NY BOOK FAIR: MOMA PS1 This Weekend!

  Self Publish, Be Happy 

Book Club 1, 2012

Self Publish, Be Happy 

2nd floor, Q42

 

Self Publish, Be Happy, Q42

Antonio de Luca (left), Art Director, and Bruno Ceschel (right), Director of Self Publish, Be Happy. Check out their selection of remarkable, rare contemporary books at the NY Book Fair, 2nd floor, Q42!

Bruno Ceschel, "Self Publish, Be Happy" Founder/Director, talks to photography students from my School of Visual Arts "Professional Community" class.

"Self Publish, Be Happy is an organization founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010 with the aim of celebrating, studying and promoting self-published photo books through events (such as exhibitions, displays and talks), publications and online exposure. Self Publish, Be Happy also organizes workshops that help artists and photographers make and publish their own books." selfpublishbehappy.com

A-Jump Books,  R15

"A-Jump Books is a small publishing house dedicated to producing photo-based books that challenge convention through understatement and artistic rigor. a-jumpbooks.com/Home.html

 Little Big Man Books, R04

Limited edition (100) silk-screened box, hand numbered and signed by the artist. Contains additional 11×14 traditional c-print, and loose silkscreen cover image.

 Photography Critic Vince Aletti at the NY Book Fair

There are literally hundreds of incredible book publishers to check out at the New York Book Fair this weekend at MOMA's PS1 in Long Island City. Easy to get to on the M, G, 7 trains. 

New York Art Book Fair

September 28-30

iPhone snaps © Elizabeth Paul Avedon/all rights reserved.

JULIE BLACKMON: New Work at Fahey/Klein

Queen, 2010
Photograph © Julie Blackmon

Night Movie, 2011
Photograph © Julie Blackmon

New work from photographer Julie Blackmon’s ongoing series “Domestic Vacations” depicts imagined, as well as autobiographical, narratives inspired by the hectic and multifaceted domestic life of her own family. “As an artist and as a mother,” Blackmon states “I believe life’s most poignant moments come from the ability to fuse fantasy and reality: to see the mythic amidst the chaos.”

"The painterly influences of Julie Blackmon’s work are further emphasized by the large scale of the works being exhibited including four Archival Pigment Print photographs each measuring over 4 ½ feet tall and six feet wide. Blackmon states, "The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, helped inspire this body of work. As Steen’s personal narratives of family life depicted nearly 400 years ago, the conflation of art and life is an area I have explored in photographing the everyday life of my family and the lives of my sisters and their families at home. These images are both fictional and auto-biographical, and reflect not only our lives today and as children growing up in a large family, but also move beyond the documentary to explore the fantastic elements of our everyday lives, both imagined and real.”'

Julie Blackmon: New Work

Fahey/Klein Gallery / March 8 – April 21
Also Showing Vee Speers

BLURB POP-UP STORE: NYC Events

Blurb's New Pop-Up Store in Soho, NYC!

Yikes! I'm giving a Workshop with Photographer Brad Bunyea

Blurb's New Pop-Up Store in Soho!
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October 21 to October 31st
60 Mercer St. (between Broome and Grand), SoHo

Great Workshops, Speaker Sessions, and Events

Aaron Kenedl, Editor-in-Chief for Print Magazine; Jen Bekman, founder of Jen Bekman Gallery, 20x200, and Hey, Hot Shot!; editor Alan Rapp; Mommy Poppins Blogger Ana Fader; Fashion Photographer Michael Creagh; Marcy Ray from WireMedia Communications and Ferentz Lafargue from the virtual-placemaking organization Nostrand Park; Liz Danzico from School of Visual Arts; myself and Photographer Brad Bunyea; Blurb advisor Dan Milnor; Portfolio Workshops; and Etsy creatives! RSVP to these events!

NEW BOOK: The Pictorial Consequence

Self Portrait (c) Caio Fernandes /All Rights Reserved

An Existence (Almost) Missed
Copyright (c) Caio Fernandes /All Rights Reserved

Brazilian artist, Caio Fernandes, is sometimes described as a Realist painter, "though the sheer intensity of his work sets him apart from most contemporary Realist painters. With a highly individualistic style of painting, Caio reveals the raw physical characteristics and inner tensions of his subjects."

Fernandes published his work on Blurb only a month ago, and already collector's from all over the world have purchased his book, The Pictorial Consequence: 1999 to 2010. Follow Caio's exceptional world on his blog, Mein Welt. More About Caio Here.

THE PICTORIAL CONSEQUENCE: 1999 to 2010