Our continued desensitization to images of women’s pain and the exploitation of the female body - our need for more extreme scenarios to be considered “transgressive” , a word I have come to find extremely tiresome, is truly depressing.

It takes courage and strength of character to make things better, to help and not harm. I hope the world ignores this man and he disappears like so much trash.

It is a great way to get them thinking about surrealism through photography and moves them through to considering how advertisers create eye catching images. It encourages them to explore photomontage through the creative use of cut and paste tools in Adobe Photoshop.

We have a lot of Chinese pupils who can relate to his work as a contempary artist.

A great article.

We took pictures of the all of the sculptures around the zoo today. One of the people to work on them was Harold Ambellan, a 3rd cousin. Harold grew up in Buffalo and I believe had his art training here. He also lived in New York City and later Arles, France. Post depression, during the time of the New Deal, Harold was hired as part of the WPA to construct artwork at the zoo and also on the Willert Park housing development on the East Side of Buffalo, specifically the A.D. Price building. These buildings are to be torn down but we understand that the terra cotta reliefs that both Harold and Robert Cronbach did will be reused in the new construction.

As far as the zoo, I’m not certain who else may have been involved, but am continuing to “google” and have been in touch with UB professors and have recently contacted the Olmstead Conservancy to see if there are records.

Harold was friends with several famous people: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Picasso! He died a few years ago. His daughter still lives in Arles and my daughter will visit her this summer, hands full of the pictures from the Zoo and Willert Park.

If you have learned any more, I’d love it if you shared the information.

Thank you.

Paulette Ambellan

Thanks