michael Lardizabal September Press
2007- Chatham : Photographs by Michael Lardizabal Beagle Hill Ltd.

Grants

1987- Recipient of the Figueroa Foundation Fellowship

Landscape Theory

Niverville, NY 7x7 inch silver gelatin print

Route 28 , Conrail Tracks, Valatie, NY 9x9 in. silver gelatin print

Beagle Hill,Near Spencertown,NY 8.5 x 8.6 in. gelatin silver print

I am drawn to common space. Since 1996, most of my landscape photographs are made within a 20 mile radius of where I live. There is so much to see , its all important.

Niverville, NY defines how I feel about the relationship of space,form and light.

September

Claudia at the orchard, 2001

Its a bitter sweet month September. The days are getting shorter ,the bugs are gone , its almost time to put away the patio furniture.

I was born in the month of September , although I stopped celebrating my birthday a few years ago, its still a month that I have to contend with.

September is also the month where work in our orchard begins. I've got almost 50 acres of fruit trees as well as a tiny vineyard that needs help.

I once tried to maintain the whole place myself after reading an article relating to Paul Bunyan like feats. That lasted all of 2 years as I just wore myself down.

Like the seasons, my feelings of this place wane. Its a love/hate relationship.

Thursday Pictures

Mexican Wedding,Mexico 2002

I took this picture with a P&S camera that has a 22mm lens. Its very small and light,quite wonderful to use really....it takes a big bite out of the world.
I love how happy the bride is.




Mandy and Claudia , Hill House, NY 2004

This is the last picture I took using the 8x10 camera. I have not used it since then.

Summer

C and Mandy, 2004

Brian,Becca and Mandy 1996

The cameras ability to mark time is unsurpassed . Eight summers have passed between these 2 photographs. I look forward to the next eight.

The Splendor of Summer

Murphy's Boy, 1997

43 Albany Ave, NY 1997

Brian and Leif fishing for Brownies, 1998

Mandy, 1997

Summer is the healing season for me.

My soul responds to the way light falls gracefully on everything. Nourishing,resplendant,invigorating...I can't think of enough adjectives to properly describe

this season of bliss.

Its also the time when my eye shifts to photographing my family and friends in all our crazy rituals. Skin glows in the summer. Everything is good and safe once again.

From The Flat Files

Albany,NY 2001

This selection is a sampling of my continued interest in photographing my family and people in general.I first started taking portraits with a view camera back in 1979. Working first with a 5x7 then eventually an 8x10 Deardorff. The incredible detail and tonal structure of the contact print was intoxicating.At first the sittings were awkward due to the cumbersome nature of such a large bellows camera,but eventually I developed a finess for it. By the mid 1990's I realized that I was missing out on wonderful opportunities due to not having the 8x10 ready to go at a moments notice.To remedy this, I started working with both the venerable Rolleiflex and Leica, which immediately introduced a dimension to my work that was not so much lacking but welcomed.