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.

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