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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Tipper Gore Successful journey

Tipper Gore is the picture of success

By Linda Matchan, Globe Staff December 14, 2006


A furniture store is an odd place to hold an art opening. And the private cocktail reception for the Back Bay opening on Tuesday night drew an odd amalgam of guests: Senator John Kerry; Al Gore, the former vice president; interior designers; the reigning Miss Rhode Island; environmentalists; art buffs; and a lot of people who seemed to like tortoises.
But the guest of honor at the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams store -- and the uniting force in the crowd -- was Gore's wife, Tipper. She was celebrating the introduction of her photography sold exclusively through the furniture store, on Berkeley Street.
Many of the 37 signed and framed photographs in Gore's collection were dotting the walls of the store, gracing the sofa collections, and other upholstered goods. They represent a cross-section of Gore's photography, which dates back to the early 1970s, when she was a part-time photographer for the Nashville Tennessean prior to her husband's election to Congress. In Washington, she freelanced for such publications as The Washington Post and the old Washington Star. ("It was difficult to get a job in news with Al in Congress," she says.) She published a book of photographs in 1996 called "Picture This: A Visual Diary" and has also produced two books of photographs about homelessness.
Many of the photos in this collection were captured during her White House years, when, by dint of protocol, she had a rare vantage point and access. She had a front-row seat in 1993 for the historic handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. The collection also includes an up-close profile of Nelson Mandela, and another of writer Maya Angelou. She photographed dancers in Buenos Aires, the pyramids in Egypt, ballerinas in Russia, a rainy day in Shanghai, tortoises and iguanas in the Galapagos Islands.
The reptile connection was a big draw for several in the crowd. One of them was Jayne Kramer of the Back Bay, who went to the Galapagos Islands two years ago, and keeps reptiles at home and a picture of her pet iguana in her digital camera. Other tortoise-conscious guests included championship skier Bode Miller's father, Woody, and his two sisters, whose New Hampshire-based family organization , the Turtle Ridge Foundation, is dedicated to sustainable living. "My dad's very possibly Al Gore's biggest fan," Wren Miller said. They bought the sepia "Galapagos Islands Tortoise" photo for $1,300.
One photo in the collection alludes to Al Gore's recent celebrity in the film world. It was taken at the lavish red-carpet ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival, where the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," based on his environmental campaigning, was screened.
Environmentalism, in fact, was a subtext of the event, since a percentage of the sales of the photos will go to The Climate Project, a nonprofit founded by the Gores addressing the issue of global warming. Thus, the fashionably late arrival of Allison Rogers, the current Miss Rhode Island, a Harvard graduate and now grad student whose platform is, "Go Green! Global Warming Awareness."
In an interview earlier that day in the furniture store showroom, Gore says that she's always kept her hand in photography, although "I've never thought about doing anything with them for myself." But about a year and a half ago, Gold and Williams, who are friends of the Gores, helped them decorate their home in Virginia, and discovered her photographs. It took "a little bit" of persuading, Williams says, but eventually they convinced her to put together a collection, and they've been marketing them in their retail stores since last spring; six of them were snapped up at the party. The photos, in color, sepia, and black and white, range from $750 to $4,150, and new ones will be added every six months.
Gore, who always travels with a camera, continues to study photography and is updating her "digital darkroom" skills. "I resisted digital for a long time because I love darkroom work," she says. Now happily back in civilian life and living in Nashville, she's also pursuing her "lifelong passion" as an advocate for mental health issues.

And Tuesday, she was checking her cell phone messages; her oldest daughter Karenna was expecting a baby that day. Her next freelance assignment? "Baby pictures."

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/12/14/tipper_gore_is_the_picture_of_success/
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