Putting Memories to New Use - Sara VanderBeek at the Whitney

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

Read the New York Times review HERE.

Outpost: Harvey Benge – Against Forgetting

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

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

“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

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

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

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!

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!!

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

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

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.