Goes by "Chip"
From LensCulture:
b. 1945 Worcester, Mass.
I 'm 60+ years in the field of photography.
I studied with photographer Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of design (1963-67).
Exhibited since the mid 60s. 'Students of Harry Callahan; Hallmark Gallery NYC 1968
Group exhibitions include the 1980 Winter Olympics, Lake Placid NY; Cultural exchange w/French Ministry of Culture 1985. (Showed at Sorbonne in Paris, Toulouse, Angouleme)
Solo shows include, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta 2011, Stephen Casher Gallery NYC 2012, The Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, Mass. (NEA funded) 1979
Work in collections MOMA, HMA, Corcoran Gallery Collection DC, Houston MFA,, The Sir Elton John Collection.
NEA Photography Fellowship recipient 1982.
NEA Survey grant Documentary project. 1979.
Curator 'Edge to Edge', the first comprehensive survey of contemporary photography in Georgia.
Published: ON COMMON GROUND, Photographs from the crossroads of the New South (Mercer Press 1995), CHROMA (in conjunction with 10 year retrospective at High Museum of Art) Nazraeli Press 2011)
From Atlanta Magazine spotlight:
When Simone arrived in Atlanta in 1972, Southern photographers were expected to shoot black-and-white images of rural landscapes, dilapidated barns, and other pastoral Southern cliches. Simone preferred photographs of urban punk rockers, the oddballs who showed up on Downtown streets, and colorful advertisements molting in the steamy weather. “I’ve gone out of my way to do pictures of Atlanta as an American city,” says Simone, who went on to not only picture what he calls “the New South,” but to secure his foothold in Atlanta’s arts community as one of thirteen founding members of the influential artists cooperative Nexus (now the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center).
As a student of renowned photographer Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design, Simone learned early that photography is “a lonely job that pays badly.” (Callahan would sell his prints for just $75.) So to pay the bills, Simone also works as a personal trainer. High Museum director Michael Shapiro and Jane Jackson, curator of the Elton John photographic collection, are two of his clients.