Stephen Paternite

Stephen Paternite (American, born: 1952) received his initial art training in photography and sculpture from Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1970s ~

In 1974, he was the recipient of an "Artists Fellowship Award" from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D. C. ~

In 1978, he began experimenting with black-and-white & color infrared photography leading to a limited edition portfolio of black-and-white infrared photographs entitled "The Infrared Portfolio" with an introduction by the former Whitney Museum of American Art and George Eastman House photography curator Robert M. Doty. This was followed in 1981 by the limited edition black-and-white infrared portfolio entitled "Below the Visible Spectrum" with an introduction by Cleveland Museum of Art photography department head, Nicholas Hlobeczy ~


In 1982, he co-edited and published the "American Infrared Survey" A Celebration of Infrared Photography. This (out-of-print) book explored artistic trends in black-and-white & color infrared photography, and also resulted in a worldwide traveling exhibition of original photographs from the book ~

In 1988, he was the recipient of an "Individual Artists Fellowship" from the Ohio Art...