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Photography's draw: It's all in the canvas
From the website: Part of the reason for the huge success of pictorial photography is that some frustrated would-be buyers of paintings go after it. If you have the inclination and the eye, explore photography. This is one of few areas where the greatest remains available and true masters still await recognition.
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Who says we can't turn downtown into a gallery?
From the website: So it takes a bright young Japanese student, who arrives here completely unaware of Rochester's role in the history of photography, to propose hanging hundreds of photos from downtown buildings — creating a streetscape that celebrates our heritage and livens up some pretty drab real estate.
Rochester Outdoor Museum of Art
From the website: Art worthy of international attention can draw many times its investment, giving additional uplift to the economy. Better than most industries, tourism provides many entry level jobs, providing opportunity to those who might otherwise turn to delinquency and crime.
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Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash
From the website: Graham Nash has three claims to our attention and respect in the world of photography. Though he is well known as a central figure in rock and roll music as co-founder of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he also is an extraordinary photographer, a famous collector of photography, and one of the widely-acknowledged pioneer innovators in the world of digital photography and printing. His recent book, Eye to Eye, will form the basis of the work in the show, with new additions from his current work.
From the website: In a bid to step beyond the shadow of Graham Nash, the singer-songwriter, Graham Nash, the photography collector, and Graham Nash, the photo-technology innovator, an emerging photographer has unveiled his first major museum show at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts. His name is Graham Nash.
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Kathy's Beauty Nook: Photographs by John Arsenault
From the website: Growing up in a small town in northern Massachusetts, John Arsenault spent a great deal of time during his childhood in his Aunt Kathy's hair salon. Opened in the late 1960s, Kathy's Beauty Nook has catered to three generations of women, most of whom now range from 60 to 96 years of age. Arsenault enjoyed the upbeat, bustling environment of the beauty parlor, and it was there that his aunt first recognized and later encouraged her nephew's exceptional creativity.
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From the website: However, though stitching is a great way to create big panoramas, it's easy to forget about more traditional collage-work. As you'll see in this short article, following in the footsteps of your pre-digital forebears might lead you to a more interesting image.
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Victor Schrager - Composition as Explanation
From the website: Victor Schrager's still life photographs are radiant and abstracted images where luminous planes of color interact with sharp descriptive edges. The tension between objective photographic description and the savoring of pure color and form that can transform everyday objects is inherent. In the tradition of classical still life painting, Schrager's compositions are not content driven, but rather an increasingly pure and heroic presentation of simple subjects. The scale of the pictures and the soft focus of each image enables solid color fields to bounce off of and blend into one another, creating a palate of unexpected hues. In subtle reference to his still life influences, Schrager recently responded to the question of his subject matter with, "A book is an interesting form of a lemon."
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Beauty as a Firebomb in the War on Nature
From the website: Now, as then, his trips into the desert last two or three weeks at a time. He loads his Volkswagen van with a cooler full of trail mix, apples, carrots and gallons of water, as well as a suitcase full of mostly nonfiction books. He loves the heat and the quiet, he said, and just wanders, chasing the light, often following the weather as a guide.
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Kansuke Yamamoto: Vintage Photographs, 1935-1955
From the website: Yamamoto's highly aesthetic imagery can be seen as a Japanese interpretation of the language of European surrealism with many works in dialogue with artists such as Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, and Jean Arp.
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Seth Thompson - Interiorismo Popular
From the website: Beginning in 1994, Thompson has made numerous visits to a handful of villages nestled in the central Mexican highlands. His initial focus on the surrounding landscape and the ruins of a once-prosperous mining industry gradually shifted towards the area’s current inhabitants and he began photographing the interiors of churches, stores, bars and private homes. The richly colored images presented in this exhibition reveal intimate views of these private interiors.
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From the website: Designed for calibrating and profiling all types of monitors — LCD and CRT. Each individual package includes a huey measurement device (emission only colorimeter) with ambient measurement capabilities, and software for monitor calibration.
From the website: huey corrects the color on your monitor so photos and designs print more accurately, game graphics are more intense and movies are more true-to-life. Easy-to-use right out of the box, huey adapts your monitor for changing room lighting and applies your personal preferences for viewing accurate color all of the time.
$89
You'll understand monitor calibration and color management after reading my tutorials:
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From the website: The CF/SD Performance Database is a regularly-updated compilation of write and read speed test results designed to aid the serious and professional photographer in selecting camera storage media for a Canon, Fujifilm, Kodak or Nikon digital SLR.
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Rembrandt - Connoisseur of the Ordinary
From the website: This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt. On the eve of a major exhibition in Amsterdam, Robert Hughes discusses the enduring genius of an artist who broke the rules, defied convention - and brought the everyday to vivid life
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Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius is at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA.
From the website: Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius presents work from the 1920s through the 1960s, including an early 1927 portfolio (one of only fifty produced) of Parmelian prints (gelatin silver emulsion on parchment paper). For the first time, George Eastman House is pleased to include this portfolio from its collection in this exhibition. Featured are many of Adams's most famous images of the American West — Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941; Mount Williamson from Manzanar, California, ca. 1944; and Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, 1927. But prepare to discover equally stupendous (if less well-known), images such as Mud Hills, Arizona or Water and Foam, or the wonderful abstract titled simply, Stained Wallpaper Near Alturas, Calif. Many will be surprised to see that Adams did not confine himself to landscapes, but also made portraits and other subjects as humble as fence posts into images nearly as monumental as his beloved mountain ranges.
I came across this recently: The Zone System: Why bother at all?
Adams developed the zone system to make it easier to get what he previsualized—onto the print.
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Brittingham Family Lantern Slide Collection
From the website: This collection consists of the personal and travel photographs of the Brittinghams, a prominent and influential Wisconsin family. Spanning the years 1897-1922, these images capture the private lives of a wealthy family at the turn of the century, and document their travels to 22 states and 32 countries.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hirshhorn in D.C.
From the website: Using a large-format camera and, for the most part, black-and-white film, Sugimoto has created images that stimulate both intellect and vision, often capturing what is elusive to sight-the horizon line between sky and sea at night, the sum total of light projected during a feature-length film, or the physical contours of the principle represented by a mathematical equation.
It's Definitely Not The Pictures That Are Getting Small
From the website: Of all people, I'm stoked when artists have the freedom to pursue their vision, and I wouldn't want to stick Sugimoto in the twee realm of master photographic craftsman if his interests lie elsewhere. But at the same time, when I am instantly blown away by beauty in art, I have to admit, I'm a bit skeptical.
A World Where Life Can Seem to Imitate an Imitation
From the website: It is this kind of conceptual play that gives the first half of the show its air of wry, deadpan wit. But that mood changes. In 1975, the artist started photographing the interiors of old American movie theaters, picture palaces. The results are engaging as documents of vanishing artifacts. But they also ask questions about the relationship of photography and time.
From the website: For each picture, Mr. Sumitomo pointed his camera at the screen and left the shutter open for the length of whatever movie was playing. The camera recorded the film not in readable images, but as soft white glow that seems to emanate from the screen. Time's passage is distilled to a radiant abstraction.
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David Hockney Portraits, opens February 26, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
From the website: So to make The Scrabble Game, 1 January 1983, Hockney combined dozens of separate photos from a succession of moments, allowing the scene to play out in time as well as space. The picture also presents itself in the way the eye actually sees, as a sequence of darting glances. In pictures like that, Hockney beats the camera at its own game, using photographs to prove the insufficiency of any one photograph.
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On DVD:
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
From the website: Exploring the life and work of influential French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, this captivating documentary tells the story of a camera-shy photographer whose vision quietly shaped the emerging field of photojournalism. Focusing primarily on the artist's career from the 1940s to the '60s, the film features memorable images of Marilyn Monroe, Henri Matisse, the liberation of Paris and the death of Gandhi.
William Eggleston in the Real World
From the website: By following acclaimed photographer William Eggleston around his home base of Memphis, Tenn. -- and on trips to Kentucky, Los Angeles and New York -- filmmaker Michael Almereyda presents an intimate portrait of the man who made color cool again. This revealing documentary uncovers the deep connection between Eggleston's enigmatic personality and his groundbreaking work, which expertly captures the beauty of ordinary objects.
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Gordon Parks - A Hungry Heart: A Memoir
From the website: He is first and foremost a celebrated photojournalist and fine art photographer whose work, collected and exhibited worldwide, is emblematic of American culture. In A Hungry Heart, he reaches into the corridors of his memory and recounts the people and events that shaped him: from growing up poor on the Kansas prairie to withstanding the unbearably cold winters of Minnesota to living on the edge of starvation in Harlem during the Depression. He more than survived the challenges and crises of his life; he thrived and has become one of the most celebrated and diversely talented figures in American culture.
Exhibit at Greenberg, 41 E. 57th St.
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Gregory Crewdson's Photo Alchemy
From the website: The 40-year old photographer works on sound stages, with set designers and lighting artists culled from the ranks of independent film crews. His outdoor photos are staged in ordinary-looking places, often rural Massachusetts towns like Pittsfield and Lee. He's been working in these small New England towns for 20 years.
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World Press Photo 2006 Winners Gallery
From the website: First and foremost, World Press Photo is known for organizing the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. After the contest, the prizewinning photographs are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over a million people in 40 countries. A yearbook presenting all prizewinning entries is published annually in six languages.
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To Die So As To Leave The Hell - Photographs by James Nachtwey, Don McCullin, Sebastiáo Salgado, Raymond Depardon, Joël-Peter Witkin, Dieter Appelt, and Elizabeth Prouvost
From the website: ... the photographs show the fortunes of people for whom the existence was (and still is – for those who have survived) the only, never-ending streak of suffering and only death (usually tragic) lets them find the peace. Today I am showing seven artists. They are very famous (except for Prouvost, who is less known, but I had the honour to present her works in my real gallery in Paris at the time when I still had it). Their works have greatly impressed me for a long time. With this exhibition I would like to pay my tribute to them and at least a little bit contribute to making them popular, especially in Poland. For in the West almost everybody knows them, so I am not discovering anything to an average European aesthete.
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An Evening with Elinor Carucci
At the Camera Club of New York on February 16
From the website: Her first book, Closer, captured this brilliantly and garnered much international acclaim. She's been the recipient of the ICP Infinity Award and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her second book, Diary of a Dancer, beautifully documents Carucci's three years as a professional belly dancer in New York City. Carucci's talent for portraying characters and atmosphere through photography has been seen in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, W. and others.
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Trust - Photographer Denny Simmons at the Funeral of a Soldier
From the website: Well, I pulled the black-and-white laser print out of my coat and handed it to her folded in half. She held it for a moment before opening it. When she finally did (with my heart pounding), she didn't say a word, but she began to weep. Jeff, her husband, decided he'd better take a look at the picture that was upsetting his wife and leaned over to get a look at it. This was the moment of truth. He immediately rose from his chair while staring me in the eyes and said, "I just want to shake your hand. Thank you." And he grabbed my hand and we shook.
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Paul Anthony Melhado - How We Use Land: Photographs of Queens County
Porftfolio at the Silver Print Gallery
From the website: How We Use Land began as an attempt to demonstrate how land is used in a specific urban environment, but developed toward a more universal interpretation of our relationship with the environment. The borough of Queens—a place of contradictions and extremes, where the diversity of people, nature, and industry is more evident and intertwined than almost anywhere else in the country—presents the ultimate challenge to the natural landscape. Documenting aspects of the American way of life projected onto the urban landscape of Queens County, Melhado attempts, in his words, to build "on the tradition of landscape photography as a uniquely American contribution to the history of art."
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