What Is Left Behind

Promotion by the photographer, Norm Diamond Websites for promotion: familyarchivists.com inherited-values.com Estatesales.org estimates that 12,300 estate sales are held each month in the US, with 100 million dollars in revenue each month Newspapers to be notified and approached Dallas Morning News Dallas Observer Fort Worth Star Telegram Promotion and Publicity by Daylight Books Publicist Local TV Stations to be notified – KXAS (NBC), WFAA (ABC), KTVT (CBS), KDFW (Fox) Also local NPR affiliate – KERA Bookstores: Barnes and Nobles branches in my general vicinity, possibly. Independent bookstores Gallery Possibilities The Dallas Contemporary The After Image In addition, Norm Diamond continually contact museums and galleries in other locations for solo exhibitions. Presentations: Dallas Camera Club Houston Center for Photography Book clubs University Park, TX library • Art and Photo magazines: Aperture, Photo District News, American Photo, Popular Photography, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, ARTnews, Shutterbug, The Photo Review, British Journal of Photography, Photographer’s Forum, Hot Shoe International, Photo-Eye, among others. • Niche: All media in Dallas market (where artist lives and made many of the photographs), magazines covering the home, art & culture and aging: Dwell, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, AARP, Mother Jones, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic, W magazine, Town & Country, Paper, Vice. • General interest publications (books, art, culture): The New Yorker, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, Bookforum • Trade press: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Choice • Top Market Newspapers: Dallas Morning News (Artist’s hometown), The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), Santa Fe New Mexican (Pasatiempo), Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman. • Blogs/Online: Business Insider, Mashable, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Slate, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, aCurator, Musee magazine, We-Heart, Colossal, etc. • Broadcast: NPR programs (national and local)

What Is Left Behind features photographs of items at estate sales that explore themes of memory, mortality, and cultural history.Norm Diamond has visited countless estate sales, photographing objects that evoke sadness, humor, and ironic commentary on our cultural history. The articles defy conventional expectations: a science project from 1939, a century-old letter from a rejected lover, and a complete collection of Playboy magazines. Poignant photographs of these possessions reveal clues about otherwise unknowable people. These items take on a life of their own, both in these photographs and in the idea that they will now move on to new owners. Norm Diamond is a fine art photographer with a previous career in interventional radiology. His work has been shown at the Houston Center for Photography, the Davis Orton Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. In 2015 he was named a finalist in the 2015 Photolucida Critical Mass competition, and his work has been featured on Lenscratch, Slate.com, PDN, and aCurator.