Here is a link to the the complete details for our upcoming talk in NYC, “Publish Your Photography Book” which is this Wednesday evening. Doors open at 5:30, talk at 6:00 – it’s free and open to all, so see you there!
Archive for November, 2010
December 2nd in LA: Photographer SAM ABELL, hosted by ASMP LA
The great SAM ABELL will be speaking in Santa Monica on 12/2 at Bergamont Station. A great photographer, teacher and mentor to many; his lectures are inspirational and not to be missed!
Information from an eblast from asmpla:
“Sam Abell began shooting for National Geographic Magazine in 1970, and in a publication where the highest quality work is the norm, his stood out from the beginning.
A Canon Explorer of Light, he has photographed projects all over the world – some of which have become legendary among photographers. Abell’s work manages to be (at least) three things at once: first-rate photojournalism, beautiful and beautifully composed, and poetic and moving.
Abell has also developed a highly-regarded career as a speaker and teacher, mentoring countless photographers for many years, including at the Maine, Santa Fe, and Julia Dean Workshops. As composed as one of his images, clear-eyed, and passionate, he is able to convey what makes images work – and what helps them fail – in ordinary language that anyone at any level can understand.
Whether you’re an experienced pro or a student, and no matter what kinds of images you produce, you’ll receive something from hearing Abell talk that is rare and energizing.
REGISTER HERE
One of the most exciting speakers ever to come to Los Angeles, he will also be giving a workshop the weekend following his talk at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops: http://juliadean.com.
The author of several books, you can watch Abell discuss his work at the Geographic HERE
You can see more of Abell’s work, and read a terrific interview about his book,
Sam Abell, The Photographic Life at:
Learn more about Sam Abell at
http://samabell-thephotographiclife.com
http://samabell-thephotographiclife.com
Doors open 6:30, lecture at 7. Students: $5.00, everyone else $10.
LOCATION: Writers Boot Camp, Bergamot Station Arts Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue, building i, Santa Monica
DIRECTIONS: From the 10 Freeway going west, exit at Cloverfield, go north. At the first light/intersection go right onto Michigan, follow until it ends (a few hundred yards), and make a left into the Bergamot Station lot (you won’t have a choice).
There is a map in front of the first buildings you’ll see, and Writers Boot Camp is all the way down the buildings on the left side.
OR, click here for maps (Building i is the only one without its letter on the map, next to Building H): www.bergamotstation.com/map.html“
November 30, San Francisco: Richard Misrach Lecture/Book Signing
Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach
Followed by Artist Reception
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
7:00 pm
SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd floor
San Francisco, California
(415) 512-7109
SF Camerawork is pleased to present a lecture and book signing with Richard Misrach on the occasion of the publication of Misrach’s acclaimed new monograph, Destroy This Memory. Published by Aperture on August 29th—marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina—this powerful book presents previously unpublished and starkly compelling material, all of which Misrach shot with his 4 MP pocket camera. Created between October and December 2005, one month after the storm, Destroy This Memory is an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach—who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing Cancer Alley project—found himself drawn to the hurricane-inspired graffiti: messages scrawled in spray paint, crayons, chalk, or whatever materials happened to be on hand. At turns threatening, desperate, clinical, and even darkly humorous, the phrases he captured—the only text that appears in the book—offer unique and revealing human perspectives on the devastation and shock left in the wake of this disaster.
Artist’s royalties for this project are being donated to the Make It Right Foundation, which is currently rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
NYC, 12/1: Save the date! MVS and Darius Himes to speak at the NYPL, 6 pm
The New York Public Library presents
An Artist Career Development Series Event
Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson
Wednesday December 1, 2010
6:00 p.m. FREE and OPEN to ALL
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Room 227 (2nd Floor; doors open at 5:30 p.m.)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
212-340-0871
From the NYPL:
“Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs. They will survey the current landscape of photography book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. Himes and Swanson will provide an overview of the publishing industry; an intimate look at the process of making a book; a close review of how to market a photo book; a section on case studies, built around discussions and interviews with published photographers; and a final section presenting a wealth of resources and information to aid in the understanding of the publishing world.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Darius D. Himes was a founding editor of photo-eye Booklist and is a cofounder of Radius Books, a nonprofit company publishing books on the visual arts. Himes is also a lecturer, consultant and writer who has contributed to numerous publications.
Mary Virginia Swanson is a consultant in the area of licensing and marketing fine-art photography. Swanson frequently lectures and conducts workshops and educational programs for photographers and students. Respected judge of competitions and awards as well as portfolio reviewer, she is widely recognized for her blog Marketing Photos, a valued resource for photographers.
ABOUT THE NYPL LECTURE SERIES:
Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, Artist Career Development Series have addressed the growing needs and concerns of independent creative workforce in New York City since 2006.”
CPAC Deadline December 1: Call for entries, judges April Watson and Elijah Gowin
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center is pleased to announced its ANNUAL JURIED MEMBERS’ show. The best series will receive a solo show at the Edge Gallery Associates.
EXHIBITION DATES: January 7-30th at Denver’s Edge Gallery
JURORS: April Watson, Associate Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Photographer, educator and Guggenheim Fellow Elijah Gowin.
DEADLINE for SUBMISSION: DECEMBER 1, 5 pm, MST.
Visit www.cpacphoto.org for full details and entry form!
Good luck to all who enter!
November 20, Daytona: Bill Armstrong exhibition opening, talk, book signing
from the Southeast Museum of Photography website:
Spirit: from the Infinity Series
OPENING EVENTS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20th, 5-7 pm
Exhibition on view November 20, 2010- February 6, 2011
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 and portrait 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 appropriated images and subjecting them to a series of manipulations; Armstrong exploits the integrating capacities of camera focus to merge image details, edges and colors to create seamless color fields and mysterious, iconic figures.
Spirit presents selections from five of the series that make up Bill Armstrong’s Infinity project. Working with his unique process of re-photographing appropriated images and subjecting them to a series of manipulations; Armstrong exploits the integrating capacities of camera focus to merge image details, edges and colors to create seamless color fields and mysterious, iconic figures.
ALSO OPENING on VIEW:
November 20, 2010- February 6, 2011
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
and closing on DECEMBER 16th:
I STILL DO: LOVING AND LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER’S by JUDITH FOX
A poignant and beautiful portrait of a man with Alzheimer’s as seen through the loving lens and words of his wife and care-partner, I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer’s puts a human face in front of the statistics, exploring the disease through Fox’s intimate photographs and poetic writing. While the details of I Still Do are personal and unique, this deeply candid story of illness, aging, partnership, and…MORE
A poignant and beautiful portrait of a man with Alzheimer’s as seen through the loving lens and words of his wife and care-partner, I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer’s puts a human face in front of the statistics, exploring the disease through Fox’s intimate photographs and poetic writing. While the details of I Still Do are personal and unique, this deeply candid story of illness, aging, partnership, and…MORE
November 18th at the Griffin Museum: Laurie Lambrecht exhibition opening/gallery talk
From the Griffin website:
From the Studio of Roy Lichtenstein Photographs by Laurie Lambrecht
November 18, 2010 – January 23, 2011.
Boston Globe mentioned the show here.
From the Studio of Roy Lichtenstein Photographs by Laurie Lambrecht
November 18, 2010 – January 23, 2011.
Opening reception is Nov 18, 2010, 7-8:30 p.m. All are welcome.
Members Gallery talk 6:15
See more of Laurie Lambrecht at Victoria Munroe Fineart, 161 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02116 from November 4, 2010 – December 4, 2010 www.victoriamunroefineart.com
Lambrecht’s beginnings in photography were at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Currently, she is involved in an extensive project documenting the works of theater director Robert Wilson, and a series she is producing in Zurich entitled “LAKE TREES,” which you can view on her website at www.laurielambrecht.com.
Learn more about the Lichtenstein studio years at Lens Culture.com
November 13, Richmond, Virginia: Sally Mann exhibition & opening events
From Aperture’s website:
Richmond, Virginia
Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit
Exhibition
Exhibition on view:
Saturday, November 13, 2010 –Sunday, January 23, 2011
Related Event:
Sally Mann: Conversations
Saturday, November 13, 2010
10 am–1 pm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Altria Group and Center Gallery
200 North Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia
(804) 340-1400
Sally Mann’s most recent work represents an intriguing new direction. She is tackling expansive themes of mortality and vulnerability, while for the first time using herself and her husband as subjects. In addition, she has taken her bold experiments with the medium to new heights, pushing photography to its limits by making painterly and nearly abstract images—many as unique pieces on glass plates. Altogether the exhibition and accompanying catalog will present an unexpected picture of Mann’s work, encouraging a fresh perspective on one of today’s preeminent photographers and, it is hoped, an opportunity to extend her visibility well beyond the realm of photography. The exhibition is organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by John B. Ravenal, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. (Excerpted from VFMA website.)
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, co-published by Aperture and VFMA, is a must for any serious library of photographic literature, students, scholars, collectors, and others interested in her work. John Ravenal has written a comprehensive introduction as well as individual entries on each series, and essays by David Levi Strauss (“Eros, Psyche, and the Mendacity of Photography”) and Anne Wilkes Tucker (“Living Memory”) add different, but equally illuminating perspectives to this work.
Sally Mann: Conversations: Join leading experts in the field of photography—Vince Aletti (The New Yorker); Melissa Harris (Aperture Magazine), Brian Wallis (International Center of Photography)—as well as Sally Mann herself, for an engaging discussion of the artist’s work and exhibition, Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit.
Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America’s most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Mann’s many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), and Proud Flesh (2009). She lives in Lexington, Virginia.
November 12th in SF: Jack Fulton lectures at SFAI, hosted by PhotoAlliance
One of my all time favorite artists (and people!) JACK FULTON is speaking on Friday at SFAI!
Friday, November 12, 2010
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, Ca (at Jones Street)
7:30 pm
November 11 & 18 and December 9: SFMoMA Curator Talks with the exhibition “EXPOSED”
In conjunction with SFMoMA’s exhibition “EXPOSED: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870” there will be two curator’s talks:
“Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA’s curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.
NOVEMBER 11th: LISA SUTCLIFF on Walker Evans’ “Subway Passengers, New York” series
NOVEMBER 18th: ERIN O’TOOLE on Weegee’s “Their First Murder”
DECEMBER 9th: LISA SUTCLIFF on Susan Meiselas’ “Lena on the Bally Box, Essex Junction, Vermont,” from the series Carnival Strippers
Meet in the Haas Atrium before moving into the galleries.
6:30 p.m. as part of the SFMoMA series One on One.
“Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, Exposed challenges us to consider how the camera has transformed the very nature of looking. Bringing together historical and contemporary photographs, films, and video works by both unknown photographers and internationally renowned artists, this provocative exhibition examines some of the camera’s most unsettling uses, including pornography, surveillance, stalking celebrity, and witnessing violence. Exposed poses compelling and urgent questions about who is looking at whom, and why.”
Marketing Photos with Mary Virginia Swanson 
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