Interesting New Photography Publication to Check Out....

Lay Flat 01.
Remain in Light.
Edited by Shane Lavalette. Photographs by various photographers, text by Tim Davis, Darius Himes, Cara Phillips, Shane Lavalette, and others.
Lay Flat, 2009. 40 pp., 20 color illustrations, 5½x7½".

Publisher's Description

Lay Flat is a new print publication devoted to promoting the best in contemporary fine art photography and writing on the medium. Each issue is assembled by Shane Lavalette in close collaboration with a co-curator.

Included in Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light are essays by Tim Davis, Darius Himes, Cara Phillips and Eric William Carroll, an interview with Mike Mandel by Shane Lavalette and a poem by Jason Fulford, all accompanied by 20 unbound photographs from a selection of international photographers: Andreas Weinand, Anne Lass, Coley Brown, Debora Mittelstaedt, Ed Panar, Estelle Hanania, Gustav Almestål, Hiroyo Kaneko, Kamden Vencill, Mark McKnight, Michel Campeau, Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard, Nicola Kast, Nicholas Haggard, Shawn Records, Raimond Wouda, Richard Barnes, Thobias Fäldt, Whitney Hubbs and Yann Orhan.

You can order this publication for only $25! The link is here: http://www.layflat.org/

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Upcoming Conference at The University of Plymouth...

...called Framing Time and Place - Repeats and Returns in Photography. I'll be speaking about my series, ...from time to time. The provisional program just came out - looks to be a pretty interesting three days!

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Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe - New Work at Phoenix Art Museum

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Norton Photography Gallery
March 21, 2009 – July 12, 2009

Arizona's Grand Canyon—natural wonder, national park, tourist attraction, sacred land—is perhaps the world's best “photo op.” The collaborative photographic team of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe have set out to explore this celebrated place of dramatic beauty, and Phoenix Art Museum is proud to be the first to show a comprehensive look at their powerful, thoughtful, and playful approach to the Grand Canyon.

Drawn from two seasons of fieldwork, Charting the Canyon will include about 30 photographs ranging from a modest 20 by 20–inch print to a panorama nearly 10 feet wide. Mark Klett, a Regents Professor at Arizona State University, and Byron Wolfe, a former student of Klett’s who is now a Lantis’ University Professor teaches at California State University at Chico, have been interested in rephotographing historic images since their collaboration began in 1997.

Now the pair combines their own color photographs with imagery by 19th-century photographer J. K. Hillers and artist William Holmes and by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, who worked at the Canyon in the early 20th century. Klett and Wolfe respond to the historic images and the Canyon itself, yielding artworks that reconsider an icon, challenge how we perceive the land, and bring a new perspective to its portrayals.

Charting the Canyon offers visual delights: the humorous layering of a 19th-century drawing with contemporary photographic details, the extension of an Ansel Adams view into a serene panorama, and the illusion of three-dimensions with a stereopticon viewer built for the twenty-first century, among others to be discovered in this unique exhibition.

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Invisible Dragon - Revised and Expanded

...a great book to check out, new version - whoop!


The Invisible Dragon.
Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded.
By Dave Hickey.
University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009. 152 pp., 6x7¼".

Publisher's Description

The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty—and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.

With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in Hickey’s view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Mapplethorpe and the writings of Ruskin, Shakespeare, Deleuze, and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more—all in the service of making readers rethink the nature of art. A new introduction provides a context for earlier essays—what Hickey calls his “intellectual temper tantrums.” A new essay, “American Beauty,” concludes the volume with a historical argument that is a rousing paean to the inherently democratic nature of attention to beauty.

Written with a verve that is all too rare in serious criticism, this expanded and refurbished edition of The Invisible Dragon will be sure to captivate a new generation of readers, provoking the passionate reactions that are the hallmark of great criticism.

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Photographer's Showcase Series @ Photo-Eye

This is a great new(ish) series to keep your eyes on - lots of new and interesting work to see. Photo-eye Magazine, Bookstore and Gallery are all GREAT resources. Use them!

	photo-eye Gallery Opening
	©Carlos Tarrats, Jeffris Elliott, Hiroyasu Matsui
	photo-eye Gallery, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is pleased to announce THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S SHOWCASE SERIES KICKOFF, an exhibition of work by photographer's represented by The Photographer's Showcase at photoeye.com. Nearly ten years ago, photo-eye conceived of an online gallery to show the work of talented emerging photographers. Over that time, photo-eye's juried online exhibition space has inspired imitators, but none can boast such a well-rounded and ever-expanding collection of fine art photography. Growing to include outstanding work from photographers across the globe, the Photographer's Showcase has established itself as a resource for curators and galleries, collectors, critics and photography enthusiasts, allowing our audience to discover and purchase exceptional photography. While photo-eye Gallery has at times included work from Showcase artists in exhibitions, the Photographer's Showcase Series marks a new and exciting collaboration between the Photographer's Showcase and photo-eye Gallery. Over the coming year, photo-eye Gallery and the Photographer's Showcase are pleased to announce an on-going series of exhibitions featuring work from the Photographer's Showcase. THE PHOTOGRAPER'S SHOWCASE SERIES KICK OFF will feature work by seven Photographer's Showcase Artists, Erik Boker Jessica Bruah Jeffris Elliott Mihai Mangiulea Hiroyasu Matsui Eric Percher Carlos Tarrats

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New Website for 35th Anniversary of SF Camerawork

SF Camerawork has a wonderful new website - I highly suggest you add it to your bookmarks and check in with them often (and obviously visit the gallery if you find yourself in San Francisco). They also put out a twice yearly journal, Camerawork - highly recommended, worth the subscription. Info on their 2008 issues is below:

2008

Fall/Winter 2008, Vol. 35 No. 2
Past is an image we form in the present

Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 35 No. 1
There is always a machine between us

Local, Winter Park Gallery - You Should All Visit!

Bold Hype is a new(ish) store/gallery space right next to Stardust Coffee and Video in Winter Park. It is absolutely worth running up there every now and again to see what they've got on the walls that month (not to mention the wonderful hand-made items for sale)...

Give it a visit!

Bold Hype: Mythology Mural Show

Bold Hype has a new showing called "Mythology Mural Show" running March 7-31. Ten contemporary artists take on ancient mythology. The opening night party is March 7, 8pm-12am at Bold Hype. 1844 East Winter Park Road, Orlando, Florida. More info: 407-629-2965. Artists: Charles Marklin, Andrew Spear, Dres13, Dustin Orlando, Decoy, Morgan Steele, Dolla, Robin Van Arsdal, Feff Riggan, David Hoskins.

(Above post reprinted from The Daily City Orlando)