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May 19th, Atlanta: Talk with William Boling and Michael David Murphy of Fall Line Press
Fall Line Press | Westside Arts District
Talk with William Boling and Michael David Murphy
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 12:30 pm
From Fall Line’s newsletter: “As part of the Westside Arts District Art Walk this weekend, Publisher William Boling and Editor Michael Daivd Murphy of Fall Line will speak at 12:30. As we approach our one year anniversary, we’ve come a long way and have more, exciting ventures in store. William and Michael will discuss our current publications, reading room and bookstore, and our upcoming new releases including Bottom of da Boot by photographer Kael Alford.”
Fall Line Press
1000 Marietta Street, Ste 112
Atlanta, Georgia [map]
May 17th, NYC: “On the Razor’s Edge: Form and Content in Documentary Photography”
New York Photo Festival 2012
Panel Discussion & Reception: On the Razor’s Edge: Form and Content in Documentary Photography
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Reception and book signing to follow panel discussion.
“On the Razor’s Edge: Between Documentary and Fine Art Photography is a featured exhibition at the New York Photo Festival in DUMBO, Brooklyn, May 16-20, 2012.
The artists are leading documentary and editorial photographers working today and include Bruce Davidson, Rina Castelnuovo, Lori Grinker, Platon, Reza, and Eugene Richards. The show is curated by Glenn Ruga.
The exhibition concept explores how photographs based on representations of our world can exist both as documentary and as fine art, and how the meaning of the work can be transformed in each environment. Each of the artists represented here produce powerful work on important global themes. The emphasis on the meaning of this work can vary if the work appears in a commercial art gallery, non-commercial art gallery, book, museum, or on the internet.
This panel will discuss the issues of form and content in documentary photography. Following the panel will be a reception for the Razor’s Edge exhibition, as well as for The Art of Documentary exhibit in the mezzanine level of powerHouse Arena. This exhibit is work from a call for entries from SocialDocumentary.net.”
Moderator: Glenn Ruga
Curator at New York Photo Festival
Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center
Founder and Director of SocialDocumentary.net
Panelists:
Bruce Davidson
Lori Grinker
Platon
Reza
Tickets are required to attend the discussion; they are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Details here.
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York [map]
May 10th, Philadelphia: Artist Talk & Book Signing by Lydia Panas
- © 2012 Lydia Panas
The Print Center
Artist Talk and Book Signing by Lydia Panas
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“Photographer Lydia Panas will discuss her artwork, sign her newly published book The Mark of Abel and talk about her successful approach to sharing her work. The Kutztown, PA resident’s career has centered on creating evocative color portraits of friends and families which offer the viewer incisive character studies revealed through gaze and body language.
RSVP is not required, but preferred: evandenberg [at] printcenter.org or 215-735-6090 x1.”
The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 [map]
215 735.6090
May 4th, Atlanta: “Diane Arbus’ 1960s: Auguries of Experience” A Lecture by Frederick Gross
Fall Line Press
Lecture by Frederick Gross: Diane Arbus’ 1960s: Auguries of Experience
Friday, May 4, 2012, reception at 6:00, lecture at 7:00 pm
“Frederick Gross, an art history professor at SCAD-Savannah, will discuss his research on Diane Arbus’s work focusing on the moment in which it was produced and first viewed to reveal its broader significance for analyzing and mapping the culture of the 1960s.
By shifting critical attention from the myths of Arbus’s biography to the mythmaking of her art, this book gives us a new, informed appreciation of one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers and a better understanding of the world in which she worked.
Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience was published by the University of Minnesota Press in February and will be available for purchase at the Fall Line Bookstore. Join us for drinks at 6 PM, with a formal lecture following at 7 PM.”
Fall Line Press
1000 Marietta St. NW, Ste 112
Atlanta, Georgia 30318 [map]
May 2nd, Boston: Artist Talk by Shelby Lee Adams
Photographic Resource Center 
Artist Talk by Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & Truth
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Registration: $10 general | $5 members | free for BU community & PRC member institutions
“Shelby Lee Adams will discuss his new book, Salt & Truth, published by Candela Books in October and featured in The New York Times Sunday Review in November 2011. The book is a compilation of black and white photographs predominately made over the last eight years, including ten previously unpublished images that represent an overview of the entire 36 years Adams has continued working within his native community in Eastern Kentucky. His slide presentation will include informal photos made with his friends and subjects as well as quotes and observations made by his people to share with and inform the viewer of his process and the collaborative nature of his work.”
BU College of General Studies, Room 511
871 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts [map]
“The Red Sox will be in town that evening. Plan accordingly. The lot adjacent to the PRC, and one block from the auditorium, is open to the public for $10. Nearby on-street parking in Brookline may be available.”
April 27th, Toronto: Contact Photography Festival Launch Party & Exhibition
Contact Photography Festival
Festival Launch Party: Friday, April 27, 2012, 7:00-10:00 pm
Contact Photography Festival launches tonight with a party and reception for the festival’s primary exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
Next week will have many more openings throughout Toronto and through the month of May there will be photography related events and workshops. To see what’s coming up, check out their calendar.
MOCCA
952 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 1G8, Canada
Public Information Line: (416) 395-0067
April 28th, Deltona, FL: Gallery Talk with Beate Sass
- © 2012 Beate Sass
Southeast Museum of Photography
Gallery Talk with Beate Sass: Tall Timbers Plantation Project
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
In this talk, “Beate Sass will be discussing her photographic and oral history project entitled Tall Timbers Plantation. This project is about the former tenant farmers that lived on Tall Timbers Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida from the early to mid-1900’s and honors the important role their families played in the survival of the plantations after the emancipation. This photographic project includes the portraits and accompanying oral histories of the former tenant farmers as well as photographs created at the restored Jones Family Tenant House and the Beadel House, the plantation house, at Tall Timbers.
Accompanying Beate in her talk will be Juanita Whiddon, the archivist from Tall Timbers Research and Land Conservancy (formally Tall Timbers Plantation). Juanita was instrumental in acquiring funds and overseeing the restoration of the historic structures on Tall Timbers and has dedicated herself to documenting the history of this fascinating place.”
This talk is being presented in conjunction with Beate Sass’ exhibition Tall Timbers Plantation Project on view until August 12, 2012 at the:
Lyonia Environmental Center, Lyonia Gallery
2150 Eustace Avenue
Deltona, Florida
April 24th, Tucson: Lecture by Luke Batten “Robert Heinecken, Object Matter”
Center for Creative Photography
Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object Matter
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 5:30pm
“Luke Batten, Director of the Robert Heinecken Trust, will discuss the editing of a new monograph published by Riding House detailing Heinecken’s artistic output from 1957-1997. The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950′s and reassembled magazines created in the 1990′s. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Mr. Heinecken’s penchant for experimenting with photographic processes and materials.
Batten is Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois. He received his MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heineken, 1961-1976. It will be on view until June 17, 2012.
Center for Creative Photography, CCP Auditorium
The University of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0103 [map]
April 19th, Tucson: Curator’s Talk with Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
Center for Creative Photography
Curator’s Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5:30
Free and open to the public.
“Claudia Bohn-Spector will discuss the current CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, that she co-curated with Sam Mellon. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Munich, Germany. A specialist in American art and culture, she has curated numerous fine art exhibitions, including a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. With Sam Mellon, she is currently working on a book-length study entitled WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975, for publication in 2013.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heineken, 1961-1976. It will be on view until June 17, 2012.
Center for Creative Photography, CCP Auditorium
The University of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0103 [map]
April 22nd, NYC: Panel Discussion “Photographs Not Taken”
MoMA/PS1
Panel Discussion and Book Signing: Photographs Not Taken
Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:00-4:00 pm
“Join ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 for a panel discussion and book signing for Photographs Not Taken, a fascinating collection of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked more than 60 photographers to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph and instead make one using words. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind it. Panelists include contributors Nina Berman, Gregory Halpern, Amy Stein, and editor Will Steacy, and the event is moderated by Daylight Publishing cofounders Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff.”
MoMA/PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, New York 11101 [map]
Tel: 718.784.2084