Rollins College Lens Based Media Forum - Photography, Film, Video and Friends

Notes from a Quiet Life - Robert Benjamin

2012-02-09T15:02:00.000-05:00

Photo-Eye just posted a review of this book, which relates nicely to Chapter 3 in the Wells text. You can read the review and see more images HERE.

Image from Photo-Eye book review

Laura Plageman

2012-02-09T11:32:00.000-05:00

This work has been making the rounds for a while now - it's pretty intriguing stuff. Wonderful exploration of our response to landscape as influenced by pictorial representation. You can read her project statement HERE, and you can see more by going to the artist's website HERE.

Image Credit: Laura Plagement (Response to Print of Kudzu, Texas, 2010. Archival pigment print)

Thilde Jensen

2012-02-09T11:20:00.003-05:00

Here are a few links on the artist that Skye had us look at/discuss during the Chapter 2 discussion yesterday. Please have a look, I think you'll find the work pretty fascinating.

Click HERE for the artist's website
Click HERE for a link to her exhibition at LightWork
Click HERE for a brief interview with the artist

Image Credit: Thilde Jensen

Atget @ MOMA

2012-02-06T21:44:00.000-05:00

Don't mind if I do! Very excited that I'll be visiting New York while this show is up. Content below is from MOMA's website, click HERE for more information.

"The sign outside Atget’s studio read, “Documents pour artistes,”—declaring his modest ambition to create images for other artists to use as source material. This humility belied the visual sophistication and distinctive vision that characterized much of Atget’s own work. Whether exploring the urban texture of Paris’ fifth arrondissement throughout the first quarter of the 20th century, or the abandoned grandeur of the parks at Sceaux during a remarkable creative outburst in the spring of 1925, Atget captured the essence of his chosen subject through the camera’s lens with increasing sensitivity throughout his career."

Eugène Atget. Coin, Boulevard de la Chapelle et Rue Fleury 76, 18E. June 1921. Matte albumen silver print, 6 13/16 x 9" (17.3 x 22.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden

Patti Smith: Camera Solo

2012-01-29T10:29:00.000-05:00

Nice little website that The Wadsworth Atheneum put together for this exhibition. Content below is from the site, which you can visit by clicking HERE.

"The pioneering artist, musician, and poet, Patti Smith has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s. Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be the first museum exhibition of her photography in the United States. The exhibition will include seventy photographs, one multi-media installation and one video work. Also on view will be a number of objects depicted in the photographs along with a selection of original Polaroids."

Contemporary Tintypes by Kelly Anderson Staley

2012-01-26T08:35:00.001-05:00

Absolutely stunning work, and really interesting descriptive/critical essay included on Flak today detailing the relationship between the content of the work and how it was created. The artist utilizes antiquated photographic techniques and materials, which dramatically impact the process and resulting images. Like I said, the resulting portraits are just stunning. Click HERE to see more images and read about the work.

Image Credit: Kelly Anderston Staley
Tom, 2005

New Stan Douglas Photographs @ Power Plant in Toronto

2012-01-25T13:27:00.001-05:00

Read a nice little synopsis from Daily Serving HERE.

Stan Douglas, Flame, 1947, 2010. Digital silver print mounted on Dibond aluminum. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York

Cameras at the Venice Biennale

2012-01-23T14:44:00.001-05:00

Just came across this - pretty interesting. I'm certainly guilty of this myself - if I'm being charged that is. My archive of 2009 Biennale iPhone images now exists on Facebook. Go figure.

Click HERE to link to the New York Times article.

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Envisioning Buildings: reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography

2012-01-20T12:03:00.000-05:00

Yet another reason to visit Vienna!
Content below is from the e-flux exhibition review:

ENVISIONING BUILDINGS: reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography surveys the work of 28 contemporary artists who engage with aspects of architecture and building. ENVISIONING BUILDINGS reflects the MAK’s status as a museum of applied art/contemporary art and its multi-disciplinary collections and program focus on producing exhibitions that talk across disciplines and suggest new ways of thinking about one discipline from the perspective of another. In this case it is architecture from the perspective of contemporary art. Cross-disciplinary discourse is a focus of the exhibition’s public speaking and education programs, which attempts to mix artists, architects, historians and curators.

Tobias Zielony, “Vela Azzurra,” 2010.
From the series Vele, 2009–2010.*

Photoshop Tip/Trick

2012-01-19T14:10:00.001-05:00

Well, thank you Adobe for sending along one of your little "Hidden Gems" today. I'll pass this right on to my students - here you go!

Today's Find - Ralf Brueck

2012-01-18T15:30:00.000-05:00

Some pretty interesting stuff. It's not often I come across a group of photographs that I can honestly say I haven't seen anything like before. Worth a look - his website is HERE.

Tom Chambers - New Work from Illumination Series

2012-01-18T15:17:00.000-05:00

Speaking of the role of color and light in narrative....
Photo-Eye has just published a nice little review of some new work from Tom Chambers. Click HERE to see more and read a bit.

Daria Martin's Sensorium Tests

2012-01-17T10:23:00.000-05:00

from the e-flux announcement:
"Martin has pursued a sustained enquiry into numerous pressing issues relating to film, art and culture, including enchantment, voyeurs and artificial intelligence. Martin’s work often raises questions about what it means to be ‘touched’ by cinema and alternates playfully between luring the viewer through sensuous images and lush archetypes, and pushing them back into an awareness of artifice. This intentionally crafted push and pull, Martin says, is a reflection of the essential contradictions of the medium of film: its ephemerality and sensuality together with a physical realisation of fantasy."

Sounds lovely. Ah, if only we could be in the U.K....

Daria Martin, “Sensorium Tests,” Production Still.
Photo: Thierry Bal

Zoe Strauss Billboards....and More

2012-01-14T10:39:00.000-05:00

Artist Zoe Strauss continues to amaze, impress and inspire. Check out a short video showcasing her photographs gracing billboards around her neighborhood in Philadelphia. An artist of true integrity, she is one to pay attention to. You can follow her blog by clicking HERE.

Click HERE to read about her current exhibition, Ten Years, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Looks like there will be great conversation taking place there tomorrow - if you are in the area, I highly recommend attending.

Dorothea Lange - Grab a Hunk of Lightning

2012-01-14T10:16:00.000-05:00

New film about the life and work of Dorothea Lange in production. Apparently it is narrated by her granddaughter, filmmaker Dyanna Taylor. Looking forward to seeing it. Below is an excerpt, and you can find out more by clicking HERE.

New Jeff Wall work at Marian Goodman in NYC

2012-01-12T19:51:00.003-05:00

Click HERE to view images and installation views, and to read the Press Release.

Image Credit: Jeff Wall (from Marian Goodman website)

Whitney Biennial 2012 Artists Announced

2012-01-11T14:08:00.000-05:00

A great Spring Break activity - I'll be there! Click HERE for more info. (Their website usually becomes pretty interactive, with loads of info on the artists involved as the opening gets closer - keep checking back, periodically).

Content below from the Whitney website:

"The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, 2012, with some programs continuing through June 10. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which the Museum gauges the current state of contemporary art in America."

Today's Find - Christian Friedrich

2012-01-09T09:36:00.001-05:00

Untitled (2011): Where Time Has Lost Its Relevance II
@ P///////AKT in Amsterdam

Great review on Frieze

Leigh-Ann Pahapill to Install Site-Specific Work at CFAM this January

2012-01-07T20:25:00.000-05:00

We are fortunate to have Leigh-Ann Pahapill return to campus this month to install a site-specific work in The Cornell Fine Arts Museum. An excerpt from the CFAM website is below:

Likewise, as technical experts, but not (at all) by way of culture / an installation by Leigh-Ann Pahapill (through April 8)

This on-site installation by Canadian artist Leigh-Ann Pahapill will be created by the artist over a two week period. The artist's description of the work describes "a kind of platform enclosed by a balustrade in front of, in the distance, in the forground, in the background, in place of a guide or direction set up to indicate the proper road to a place, in due time, in recent time, in the future, in the past, in parallel to the tiers of boxes of which the gallery consists, in a moment, inside and into, in many respects the screen separating the stage from the auditorium, in relation to a piece of cloth or similar material suspended by the top so as to admit of being withdrawn sideways" (Leigh-Ann Pahapill).

Panel Discussion
Saturday, January 28, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Artist Leigh-Ann Pahapill and invited guest panelists will participate in an informal discussion on her process in relation to the exhibition on view at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, moderated by Dr. Jonathan F. Walz, Interim Director of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

See below for an installation view of one of Pahapill's recent works (from the Frieze Art Fair website)

Axes and points from which
2010
Used projection screens, tubular steel holders and numeric print
Dimensions variable
Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Catherine Bastide

Website Update for Flak Photo = Awesome!

2012-01-03T19:34:00.000-05:00

One of THE best on-line resources for photography and photographers. FlakPhoto is a great place to start for research or general point and clicking. I highly recommend a daily visit to this site or, subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking HERE.

Content below is excerpted from the Flak Photo website:

What is Flak Photo and how has it evolved?

Flak Photo is an online photography channel that presents the work of artists, curators, bookmakers and photo organizations to a global audience of people who are passionate about visual culture. The site's main feature is The Collection, a digital archive of contemporary photographs which is updated five times weekly. Since launching in 2006, I've expanded my program to include a Galleries, Books, Features, and Motion section.

The project has roots in online publishing and arts exhibition and I frequently collaborate with presses, galleries, and museums to produce a continuous program of promotional “happenings”. In addition to the website, I publish a Facebook page, Twitter feed and Google+ profile and I interact with those audiences on a daily basis. I'm passionate about creative collaboration and am constantly energized by what’s happening in the online community, so producing Flak Photo gives me an outlet to satisfy that craving.

flakphoto.com

David Favrod - Today's Discovery

2012-01-03T14:20:00.000-05:00

Amazing stuff and really interesting installation views of the work. Click HERE to peruse.

Image Credit: David Favrod

New Year, New Blog Image - Thanks to my Former Teachers

2012-01-02T16:31:00.001-05:00

I started this blog for my students a few years back and have been using photographs of my former instructors as title page images, 1) because their images are fantastic and 2) as a way to say thanks! So far I've included images from Jin Lee and Bill O'Donnell, and this year I've finally got one up from Rhondal McKinney, my MFA thesis advisor. Making this little update prompted me to think about the many people I've had a chance to learn from over the years, and I'd like to acknowledge the tremendous support I received from some of my professors and teachers that enhanced my photographic education by helping me to think more critically about lens-based media in general through film and video (Scott Rankin, Enie Vaisburd and Bushra Azzouz particularly) and contemporary art and art history, and professional practice (Melissa Johnson, Martin Patrick, Jim Mai, Shona MacDonald, Paul Sacaridiz, Mike Wille, Melissa Oresky, Barry Blinderman, Margaret Shirley, Paul Sutinen, Terri Hopkins and, most especially, Rich Rollins - the most influential of them all). Thanks to everyone!!

Image Credit: Rich Rollins, 1996

Photo-Eye Best of 2011

2012-01-02T15:05:00.001-05:00

Get ready for some good clicking! Always a treat to see which books were selected, and by whom. Great roster as usual this year. Click HERE to have a look.

New MFA Page on Reframing Photography Site

2011-12-05T12:38:00.001-05:00

This is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in pursuing graduate study in photography. You can read over summaries of different programs and view work from students currently enrolled. The page is sure to keep growing, I highly recommend bookmarking it as a resource. The link is HERE.

Katie St. Clair, Ophilia

Katie St. Clair is a current graduate student at The University of Michigan. You can view more of her work at http://katiestclair.com/

David Maisel - History's Shadow

2011-11-26T17:46:00.001-05:00

This one is on my Christmas list for sure:

Publisher's Description
David Maisel’s work has always been concerned with processes of memory, excavation, and transformation. These themes are given new form in his latest work, History’s Shadow. In this series, Maisel re-photographs x-rays from museum archives that depict artifacts from antiquity, scanning and digitally manipulating the selected source material. X-rays have historically been used by art conservators for structural examination of art and artifacts much as physicians examine bones and internal organs; they reveal losses, replacements, construction methods, and internal trauma invisible to the naked eye. By transcribing both the inner and outer surfaces of their subjects simultaneously, they form spectral images of indeterminate space, depth, and scale. The resulting photographs seem like transmissions from the distant past, both spanning and collapsing time. They express – through feeling and art, as well as science and reason – the shape-shifting nature of time itself, and the continuous presence of the past contained within us. The book contains an original short story by Jonathan Lethem that was inspired by Maisel’s images.

Above content from Photo-Eye

Crime Unseen @ MoCP in Chicago

2011-11-25T09:44:00.001-05:00

If you are in Chicago over the holidays, this looks like an interesting exhibit to go see (the MoCP is always worth a visit, if you are ever in the neighborhood)...

Crime Unseen

October 28, 2011 - January 15, 2012

Featuring the work of:
Richard Barnes
Corinne May Botz
Christopher Dawson
Deborah Luster
Christian Patterson
Taryn Simon
Angela Strassheim
Krista Wortendyke

Angela Strassheim, Evidence #11, 2009

Barry Stone - Dark Side of the Rainbow at Art Palace, Houston

2011-11-11T07:31:00.001-05:00

Barry Stone
"Darkside of the Rainbow" (Exhibition view including from left to right, Positive Eclipse of 1919, Promises Promises, Negative Eclipse of 1919, all 2011)
Courtesy of the artist

The title of Barry Stone’s first solo exhibition at Art Palace, Dark Side of the Rainbow, refers to the cultural phenomenon of playing Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack for Victor Fleming’s1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Fans claim there are moments when the lyrics or music correspond to the action in the film. References to Dark Side of the Rainbow appear throughout photographs, drawings and paintings in the show.

Above content from a review of Stone's show in ...might be good
Read the full review HERE

Lomokino - Wow!

2011-11-08T20:21:00.001-05:00

http://microsites.lomography.com/lomokino/

Herlinde Koelbl at (or rather, on) Seven Screens in Munich

2011-11-06T08:06:00.003-05:00

SEVEN SCREENS is a unique lighting technology platform for alternating art projects in Munich. Behind this is a one-of-a-kind artistic concept within the scope of an ambitious format for art in public space.

Click HERE to read about Koelbl's installation.

Herlinde Koelbl, "You have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it," 2011.
Video installation, Seven Screens / OSRAM ART PROJECTS.
Photo: Herlinde Koelbl.

New online feminist quarterly - After Bellmer

2011-11-06T07:56:00.000-05:00

After Bellmer, launched in 2011 by Cortney Andrews and Talia Chetrit, is an online feminist quarterly of contemporary art and writing. The project is designed to create a dialogue surrounding the many facets of contemporary female identity and sexuality.

View Issue #2 HERE

Issue #2 contains work by artists Jesper Just, Rona Yefman, Keren Cytter, and Carolee Schneeman, whoall expose resistance(s) to the everyday cultural norms which construct sexual identity, desirability and relationships.

Libby Rowe - Dwellings

2011-11-03T11:39:00.000-04:00

"I am intrigued by the dual meaning of the word dwelling. How the “mental state” of dwelling is seen as definitively negative, but the “home” dwelling is at definition neutral but in reality holds the potential for both positive and negative associations. This series of photographs uses physical dwellings made from materials that, along with their environments, suggest a state of contemplation." - Libby Rowe

Libby Rowe - Homeland Security, 19" x 13" Digital C-print
2008

To see more work from this series, click HERE.

"Photography Is" - by Mishka Henner

2011-10-30T14:23:00.000-04:00

Mishka Henner / Works

Photography Is

"Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and untrustworthy nature of photographs themselves, each phrase in this book has been torn from the context in which it originally appeared. The result is contradictory and chaotic, frustrating and insightful. In short, it is photography, without photographs."

- Mishka Henner

Click HERE to view the book on-line and/or to order.

Nan Goldin @ Matthew Marks in NYC

2011-10-29T09:55:00.000-04:00

Sounds pretty nice, actually - wish I'd get a chance to see it. If you're up that way, I'm sure it would be worthwhile. Click HERE to read an interview with Goldin where she discusses walking around the Louvre while closed to the public, and click HERE to view images from the exhibition. You can also read the press release on the Matthew Marks website.

Nan Goldin, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Nan Goldin's "Swan Like Embrace," which she paired with a detail of an 1855 painting of Paolo and Francesca in hell by Ary Scheffer.

Harun Farocki on Materiality

2011-10-18T06:26:00.000-04:00

This may be of interest in light of our conversation in Video Art class yesterday (or to those of you just starting your video projects in digital media)...

Ryan Trecartin's Trailer for MOMA Exhibition

2011-10-16T18:03:00.000-04:00

ANY EVER (Trailer), Ryan Trecartin PS1 from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.

Karn Cytter's Video Art Manual at Zach Feuer in New York

2011-10-16T12:50:00.004-04:00

VIDEO ART MANUAL from keren cytter on Vimeo.

Click HERE to read a review of the exhibition.

Above video link from Rhizome

Julie Lequin at Crisp-Ellert Museum in St. Augustine, Florida

2011-10-10T10:15:00.000-04:00

ARTIST TALK TONIGHT, OCTOBER 10TH @ 7 P.M.
If you are in town, and feel like making a trip over to St. Augustine - I'm sure this would absolutely be worth your while.

Lequin's video piece, Top 30 will be on view at the museum through November 24th.

You can view excerpts from more of Lequin's video work HERE.
A link to the museum website detailing the exhibition is HERE.

TOP 30 (30th chapter) from Julie Lequin on Vimeo.

Interview with Marc Baruth

2011-10-10T07:40:00.002-04:00

"Reality is always mere allegation, and in my works, I absolutely deny constructed reality, which may at best be found in the representation of a tiny, actually photographed element." - M. Baruth

Click HERE to read the full interview on the blog - at Length.

Marc Baruth - Cows, Shepherds and Duckhunters, 2007, from The Prodigal Son

From Here On @ Les Recontres d'Arles Photo Festival

2011-10-07T07:07:00.001-04:00

Click the image to enlarge and read the manifesto.
Click HERE to read more about the exhibition.
Click HERE to read a review.

Jennifer Mason's Digitally Constructed Spaces

2011-09-25T09:49:00.001-04:00

"The images I digitally create have one of two objectives: I am either trying to create spaces that help evoke feelings of unease, discomfort and anxiety to create a physical space that closer matches my internal experience of reality, or I want to propose and digitally construct new spaces that provide a hiding place, with an eerily, sleepy banality in which one could just disappear." - Jennifer Mason

Above content from Hey Hot Shot Blog

swinging doors 2, 2010 by Jennifer Mason

RealTime UnReal in Montreal

2011-09-25T09:41:00.000-04:00

"RealTime UnReal turns the MACM’s black box into a seductive site to behold. The use of state-of-the art Barco projectors and a Stewart Silver 5D Filmscreen, along with very sophisticated lighting as well as a floating (i.e. hanging from ceiling as opposed to grounded) square structure marking the perimeter of the user’s space, all contribute to a making the virtual experience believable..."

Read more about this new media installation on the ART21 Blog, HERE.

"RealTime UnReal", Workspace Unlimited from Raji Sohal on Vimeo.

LENSCRATCH posts Carla Shapiro's 9/11 work

2011-09-11T08:44:00.002-04:00

Image Credit: Carla Shapiro

This is a pretty amazing project. Click HERE to view the work on LENSCRATCH.

Artist Leigh-Ann Pahapill to Visit Rollins in September

2011-09-08T10:19:00.003-04:00

We are fortunate to be hosting Toronto based artist, Leigh-Ann Pahapill for two visits this academic year. She will be on campus and meeting with students the week of September 19th, followed by an extended residency of approximately 3 weeks in January which will culminate with an exhibition at CFAM.

During the September visit, Pahapill will install her 3-channel video installation, Manifold, in the corridor of the Cornell Fine Arts Center. The work will be on view from September 19 - 24. Don't miss your chance to view this work!

Leigh-Ann Pahapill
Manifold, 2010

Three channel video installation :
(with Glissando , 2010, 22’’6 - Swarms and Heaps, 2010, 4’’15’ - Movement is what is subtracted from duration, 2010, 17’’38’)
Edition 1/4

Artwork Submission Opportunity - Routledge Media COVER!

2011-09-08T07:00:00.002-04:00

From Routledge Media:

"This is a call to budding photographers, graphic designers, artists or indeed anyone out there with a creative streak. The front cover of our 2012 Reference Catalog is currently a blank canvas and we would like you to fill this space. Paintings, drawings, collages, stencil designs etc. are all welcome. We are simply looking for something with a bit of flair. Read on for details of how to enter."

PHOTOJAX 2011 - Inaugural photography event in Jacksonville

2011-09-08T06:33:00.002-04:00

PHOTOJAX 2011 is an inaugural 2-day photography festival celebrating photography. PHOTOJAX 2011 offers a diversity of photography related exhibitions, artist receptions, portfolio reviews, and a community cell phone image projection exhibit hosted by various venues throughout Jacksonville. PHOTOJAX is a not–for-profit organization coordinated by a group of dedicated volunteers in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural resource of The University of North Florida. The festival brings together photographers, photography enthusiasts, collectors, educators, galleries, museums and the general public to explore all aspects of the medium by answering this year’s thematic question: “What is Photography?”

Above content from PHOTOJAX. Visite their WEBSITE for more information.

Loads of interesting talks coming up at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona

2011-09-08T06:31:00.001-04:00

EXHIBITION SERIES LECTURES

Friday, September 9
6:30 pm
IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS:
ARTIST'S TALK and PANEL DISCUSSION
To be followed by a BOOK SIGNING and OPENING RECEPTION
Panelists: Kate Brooks, photojournalist and exhibiting photographer
Maryanne Golon, former Director of Photography for Time Magazine
Panel moderated by Marc Bernier, Host of “BookMarc” and the Marc Bernier Show (AM1150 WNDB weekdays 3-6pm, Saturdays 9am. www.marcberniershow.com)
The event is FREE and open to the public. This event will be recorded.

Friday, September 23
6:00 - 8:00 pm
IN REVIEW: WAR - Artist presentations and panel discussion (moderated by Eric Breitenbach)
LOUIE PALU, CHRISTOPHER SIMS, ED GRAZDA and KHALID HADI
Reception and Book Signing to follow

Friday, October 21
6:00 - 8:00 pm
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND: ARTIST’S TALK, BOOK SIGNING and OPENING RECEPTION

Click HERE for more info

New book on photography by filmmaker Erroll Morris

2011-09-08T06:28:00.002-04:00

Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, by Erroll Morris.

The New York Times book review offers some good insights into the book. Click HERE to read the full review.

Call for Photos - Global Peace Film Festival

2011-08-30T08:56:00.003-04:00

I encourage any and all to submit photographs to the Global Peace Film Festival based upon the theme, "Picture This - My Connection to Peace".

Your work will be displayed on their website, and you can win passes to screenings.
GREAT opportunity!

You can find out more by clicking HERE, and HERE.

Good luck!

About the Global Peace Film Festival
September 20-25, 2011

The Global Peace Film Festival was established to utilize the power of the motion picture to further the goal of peace on earth. With a mission to expand the definition of peace beyond anti-war, ideology, activism or specific causes, the Global Peace Film Festival films and events suggest a more personal message as reflected in the daily lives of individuals and communities the world over.

The GPFF presents films from around the world and global discussions that highlight the power of this extraordinary medium as it relates to new peace issues. See films from around the world, attend educational panels, meet filmmakers and special guests and hear from local activists about their work. And get involved!

Above content from Global Peace Film Festival

Interview with Alison Nordstrom of George Eastman House on the Life and Work of Lewis Hine

2011-08-26T06:31:00.003-04:00

Lewis W. Hine, courtesy of George Eastman House
“Little Spinner in Mill.” Augusta, Ga.

This month, James Estrin met with Alison Nordstrom, the curator of a major retrospective of more than 150 Lewis Wickes Hine photographs that opens Sept. 7 in Paris at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. Ms. Nordstrom is also the curator of photographs at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, where the two talked. Their conversation has been edited.

Click HERE to read the interview.

Above content from The New York Times, Lens Blog.

New Exhibitions at Southeast Museum of Photography Open

2011-08-20T14:19:00.003-04:00

Gysgt. Carlos "OJ" Orjuela age 31, Garmsir, Afghanistan
Louie Palu

Just a quick jaunt from Winter Park, the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona is a great local resource. I highly encourage you all to make it a point to visit at some point. The current exhibition is very timely. An Artist’s Panel Discussion will be held on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:00 pm; reception to follow.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

IN REVIEW: WAR
Ed Grazda, Louie Palu, Lucian Perkins and Christopher Sims

"After ten years of turmoil, uncertainty and conflict we confront the anniversary of the events of September 11th. What has happened since then, and how have photographers helped shape our understanding of these complex events and the circumstances surrounding them? Four photographers and four dramatically different records are presented alongside images made at the actual site of what has become known as “ground zero” on that September day in 2001.

Each photographer has created a unique archive that powerfully articulates their own particular understanding of the forces in play in these events. Drawing from the fields of portraiture, documentary and reportage photography; each series forms an authentic and engaging facet of the not-yet-complete archive of an elusive global conflict, and a series of wars that have not yet fully ended. Featuring the photography of Ed Grazda, Louie Palu, Lucian Perkins and Christopher Sims"

Above content from The Southeast Museum of Photography

Click HERE for more information on the exhibitions.

Behind the Scenes Look at the Fabricated Worlds of Matthew Albanese

2011-07-29T09:18:00.004-04:00

Above Image: Matthew Albanese, New Life #2 (Diorama made using painted parchment paper, thread, hand dyed ostrich feathers, carved chocolate, wire, raffia, masking tape, coffee, synthetic potting moss and cotton).

Some pretty remarkable work! You can view production stills from the artist's studio by clicking HERE. To view more work by Matthew Albanese as well as video clips of the work in production, click HERE.

Jessica Auer on Unmarked Sites

2011-07-26T08:21:00.002-04:00

Image Credit: Copyright, Jessica Auer

Check out the link below to read a really nice interview with Canadian based photographer Jessica Auer. http://www.urbanautica.com/post/8080579829/jessica-auer

Studio Art Senior Natascha Vazquez Creates Public Art in The Bahamas

2011-07-10T08:56:00.011-04:00

The above images are from the ambitious project that Natascha worked on over the summer. About this project, Natascha says:

"I got a group of art majors from the College of the Bahamas to come to Abaco (a remote outer island in the Bahamas) to create a public art piece out of found material that has been washed up on the beaches in Southern Abaco. These beaches are on the Atlantic side of the island, catching tons of debris that has been floating in the ocean for years, and finally washes up on shore. I thought it would be interesting to utilize this free "art material" in interesting, artistic ways while at the same time, clean the beach and create awareness of pollution.

We decided to create the bow of a boat, pertruding out of a cliff that we thought would be an appropriate site for this particular piece. It was challenging because of the height, but we found solutions. The
reason we chose a boat was to educate people on where exactly these trash items are coming from, and to present viewers with an art piece which seems beautiful, but dirty at the same time. The trash that has
been washed up on the shore-line is situated in such a beautiful place, and doesn't belong in that spot."

Student Exhibition Opportunity in Miami

2011-07-10T08:47:00.004-04:00

Lunchbox Gallery is accepting submissions from Florida students for their One Night Stand Project which affords students the opportunity to exhibit their work during the popular Wynwood Gallery Walks.

I highly encourage all students to put together a strong portfolio and APPLY!

More information can be found HERE

Katy Grannan - New Work

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Katy Grannan. Anonymous, LA, 2009. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery

Click HERE to read an interview with Katy Grannan about her recent series, Boulevard as well as a brief discussion of her short film, The Believers.

FIELD TRIP TO THE SOUTHEAST MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY - SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH

2011-01-20T13:07:00.005-05:00

**SIGN UP SHEET OUTSIDE OF DAWN ROE'S OFFICE**

We will be taking a field trip to the Southeast Museum of Photography, next Saturday January 29th. Karen Glaser will be present to give an artist's talk about her work, detailed below. Also on view are photographs by Bill Armstrong, Linda Connor, and Lorna Bieber.

The JUMP Bus has only 14 seats, so sign up fast to reserve your space!!
We will leave from the area behind the tennis courts (where athletic vans and JUMP bus are parked) promptly at 3:30 p.m. We should return back to Rollins by 7:30 p.m.

For more information on these exhibitions, click HERE.

January 29, 2011- May 29, 2011

THE MARK OF WATER
Florida's Springs and Swamps
Karen Glaser

Bream in the Highlights, 2006

Rewind the BETAMAX of life: Nam June Paik at Tate Liverpool and FACT

2011-01-17T09:05:00.002-05:00

Nam June Paik in collaboration with Norman Ballard,  Laser Cone, 2001/2010
 Installation view at FACT (Foundation for Art Creative Technology) Photographer: Stephen King

Really nice review of the Nam Jun Paik's retrospective in Britain. Click HERE to read the full story.

Lyle Rexer @ CFAM on Saturday

2011-01-10T15:33:00.001-05:00

Do NOT miss this opportunity to hear exhibition curator Lyle Rexer speak about the work currently on view at CFAM.
I mean it. Do NOT miss it!

Click the blurb below for more details:

Rollins College - Event Details View - Lyle Rexer presents "The Edge of Vision—or the End of Vision? Photography after Abstraction"

...and the Top 10 from 1 of the Photo-Eye Judges

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Click HERE to read the article.
(Might want to read over the post below first).

Photo-Eye Announces Best Books of 2010

2011-01-07T09:16:00.002-05:00

Click HERE and have a look.

The End of Kodachrome

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Steve Hebert for The New York Times

Read the full story in The New York Times.

Hide/Seek Exhibition Walk Through Video

2010-12-29T08:48:00.005-05:00

Here is a great examples of how not to see an exhibition. Nonetheless, it does give a good sense of how the show is laid out. Have a look, and pause here and there.

Bill Armstrong and Linda Connor at SEMP in Daytona

2010-12-20T08:47:00.003-05:00

Both exhibitions close on February 6, 2011
The Southeast Museum of Photography

ODYSSEY
The Photographs of Linda Connor

Linda Connor, Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo, Egypt, 1989

Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor reflects an artist’s pursuit of diverse and compelling subjects from around the world. Although she frequently focuses on devotional sites and monuments, Connor is also drawn to revealing the spirit embedded in everyday life. She is fascinated with photography’s relationship to time: her pictures present a compelling combination of timelessness and a palpable sense of the passage of time. Another core element in her work concerns the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the sacred; its sites, iconography, and philosophy. Odyssey includes some of Connor’s best-known images from the...MORE

SPIRIT
From the Infinity Series
Bill Armstrong

Bill Armstrong, Figure 02, 1999

Bill Armstrong’s Infinity series transforms re-photographed and appropriated images to create ephemeral, abstracted and de-materialized color fields and strongly evocative iconic figures. Working with source material as diverse as African masks, Roman busts, statuary and other representations, Armstrong’s finished figurative andportrait images are powerfully evocative of an unseen presence. Spirit presents selections from five of the series that make up Bill Armstrong’s Infinity project. Working with his unique process of re-photographing...MORE

Please note: Bill Armstrong will also have work in the exhibition, The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography which will be on view in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum all semester.

Disneyland Dreamer

2010-11-14T08:31:00.003-05:00

Robbins Barstow, Home-Movie Maven, Dies at 91

Robbins Barstow, a Connecticut man who, movie camera whirring, documented every aspect of his family’s life for decades, yielding a vast body of work that formed the cornerstone of the recent home-movie revival and has lately garnered a huge following online, died on Nov. 7 at his home in Hartford. He was 91 and previously lived in Wethersfield, Conn.

Mr. Barstow made more than a hundred films in the course of eight decades. In 2008, his best-known, “Disneyland Dream” (1956), a 30-minute account of a family vacation, was named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Read the entire story from The New York Times HERE.

You can find Disneyland Dream and an AMAZING mass of other films at archive.org

New Issue of Ahorn

2010-11-11T16:38:00.004-05:00

Six Reflections on the Photography of Robert Frank

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“I have a lot in back of me – of what has happened in my life – and that’s a tremendous pull backward. And in front of me I love the sea.” - Robert Frank

Robert Frank
Sick of Goodby's, Mabou 1978
© Foto museum Winterthur/National Gallery. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Gelatin silver print
48.3x33cm

Click HERE to read some wonderful comments on Frank's photographs (such as my favorite, above) by Ed Ruscha, Lou Reed, Mary Ellen Mark and others.

Ed Templeton - The Second Pass

2010-11-07T09:07:00.002-05:00

The Second Pass, by Ed Templeton. Published by Seems Books, 2010.

Here is a GREAT example of how an artist has combined photographic images together in a meaningful and intentional manner in the form of an artist's book. This should help those of your in Memory and The Photograph.

To read more about the book, click HERE

Erasure Project by Ben Alper

2010-10-09T09:17:00.003-04:00

Untitled, from the series Erasure by Ben Alper

An interesting take on the family photo album.

Alper writes of his project:

Among the many transformations that have taken place at the hand of the digital revolution is the relatively sudden disappearance of the traditional family photo album. More and more often these days, photographic images are stored and organized on personal computers. This shift away from tactility toward a more ephemeral experience of the photograph marks a pronounced negation of tradition and signals the loss of both cultural and familial memory. This trend has only been further exacerbated by our access to, and consumption of, a nearly infinite flow of cultural imagery. With these ideas in mind, Erasure examines the physical impressions and deterioration left behind by photographs that have been removed from family albums.

Read more about this work in a review from Hey Hot Shot here.

Curtis Mann to Lecture @ UCF on Friday, October 15th

2010-10-09T09:05:00.002-04:00

GREAT opportunity, students! Click on the poster below to view the image in larger size:

Recently Opened: MOMA - New Photography 2010

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Above Image: Amanda Ross-Ho, Irreconcilable Indifferences. 2010

Just can't get away from reclaimed photographs this year - here, there, everywhere!
Click HERE to view more images from the show.

Info on the exhibition from the MOMA website is below:

New Photography 2010 presents four artists— Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Ethridge takes his pictures in “editorial mode,” directly borrowing from commercial images already in circulation, including outtakes from his own illustrational magazine work. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations. Ross-Ho’s hand-drilled sheetrock panels lined up with found pictures and mural-scale images of studio residues renegotiate the various stages of the creative process. Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire. Infusing the seductive language of film and advertising with a touch of sly conceptualism, the artists included in New Photography 2010 explore the relationship between straight and constructed photograph, image and picture.

The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography.The exhibition is made possible by the Carl Jacobs Foundation.

2010 MacArthur Fellows!

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See the links below to watch short videos on the work of the two visual artist selected this year.
Always a very exciting time! Genius Awards, whoo-hoo!!

Jorge Pardo - MacArthur Foundation

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Jorge Pardo - MacArthur Foundation

Elizabeth Turk - MacArthur Foundation

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Elizabeth Turk - MacArthur Foundation

Two Photographers - Two Families

2010-09-25T13:23:00.003-04:00

Top Image: Chris Verene, My Cousin Steve With His Daughter, His Wife Had Just Left Them, 1992
Bottom Image: Tina Barney, Marina's Room, 1987

Seeing the announcement for Chris Verene's new book Family (available from TwinPalms Press), made me think back to some of Tina Barney's earlier work - this thought occurred to me not only because of the inherent similarity and overwhelming discrepancy in terms of subject matter, but also because of conversations that have been taking place in the Memory & The Photograph seminar. I think it might be useful for students to have a look at these two very different photographic representations of family, especially as they relate to our discussions of autobiographical memory and identity formation.

Here is an excerpt from the press release from Verene's recent exhibition at Postmasters in New York:

CHRIS VERENE
"FAMILY"

Chris Verene's first show at Postmasters will present over forty photographs made during the past twenty-six years. This landmark exhibition of documentary storytelling chronicles a group of closely-knit characters from the photographer's family and their rural Illinois community. The photographer is also one of the characters-- his blood bonds and bonds of friendship within the small town are carefully spelled out in simple handwritten captions atop the colorful pictures. Verene's new book, "Family," published this summer, contains many of the images on view - it opens with his cousin Candi's divorce. Candi was made famous when her wedding picture appeared on the cover of Verene's first book ten years ago. Both husband and wife were fired in the Maytag factory closing described in President Obama's first address to the United States in 2004 and in the 2010 State of the Union. Theirs is not the only family torn apart by the economic struggles of the country, as Verene documents other similar stories. The exhibition will also bring to light recent developments in the artist's intimate life, as his young child, Nico, Brooklyn-born and half-Puerto Rican, appears throughout the latest photographs, playing with his cousins and newfound friends in Galesburg. This show will offer an extraordinary, inspiring, hopeful, and sometimes sorrow-filled view into the true personal stories and private lives of the artist's immediate and extended family in their small community as photographed throughout a lifetime in economically depressed Galesburg, Illinois. Museums currently showing Verene's work include The Tate Modern, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The New Orleans Museum of Art.

Above content from Postmasters Gallery

And here is an excerpt from the overview of "So The Story Goes" - an exhibition that included Barney's work at The Art Institute of Chicago:

Tina Barney has said, “I began photographing what I knew.” For much of the 1980s and 1990s, this meant taking pictures of her friends and family as they went about their daily lives in affluent areas of Long Island, New York City, and New England. Employing a large-format, 8-by-10-view camera enabled her to create highly detailed images that retain their focus and richness even when made into four-by-five-foot prints. Barney was thus one of the first photographers to present color work on a grand scale that rivaled most twentieth-century paintings. This scale also inspired a deliberate construction of the picture, at times requiring supplementary lighting and the direction of the sitters.

Barney’s photographs expose the emotional and psychological currents that course just beneath the surfaces of perfect trappings and banal gestures. In Jill and Polly in the Bathroom, such tension is evident in Jill’s strained expression, Polly’s turn away from Jill, and the distance between them that persists even in the cramped quarters of such a small room. Barney notes, “When people say that there is a distance, a stiffness in my photographs, that the people look like they do not connect, my answer is, that this is the best we can do. This inability to show physical affection is in our heritage.” While the myth that material comfort ensures personal contentment is an alluring one, Barney’s photographs undermine such illusions, even in later images in which the focus has shifted away from context to the personality and face of the sitter. In these more recent photographs of family and friends—many of which eliminate her directorial approach and allow for more self-presentation to the camera—Barney continues to make photographs distinct from family snapshots or formal group portraits in their refusal to serve as predictable commemorations of happy times, important gatherings, and ritualized affection.

Above content from The Art Institute of Chicago

You can see more of Verene's work HERE, or at his website, www.chrisverene.com
You can see more of Barney's work HERE and HERE

In Defence of Stealing Photographs

2010-09-23T20:09:00.003-04:00

Above image from iheartphotograph

...thought the gang from Memory and the Photograph would like to read this lovely little essay.

Click HERE to access the post from iheartphotograph

Bastienne Schmidt at Southeast Museum of Photography

2010-09-22T12:55:00.004-04:00

This exhibition is right here in our backyard - or sideyard, I suppose. The Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona is a venue we are fortunate to have so close by. I highly encourage all of you to make the drive over to see the exhibitions that make up their fall season (click HERE for more info).

I think the Bastienne Schmidt exhibition will be of particular interest to many of you currently enrolled in Rollins art/photography courses. There will be an artist's talk and book signing by the artist on October 30th from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Highly, highly recommended.

Below is an excerpt from the Southeast Museum of Photography website:

September 4 - November 7, 2010

HOME STILLS
Bastienne Schmidt

The Red Dress, Sagaponack, 2009

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition and book project uses photographs, large scale mixed-media pieces and film still images to explore female gender identity as it is refracted through popular culture. Schmidt challenges our visions of a domestic utopia with “tableaux” photographs of herself in the role of a “housewife” that re-stage many disconcertingly familiar scenarios and circumstances. Working strictly in her own home environment of suburban Long Island, Schmidt takes on the social context of a world of suburban fragmentation and loneliness with the presentation of the housewife character as a wandering, rootless protagonist.

Putting Memories to New Use - Sara VanderBeek at the Whitney

2010-09-19T07:55:00.002-04:00

Sara VanDerBeek; Metro Pictures, New York and Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco

Read the New York Times review HERE.

Outpost: Harvey Benge – Against Forgetting

2010-09-18T09:51:00.002-04:00

Above image from Harvey Bange - Photography/Art/Ideas
See below for a review of Harvey Benge's new artist's book from Outpost.

Outpost: Harvey Benge – Against Forgetting: "I was trying to recall the last occasion when an Auckland photographer looked closely at one of this region’s suburbs. I think that it was ..."

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

2010-09-12T13:47:00.001-04:00

Above Image: Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

I first saw these photographs earlier this summer - this image gallery has been making the rounds. It is WELL worth a look.

(Click link below to view more images)
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

Selective Memory - Dance/Video/Performance

2010-09-09T22:35:00.003-04:00

“Selective Memory,” with Madeline Best, at the Chocolate Factory.

Came across a review for this work today - sounds INCREDIBLY intriguing. Certainly relevant to those of us reading about memory and the photograph in the honors seminar, and also of interest to students in ART130, and of course related to much that we are/will be discussing in ART300. Good stuff.

Information on the piece from The Chocolate Factory website reads,

"Selective Memory is a real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships that never took place, events which never happened; a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers; exploiting the misappropriation of "real" sounds and images to confound, distort, remake and ultimately erase the truth."

Read the rest of the description HERE.
And read a New York Times review HERE.

Indianapolis Museum of Art to Represent U.S. at 2011 Venice Biennale

2010-09-08T17:06:00.003-04:00

From the IMA website:

The Big News
The IMA has been selected to represent the United States at the 2011 La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale) and present the work of Puerto Rico-based artist collaborative Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Often described as the Olympic games of the contemporary art world, more the 70 nations present the newest and best works from their respective countries every other year at the Venice Biennale. This year marks the 54th International Art Exhibition.

That's big news, alright.To read more, view the IMA website, or read the article posted today on the blog, Eyeteeth.

Landmark, Vieques, Puerto Rico, 2003 (above image from Eyeteeth)

Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

2010-09-01T14:51:00.002-04:00

Sharon Lockhart, Podwórka, 2009.
Installation at Gladstone Gallery, New York, courtesy the gallery.

Below is a great review of a recent show at Toronto's Power Plant, which I was fortunate enough to see in person. And yes, it did take some time to take it all in and truly consider the work. For my students who are perplexed with what to do when presented with time-based works, please have a read!

Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

Richard Misrach - Destroy This Memory

2010-08-25T11:28:00.003-04:00

Destroy This Memory.
Photographs by Richard Misrach.
Aperture, 2010. 140 pp., 70 color illustrations, 15x11½"

I've known about this book for a few months, but was reminded of it today when I came across a brief review on American Suburb X. It's particularly apt for those enrolled in Memory and the Photograph, but a relevant book for any and all interested in photography and current events. (All artist royalties donated to the Make it Right Foundation to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.)

A link to the book is below:

Aperture Foundation | Destroy This Memory - Default Store View

Welcome Back Everyone - Here is a New Photo Submission Opportunity for You All!

2010-08-19T09:17:00.002-04:00

http://www.tate.org.uk/youngtate/exposedcompetition/how.htm

The contest is based around the themes in the exhibition listed above. I was fortunate to see this exhibition at the Tate Modern while in London a few weeks back. They've published an accompanying catalog as well. A worthwhile look indeed.

More information on the exhibition is here.

Photo Submission Opportunity for Students!!

2010-04-23T15:12:00.002-04:00

I encourage you all to apply!

RSVP: CLASS PICTURES, now open for submissions

Artists are currently invited to submit work for consideration in Class Pictures, an RSVP online exhibition of exceptional work by currently enrolled students of undergraduate photography programs. Students may submit up to five images from a single project.

RSVP is a Michael Mazzeo Gallery program of curated online exhibitions. By way of call and response initiated on the gallery blog, artists are asked to submit images to be considered for inclusion in specific, themed shows. RSVP exhibitions are handled in the same professional and enthusiastic manner as the gallery’s on-site exhibitions, with advertising and sales efforts, on-demand printed catalogs and gallery support.

It is important to note that this is not a pay-to-play program and the exhibitions are not 'competitions'.
There is no charge for entries.
There is no charge for inclusion in exhibitions.
There is no charge for inclusion in exhibition catalogs.

To submit images, follow the instructions on the Online Submissions page.

Above content from Michael Mazeo Gallery

Cartier-Bresson @ MOMA

2010-04-09T08:45:00.003-04:00

Above Image Credit:
Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson

A Photographer Whose Beat Was the World

Read a review of the exhibition HERE.

Yale University Acquires Photographer Lee Friedlander's Archive and Master Prints

2010-04-08T09:31:00.000-04:00

Yale University Acquires Photographer Lee Friedlander's Archive and Master Prints

Photo Submission Opportunity for Students!!

2010-04-05T20:24:00.003-04:00

Lark Photography will award $1,000.00 to one photography student that submits the winning self-portrait.

Send your photo to selfportraitcontest@larkbooks.com and you could win the grand prize.

2nd and 3rd place finishers each win all four books in the Digital Masters series.

Read the official rules before entering. Your photo must be received by April 30, 2010.

Lark Books

Zoe Strauss, I-95 Project, Final Show of 10 Year Project, Final Edit - Awesome.

2010-04-03T08:23:00.001-04:00

Is Photography Over?

2010-04-01T20:58:00.004-04:00

SFMOMA posed this question to a group of well known critics, curators, theorists and artists who will convene later this month at the museum. You can read their brief initial responses by clicking the links below...

(Below content from SFMOMA)

Overview

Unknown Untitled [Man reflected in mirrors], n.d.; photograph; gelatin silver print; Collection SFMOMA, Gift of Gordon L. Bennett;

SFMOMA has been collecting and exhibiting photographs since the museum's founding in 1935 and is dedicated to the examination of the medium in all its forms. This major symposium on the current state of the field is the first in a series of public programs on photography. The texts below reflect the initial responses of 13 invited participants to the symposium's central question: Is photography over? The discussion begun here will continue on April 22 and 23, when the participants will convene at SFMOMA for a series of public and private conversations on the current state of the medium.

Participants

Vince Aletti
George Baker
Walead Beshty
Jennifer Blessing
Charlotte Cotton
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Geoff Dyer

Peter Galassi
Corey Keller
Douglas Nickel
Trevor Paglen
Blake Stimson
Joel Snyder

Borrowed from Sarah Stonefoot's Beloit College Blog...

2010-04-01T13:38:00.003-04:00

Elliott Erwitt by Alec Soth

...because it is SO perfect!
It's even more perfect if you're familiar with the work of both Soth and Erwitt - if you're not, have a look HERE and HERE...

Sarah's blog is HERE if you're interested.

PHOTOESPAÑA - Interview with Jem Southam

2010-03-29T06:58:00.002-04:00

"Looking at the world with a camera is hugely rewarding."
- Jem Southam

Follow the link below to read the interview....

PHOTOESPAÑA

Levitating Man/Photographic Illusion = AWESOME!

2010-03-24T07:29:00.002-04:00

Came across this today during my morning Google Reader routine on John Foster's Accidental Mysteries Blog. Foster himself found it on a blog by Richard Wiseman (a psychologist and magician!) - I just love the blog-go-round!

At any rate, the image is a wonderful example of truth and illusion in photography!

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

2010-03-22T16:48:00.001-04:00

Opens Friday at The Guggenheim in NYC - can't wait to see this show in May!

March 26–September 6, 2010

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past. Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Drawn primarily from the Guggenheim Museum collection, Haunted will feature recent acquisitions, many of which will be exhibited by the museum for the first time. Included in the show will be work by such artists as Marina Abramović, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol. A significant part of the exhibition will be dedicated to work created since 2001 by younger artists. This exhibition is curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator.

This exhibition is made possible by the International Director’s Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Additional support is provided by grants from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation. The Leadership Committee for Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance is gratefully acknowledged.

Douglas Gordon, Bootleg (Empire), 1998. Video installation, dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift of the artist, 2004.99

Above content from The Guggenheim-New York

Twitter with The Whitney?

2010-03-18T21:28:00.003-04:00

Sure! Why not?

Have you ever wanted to ask a Biennial curator why they chose a certain work, or what it's like to try to capture what's going on in American art today? On March 23 you'll have a chance. Join 2010 co-curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and WNYC art critic Carolina Miranda for an online Twitter Tour of the Biennial. As Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times says, "For some of us, it may be the first time we visit the Whitney in our pajamas." Submit questions via Twitter using the hash tags #whitneybiennial or #whibi before or during the tour, which begins at 2:30 pm.

Above content from The Whitney Museum of American Art

Chrystel Lebas at Witzenhausen in Chelsea

2010-03-01T20:49:00.003-05:00

I was so disheartened to get this announcement from Chrystel last week, as her show in New York will close before I have a chance to get up there. BUT....if any of you will be in the area between now and March 27, please go have a look.

I was fortunate to meet Chrystel while at a conference last year in the U.K., and she is a remarkable artist dealing with time, space and memory through the medium of both photography and video in a very subtle yet captivating manner. I recently purchased her book Time in Space for the Olin Library as well - go and have a look!

Information on her exhibition in New York is below:

Witzenhausen Gallery New York is proud to present work by French artist Chrystel Lebas. The exhibition is on show from February 25th till March 27th at the Witzenhausen Gallery in New York.

Chrystel Lebas’s work is drawn from her interest in looking at how landscapes contain psychological significance in relation to historical events, legends, Fairy Tales and our childhood memories and how to communicate these within an image.

She employs photography and the moving image, often pushing the apparatuses to their limits of their functionality to produce images. The works are mainly produced during the twilight hours, or as in the French expression, “Entre chien et loup”, translated in English as “Between Dog and Wolf”: the moment when twilight embodies the transition from dog to wolf, when it is nearly impossible to tell the difference between the howling sound coming from the two animals.

Above content from Witzenhausen Gallery

For more information on the work of Chrystel Lebas, visit her website: http://www.chrystellebas.com

New Yorker Critic Peter Schjeldahl's Whitney Biennial Review

2010-03-01T14:28:00.002-05:00

...in audio slideshow format - a nice summation. He seems to find the show rather dull, but nice. He thinks we'll be glad, though, if we go!

Click HERE for the audio slideshow

Whitney Biennial Reviews Begin

2010-02-26T09:02:00.002-05:00

Click the link below to read what The New York Times has to say. Not a bad review, really - I'm looking forward to going up to see the show in May. Have a glance at the slideshow within the Times article to see a few representative images as well.

I've also included a link to another Times review of the Brucennial 2010 exhibition in Soho - a sort of Whitney Biennial counter show of sorts, put together by the five-person art collective known as the Bruce High Quality Foundation. Interestingly and/or appropriately, this collective also has work in the Whitney.

Click HERE for the New York Times Whitney Biennial Review
Click HERE for the New York Times Brucennial 2010 Review

Above image:
Bruce High Quality Foundation's "We Like America and America Likes Us" and Lorraine O'Grady prints on the wall.
Photo: Chad Batka for The New York Times

Danny Lyon - The Bikeriders @ Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona

2010-02-25T10:09:00.003-05:00

The exhibition opens this Saturday, February 27th. The museum will hold a reception from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. It's just a quick drive to Daytona - about 40 minutes, and well worth it. The book that accompanies this series of photographs had a huge influence on my own development as an artist and photographer. It's really wonderful work, and I highly recommend heading over to the museum to view these prints in person.

"The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble. The real question faced by a photographer or journalist today is not, of course, the type of film that is inside their camera; although that matters. The real question is what's inside their head. That has always been the question and will always be the question. [The Bikeriders] is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling engines of big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic or, on occasion, into oblivion." - Danny Lyon

About the exhibition:

In 1968, just before Easy Rider roared its way into American consciousness, Danny Lyon finished The Bikeriders. After four years with the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Gang, he had created one of the defining photography projects of the 1960s: The Bikeriders, and pioneered the style that has come to be known as the “New Journalism.” With its mix of grit, realism and romanticism, and its ground-breaking use of the bikers own stories and accounts, The Bikeriders was a landmark collection that documented the abandon and risk of motorcycle gangs, and powerfully propelled motorcycle counterculture into the mainstream American consciousness. The images and interviews in The Bikeriders are as raw, alive, and dramatic today as they were nearly four decades ago.

Above content from The Southeast Museum of Photography
More information on the exhibition can be found on the SEMP website - HERE.

Photographer Zoe Strauss - 10 Year I-95 Project

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Every May for the past 9 years, Zoe Strauss has mounted a public art exhibition under the ramp of I-95 in her hometown of Philadelphia. Each year, she has edited down from hundreds (if not more likely, thousands) of images to a final selection of 231 photographs. The exhibition this May will conclude her 10 year project. I highly recommend signing up to follow her blog to watch the editing process unfold. Strauss posts both new and old images and comments on those that she thinks (at the moment) are in, out, or maybe - and why.

Click HERE to access her blog, and watch the video below for more information on the project.
Click twice on the video to access the full screen version on YouTube.