September 2006 Archives
Imogen Cunningham - Vintage Photographs, 1910 - 1973 at John Stevenson Gallery
From the website: This is the largest collection of vintage Cunningham photographs available since her own lifetime. From the collection, we have selected 70 prints for our exhibition. They provide an unprecedented opportunity to trace the arc of Imogen's life, the 70-year career of genius and innovation, of one of the greatest photographers of all time.
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Bernice Abbott - All about Abbott at Howard Greenberg gallery
From the website: In 1923, Berenice Abbott began her photographic career in Paris, assisting Man Ray. Two years later she had her own thriving portrait studio. In 1928 she participated with Andre Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Man Ray and others in the First Independent Salon of Photography. Her sitters comprise a virtual catalogue of the artistic and intellectual life of the time.
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From the website: I mean, I used to wear a size 29 pants. Now I'm a size 34 and I still buy size 30s. I can't face that I'm fat now to give away those old pants. If you can't do it with pants, you're not going to do it with your house.
Also see New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori at the Metropolitan Museum
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From the website: I'm mad too, but I'm more than even: My artists roster is over 50% female. My inaugural exhibition featured not one, not two, but THREE talented female photgraphers. Current show? Yes, a woman by the name of Holly Lynton. My upcoming exhibitions (still TBA, stay tuned)? Mostly women.
Where the Girls Aren't by Jerry Saltz
From the website: According to the fall exhibition schedules for 125 well-known New York galleries—42 percent of which are owned or co-owned by women—of 297 one-person shows by living artists taking place between now and December 31, just 23 percent are solos by women.
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Master Class: Pete Turner by Monica Cipnic
From the website: Turner on color: "Color takes my work into another dimension. It's the way I see. I've always been drawn to the colors of nature, and nature is a wonderful teacher. Look at the color coding of a bee -- yellow and black stripes -- or of a cardinal with its different shades of red. It is rare that nature is not in color harmony. Go out there and look. Although a lot of my pictures are not taken from nature, I use nature as a color source.
Also see the recent entry Pete Turner: Color Vision
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In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter at the Milwaukee Museum of Art
From the website: Originally, Leiter presented his works as slide shows in which the scale of the images approached that of contemporary painting.
Howard Greenberg Gallery (go to Previous Exhibitions)
Surface beauty (single image with short biography)
Compare Leiter's work to the Heads series by Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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From the website: I found this in the freedom to create images without a camera. My first cameraless photographs involved the use of inks, parts of old photographic images and other materials to make masks which I placed over photographic paper to make photograms.
More about chemigrams
Via Conscientious
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From the website: After plotting the track from the telemetry on computer mapping software we determined that it was heading east and followed it in a car to Bury St Edmunds with the Yagi antenna held out of the sunroof. A text message came through from the mobile phone once the payload was on the ground with the precise coordinates, making recovery easy.
More about aerial photography
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Robert Frank in conversation with Howard Norman: Beirut
From the website: At 80 Robert Frank, the renowned photographer of The Americans, will make a rare personal appearance and reveal the ideas and work behind his new book, Come Again, a facsimile reprint of a sketch book he had originally made in Beirut during 1991.
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From the website: This entire body of work is playful and fictitious, wandering between reality and fantasy. All the figures in this series are images of me, playing different characters. This creates another paradox: "I" am real but at the same time "I" am unreal. The figures act out totally imaginative roles as part of different plots and in different spaces that I visualize when I look at these models. For example, "I" am sometimes a white-collar office worker brought to despair by job pressures and spiritual emptiness. Sometimes "I" am a materialistic woman enjoying a life of pleasure and dissipation. Or "I" am a young girl who has accidentally killed her lover in a mood of anger. Together the resulting pictures compose the episodes of the urban fiction.
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Q&A with Travis Fox, video journalist for washingtonpost.com by Sandeep Junnarkar
From the website: "It was an great place to learn and to let my own style come to forefront," says Fox. "I didn't have deadline pressure, I didn't have editorial pressure, I didn't have many viewers."
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Gateway to Astronaut Photography
From the website: Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the more than 699,481 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website.
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Manuel Carrillo - Photographs of Mexico
From the website: At the age of 49, he joined the Club Fotografico de Mexico and the Photographic Society of America. His first international exhibition, titled, "Mi Pueblo" ("My People"), was held in 1960 at the Chicago Public Library and depicted daily life in rural Mexico. Since 1975, Carrillo's work has been seen in 209 individual exhibitions and 27 groups exhibits in Mexico, the United States, and around the world. In 1980, the Photographic Society of America named Carrillo an honorary citizen of El Paso, TX where his photographic archive is held in the El Paso Public Library.
Via gmtPlus9 (-15)
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Lee Balterman: 'Crazy about pictures' by Kevin Nance
From the website: "I'm crazy about pictures," he says. "I went around with a camera, and when I saw something -- boom! You know, real fast." And unlike some of his peers in the history of local street photography, he always preferred people to buildings. "Yeah, I like people," he says with a twinkle in his eye. "More or less."
Lee Balterman's Chicago at the Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
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Close To Home: Photographs by Margaret Sartor
From the website: John Berger wrote, "Events are always at hand. But the coherence of these events—which is what one means by reality—is an imaginative construction." A diary or a memoir is an imaginative and subjective construction of real events, as is a series of photographs. No matter the path I pursue in my work, it is always my relationship to family and the world of my upbringing that shapes and defines my perspective. For me, all roads begin and end close to home.
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From the website: "Our students photograph reality as they see it," Dunham and Goodwin write. "Teenagers become profound storytellers through these colorful and powerful images."
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From the website: Steam power, garters, taxidermy, clothing, warehouses, carriages and cars, clothing, theaters and banks - all there on the walls with addresses and phone numbers, but just about all closed or sold as businesses over the years.
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Franz Roh: Photography & Collage from the 1930s at UBU Gallery
From the website: Ubu Gallery's exhibition presents works largely from the 1930s, most of which are on view for the first time, and illuminates the possibilities of expression Roh coaxed from the photographic mechanism, particularly the negative print and the photomontage. Ranging from motifs of the female nude to the urban landscape to Surrealist-inflected collage, the works in Ubu's exhibition attest to both Roh's theoretical engagement with photography, as well as his singular take on a number of the experimental techniques which would define much of the "New Vision" in photography.
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From the website: The Editor component also shows a host of strong improvements. The new Adjust Color Curves command narrows the gap between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements a little. Elements offers a simplified version of the Curves command (a tool for adjusting contrast and color), sacrificing a little control for a much friendlier interface. Similarly, Editor''s effective new Adjust Sharpness and Correct Camera Distortion commands both scale down their Photoshop analogs. Another new feature gives you excellent tonal control for converting a color image to black and white.
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Don't Keep All Your Data in One Stash by Damon Darling
From the website: Those people can feel very good about themselves, because the same survey found that a quarter of computer users have lost computer data like documents, photos and music files, most commonly when the computer crashes.
For more information about backups, go to Backup.
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Make Your Own Time-Lapse Photography System by Brian P. Lawler
From the website: Movies were born when Auguste and Louis Lumiere (and ultimately Thomas Edison) projected a series of still photos in rapid succession, causing the viewer to perceive motion where there was none.
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The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938–1958 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
From the website: This exhibition of some 70 photographs covers a very fertile period in American photography between the publication of Walker Evans' American Photographs in 1938 and the release of Robert Frank's The Americans in 1958. During these two decades several photographers working in New York profoundly changed the course of the medium. They include Evans and Frank, as well as Roy DeCarava, Louis Faurer, Sid Grossman, William Klein, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, and Weegee.
Captured Moments from the Streets of New York
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Debunking The Myth Of Edward Weston by Deborah Hornblow
From the website: It would take quite an eye to find the "interest" in a cabbage sprout or a bunch of bananas, but Weston's gift was to exalt the mundane, to find the beauty and sensuality in the simplest, most ordinary objects - peppers, seashells, a dune of sand. "No, nature cannot be improved upon," Weston wrote.
Edward Weston: A Photographer's Love of Life at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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Moving Pictures American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
From the website: New technologies often inspire artistic innovation. Moving Pictures explores links between the earliest movies and other American visual art forms at the turn of the twentieth century. The first exhibition to integrate cinema into a history of American art, the show reveals how motion pictures impacted perception, visual representation, and definitions of reality. Films—consisting mostly of short, one-to-two minutes of "real life" footage—are installed alongside artworks, providing provocative juxtapositions and stimulating new insights into our understanding of nascent cinema as well as older mediums such as painting, drawing, and printmaking.
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Raul Gutierrez - Travels Without Maps, Images from China's Western Frontiers at the Nelson Hancock Gallery
From the website: Over the course of fifteen years Gutierrez has been visiting and documenting life in the deserts and mountains along China's Western borders focusing on Tibetan and Uyghur communities. These remote frontier regions are laced with contested geographies, with religious and cultural legacies confronting powerful economic and political transformations. The subjects, whether they are students in a Tibetan nomad school, a young couple posing in a rural photo studio, or a Muslim goatherd on the road, offer intimate views of individual lives as well as poetic symbols of broader cultural transition. Each photograph is a record of a world being erased by modernity.
Also Mexican Pictures
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Jeff Brouws - Approaching Nowhere at the
Robert Mann Gallery
From the website: In "Approaching Nowhere", Jeff Brouws surveys the evolving cultural landscapes of rural, urban and suburban America, from secondary highways to strip malls. Combining bleak beauty with an understated social commentary, he seeks a deeper meaning behind the cycle of construction, decline and renewal. Brouws' photographs go beyond mere description and gather layered meaning, often functioning as antipodal metaphors or asking sociological questions. When captured by his lens, deserted streets and freeways evoke the restlessness of an uncertain nation. Simultaneously, Brouws reminds us that roads are part of a vital infrastructure, central to a consumer society's dependency on the transportation of goods and services.
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The Natural World, in Peril and in Its Full Glory by Roberta Smith
From the website: "Ecotopia" might be described as "An Inconvenient Truth" in exhibition form. It is a tale of beauty and devastation told by nearly 40 photojournalists and artists. Their viewpoints vary, as do their subjects and forms, but you rarely escape a sense of nature's vast, incalculable richness or of photography's ability to do it justice. There may be no greater meeting of subject and medium.
Ectopia at ICP
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From the website: "I was just pulled back to those days, when you're young, and you have all those ideas, and the people you know are excited by the ideas and make them come alive. Things change, of course, and it's a little bit of a different environment now. I think it was more fun back then, but I'm not sure. I might just think that because I was younger then, and it was all virgin territory."
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