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Photograph © Elizabeth Fleming / All rights reserved

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Angel in Blue, 2008 Edition of 20 $50
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crawfish (lacuna detail) Edition of 20 $40
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Picnic Table, Queenstown, New Zealand 2008 Edition of 20 $40

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ART CHICAGO 2010: Opening Night photo-eye Booth 263 May 1-3

The Merchandise Mart, Art Chicago 2010 12th floor

In 1930 the Merch Mart was built on the site of a former Native American trading post, Wolf Point, the main point of supplies for traders and trappers heading west. Designed to be a "city within a city", the Merch Mart was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 sq feet. It was owned for over 50 years by the Kennedy family until 1998. Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/All rights reserved

Art Chicago 2010 Opening Night photo-eye Gallery Space
Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

Art Chicago 2010 Opening Night
Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

photo-eye Associate Gallery Director Anne Kelly with Photographer Mitch Dobrowner. Jo Whaley photograph far left. Photograph©Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

Photographers Colleen Plumb and Kate Joyce
Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

photo-eye Director Rixon Reed (left) showing Nick Brandt's photograph Portrait of Lion, Serengeti. Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

Photograph Saccharine Perch, 2009 by Tom Chambers

Complimentary Tickets from photo-eye Gallery

Art Chicago 2010: photo-eye Gallery is exhibiting the work of the following artists; Jo Whaley, David Trautrimas, Carla Van de Puttelaar, Chris McCaw, Tom Chambers, Richard Barnes, Nick Brandt, Colleen Plumb, Ryan Zoghlin, Pentti Sammallahti and Ted Kuykendall in Booth 263. To download complimentary tickets for you and a guest Click Here and enter promo code GalleryGuest to receive your ticket. Art Chicago: May 1: 11am – 7pm, May 2: 11am - 6pm, May 3: 11am - 4pm. Installation Photos

photo-eye: Art Chicago Booth 263

Vicki Bohannon installing Carla Van de Puttelaar photographs
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Nick Brandt photographs at photo-eye's Booth 263
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Booth 263: Jo Whaley, David Trautrimas, Carla Van de Puttelaar, Chris McCaw, Tom Chambers, Richard Barnes, Nick Brandt and Ted Kuykendall

Pentti Sammallahti photographs outside (click to enlarge)
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Vicki installing Ryan Zoghlin photographs
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

photo-eye Associate Gallery Director, Anne Kelly, and Installation Goddess, Vicki Bohannon. Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Complimentary Tickets from photo-eye Gallery

Art Chicago 2010: photo-eye Gallery is exhibiting the work of the following artists; Jo Whaley, David Trautrimas, Carla Van de Puttelaar, Chris McCaw, Tom Chambers, Richard Barnes, Nick Brandt, Ryan Zoghlin, Pentti Sammallahti and Ted Kuykendall in Booth 263. To download complimentary tickets for you and a guest Click Here and enter promo code GalleryGuest to receive your ticket. Art Chicago: April 30: 11am - 7pm, May 1: 11am – 7pm, May 2: 11am - 6pm, May 3: 11am - 4pm. Opening Night Photos

ISA LESHKO: Elderly Animals

Pumpkin, Age 28
Photograph (c) Isa Leshko /All Rights Reserved

Finn Sheep, Age 12
Photograph (c) Isa Leshko /All Rights Reserved

Waterscape Series, Waterscape 1
Photograph (c) Isa Leshko /All Rights Reserved

Pulitzer Prize winning photo critic, Mark Feeney, wrote about Leshko's work in a review of the current shows at the Griffin Museum on Boston.com. A Conversation with Isa here.

Isa Leshko's Thrills & Chills Exhibition
Griffin Museum of Photography to May 9th
Recent News About Isa

CHRIS VERENE: Town Hall Meeting April 29

Family Chris Verene • Twin Palms Publishers
Monograph 80 Four-color Plates 120 Pages May 2010

My Twin Cousin's Husband's Brother's Cousin's Cousins
Photograph (c) Chris Verene /All Rights Reserved

The Pregnancy Test
Photograph (c) Chris Verene /All Rights Reserved

"CHRIS VERENE: TOWN HALL MEETING" April 29 NYC

Chris Verene hosts a group discussion and performance expanding on his new documentary photography book, "Family," which chronicles twenty-six years of his family and their struggling community of Galesburg, Illinois. More about the book here.

Thursday, April 29th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
POSTMASTERS GALLERY
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue) NYC 10011

MONA KUHN: Gallery Talk

Mona Kuhn's Gallery Talk about her work "Native"
Photograph: Elizabeth Avedon

Gallery Talk

Matthew Flowers (l) and Gallery Director, Brent Beamon (r)

Mona Kuhn Gallery Talk
April 10, 2010
Flowers Gallery 
529 West 20th Street NYC

Native , Published by Steidl

MONA KUHN

THOMAS STRUTH: Architectural Monuments + Landscapes

Waldstrasse auf dem Lindberg-Landscape No. 3, Winterthur 1992
Sold at 2000 Auction for $48,825.
Photograph (c) Thomas Struth /All Rights Reserved

Paradise 14, Yakushima, Japan 1999
Photograph (c) Thomas Struth /All Rights Reserved

Mailänder Dom (Fassade) 1998. Sold at 2008 Auction for $565,000.
Photograph (c) Thomas Struth /All Rights Reserved

Pergamon Museum II, Berlin 2001
Photograph (c) Thomas Struth /All Rights Reserved

Monreale, Palermo 1998
Photograph (c) Thomas Struth /All Rights Reserved

"Thomas Struth's Mailänder Dom (Fassade) above, executed in 1998, conveys a sense of the building's overwhelming dimensions through its own size. The building visually and physically dominates both the composition and the people in front of the massive cathedral. The sharp focus on the cathedral recalls the photographs of Struth's teacher, Bernd Becher. However, Struth's image, while appearing to share Bernd and Hilla Becher's concerns with objectivity, aims to capture something more subjective, more distinctive and more profound about the world in which we live.

Western religion places the cathedral, a dramatic and sacred building, on a pedestal. However, the tourists in front of this particular cathedral in Milan are not pilgrims but tourists. This forces the viewer to consider its relative obsolescence in our more secular age. Struth depicts the cathedral most as the center of human interaction, not merely the center of the Catholic Church. The visitors, for the most part, are surely not worshipers. The religious buildings and artefacts of yore have become the tourist sites of today. Struth does not merely document how places look. He does not merely reduce the fabric of our urban life to abstraction, as is the case in so many other "objective" photographs, although these factors are important to Mailänder Dom (Fassade) and its aesthetic. Instead, he attempts to grasp and convey some essence of our existence in the cosmopolitan playground of the modern world."–Christie's catalog 2008. Number nine of an edition of ten, 74½ x 92½ in. (189.2 x 235 cm.), sold at auction for $565,000.

Thomas Struth Biography

Thomas Struth / Exhibition / June 11-September 12, 2010
Kunsthaus Zurich

ART + PHOTOGRAPHY NYC: Recap This Week

Boise State Fair Photograph (c) Marco Castro /All Rights Reserved
"Photographers Helping Haiti" print sale March 4-7, 2010

MARCH 5-7: The VERGE ART FAIR / ASMPNY Booth. Over 100 prints donated by American Society of Media Photographers of New York to benefit Haiti. Each print is on sale for $100 each, with 100% going to Doctors Without Borders. Fri & Sat March 5-6 from 2-8 pm, Sun March 7 from 12-6 pm, The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41, NYC. 100 prints @ $100.=$10,000 for Doctors Without Borders.

Nils Peder and Reindeer/Sami, The People
Photograph (c) Erika Larsen/All Rights Reserved
"31 Women In Art Photography" March 6 – April 10, 2010

MARCH 6 : 31 WOMEN IN ART PHOTOGRAPHY: Humble Arts Foundation is celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein. The exhibition opens Sat March 6. Gallery hours: Tues–Fri, 10:00 –6:00 and Sat 11:00 –5:00. Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street NYC

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MARCH 6: DARIUS HIMES (Founding Editor of Radius Books) & PAULA McCARTNEY discuss her work Bird Watching at KLOMPCHING GALLERY , 1 -2 pm, 111 Front St Brooklyn NY

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MARCH 4-7: THE ARMORY SHOW: Leading Fine Art Fair devoted to art of 20th and 21st centuries. Artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators come from all over the world for the Armory Arts Week. Pier 92 and 94, 12th Avenue & West 55th St NYC

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MARCH 5-7: VERGE ART FAIR: Emerging Art, coinciding with The Armory Show. Fri & Sat March 5 - 6, 12 to 8, Sun March 7 , 12 to 6. The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41, NYC

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MARCH 4-7: PULSE ART FAIR: Contemporary Art Fair. Fri & Sat March 5 - 6, 12 to 8, Sun March 7 , 12 to 5. PULSE NY, 330 West St @ West Houston NYC

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Also: KlompChing Gallery in Dumbo to see Paula McCartney's exhibition Bird Watching, ClampArt Gallery to see a great photography exhibition The Museum Of Unnatural History, Broadway Gallery to see Heungman's Photographs 90 Fengxian Road (Shanghai)

THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORY: CLAMPART

Struggle
Photograph (c) Amy Stein /All Rights Reserved

Katie at Natural History Museum, 1997
Photograph (c) Blake Fitch /All Rights Reserved

Animalia, 2009
Photograph (c) Nicole Hatanaka /All Rights Reserved

Storage, 2009
Photograph (c) Nicole Hatanaka /All Rights Reserved

CLAMPART Gallery

THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORY
Feb 25–April 10

The artists included in The Museum of Unnatural History exhibition are Richard Barnes, Justine Cooper, Jason DeMarte, Blake Fitch, Jill Greenberg, Nicole Hatanaka, Harri Kallio, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon, Lori Nix, Matthew Pillsbury, Elliot Ross, Amy Stein, and Marisol Villanueva. My Interview With Richard Barnes

31 WOMEN IN ART PHOTOGRAPHY IN MARCH

Sugar Cane, Maui, Hawaii
Photograph (c) Emily Shur /All Rights Reserved

Snowbound series, Wish
Photograph (c) Lisa M.Robinson /All Rights Reserved

Cave
Photograph (c) Ann Woo /All Rights Reserved

Bird Watching (cardinal)
Photograph (c)Paula McCartney /All Rights Reserved

31 Women In Art Photography: March 6 – April 10, 2010

An exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography. Curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein. Presented by Humble Arts Foundation and Affirmation Arts.
Affirmation Arts 523 W. 37th Street NYC

The exhibition, an eclectic mix of new talent, culled from open submissions, includes photographs by Erica Allen, Amelia Bauer, Claire Beckett, Gilda Davidian, Jessica Eaton, Naomi Harris, Carmen von Kende, Anna Krachey, Yvonne Lacet, Erika Larsen, Jessica Mallios, Alison Malone, S. Billie Mandle, Paula McCartney, Rachelle Mozman, Yamini Nayar, Sarah Palmer, Kristine Potter, Heather Rasmussen, Justine Reyes, Lisa M. Robinson, Irina Rozovsky, Sasha Rudensky, Victoria Sambunaris, Robin Schwartz, Emily Shur, Brea Souders, Rachel Sussman, Kirsten Kay Thoen, Carson Fisk-Vittori, and Ann Woo.

MIKE + DOUG STARN: Big Bambú

Photograph (c) Mike + Doug Starn /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Mike + Doug Starn /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Mike + Doug Starn /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Mike + Doug Starn /All Rights Reserved

Big Bambú is connotative of an autonomous, spontaneous, self-governing, disorganized network responding to itself to better navigate the environment. “It represents me- in that I am who I was, and, I am completely different than I was when I was a little boy.” – Doug Starn

"In September 2008, the Starns took over the former Tallix Foundry in Beacon, New York (50 foot high ceilings by 320-foot long by 65 foot wide), and the construction of Big Bambú immediately started. As of November 15th, more than 2,000 bamboo poles have been assembled creating an extraordinary intricate mental and physical network system

This artwork, in the realm of architecture and performance, starts as a massive tower created from lashed together bamboo poles and brings into space representations of complexity and chaos. At its pinnacle, the continually evolving architecture being built from within (no outside scaffolding or support) will cantilever out as far as the bamboo poles network allows, and then will bridge down to the floor. At this point the first tower will be dismantled pole by pole and carried through the structure and down to create another monumental tower and then on again, walking down the 320 feet space, almost like a Slinky and then back again. Big Bambú will evolve through the continuous rebuilding and rethinking of the structure at all times.

The Starns are directing 8 to 15 rock climbers at a time, who are assembling the structure’s vernacular network in an ongoing action. Big Bambú is consistent with the idea of a self-healing organism; within this “fabric” of bamboo pole network, the artists expect that some poles will stress and fail, but that the structure (the bamboo poles are fibrous and flexible unlike wooden boards that crack and break apart) will maintain some integrity. The tower represents the concepts of self-organization, adaptation and the interconnectedness of all things." ...from starnstudio.com

DOUG AND MIKE STARN
Exhibition February 12-March 8 at THE BALDWIN GALLERY, Aspen

JOAKIM ESKILDSEN: The Roma Journeys

Road to Mironu
Photograph (c) Joakim Eskildsen /All Rights Reserved

Venus and Mucusoara, Stefanesti
Photograph (c) Joakim Eskildsen /All Rights Reserved

Strada Eternitatii, Vlasca
Photograph (c) Joakim Eskildsen /All Rights Reserved

The Long Plaits, Tirnaveni
(c) Joakim Eskildsen /All Rights Reserved

Family in Szent Miklós, Haranglab
Photograph (c) Joakim Eskildsen /All Rights Reserved

Danish photographer, Joakim Eskildsen, traveled with writer, Cia Rinne, through the 7 Roma countries (Hungary, India, Greece, Romania, France, Russia, and Finland), photographing this project for seven years. Often staying with families for long periods in order to learn about their life, their culture, and their situation, The Roma Journeys is a very personal document of these encounters, giving a contemporary view of the lives of the Roma people and their situation today.

FotoSalon i Århus (Lecture), 27 February, 2010

The Roma Journeys/Le Romané Phirimàta