Hiag Akmakjian
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Biography Liberal Arts / Humanities, Columbia University, New York. Studied art in Paris. Participated in the Cedar Bar abstract-expressionist movement in New York.
 
Lived for fourteen years at Point Lobos, California, did photography, wrote a book on Edward Weston much praised by Ansel Adams.
 
Published: 30,000 Mornings (novel), The Natural Way to Raise a Healthy Child (book-length essay on child development), and Snow Falling From A Bamboo Leaf (essay on haiku, with haiku examples). Work translated into German and Japanese. To appear in 2005: CAFÉ MORNINGS (A Memoir of Montparnasse in the 1940s).
 
Do photography workshops and personal work in nudes, landscapes, architecture, people, portraits. And private tutorials in photographic fine printing. Taught by Ansel Adams, influenced by Paul Caponigro. Do silver-based, platinum and digital photography, write, and paint — and admire the eloquence of the Balinese craftswoman who said: "We don't have art — we just do everything as well as possible."
 
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