MICHAEL BÜHLER-ROSE: Constructing The Exotic

Kumari, Alachua, FL. 2006
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The Conversation, Alachua, FL. 2006
Copyright (c) Michael Bühler-Rose /All Rights Reserved

Afternoon in Alachua, Alachua, FL. 2007
Copyright (c) Michael Bühler-Rose /All Rights Reserved

Michael Bühler-Rose, received a Fulbright Fellowship to India and obtained his BFA (2005) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. At present, he is a Graduate Alumni Fellow at the University of Florida (MFA, 2008), critic and Assistant Professor, Department of Photography, at the Rhode Island School of Design. He's an accomplished photographer who has been collected, exhibited, and published internationally. He received a Humble Arts Foundation Grant for Emerging Photographers to support this project.

October 2-November 24, 2009
Michael Bühler-Rose | Constructing the Exotic
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine

Michael Bühler-Rose Website
Whitewall Magazine: Construction of the Exotic

MOVING WALLS 16: OSI Exhibit

Zalmaï's The Human Cost of the War On Terror in Afghanistan

Chinafrica photographs of Paolo Woods in Moving Walls 16 exhibit

Chinafrica photographs of Paolo Woods

MOVING WALLS 16 includes the work of six photographers - Benjamin Lowy Iraq/Perspectives, Eugene Richards War Is Personal, Stefano De Luigi Liberia's Child Soldiers: Recovering Innocence, Tomas van Houtryve Nepal: A "People's War" Topples the God King, Paolo Woods Chinafrica and Zalmaï Promises and Lies:The Human Cost of the War On Terror in Afghanistan - who cover a range of social justice and human rights issues of significance to the Open Society Institute. These photographs were selected by a 16 person committee that included Susan Meiselas and Stuart Alexander as curator's of the exhibition. September 30, 2009-May 21, 2010. Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th St, NYC. This exhibition will travel to Washington, D.C. in the future. On-line Exhibition.

PELLE CASS: Selected People

Frog Pond, Boston Common
Copyright (c) Pelle Cass /All Rights Reserved

Celeste's Friends
Copyright (c) Pelle Cass /All Rights Reserved

Football, Cypress Field, Brookline, MA
Copyright (c) Pelle Cass /All Rights Reserved

Each of the pictures in the series Selected People is a composite of around a hundred or more exposures of unposed people taken over periods that range from five minutes to several days. With the camera on a tripod, I take dozens of pictures. Back in the studio with Photoshop, I leave in exactly the figures I choose, always in the precise position of the original scene. I organize the figures in my scenes by the color of their clothing, by mood, age, attractiveness, gesture, position, race, or even just by oddness. The result is both the product of imagination and a document of fact.

Pelle Cass was awarded a Yaddo residency for 2010 to work on his Selected People Project. Cass was named a 2009 Critical Mass Top 50 photographer by Photolucida, Portland, OR. Pelle Cass Website

TOD PAPAGEORGE: Digital In Rome

Largo Carlo Goldoni

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At The Trevi Fountain
Copyright (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

In The Pantheon
Copyright (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Tod Papageorge and friend
Photograph: Deborah Flomenhaft

Tod Papageorge is the Walker Evans Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art. This summer he spent six weeks in Rome as the American Academy in Rome Photographer in Residence using a digital camera, a Leica M8.2, for the first time. The American Academy of Rome's website has posted a recent Interview with Tod Papageorge by AAR Mellon Professor Corey Brennan. Read the entire Interview here. More Rome Project Photographs here

More Tod Papageorge links and video clips

SIMON ROBERTS: We English

South Downs Way, West Sussex, 8th October 2007
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Holkham National Nature Reserve, Norfolk, 18th February 2008
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Camel Estuary, Padstow, Cornwall, 27th September 2007
Copyright (c) Simon Roberts /All Rights Reserved

September 10-October 24, 2009
WE ENGLISH: SIMON ROBERTS
KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Roberts first monograph * Motherland
(* view Roberts impressive photographs of contemporary Russia)

JIM DENEVAN: Sand Man

Sand Drawing by Jim Denevan

Sand Drawing by Jim Denevan

Jim Denevan Drawing in Sand

JIM DENEVAN makes freehand drawings in sand. At low tide on wide beaches Jim searches the shore for a wave tossed stick. After finding a good stick and composing himself in the near and far environment Jim draws-laboring up to 7 hours and walking as many as 30 miles. The resulting sand drawing is made entirely freehand with no measuring aids whatsoever. (from Jim. thanks madamelamb)

Jim Denevan Art

NICK BRANDT: A Shadow Falls

Elephant Drinking, Amboseli, 2007
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Rhinos in Lake, Nakuru, 2007
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Portrait of Two Zebras Turning Heads, Ngorongoro Crater, 2005
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

Ostrich Egg Abandoned, Amboseli, 2007
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

September 25-November 28, 2009

Nick Brandt: A Shadow Falls
Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe

Brandt's New Book A Shadow Falls Published by Abrams

ALESSANDRA MENICONZI: Sacred Stones

EASTERN TIBET - SICHUAN PROVINCE (click enlarge)
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

CHINA - INNER MONGOLIA - GOBI DESERT
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

INDIAN HIMALAYA - ZANSKAR VALLEY
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

EASTERN TIBET - SICHUAN PROVINCE
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

EASTERN TIBET - SICHUAN PROVINCE
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

CHINA - GUIZHOU PROVINGE - HMONG MINORITY
(The Long-horn Miao-a small branch living near Zhijin County)
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

"I prefer remote and rugged places, mountainous terrain and desert. I love to find people who can manage to survive in these places, to discover and record their ancient way of life before they are changed by the modern era."

ALESSANDRA MENICONZI is an adventurous Swiss photographer shooting in remote regions of the world. A trip to India at 21 sparked over a decade of exploration of cultures on the ancient trade routes. Her books include Hidden China, Mystic Iceland, The Silk Road, and she is currently working on books about the Tibet, Himalaya, and the Arctic.

Alessandra Meniconzi Gallery
Arctic Trek Greenland I Greenland II Greenland III
Mani Stone Inscriptions
The Long-horned Miao Headress
Canon Interview

SAUL LEITER: Photographs + Paintings

Saul Leiter Early Color
Steidl | Howard Greenberg Gallery

(left) Window, 1957. (right) Snow, 1960

Photographs © Saul Leiter | Howard Greenberg Gallery

Saul Leiter Paintings at Knoedler Project Space
Paintings gouache, casein and watercolor on paper

Taxi, 1957
Photograph © Saul Leiter | Howard Greenberg Gallery

Saul Leiter and Jean Pagliuso, 2009
Photograph © Elizabeth Paul Avedon

Magazine editor (l) Gay Morris Empson; Designer Susan Forristal; Saul Leiter 'Painting' Exhibition Curator, Carrie Springer (background sleeveless black dress); and photographer (r) Jean Pagliuso, at Saul Leiters opening

Paintings by New York School photographer Saul Leiter, an exhibition curated by Carrie Springer, opened at the Knoedler Project Space last night. Saul Leiter is best known for his early 1950's and 1960's color photographs. "Saul Leiter was a painter and only became a photographer when color photography could encompass the distinct color palette he wanted to include in his images. Since the 1940s, this inveterate walker has trawled the streets of New York, capturing its colors and spirit. His liking for disarray, solitude and elusiveness make him a unique artist, quite unconcerned about joining the throng." Steidl Books.

Sept 17-Nov 7
Saul Leiter: Paintings
*Knoedler Project Space

Saul Leiter Photographs | Howard Greenberg Gallery
Saul Leiter Books

*Update: The Knoedler Gallery closed November 2011

HIROSHI WATANABE: Kabuki Players

  Marina Ema & Kazusa Ito, Matsuo KabukiPhotograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

Chikako Suga, Matsuo KabukiPhotograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

 Maiko Takaku, Matsuo Kabuki
Photograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

Rikuto Tada, Matsuo Kabuki
Photograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

Update: 2015

HIROSHI WATANABE  

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photo-eye Gallery
Santa Fe

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HIROSHI WATANABE
September 11 - October 31, 2009
CATHERINE EDELMAN GALLERY, CHICAGO
Hiroshi Watanabe Books + Hiroshi Watanabe Website

JASON FLORIO: Makasutu Mecca In The Forest

Makasutu, Gambia (c) Jason Florio/All rights reserved

Makasutu, Gambia (c) Jason Florio/All rights reserved

Makasutu, Gambia (c) Jason Florio/All rights reserved

I have been arrested by the Taliban...ridden into far-flung Afghan valleys in search of nomads with mujahideen as my security, dressed as a woman to cross a border, was at the foot of the Twin Towers as they collapsed, enjoyed the 'comforts' of a Cuban hospital, hunted bats in Surinam, chatted with Somali pirates over Coke and biscuits and danced like a fiend in Beirut nightclubs...among other things.

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JASON FLORIO was born in London and relocated to the USA in 1987. He moved to NYC to pursue photography after seeing Richard Avedon's In The American West exhibition. Jason's Makasutu: Mecca In The Forest Project

Jason Florio Website

DOUGLAS STOCKDALE: Insomnia

Insomnia Shanghai Heights (c) 2009 Douglas Stockdale/All rights reserved

Photograph (c) 2009 Douglas Stockdale/All rights reserved

Photograph (c) 2009 Douglas Stockdale/All rights reserved

An exploration of the feelings of detachment, disassociation, and loneliness that can occur when one leaves their family and home due to the need to travel alone. These feelings can be intensified when the travel also includes multiple time zones, different cultures and customs, changes in food and diet and other physical or emotional differences.

Insomnia: Hotel Noir Web Journal

The Photo Book Web Journal
Douglas Stockdale Website

KEVIN BUBRISKI: Pilgrimage

Tamang Girlfriends, Yarsa Village, Nuwakot, Nepal, 1984
(c) Kevin Bubriski/All rights reserved

Tamang Women, Gatlang Village, Rasuwa, Nepal, 1984
(c) Kevin Bubriski/All rights reserved

Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero
Photographs by Kevin Bubriski / Powerhouse Books

KEVIN BUBRISKI, an American documentary photographer, is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council. Bubriski's work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Bubriski spent nine years living and photographing in Nepal while also photographing in nearby India, Tibet and Bangladesh. This work can be seen in his books, Portrait of Nepal and Power Places of Kathmandu.

Bubriski's book, Pilgrimage: Looking At Ground Zero, images shot following 9/11 in the streets surrounding Ground Zero in NYC, was recently reviewed in The Photo Book by Douglas Stockdale here. "In these photos, the World Trade Center is nowhere in evidence, except in the stunned expressions on the faces of the people now confronting the sight of its obliteration."
Power House Books
Kevin Bubriski Website
Fine Art Photography Masters: Bubriski Portfolio

RICHARD RENALDI: Figures and Ground

Curtis, 2007 (c) Richard Renaldi/All rights reserved

Jared and Glen, 2007 (c) Richard Renaldi/All rights reserved

Irina and Children, 2008 (c) Richard Renaldi/All rights reserved

RICHARD RENALDI graduated from New York University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. He is now one of the most renowned young portrait photographers working today. His first book, Figure and Ground, was published by Aperture. "Renaldi’s work melds two classic photographic genres—portrait and straight landscape—into a single descriptive frame that speaks as much to a sense of the indi­viduals before the lens as it does to the spaces they inhabit. The omnivorous film-plane of Renaldi’s 8-by-10 camera embraces not only the individuals directly in front of it, but the environment that encompasses them as well. If there is truly a center to the American social landscape, it can be found here, in Renaldi’s precisely rendered portraits." (Aperture Foundation)
Richard Renaldi Books and Website