The American Museum of Fly Fishing – Angling & Art: The Confluence of Passions
Auction Ends: Jul 31, 2014 10:00 PM EDT

Art

Brown Pelican by Matthew Lerman

Item Number
152
Buy Now Price
500 USD
Not Sold
 

Item Description

Brown Pelican, Naples, FL 1/46, Photograph, 20" x 24", Black Frame

Item Special Note

Matthew was born with a camera in hand.   Mom and dad encouraged him to take family photos using a box-shaped Kodak point and shoot camera equipped with large and cumbersome magnesium wire-filled flash bulbs.   Early on Matthew realized that beyond those family snap shots existed an awesome and breathtaking natural world. A world filled with wonders infinitely more powerful than family portraits.  This realization began to focus and crystallize the young photographer’s vision onto the natural world and before too long, voilà; a photographer-naturalist-biology professor was created.

Matthew has dedicated his life to exploring nature and helping others see the beauty and splendor surrounding us. He spent forty years teaching biology in NYC area.  When he saw the need for a marine biology textbook, he sat down and wrote one.  His textbook, Marine Biology: Environment, Diversity, and Ecology (1986), featuring many of his own photographs, was used in colleges and secondary schools throughout the world for over twenty years. In addition he has been a college professor of biology, marine ecology, oceanography, marine mammalogy, and anatomy-physiology at Kingsborough and CW Post Colleges in New York.