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Have Camera,
Will Travel
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News
erry Amster and his wife Lynn were driv-
ing toward northern Michigan when he
spotted a very big American flag blowing
in the wind. Amster liked the way the col-
ors caught the sun with each wave and decided to
stop and take a picture.
That image has since been rented by the U.S.
Postal Service for reproduction on its prepaid
phone card, leased by a major bank for public dis-
play and chosen for a group exhibit at a new
space, Gallery - 91: The Heart Gallery, in
Bloomfield Hills. The gallery's debut show runs
through March 15.
At the gallery, Amster, a freelance photographer
offering his work through a Web photo-marketing
agency, gives a sense of the variety of his camera
style in what is also his own premier exhibit.
Gallery 91 was opened by Robert Dempster, an
artist who operates an outdoor signage business on
the premises and hopes to exhibit the work of
many artists with some of the proceeds going to
area charities.
Although part of a group show, Amster's eight
photos will be displayed in a separate room. There
will be a print of the Detroit skyline, copies of
which are owned by Mike Ilitch and Bill Bonds,
and a number of travel scenes from as far away as
the Fiji Islands.
"My pictures haVe been used by businesses in 30
Photographer Jerry Amster,
with a premier show of his work
in Bloomfield Hills, turned a hobby
into a successful career.
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Above: "Reflections of Detroit"• Mike _flitch and Bill Bonds. own copies of Amster's print of the Detroit skyline.
Above right: `I get calls on this photo from all over the country" Amster says of this shot, on display at Gallery 91.
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