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January 19th, NYC: Panel discussion on “The Future of Documentary Photography” and Luceo Images exhibition
From the LUCEO IMAGES website:
“We are thrilled to announce our gallery event at 25CPW in New York City January 19, 2011. A panel discussion will take place from 6-7pm followed directly by the exhibition opening, so come early.
There will be a panel discussion sponsored by PhotoShelter to kick off the night on the future of documentary photography with TIME Magazine Deputy Photo Editor Paul Moakley, Jim Estrin of The New York Times LENS Blog, Brian Clamp of ClampArt, and Bess Greenberg of 25CPW.
Talented Curator Brian Clamp, director of CLAMPART in NYC, is the curator of our show, which is entitled “Altered States: The Way We Live Today.”
January 19th, NYC: Aperture panel discussion on “reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today”
At Aperture this week (NYC):
reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today
PANEL DISCUSSION: Wednesday, January 19th, 6:30 p.m.
What are young photographers up to in the twenty-first century? How do they see the world? How much do they respect, build on or reject tradition? Are they busy in the darkroom or the computer lab—or both? The regeneration project—the broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind—sets out to answer these intriguing questions, previewing the work of young photographers who may well emerge as some of the finest artists of their generation.
Following the success of the 2005 book and exhibition—which traveled to ten different cities across North America, Europe, and Asia—this second edition turns the spotlight on new, up-and-coming talents from thirty-one countries. Curators at the world-renowned Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne selected the most promising candidates from some seven hundred entries submitted by 120 of the world’s top photography schools. The resulting publication and exhibition reveal the flexibility of young photographers as they pass fluidly from one genre to another, and/or one technique to another.
The panel discussion with curators William A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer and Sam Stourdzé, Director of Musée de l’Elysée will feature artists Ted Partin (USA), Benjamin Beker (UK) and Jennifer Osborne (Canada) .
Opening reception hosted by SNAP!:
Thursday, January 20, 2011,
The opening reception will be hosted by SNAP! Aperture’s New Collectors Program and will include music by DJ AJ Slim, sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery and the Swiss Consul General.
An exhibition produced by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation, New York with the support of Pro Helvetia.
Panel discussion:
Wednesday, January 19
6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27 Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
NPR’s “Morning Edition” profiles “The Mexican Suitcase” at ICP
Margo Adler did a piece on the story of the photographs in “The Mexican Suitcase” that is featured on NPR’s “The Picture Show” blog. The exhibition continues on view at ICP through May at the International Center for Photography in NYC.
November 3 in NYC: Discussion with Fine Art Bloggers sponsored by ASMP NY
from ASMP NY‘s Susan May Tell on a great event on Wednesday night in NYC:
“ASMPNY’s Fine Art Conversations Series – Panel with Influential Fine Art Photography Bloggers!
Do you want your photography blogged about by influential Fine Art Photography Bloggers? Then this event is for you!
When: November 3, 2010
Where: Soho Photo 15 White Street
Time: Doors and registration open 6:30pm
Panel Discussion 7-9:00pm
Fine art photography blogs have changed the landscape for sharing and reviewing work. Blogs are more personal and idiosyncratic while attracting a wide audience, and doing so more quickly and inexpensively. Photographers no longer have to wait for a review of a bricks-and-mortar exhibition by a very small group of print publications. The objective of this night is to inform photographers about fine art photography blogging:
-how the blog came into being
-how the blog differs from photography covered in a print edition (if there is one)
-what bloggers like (or don’t) about blogging
-advantages and disadvantages about blogging
-who is the audience for the blog
-how work is chosen for the blog
-how bloggers like (or don’t) to be contacted by photographers, agents or galleries
-how blogging has impacted fine art photography (or not)
Panelists: read their full bios here
- ELIZABETH AVEDON – has received recognition for her curatorial work, exhibition design and publishing projects, and worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Random House, and was the Gallery Director for Photo-Eye Gallery
- A. D. COLEMAN – the first photography critic for the NY Times, first Art Critic’s Fellowship from the NEA, and named one of The Top 100 People in Photography by American Photo Magazine
- STELLA KRAMER – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner while at the NY Times and also the recipient of the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography
- RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL – art collector, curator and photographer involved with many art, not-for-profit, organizations like ACRIA, Printed Matter, Aperture Foundation, AIDS Chicago, and the Humble Arts Foundation
Moderated by ASMPNY’s Fine Art Chair Susan May Tell
Member: Free
Non-member: $25
Student*: $5
*May be asked to show student id
Limited seating available – so please reserve your space early
Feel free to email Susan May Tell, if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you!”
November 5/6/7: NY Art Book Fair at PS1
One of my favorite fairs of the year, without question! From the website:
Printed Matter presents the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens.
Free and open to the public, the Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty countries, offering the best in contemporary art book publishing.
Philip Aarons, Chairman of the Board of Printed Matter, said: “The NY Art Book Fair is the premiere venue to find what’s new in art publishing. While it has spawned the next generation of independent art book fairs world-wide, it remains the biggest, the best, and by far the most fun.”
The NY Art Book Fair includes special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend.
Other events include the third annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, and The Classroom, a curated series of informal conversations between artists, together with readings, workshops and other artist-led events.”
NOT TO BE MISSED!!
Winners announced: Lens Culture International Exposure Awards
The winners have been announced! I was pleased to have been a part of the jury team for this competition, reviewing all the work submitted. Along with my fellow judges, results were compiled by Jim Casper at Lens Culture and the winners are as follows. From the Lens Culture website:
“We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2010 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards. For the judges, the process of looking critically at almost 6,500 photographs submitted by photographers from 47 countries was at once daunting and exhilarating.
The range of work is remarkable. It varies richly in subject matter, genre, and styles of technological and artistic approaches. Perhaps what was most pleasantly surprising about reviewing all of these photographs, for me, was the chance to discover so many multifaceted and unusual ways that people are using photography to tell an important story, or to explore an emotion, take a wild flight of imagination, dig a bit deeper into a psychological puzzle, capture a moment or an age or a culture, or to play with an idea.
All of the jurors were eager to see what “bubbled to the top” through the democratic judging process. Indeed, it is an eclectic mix, and a pleasure to discover the kinds of things that captivated each of us. We hope you will enjoy the winning portfolios and single photographs as they are revealed over the next weeks here in Lens Culture. Starting in early 2011, these award-winning works will comprise group exhibitions at galleries in Paris, San Francisco and New York.
The top award winners for 2010 are:
Portfolio Category
Grand Prize: Jessica Hines: My Brother’s War
2nd Prize: Carolle Benitah: Photo Souveniers
3rd Prize: Louisa Marie Summer: Jennifer
Single Image Category
Grand Prize: Martine Fougeron
2nd Prize: Albertina d’Urso
3rd Prize: Anne Berry
Honorable Mention Awards (in alphabetical order):
Susan Bank
David Carol
Ellie Davies
Frank Day
Bruno De Cock
Margaret de Lange
Dan Dubowitz
Joachim Froese
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Kevin Greenblat
Daisuke Ito
Mary Shannon Johnstone
David Lazar
Sebastian Liste
Adam Magyar
Rania Matar
Justin Maxon
Bill McCullough
Marcia Michael
Julian Rder
David Rochkind
Evzen Sobek
Miki Soejima
Ian Teh
Jan von Holleben
Congratulations to all of these winners, and our sincere gratitude to everyone who shared their work with us in this year’s competition.
Be sure to check back here to view work from each of these winners over the coming weeks.”
November 7th Fotoweek DC Portfolio Reviews: Registration open!
Within the FOTOWEEK DC FESTIVAL there is a one-day portfolio review event that has a fine roster of Reviewers, offers a discounted rate for students, and will work closely with you to confirm to top picks within days of registering. If interested, don’t hesitate as this will sell out!
Come early/stay late as the programing this year is super – many exhibitions, lectures, a one-day workshop with Brian Storm of Media Storm, displays of contemporary photobooks by publisher, as well as the amazing Indie Photobook Library, and more. My co-author Darius Himes and I are proud to be a part of the programming, speaking at the Corcoran on the day after the reviews, Monday, November 8th at noon at the Corcoran: “To Be Published or Self-Publish?”
To start the portfolio review registration process, click here.
See you there!
Thursday, October 14th in NYC: Gallery Night on 57th Street
Nailya Alexander sent me notice that on Thursday night, October 14th, 47 galleries between Lexington Avenue and 8th Avenue in New York City will be open from 5-8 pm.
Nailya’s exhibition Contemplating Landscape is on view through October 30th at 41 East 57th Street, suite 704 – many of you know this address as the beautiful Fuller Building, erected in 1929 (other galleries to see in this building include Howard Greenberg, Bonni Benrubi and Amador Gallery, among others, with PaceMacGill virtually across the street).
“For more information call 212/888-3550 or email gallerynighton57street@gmail.com.”
October 10th: “Questions without Answers” A Conversation with VII at CPW
SPECIAL EVENT:
“Questions Without Answers” A public symposium with the members of Agency VII
Sunday, October 10th 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
CPW invites you to join us on Sunday October 10, 2010 at 1pm for a very special public symposium entitled Questions Without Answers, a unique discussion with the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s 2010 Vision Award honorees, the photo agency VII.
Questions Without Answers will be a lively exchange between photographers who are committed to documenting conflict – environmental, social, political, violent and non-violent – to produce, as VII’s mission declares, an “unflinching record” of the events that define our time. The conversation, moderated by renowned collector, curator, and educator W.M. Hunt will include founding members Ron Haviv and Gary Knight, along with Stephanie Sinclair, and Scott Thodeeditor of VII The Magazine the agency’s newest initiative.
Time will be allotted for audience questions, and CPW encourages you to participate in what will be an important discussion about the changing landscape of photojournalism and an examination through the lens of a world that has dramatically changed in the past decade this agency has existed.
The panel discussion will be presented in conjunction with CPW’s 2010 Benefit Gala where VII will be presented with the 2010 Vision Award for Leadership in the Field of Photography.
Additionally on view in CPW’s galleries will be the exhibition Questions Without Answers: A Photographic Prism, 1985-2010, Photographs by VII, on view at CPW from October 7-31. Organized by Tufts University and curated by Amy Schlegel, director of the Tufts University Art Gallery, this exhibition presents photographs from the depicting defining events of the post-Cold War period and their aftermaths, from the Fall of the Berlin Wall and September 11, 2001, to Iraq and Afghanistan, The Balkans and Congo, Chechnya and Gaza, among others.
About the Participants:
Gary Knight began his photojournalism career in Southeast Asia during the late 1980s and early 1990s, documenting internecine warfare in the region. Knight went on to Yugoslavia, chronicling the effects of war on civilian populations. After co-founding VII in 2001, he covered the events in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Knight has exhibited globally, and is the recipient of numerous awards. He is also a founder of the Angkor Photo Festival, a board member of the Crimes of War Foundation, permanent member of the Frontline Club Award jury and a contract photographer forNewsweek Magazine. Knight is a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Ron Haviv has produced award winning images of conflict and humanitarian crises around the world since the end of the Cold War. His work has been featured at the Louvre, United Nations, and the council on Foreign Relations. A co-founder of VII, his work has been published in magazines around the world. Haviv has published two critically acclaimed books of his photography Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul.
Stephanie Sinclair is an award winning photojournalist known for gaining unique access to sensitive gender and human rights issues around the world. She has covered the failure of the death penalty in Illinois and the war in Iraq for the Chicago Tribune, and has worked as a freelance photographer covering topics such as the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, child marriage, and polygamy in America. Sinclair became a full member of VII in 2009. She contributes regularly to National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, and Newsweek, among other notable publications.
In spring 2010, Scott Thode became the first editor of VII the Magazine, an innovative online project that will give readers unprecedented intimate access and insight to the work of the 29 photojournalists who make up the photo agency VII. Previously Thode was the Deputy Picture Editor at Fortune Magazine. As a photographer Scott was the recipient of numerous photography awards and his work has been exhibited at the Bienalle Internazionale di Fotografia in Turin, Italy, Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignon, France and The Colonnade Gallery in Washington, D.C. He teaches at the International Center for Photography and regularly participates in photo symposia, workshops and has served as a judge for numerous Photography Awards. In 2011 Scott will co-curate the LOOK3 Photo Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia with Kathy Ryan.
To learn more about the photo agency VII, visit their website, www.viiphoto.com
About the Moderator:
W.M. – Bill – Hunt is a well-known collector, curator and consultant, as well dealer and educator.
A book on his collection The Unseen Eye will be published by Thames & Hudson next fall. Hunt
is on the boards of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the Center for Photography at
Woodstock, which awarded him the Vision Award for Leadership in 2009.
Founded on September 9, 2001 VII (which derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who formed this collectively owned agency) was designed from the outset to be an efficient, technologically enabled distribution hub for some of the world’s finest photojournalism.
VII has been responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of the images that define the turbulent opening years of the 21st century.
September 29th in Phoenix: “20/20: Two Photography Dealer’s Visions” Lisa Sette and Terry Etherton
DISCUSSION at the Phoenix Art Museum:
20/20: Two Photography Dealers’ Visions
September 29, 7pm, Phoenix Art Museum
Lisa Sette and Terry Etherton – two internationally known photography dealers based in Arizona for over 20 years – engage in a lively discussion about how their passion for photography led them to opening and sustaining galleries, their favorite photographs, the photography market then and now, the art-fair experience from the dealer’s point of view, and advice for building a collection.
Presented by the Museum’s In Focus group
This lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition “CREATIVE CONTINUUM: The History of the Center for Creative Photography”
From the webpage for the exhibition:
“The year was 1975. Gerald R. Ford was president, a little company named Microsoft was founded, A Chorus Line opened on Broadway and Jaws was making a big splash in movie theaters. And in Tucson, a lifelong dream was realized.
Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.
Creative Continuum charts the Center’s dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today’s contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center’s history is an exciting and engaging “who’s who” of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.
In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center’s Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues.”