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

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

Photo Submission Opportunity for Students!!

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.

Is Photography Over?

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...

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

"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!

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

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?

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

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

...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

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

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

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.

Harry Ransom Lecture: Sarah Greenough

Harry Ransom Lecture: Sarah Greenough

Click the link above to find out more about this upcoming lecture that will apparently be made available via live webcast, beginning at approximately 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 25th.

More information on the lecture is below (below content from Marketing Photos with Mary Virginia Swanson)

Greenough presents the lecture “Transforming Destiny into Awareness: Robert Frank’s The Americans, 1959.”

Sarah Greenough was also the founding curator of the National Gallery of Art’s department of photographs in 1990. Since that time she has organized numerous exhibitions at the National Gallery that have traveled to museums around the world, including Paul Strand: An American Vision (1990), Walker Evans: Subway and Streets (1991), Harry Callahan (1996), Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (2001), Roger Fenton (2004), and Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (2005). She has written several award-winning publications, including Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (1983), On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of the Art of Photography (1989), Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set (2002), André Kertész(2005), and The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978 (2007). She most recently organized Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans.”