People & Places Opening Reception for Bernard Eismann

Fri July 27th, 2012 7PM-10PM Showing until August 1, 2012

Village of Merrick Park 330 San Lorenzo Ave. #2305, Coral Gables, FL

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Bernard Eismann has been taking pictures since his early teens. The images his eye seeks are of people and places, each with some hint of a story. Starting in the 1950’s he worked in the news business an an editor, reporter and foreign correspondent – not a photographer – covering war, revolution, politics and natural disasters for almost 20 years. Assignment took him to all 50 states, to political conventions, Presidential Campaigns, to Israel, India, Vietnam, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic as well to coverage Mercury and Gemini space missions with reports heard and seen on CBS and ABC.

His work earned 2 Emmys along with a number of other professional awards. Eismann is a graduate of NYU and earned a Masters Degree as a fellow in Esat Asian Affairs at Colombia University. With a New York Times correspondent, he co-authored “The far Right, reportage on the right wing radical the fringes in American politics published in 1963. With his wife Suzanne, Key Biscayne has been home for a dozen years.