ARLES: Le Journal Reports Daily from the Arles PhotoFestival July 2–Sept 23

THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2012

Le Journal de la Photographie has been covering everything from the ongoing Photography Festival in Arles, France. If you are vacationing in the South of France, many of the exhibits will continue through September 23. Read Le Journal's daily Arles reports: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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P.S. Note my "Interview with Anne Wilkes Tucker", Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is listed as "Best of Last Week" on Le Journal's site.

LA LETTRE: William Eggleston: For Now

Untitled, Rosa Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee, 1971
Photograph by William Eggleston

Untitled, Walter Hopps, early 1970's
Photograph by William Eggleston

Twin Palms Publishers newly released monograph, William Eggleston: For Now, is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda’s year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. Eggleston remarked “the book comes close to being a family album.”...read more

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http://www.lalettredelaphotographie.com

GUGGENHEIM BILBAO: "Haunted" Contemporary Photography Exhibition

'Humanos' ('Human', 2004), by French artist Christian Boltansky. The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. EPA/MIGUEL TONA

'Self-Portrait with 3 Years' (2004), by English conceptual artist Gillian Wearing, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. EPA/MIGUEL TONA

Click Video Interview: Nat Trotman, Curator
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Nov 6, 2010 - March 13, 2011
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. read more here...

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