RICHARD BRAM • LEICA STORE NY SOHO EXHIBITION • PEANUT PRESS BOOK SIGNING

DAVID BRAM EXHIBITION

THE LEICA STORE, Soho NY

Opening Reception and

Peanut Press Books Book Signing

April 6, 2017 6-8PM

ANDERSON + LOW: James Bond's SPECTRE

Photograph (c) Anderson + Low

Book Signing "On the Set of James Bond's SPECTRE"

ParisPhoto November 12, 3pm

Anderson + Low
"On the Set of James Bond's SPECTRE"
Book Signing: 12, November, 2016, 3pm
Hatje Cantze stand F4

Paris Photo, Grand Palais

This project is based on the brilliant artifice of the spectacular sets from the latest James Bond movie, SPECTRE. Shooting entirely at Pinewood Studios, UK, we highlight a head-on collision of fantasy and reality by photographing the sets’ massive scale and extraordinary detail. Allowing the bare soundstage to intrude on the images would normally shatter the illusion of the sets. In this case, however, it has the reverse effect and enhances the sense of illusion, artifice and wonder.

Five prints from this project were released to coincide with the film premiere (November 2015) at Phillips, London. The rest of the project was exhibited at CWC Gallery, Berlin in June 2016 to coincide with this book's publication by Hatje Cantz.

TOM P. ASHE: Color Management + Quality Output from Camera to Display to Print

"Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print" 

Color Management + Quality Output (Focal Press)

"Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print"

Photographers - Put this on your book list now!

"We have all felt the frustration of wasting time, paper, and effort when our prints or web images don’t match the images we see on our monitors. Fortunately, you’re holding the resource that will help solve these problems. This book guides you through the hardware settings and software steps you’ll need to post professional images and make stunning prints that showcase your artistic vision. In Color Management & Quality Output, Tom P. Ashe, a color expert and gifted teacher, shows you how to color manage your files from input all the way through output, by clearly explaining how color works in our minds, on our monitors and computers, and through our printers."

Tom’s background as a photographer, fine art digital print-maker, and product development specialist for Eastman Kodak, Monaco Systems, and Polaroid, gives him a unique understanding of the aesthetic and technical issues in digital photography today.

This book is part of The Digital Imaging Masters Series, which features cutting-edge information from the most sought-after and qualified professionals and instructors in the photography field. Based on the progressive curriculum of the Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography created by Katrin Eismann at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, these books are the next best thing to being in the classroom with the Digital Photography Masters themselves.

Book Signing with Tom Ashe

"Color Management & Quality Output" 

February 27, 2014  5:30-7:30

Calumet, 22 West 22, NYC

Tom P. Ashe, the Associate Chair of the Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, is an internationally recognized educator and consultant in digital photography and color management. He received his Bachelor of Science in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, and his Masters of Applied Science in Photography from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
 
Series Editor, Katrin Eismann, is the Chair of the Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Known as the Photoshop Diva, Katrin is an internationally respected artist, teacher, and author. She specializes in creative digital photography and the impact of emerging technologies upon professional photographers, artists, and educators.

Also at Calument

Photography Exhibition: "Natural Selection"

Sponsors SVA NYC + Calumet

Text courtesy Focal Press

VIVIAN MAIER | SELF PORTRAITS: Exhibition and Book Signing at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait, September 10, 1955–Anaheim, California

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait Exhibition
 

"An exhibition of self-portraits by recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier made from 1950 – 1976 will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from November 8 – January 4, 2014. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the book Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits (powerHouse Books, Nov. 2013) that surveys Maier’s self-portraits, many of which are being shown and published for the first time. Opening reception will be Thursday, November 7, from 6-8 p.m"

"The story of Vivian Maier has practically become a photography legend:  Born in New York City in 1926, she spent much of her youth in France. Returning to the U.S. in 1951, she worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York for 40 years. Reclusive and eccentric, she took pictures all the time, yet never showed them to anyone. From the 1950s to the 1990s, with a Rolleiflex dangling from her neck, she made over 100,000 images, primarily of people and cityscapes."

"Maier’s massive body of work, which could have been destined for obscurity, was housed in a storage locker in Chicago for many years. Unbeknownst to her caretakers (three of the grown children she had looked after), the contents of her storage locker had been dispersed due to non-payment. Her negatives were discovered by Chicago-based realtor and historian John Maloof at an auction house in Chicago in 2007. Maloof pieced together the identity of the mysterious photographer, but Vivian Maier died in 2009, before Maloof was able to speak with her. In the years that followed, Maloof has brought her work to the attention of the art world and the general public; and since 2010, nearly 20 exhibitions of photographs by Vivian Maier have been mounted in the U.S. and Europe. Numerous critics have written that her work will be remembered as some of the best 20^th-century street photography." – Text courtesy of the Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait at Howard Greenberg Gallery is the first exhibition to explore the photographer’s numerous self-portraits and the first U.S. gallery exhibition of her color work.

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait 

Exhibition: Nov 7 – January 4, 2014

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY

 powerHouse Books, November 2013

Photographs by Vivian Maier

Edited by John Maloof, Essay by Elizabeth Avedon

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY

ELLEN WALLENSTEIN: Respecting My Elders

 Editta Sherman, b. 1912, Photographer
Photograph © Ellen Wallenstein

Rosalind Solomon, b. 1930, Photographer
Photograph © Ellen Wallenstein

 David Vestal, b. 1924, Photographer
Photograph © Ellen Wallenstein

Rebecca Lepkoff, b. 1916, Photographer
Photograph © Ellen Wallenstein  

Milton Glaser, b. 1929, Graphic Designer
Photograph © Ellen Wallenstein 

Buy RESPECTING MY ELDERS here
Photographs by Ellen Wallenstein

Elizabeth Avedon: What inspired you to begin this project?

Ellen Wallenstein: When my Dad died in 1996, he was 79. I couldn’t be there for him at the end of his life, and that led me to think about being a comfort to others at that time. So in 2001, I trained to become a hospice volunteer. I was assigned to Anne, who was in her mid-eighties; I was turning fifty, which is a big turning point in one’s life.

Anne was a very interesting and incredible person, smart and funny, wise and beautiful. She had lived a very interesting (if ultimately tragic) life and I was very moved by her. I made photographs in her apartment and of her and her cat over a period of time. Those photographs (“Opus for Anne”) earned me a NYFA Fellowship and literally changed my life as an artist.

After she died I decided to photograph other people of her generation (my parents’ generation) who had inspired me, intellectually and artistically. I began to write letters and asked my friends and colleagues for suggestions and introductions.

EA: Did you always envision it as a book?

EW: I’m always interested in editing and making workbooks – from the start I pasted little photos in a notebook, and then eventually made an expanding accordion that I carried with me to the shootings. People are more comfortable if they’ve seen some of your other photos, so they get a sense of what you are doing. Showing them the book was part of introducing myself to them.

So I guess in the back of my head there was always the idea to publish it someday. I make a lot of one-of-a-kind books, I teach book-making, and so the book form is a natural way to envision my work. Also, that kind of goal can keep you on track.

But I had no idea that it would end up being this book, with its really beautiful design by Renee Rockoff and the use of quotes and footnotes. That developed after I raised the money for it and began to work with Renee. The book took a very long time: we both like to get things right. Ultimately it was really good for the book, but it took a year longer than I had promised my supporters.

I have a wish list of 80-100 more people I want to photograph, but I had to stop at a certain point to work on the first volume. I’ve sort of lost my momentum, not to mention my nerve, but I promised myself I’d continue with this. I have a sabbatical coming up next spring so I’ll have some extra time to get back to the job of outreach, and shooting, and finding a commercial publisher.

EA: Who was the first portrait you took for this series?

EW: Aside from my mother and her friends, Rebecca Lepkoff was the first person I photographed. I met her at an opening at City College, a show of photographers from the Upper Upper West Side (which is where I grew up, coincidentally.) Rebecca was part of this group - I introduced myself to her and asked if I could make a portrait and she said of course. I visited her in the fall of 2008. I’ve run into her from time to time; she’s still out there on the streets photographing in her 90s!

EA: Who is the oldest person you've photographed?

EW: EvaZeisel was 102 (she lived to be 104). She was still working everyday, but was very frail and quite deaf so it was hard to communicate with her. Bel Kaufman was 100, and Ruth Gruber turned 100 the week after I photographed her. Bel and Ruth are friends; I was introduced to one through the other. They are both still around.

EA: Which personalities stand out for you?

EW: There was a big Intimidation Factor for me with some people. Milton Glaser and JudithMalina were the most intimidating, personality-wise.

I was aware that Mr. Glaser is a busy man and that he didn’t have much time for me. But he was gracious. I photographed him in his conference room for about 10 minutes, until he said, “Okay, you got it. I have to go back to work”. Which he did. And, I think I did “get it”- I really like the photo of him- with his profile opposite the one in his Piero Della Francesca piece behind him. I think he looks quite elegant and handsome.

Ms. Malina wanted to know why she had to hold an object; she didn’t think it worked- her cherished object was the peace sign necklace she’d been wearing since 1969.

One of the kindest was A.R. (Pete) Gurney, who was really enthusiastic about my project and gave me many introductions (and a pair of theater tickets). Also Bel Kaufman who was so welcoming. And Irwin Corey, because of his personality and his history - he was 99 - going out every day to entertain and panhandle change from motorists at the midtown tunnel, to send to a charity in Cuba – ever the activist and fighter for human rights. And of course my cover girl, Editta Sherman.

EA: Please tell me about Editta Sherman! How did you meet?

EW: Editta Sherman was 97 when I photographed her. She had photographed all the screen stars in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Now she’s 101 and quite the well-known character, especially because of Philip Gefter and Richard Press’s film “Bill Cunningham New York” and Josef Astor’s “Lost Bohemia”. My friend Kati Meister suggested her to me.

I visited Editta this past summer, just before her birthday. She was thrilled with my book and excited and proud to be on the cover and invited me to her new home. She no longer lives at Carnegie Hall, which is a sad part of history, but she has a lovely apartment on Central Park South overlooking the park, not a bad place to end up in one’s life. She’s working on a book of her photographs, which she hopes to publish soon; she talked quite a bit about that.

EA: Do you keep in touch with any of your subjects?

EW: JeanyeeWong, a wonderful calligrapher became a good friend. (She designed the word Seventeen for the magazine cover, the Heinz ketchup label, and thousands of book covers). I used to visit her at her fifth-floor walk-up (!) near Gramercy Park, but recently she moved to an assisted living facility uptown, where I go to visit sometimes. She’s 92 now and quite frail; she couldn’t make it up all those steps anymore. 

Bel Kaufman wrote me a lovely thank you note for sending her the book which she signed “Your new old - very old - Friend”. And I’ve been in touch with Pete Gurney and Edward Albee, sending them updates on my work and hearing back from them.

EA: How did you raise funds? What can you say about that process?

EW: I raised funds for this book through United States Artist.org, which is a “micro-philanthropy” that helps artists and artists’ projects. You have to be a vetted artist to post a project, which put me in some good company. And the donations are tax-deductible.

My original idea was to make a book and create a website for the project, but that was a bit of an overreach! There were some expenses I hadn’t counted on, like an ISBN number and postage costs, etc. But, I made something I really like that was distributed to all my supporters and is available online for a reasonable price.

98% of my supporters were my own friends and contacts. It helps to be older: my circles are actually very wide (and overlapping) at this point. Raising funds, asking for money, is an arduous task. Most artists aren’t cut out for it. I personally found the process excruciating. However, I did it and I’m proud and grateful to have met my goal, thanks to my friends. I’m thrilled to have my book out there in the world.

EA: Is there anything interviewers have missed that you would like to say about your work, your book, about anything?
 
1. Always follow your ideas, your instincts, and your dreams. 
2. Do the work, do the work, do the work.

EllenWallenstein.com

LECTURE + BOOK SIGNING

The National Arts Club

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 6-8 P.M.
16 Gramercy Park South, NYC

 

Buy on MagCloud:  Respecting My Elder's 

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota opens in New York at Ricco/Maresca

 Ghost Mountain

Photograph © Rebecca Norris Webb

 High Winds

Photograph © Rebecca Norris Webb

The Sky Below

Photograph © Rebecca Norris Webb

“Looking back at My Dakota, I now realize that I was photographing this dark time in my life in order to try to absorb it, to crystallize it, and, ultimately, to let go of it. Not only did my first grief change me, but making My Dakota changed me as well, both as a human being and as an artist.” –Rebecca Norris Webb

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Rebecca Norris Webb's exhibition, My Dakota at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery, brings together works from Webb’s acclaimed book recounting the sudden loss of her brother through idyllic landscape portraits of her home state of South Dakota. My Dakota serves as a lyrical elegy, depicting the hypnagogic process of grieving and visually chronicling the fragility of life and the inexplicable changes that occur while mourning.
 

Webb moved to South Dakota at the age of 15. The artist originally found expression as a poet, before exploring photography after college. For Webb, language could not fully capture the totality of the world around her, nor satisfy her innate curiosity for visual exploration. The artist’s latest book, My Dakota, blends poetry with photographs of her home state as a multi-layered portrait that marries aesthetic representation with lyrical record. The heart of the book lies in the enigmatic photographs where the artist is seemingly searching for significance behind continuation and meaning beyond an emotional chasm. Reflections and windows play a significant role in the series as a way of capturing memory within the present while exuding a sense of abandonment and disconnect from life’s fleeting moments. Rooted in sentient exploration, each work is open to interpretation – giving the viewer an outlet to draw their personal recollections and emotive conclusions. (Courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery)

Rebecca Norris Webb: My Dakota

June 20 - August 17, 2013

RICCO/MARESCA GALLERY, NY

Lecture and Book Signing: Aperture Foundation, June 21, 7:00-8:30 pm. With Alex Webb and Q+A led by Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, the Museum of the City of New York, and Denise Wolff, Aperture Senior Editor. Artist Talk/GalleryWalkThru: Ricco/Maresca Gallery, June 22, 5-6 pm. My Dakota is running concurrently at the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, June 4 - August 6.

JOHN SCHABEL: Passengers ICP BookSigning postponed due to Blizzard rescheduled for Friday, Feb 22nd, 6–7:30pm

  Untitled [Passenger] 1994-1996 © John Schabel

Untitled [Passenger] 1994-1996 © John Schabel

Le Journal de la Photographie: Interview

I said: "I have the feeling you wouldn’t want to give the literal details of where you took these photographs. I’m not even sure I want to know."

He said: "The thing about them is they are so ‘no place’. The idea of being in a plane is so much about being between places and that’s part of that state of mind I wanted to try and photograph. It’s so much about the in-between time and a mixture of feelings and emotions; I thought maybe I could make portraits of people in that state of mind you get into when you fly."

John Schabel "Passengers"
(Twin Palms Publishers, 2013)

ICP Book Signing

Friday, February 22, 6:00pm–7:30pm

International Center for Photography

1133 Avenue of the Americas

GALLERY STOPS: New York and Atlanta

Schoolchildren
Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar | Tall Poppy Syndrome

"In 2010, American photographers Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar embarked on a month-long road trip throughout New South Wales—Australia’s most populous state. They were interested in investigating “Tall Poppy Syndrome.” Is the syndrome even real? Can it be documented or observed? Stein and Mehrfar set out to explore quintessential Australian life and find what evidence they could of the existence of this phenomenon."– From the photo editors at Time Magazine

January 10 – February 16  

CLAMPART 

 Untitled (Boy with Ball)
Evžen Sobek | Life in Blue

Czech photographer Evžen Sobek has been documenting life on the banks of the Nové Mlýny reservoirs in the southern region of the Czech Republic since 2007.

January 10 – February 16  

CLAMPART

 Magdalena Sole | Mississippi Delta

"Award winning photographer Magdalena Sole spent a year interviewing and photographing hundreds of residents in the Mississippi Delta, called "the most southern place on earth."

January 11 - February 23

LEICA Gallery, NY

 

 Starlings (2009) by Randi Lynn Beach
SOAR: Group Exhibition

SOAR featuring the photographs of Randi Lynn Beach, Tom Chambers, Jason Houston, Kat Kiernan, Clay Lipsky, Kerry Mansfield, Michael J. Marshall, Dorothy O’Connor, Emma Powell, Kathleen Robbins, Heather Evans Smith, Gordon Stettinius, Marisol Villanueva and Rebecca Norris Webb

February 2, 2013
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta

 John Schabel | Passengers

Twin Palms Publishers, 2013

"John Schabel's series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel."

 

International Center of Photography

Book Signing: John Schabel's Passengers
Friday, February 8, 6:00pm–7:30pm

 Brown River, 2011. Paper Collage
Casey Ruble Disarmed

"These intimate collages of interior and exterior worlds introduce to us a scene where the description of the main event is absent, but filled in by the supporting details or evidence, suggesting a deeper, often unsettling narrative."

January 16 - February 24

 FOLEY Gallery, NY

MONA KUHN: PARIS PHOTO 2011 Book Signing + La Lettre Interview

Mona Kuhn's Bordeaux Series (Steidl, 2011)

INTERVIEW here

PARIS PHOTO: Mona Kuhn signs her newly released monograph, Bordeaux Series, Nov 12 Steidl, Booth D34 from 16:00 to 18:00 and Flowers Gallery, Booth D54.

Read the entire Interview here:
La Lettre de la Photographie 11.11.11

Mona Kuhn, born in São Paulo, Brazil of German descent, now living in Los Angeles, spends her summers in the beautiful countryside near Bordeaux, France. In a house nestled in the pine forest, lit only by oil lamps and candles, she’s been photographing friends, family and friends of friends, nude in a small room for the past three years to create her latest work, Bordeaux Series.

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I spoke with Mona about her new series and her experience working with preeminent photography publisher, Gerhard Steidl:

"With this idea of keeping the palette very classic, black and white and red, I thought the portraits also needed to be kept very simple. Traditional portraiture was a little scary to do because suddenly I’m competing with all the portraiture done before."

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"I was a little worried because I had a lot of prints of nudes to show him and we were in the lobby of this hotel. I was thinking this is not going to work so well. In the past I have always shown him the work in a sequence, instead of showing in a box that you flip, flip, flip. I like sequencing it on a long table so you can look at each image and you can see how they communicate with each other. I talked to someone at the hotel to see if they had a conference room with a table we could just use for ten minutes. They didn’t!"

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"The thing with Gerhard that is so insane, is that I dream of a book and that book is 100% of what I was dreaming. Then when I go to Steidlville in Germany and I show him what I’m thinking about, he always adds another 50% that I could not have seen before, envisioned or dreamed, which is really incredible."read my entire Interview with Mona Kuhn here:

La Lettre de la Photographie 11.11.11.

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PAOLO VENTURA: Automaton of Venice

The Automaton #2 , 2010

Courtesy of Paolo Ventura / Hasted Kraeutler

The Automaton #1 , 2010

"The fictional story centers around an elderly, Jewish watchmaker..."

Courtesy of Paolo Ventura / Hasted Kraeutler

The Automaton #7 , 2010
Courtesy of Paolo Ventura / Hasted Kraeutler

The Automaton #15 , 2010
Courtesy of Paolo Ventura / Hasted Kraeutler

The Automaton #16 , 2010

Courtesy of Paolo Ventura / Hasted Kraeutler

PAOLO VENTURA
THE AUTOMATON OF VENICE
HASTED KRAEUTLER GALLERY
September 8 - October 15, 2011

"The Automaton of Venice is a photographic narrative from beginning to end. It was created based on a story Photographer Paolo Ventura was told as a child. The fictional story centers around an elderly, Jewish watchmaker living in the ghetto of Venice in 1943, one of the darkest periods of the occupation of the Nazis and the rule of the fascist regime in Italy. The city where the watchmaker has lived his entire life, now desolate and fearful, is the stage where this story unfolds. The old man decides to build an automaton (an anthropomorphic robot), to keep him company while he awaits the arrival of the fascist police who will deport the last of the remaining Jews in the ghetto."

"Ventura’s creative process for The Automaton of Venice was first to write the story as he wanted to tell it through the photographs, then build elaborate models in his studio out of sets and miniature figurines. The final works are the photographs of the scenes created within the models. "

"Paolo Ventura’s work is currently on display in the Italian national pavilion at the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale and in the exhibition Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities at the Museum of Art and Design. His works have been acquired by prominent public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and the Martin Margulies Collection in Miami, Florida. Two monographs of Paolo Ventura’s work have been published: War Souvenir (Contrasto, 2006) and Winter Stories (Aperture and Contrasto, 2009). He is also included in the new publication Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography (Aperture/ Library of Congress, 2011)." – Hasted/Kraeutler

HASTED KRAEUTLER GALLERY
537 West 24th St NYC
September 8 - October 15, 2011

JIM NAUGHTEN: Re-Enactors

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Nov 4 - Dec 18
Re-Enactors at KLOMPCHING

"London-based photographer Jim Naughten donned flack jacket and camouflage gear to enter the ranks of the world of war re-enactors: simulated battle and bully beef events attended by 20,000-odd UK individuals for whom tin soldiers were never quite enough. “I’d been looking for a large photographic project for a while” he explains. “When I came across the re-enactors I felt utterly compelled to capture them. I saw it as an opportunity to create my version of Avedon’s ‘In the American West’, a book I had loved since college”. Naughten admits to being fascinated as a child by the stories told by his desert rat grandfather and Spitfire pilot uncle; “I built model aircraft, tanks, soldiers and dioramas”. Once embedded with the re-enactors, he felt “an extraordinary sense of recognition…really seeing all my childhood toys full-sized for the first time”... read more here"

BOOK SIGNING:
Sat. Nov 6, 3:00pm—4:00pm

Dumbo, 111 Front Street, Suite 206, Brooklyn
F (York Street) A, C (Brooklyn Bridge / High Street) 2, 3 (Clark Street)

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY: Mitch Dobrowner, Edward Ranney and Chris McCaw Photographs

MITCH DOBROWNER

Clouds, 2010
Photograph (c) Mitch Dobrowner/All Rights Reserved

Shiprock triptych, 2008
Photograph (c) Mitch Dobrowner/All Rights Reserved

"I get into a ‘zone’ where time and space seem hard for me to measure." Inspired by his love of storms, LA based photographer Mitch Dobrowner set out to track and photograph these breathtakingly beautiful natural phenomena, driving over 5700 miles across ten mid-western states.

EDWARD RANNEY

San Cristobal Pueblo, Galisteo Basin, 2007

Photograph (c) Edward Ranney/All Rights Reserved

El Creston
Photograph (c) Edward Ranney/All Rights Reserved

Landscape photographer Edward Ranney's photographs from his newest monograph Down Country of the historically rich Galisteo Basin will be on exhibit. Down Country is the history of five centuries of the Southern Tewa Pueblo Indian culture that rose, faltered, reasserted itself, and ultimately perished in the Galisteo Basin. Down Country Book Signing July 16th 5-7

CHRIS McCAW

Sunburned GSP#281 (Pacific Ocean), 2008
Photograph (c) Chris McCaw/All Rights Reserved

Sunburned GSP#279 (Pacific Ocean/movement), 2008
Photograph (c) Chris McCaw/All Rights Reserved

This project has got my mind working overtime and has rejuvenated my faith in analog photography. My favorite part is watching smoke come out of the camera during the exposure!

San Francisco based photographer Chris McCaw began experimenting with burning film by means of long exposures and the sun. Through trial and error, he began using vintage fiber-based gelatin-silver black-and-white photographic paper, putting it in the film holder in place of film and creating a unique paper negative print. In long exposures the sun actually burns through the paper, creating this unique body of work.

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July 10-Sept 5, 2010

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY SUMMER EXHIBITION

photo-eye Gallery will be exhibiting a selection of photographs from Mitch Dobrowner, Edward Ranney and Chris McCaw

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photo-eye Bookstore Exhibition June 26-July 31
Knock On Wood: The Stances and Dances of Joel Lipovetsky
Photographs by Joel Lipovetsky (here)