Tiny Gallery Forest

Tiny Gallery presents "Artifacts" by Klaus A. Schnitzer, Emeritus Professor at Montclair State University. Schnitzer's show combines two collections from his inspiring photography career: "Ellis Island Artifact Series" (1983-1993) and "Sandy Hook" (1972 and ongoing).

For his Ellis Island collection, Schnitzer chartered a boat with a group of students and explored the island, which approximately 12 million immigrants passed through between 1892 and 1954. He captured abandoned objects that had been waiting for 62 years, as if time had stopped.

Sandy Hook is an ongoing project that Schnitzer still turns to. The eroding architecture of Fort Hancock, is haunting and magestic.

Both collections reveal Schnitzer's sense of service to the social consciousness and his skill in endowing everyday images with historic and mythic associations.

Bio: Klaus A. Schnitzer is an Emeritus Professor at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, where he taught photography in the department of Art & Design from 1971 until his retirement in 2021. His exhibition career consists of over 200 regional, national, and international shows. As a visiting artist, he has lectured and taught at, among others, Haifa University (Israel), Tyler School of Art, and the Chicago Art Institute. Consulting work includes MIT (CC++ Consortium/Media Lab), Polaroid Corporation, and the National Park Service. He has received 16 grants from MSU, 4 from the Polaroid Foundation, 4 from the NJ Council on the Arts, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

Klaus Schnitzer’s work can be found in numerous private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the Polaroid International Collection, and the BMW NA.

Commercial clients include AMOCO, Bell Communications, Bentley Publishers, BMW, Design News, Ilford Inc., KPMG Peat Marwick, Maersk Data AS, Montclair Art Museum, Newark Museum, and Skip Barber Racing School. A genuine interest in cars fostered Klaus Schnitzer’s ‘other’ career as an automotive photographer and writer. Assignments often take him to Europe and have resulted in books, feature articles, and more than 110 cover photographs for national and international publications. His name has appeared on the mastheads of Bimmer, Sports Car International, and Roundel magazines. He has contributed to Automobile Magazine, Car & Driver, Excellence, Forza, Bimmer Life, BMW Magazine, and Vintage Motorsports. He has written over 200 automotive articles, concentrating on BMW. His latest book project was the photography for ‘The Power of M’, celebrating 50 years of BMW M (2022).