Hope you had wonderful holidays! As much as I enjoy traveling, I also enjoy reading about traveling. I think there’s a secret armchair traveler in all of us. Some know me as Katie/Kate from William Robert’s combat memoir, Air War: The Incredible True Story of the Combat Flyers, which was recently released in a 20th Anniversary edition. William Robert and I started our path together over 30 years ago, as husband and wife and as business partners. He has always been the creative, the writer and artist, but for just as long, I’ve been his arts & press publisher and the woman behind the scenes of our gallery partnerships, such as those with World Galleries. While I handled his small press work and art/photography, large multinational publishers handled his other work, including IDG, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pearson Education, Cengage Learning, Microsoft, Wiley, TimeWarner, O'Reilly, HMH, and over 100 other publishers globally.
Whenever I tell people my husband is the William Stanek/Robert Stanek, writer and photographer, I’m often asked what it’s like to live with someone so creative, so driven. Well, that’s kind of a difficult question to answer. But I will say, for all those curious, that William Robert’s been my best friend in life for as long as we’ve been partners, both in a romantic and a business sense. He’s the best husband, the best father to our children.
There’s a reason those who truly know William Robert, especially other writers and artists, think of him as a gentle giant, a warrior poet and a beautiful person. He’s not only one of the most kind and thoughtful, he’s also one of the most artistic, creative and inspiring people around. He’s overcome so much in his life to get where he is today—poverty, violence, neglect, death, homelessness, combat, health issues, more. It’s a wonder he got here at all, and yet he did.
William Robert and I have lived a wonderful and eventful life, a full life, due in large part to his creative eye and dedication to purpose, to craft, to the people around him. He expresses himself in his words and art, using the pain and the tremendous obstacles he faced in his childhood and early life as a source of inspiration, rather than despair, while striving for heights he would not have reached otherwise.
I may be biased, but I think his work is incredibly special. His photographs capture something very raw, real and beautiful about life, whether his subject is a medieval cathedral, a sky-filling sunset after a storm or a mountain half seen in the distance.
With this in mind, I want to invite you to visit the world with us and dream through our new premium large-format photography book: William R. Stanek. The Black and White Collection #1: Fine Art Photography Rare Masters.
Meant for discerning collectors and special collections, this premium, oversized book works wonderfully to display on a coffee or cocktail table to inspire conversation when you are entertaining and to simply pass the time. Inside, you’ll find more than 100 fine art photographs from the Rare Master series by William, photographs from throughout his 30+-year career.
Producing a premium fine art photography book is expensive. Individual photographs featured in this book sell for hundreds of dollars in William’s studios. It was a challenge to find the right balance, to ensure not to devalue the work to which William has dedicated his life while delivering value in book form to you as the reader. For this reason, we are delivering William’s Rare Masters as a series of volumes that can be collected individually at a lower price point, and as books that combine multiple volumes into a single volume at a higher price point. We hope you agree this balanced approach works well.
Throughout this book, I discuss the story behind the work when possible to give you insider insights and to inspire conversation and, perhaps, to inspire your own adventures too.
Full page photographs, with extras. Photoshoot locations:
1. Newport Beach, California, USA
2. Lucerne, Switzerland
3. Ghent, Belgium
4. Vienna, Austria
5. Paris, France
6. Lucerne, Switzerland
7. Paris, France
8. Costa del Sol, Andalusia, Spain
9. The Bernese Highlands, Switzerland
10. Bavaria, Germany
11. Vienna, Austria
12. Oa’hu, Hawaii, USA
13. Orléans, France
14. Kauai, Hawaii, USA
15. Florida, USA
16. Kauai, Hawaii, USA
17. Zermatt, Switzerland
18. Ghent, Belgium
19. Kauai, Hawaii, USA
20. Ghent, Belgium
21. O’ahu, Hawaii
22. O’ahu, Hawaii
23. Hallstatt, Austria
24. Kinderdijk, Netherlands
25. Orléans, France
26. Washington state, USA
27. Colorado, USA
28. Lake Hallstatt, Austria
29. Oregon, USA
30. Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
31. Kinderdijk, Netherlands
32. Bavaria, Germany
33. Colorado, USA
34. Kauai, Hawaii, USA
35. Oregon, USA
36. Adelboden, Switzerland
37. Oregon, USA
38. Bournemouth, Dorset, UK
39. Vienna, Austria
40. South Carolina, USA
41. Vienna, Austria
42. Maui, Hawaii, USA
43. Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA
44. Hawaii, USA
45. Hawaii, USA
46. Florence, Italy
47. London, Great Britain, UK
48. Bavaria, Germany
49. Hawaii, USA
50. Hawaii, USA
51. Hawaii, USA
52. Lake Tahoe, California, USA
53. Berchtesgaden, Germany
54. Paris, France
55. Vienna, Austria
56. Rome, Italy
57. Rome, Italy
58. Salisbury, United Kingdom
59. Lucerne, Switzerland
60. Sintra, Portugal
61. … 81 The Netherlands, for the Art in Flowers special collection
82. Vienna, Austria
83. Maui, Hawaii, USA
84. Vienna, Austria
85. Vienna, Austria
86. Blois, France
87. Fontainebleau, France
88. Lucerne, Switzerland
89. Obertraun, Austria
90. O’ahu, Hawaii, USA
91. Rome, Italy
92. Salzburger Land, Austria
93. Delft, Netherlands
94. Rome, Italy
95. Kauai, Hawaii, USA
96. Gstaad, Switzerland
97. London, Great Britain, UK
98. Lake Walen, Switzerland
99. Hallstatt, Austria
100. Paris, France
101. Washington state, USA
102. The Bernese Highlands, Switzerland
103. Normandy, France
104. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
105. Stirling, Scotland, UK
106. Loire Valley, France
107. Windsor, Great Britain, UK
108. Rome, Italy
109. Bavaria, Germany
110. Zermatt, Switzerland
111. Volendam, Netherlands
112. Vienna, Austria
113. Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy
114. San Francisco, California, USA
115. Auxerre, France
116. Bay of Naples, Italy
117. Florence, Italy
118. Washington state, USA
119. Vienna, Austria
120. Lazio Italy
About Hui Cha Stanek
Erstwhile Photographer and Long-time Publisher Hui Cha Stanek has always been the woman behind the scenes. She has managed the day-to-day operations of Stanek Media for the past three decades. Her work has been featured in a number of gallery shows and recently in a career retrospective with her husband. She prefers candid street photography and photography of people (though not traditional portrait work). One of her most famous works, Tip Toe I See You, is shown below.
Others, not to be missed:
Salt Water Taffy
Let Me See Too
My Hair Day Too Mom
Where Did it Go
You'll find these fine art photography works and more at:
https://www.pictorem.com/gallery/360.Studios?cat=10605&iframe=1
About William Robert Stanek
Seattle-based Photographer and Artist, William Robert Stanek, is a combat veteran who supports other veterans, is also a vocal champion of books and libraries. Not only an artist, he wrote nonfiction for over three decades as William Stanek and fiction as Robert Stanek. Find his fine art photography and prints from his original oil paintings in his online studios:
360 Studios - https://www.pictorem.com/gallery/360.Studios
1North Studios - https://www.pictorem.com/gallery/1north
Studio 24 - https://www.pictorem.com/gallery/24
Robert Stanek Studios - https://www.pictorem.com/gallery/robert.stanek
Connecting to his roots in his work is important to Robert. The beautiful fine art print that follows is a view of Mont St. Michel in Normandy France, part of Robert's popular, limited A Day at Mont St. Michel photo series. Special to Robert as this is the region where his French ancestors are from--an ancestry Robert has traced back from Quebec Canada to its origins in France.
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