Showing posts with label Elisabeth Biondi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elisabeth Biondi. Show all posts

3.12.2014

LANDON NORDEMAN: Canine Kingdom with Curator Elisabeth Biondi

Handler with dog, Ploiesti, Romania, 2012
Photograph by Landon Nordeman

Borzois, 134th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, 2010
Photograph by Landon Nordeman

Standard Poodle, 128th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, 2004
Photograph by Landon Nordeman

Landon Nordeman’s series, “Canine Kingdom,” takes us inside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, now running for 138 years. To mark the exhibit’s opening (March 12, 7:30pm) at The Half King in New York, Photography Curator Elisabeth Biondi and Nordeman will screen a slideshow, and talk about the stories and context of Landon’s images.

Landon Nordeman began shooting The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 2004. The project is ongoing. In addition to photographing personal projects, Nordeman is a contributing photographer for The New Yorker and Saveur. He shoots for commercial and editorial clients around the world. His photographs have been exhibited at the Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC; The Houston Center of Photography; The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing; and are in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Photography curator, Elisabeth Biondi, has influenced all of us through her powerful career at four of the most influential magazines in the world. Biondi joined The New Yorker Magazine as Visuals Editor in 1996, just a couple of years after photography had first been introduced into the 75-year-old magazine. From her background at Geo, Stern, and Vanity Fair, she brought her masterful eye to The New Yorker, helping to create their award winning use of photography.
 
I spoke with Elisabeth about working with Nordeman, her career and her little dog, Boris...read my full piece on L'oeil de la Photographie

 Canine Kingdom
Photographs by Landon Nordeman
March 12, 2014 - May 11, 2014
The Half King 505 West 23rd Street NY

 
Elisabeth Biondi's dog, Boris
Photograph by Matt Leifheit

"I’m definitely a dog person, and always knew that one day, when I did not spend the week in an office, I would have a wire-haired dachshund (Dachshund translates to “badger dog” in German. They were used for hunting badgers in their dens). After I stopped working at The New Yorker, I quickly got little Boris, a wire-haired dachshund, from a kennel in Woodstock. He was one of six born during Wimbledon Week and all the puppies got tennis player's first names. Mine is named after Boris Becker, so of course he had to be mine. He is funny, sweet, and stubborn; loves, children, other dogs and does not have a mean bone in his body." Photography curator, Elisabeth Biondi



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3.22.2012

SLOW EXPOSURES 2012: Call For Entries

First Place Award: Seeker by Vicki Hunt, Roswell, GeorgiaSlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

Untitled #15 by Jessica Hines as seen in The New Yorker Photo Booth
SlowExposures 2010 Exhibition

The 2011 SlowExposures: Jurors, Reviewers and Photographers. Top row, l to r: John A Bennette; Jerry Atnip, John Bennette, Sylvia Plachy, Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary, Gabrielle Larew; Sylvia Plachy, David Simonton, and Magdalena Sole; Exhibition crowd, on right, Alex Novak. Bottom row, l to r: Slow Exposure Co-Directors, Chris Curry and Nancy McCrary; Peter Essick; Sylvia Plachy and Jessica Hines; Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary and Steve Harper; and snapshots by Elizabeth Avedon (click to enlarge!)

CALL FOR ENTRIES

SlowExposures 2012 10th Annual Juried Exhibition
Celebrating Photography of the Rural South

You are invited to submit work for the Tenth Anniversary SlowExposures Photography Exhibition in Pike County, Georgia. As always, selected images capture the diversity, contradictions and complexity of the rural American South. We are pleased to welcome Brett Abbott, Photography Curator of the High Museum of Art and Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as our 2012 jurors.

SlowExposures is held during the last two weekends in September. Located in the rural countryside one hour from Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson airport, the show is renowned for its intimate, relaxed environment where photographers and photography lovers gather to learn, share, and have fun. This year in honor of our tenth anniversary, we are pleased to welcome back many of our past jurors who have graciously agreed to lead seminars and staff our portfolio review. –Christine Curry and Nancy McCrary, Show Chairs

12.24.2011

2011 BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS | Part II

Friends and colleagues each contributed their unique perspectives
The Best Photography Books of 2011

Subway, Photographs by Bruce Davidson. Aperture, 2011
Intro by Fred Brathwaite. Text by Bruce Davidson
Afterword by Henry Geldzahler

ELISABETH BIONDI
Curator and Visuals Editor at The New Yorker Magazine for 15 years

"Two books, both probably because I have been loving their photography for such a long time. One a classic, one just published. Bruce Davidson's, Subway, pictures so strong, they possess me and are burned into my memory, then as now. And Alex Webb's, The Suffering of Light, poetry in pictures, the light & the dark of life captured by a photographer with a unique vision & daring composition."


From Uncertain To Blue, University Of Texas Press, Austin, 2011
Photographs by Keith Carter. Introduction by Horton Foote


"My choice is the University of Texas Press's re-envisioned new publication of Keith Carter's "From Uncertain to Blue." Nearly 25 years after the publication of Carter's first book, the entire project has been re-visited and re-designed with a new essay by Keith Carter and new notations by his wife Pat."

Paradise, TX, 1988. Photograph © Keith Carter

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Photograph (c) Rinko Kawauchi


"I was introduced to Rinko Kawauchi's work by filmmaker/photographer pal John Decker. I love this book, for it's unexpected structure and deceptively simple presentation. I find her images and elegant palette a pure, clean sugar high – just gossamer and considered. This book makes me smile and I can feel the colors long after I have set it down."


Poems by Tom Waits. University of Texas Press, 2011

"I confess being partial to this work having had the privilege of seeing the prints before the book. I have long admired the confident grace in Michael O'Brien's portraits, how they invite conversations in my mind with his subjects. When I pick this up I spend a lot of time looking at each page, never quickly – the work keeps you. I have heard rumblings that Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio & Press will soon produce a wicked, boxed limited-edition from the first printing, I want one."
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FAIRGROUNDS | Cloverleaf Press, Austin

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Tooth For An Eye, Photographs by Deborah Luster
Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 2011

PETE BROOK
Lead-blogger for Wired.com's Raw File.
Author of Prison Photography on the Road.

Pete is currently on a 12-week journalism road-trip across America. He chose Deborah Luster's A Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish. "Luster explores the city in a new way, creating a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites. Following on from her first book, Prisoners of Louisiana, Tooth for an Eye explores the themes of loss and remembrance in a series of tondo photographs that offer an opportunity for the viewer to enter deeper into the idea of the city, a place where life and death coexist, neither free of the other’s influence."

Read Pete's Blogpost: ‘ONE BIG SELF’ by Deborah Luster: “You Are An Invisible Population. What Do You Want To Say To The World? Pete Brook, Prison Photography on the Road.

A unique record of Louisiana's prison population

The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009
Photographs by Robert Adams. Yale University Press, 2011

PAUL KOPEIKIN
Owner/Director, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

"Putting my friend Bill Hunt’s opus aside because I love him so...Robert Adams trilogy: The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009."–Paul Kopeikin


Old-growth stump, Coos County, Oregon, 1999–2003
Photograph © Robert Adams


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By LaNola Kathleen Stone, Focal Press, 2011

KATRIN EISMANN
Chair, MPS Digital Photography Dept, School of Visual Arts
Photographer and Author

Photographing Childhood: The Image and the Memory (Focal Press, 2011) by LaNola Kathleen Stone is thoughtful, inspiring, and unexpected. The book features an historical homage; an insightful timeline of childhood; useful information on lighting and image management; and most importantly highlights a wide variety of contemporary photographers and photographic approaches to frame and focus on the fleeting moments of childhood. Smart, beautiful and poignant!


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Photograph (c) Donald Weber

MELANIE McWHORTER
Manager, photo-eye's Book Division for over 14 years
Independent writer + curator for photo-related projects

Donald Weber's Interrogations illustrates Weber's love for this temporary home of the ex-Soviet Union and the bureaucracies and inequalities that still exist and often impede "progress". It is presented in three chapters: Prologue, which shows some images of daily life; Interrogations, portraits of those confused, distressed and scared citizens being questioned by the authorities; and finishes with Epilogue by Larry Frolick and Donald Weber, text which further illustrates Frolick and Weber's love for the Russian citizens and their role in this project: "letting the denied tell their stories through you." The book is wrapped in a textured printed paper which mimics one of the wallpapers of the interrogation rooms and is stitched with one thread in the center. The uncut text block allows a play on design, the "creep" extends way beyond the cover. This element is clever design, but feels as though it may also be commentary on the character of those unseen in the second section. It is finished with a cardboard slipcase. So simple, but so intense.



Last year, Graciela Iturbide was able to actualize a long-awaited project with work she produced in Mexico City between 1974 and 2009 and Rome in 2007. Iturbide's images make Rome feel like Mexico. The book is a small perfect bound object printed on a warm paper and wrapped in gray cover with simple adhesive labels that Iturbide bought in Bolivia adorning the exterior of the back and front covers. Each label displays the title and photographer's name written with the photographer's hand. With her multiple personal touches, each book a unique object. This book is modest, unassuming and sweet.

Editorial RM, 2011


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Anneke van Veen "The First Photographers of Amsterdam 1845-1875"
Bussum: Thoth publishers, 2010

ALAN GRIFFITHS
Luminous-Lint, An Online History of Photography

I enjoy books that take me into areas of photography that I've not seen before and The First Photographers of Amsterdam 1845-1875 is a catalog of the exhibition with the same name held at the Amsterdam City Archives 1 April - 27 June 2010. There are many surprises here with documentary series of lock construction, a pink tea set decorated with photographs and the waxed paper negatives of Benjamin Brecknell Turner. Not an obvious choice but one I'll return to.


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5.12.2011

NYPH11: Elisabeth Biondi + Enrico Bossan Curate "Photography Now"

Irina Werning, Mi Pelo Largo Querido
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

A Yin, Mongolia Transformed
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi


Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi


Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi


New York Photo Festival 2011
81 Front Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan
"The state of documentary photography today"

Subjective/Objective, May 11 - 15
An Exhibition Curated by Elisabeth Biondi

"Subjective/Objective argues that documentary photography today is remarkably vibrant and creatively thriving, despite the bleak financial picture and vanishing support from a publishing industry challenged by digital media. Biondi has selected photographers who refract reality through their own distinct visions, often venturing into a more personal visual language. Subjective/Objective includes Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, Martine Fougeron, Balazs Gardi, Jessica Hines, Ethan Levitas, Irina Werning and A Yin."

Hope: between dream and reality
Curated by Enrico Bossan
(not shown above)
"Hope: between dream and reality, features the work of young photographers who, in his words, “neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life.” Artists include Olivia Arthur, Clemence de Limburg, Matt Eich, Simona Ghizzoni, Andrea Gjestvang, Sean Lee, Margo Ovcharenko, Andy Spyra, Mikhael Subotzky, Ali Taptik and Peter van Agtmael."
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Multimedia works by artists CIA DE FOTO and Ben Lowy, and six viewing booths featuring work by various industry luminaries. 30 Washington St.

Also at NYPH11:

The FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion
111 Front Street

SlideLuck Pot Show XVI
Curated by Whitney Johnson
May 14, 5:30-10PM, 38 Water Str, Dumbo


Win-Initivative / Live-On Set Photo Shoots
Andrew Eccles, Sebastian Smith, Sarah Small, Brett Beyer, Gemma Fleming...
NYPH11 Festival Headquarters / 12-7 PM
1 Main Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

Leica Booth: Borrow a Leica M9
Photo enthusiasts may borrow a Leica M9 digital rangefinder camera free up to four hours. Each day there's a set theme, challenging participants to capture the best photo that embodies that topic. Winners will receive a special Leica prize. Read more on LeicaRumors.com 1 Main Street - Dumbo

Martine Fougeron
May 14, 11AM, 38 Water St
Andy Adams
May 14, 1PM, 38 Water St
Jessica Hines Lecture
May 15, 11AM, 38 Water St


May 15, 4PM
An Intimate Screening and Discussion
Love and War Exhibition

Moderated by Adriana Teresa, Curator
The FotoVisura Pavilion 111 Front Street, Suite 212