CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait, Leica Gallery

Group of Bears, Central Park, 1993
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard

CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait
June 8 - August 4
Leica Gallery • 670 B'way • New York

Bruce Davidson • Elliot Erwitt • Ralph Gibson • Saul Leiter • Mary Ellen Mark • Nicholas Vreeland • Mio Nakamura • Arlene Gottfried • and more

MARILYN MONROE: Photographed by Lawrence Schiller at Steven Kasher

Marilyn By Lawrence Schiller on La Lettre (click here). Photographs by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"Lawrence Schiller's Exhibition of over fifty iconic images of Marilyn Monroe—many of which have been newly discovered in his archives, opened at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York last week, his first solo show in the U.S. Schiller met Monroe when he was just a 23 year old photojournalist. He describes meeting Marilyn for the first time, "I was scared shitless. I‘d never photographed somebody who had been photographed by every photographer in the world. I learned very quickly that Marilyn knew more about photography than I did...She could look anyway she wanted." These exclusive photographs of Monroe show her as "self-aware, in control of her image, yet fragile and vulnerable, and uniquely touching." – La Lettre de la Photographie

Steven Kasher Gallery
through June 30th

La Lettre de la Photographie Monroe and Schiller (here)

LISA LEONE: Then @HVW8 A+D Gallery

Wyclef and Lauren Hill - 1993 East Harlem NYC
Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Fabel and Wiggles - 1990 NYC
Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Before Hip-Hop was an Industry, it was a Community...
Lisa Leone Photographs | Then

2014 UPDATE

MITRA TABRIZIAN: Mise-En-Scenes

City, London 2008, 48 x 98.5 in / 122 x 250 cm, Edition of 5, 2 Aps
Mitra Tabrizian in collaboration with Zadoc Nava

Untitled 2009, 42 x 121 in / Edition of 5, 2 Aps
Mitra Tabrizian in collaboration with Zadoc Nava

Leila Heller Gallery
Mitra Tabrizian Photographs June 7 - July 7

Seven Monumental Photographs taken in Iran and England

LAURIE LAMBRECHT: Paint at Pulse

Photographer Laurie Lambrecht in front of her latest photographs Paint (#4), 2010 and Paint (#5), 2010 (left) and Roy Lichtenstein series (right), at Rick Wester Fine Art

Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio By Laurie Lambrecht
View on Photo-eye.com

Photographers Laurie Lambrecht and Magdalena Solé

I'm just catching up after a short break from these pages. In early May, Magdalena Solé and I visited Pulse New York, an annual contemporary Art Fair. Photographer Laurie Lambrecht showed us her latest work Paint, portraits of artist Eric Fischl's oil palettes at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Also showing, Joni Sternbach (l); Garry Winogrand (c); Richard Avedon, William S. Burroughs (r), at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Joni Sternbach

SurfLand, Revisited 2006-2011
Rick Wester Fine Art
May 17 - June 23, 2012

Magdalena Solé's New Delta Rising on Photo-eye.com.
Buy a vintage copy of An Interview with Eric Fischl
Photos (c) Elizabeth Avedon. All rights reserved

JON RAFMAN: 9-Eyes of Google Street View

Google Street View
Nacozari De Garcia – Montezuma, Sonora, Mexico 2011

Google Street View
3081 Valmont Road, Boulder, Colorado, United States, 2012

Google Street View

Jon Rafman (b. 1981) "is a Montreal-based artist, filmmaker and essayist. Mixing irony, humor and melancholy, Rafman’s work explores the paradoxes of modernity. 9-Eyes of Google Street View consists of selected images taken by the cameras atop the Google Street View vehicles that document the world’s roadways in a constant mission to organize the world’s information. While Street View's only goal is to capture the planet, mediated and easy for a viewer to peruse, Rafman’s intervention is one of an Internet curator. He searches through the vast records of fleeting moments, holding up a planet size mirror to ourselves, nature and our constructed world."–M+B Gallery

M + B
19 May - 23 Jun 2012
Los Angeles

JAPAN | AFTER THE WATER RECEDED: Photographs by Magdalena Solé + Artist Portraits by Naoto Nakagawa

After the Water Receded: Images from Japan
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

After the Water Receded: Images from Japan
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

After the Water Receded: Images from Japan
Photographs (c) Magdalena Solé

Hanging the show with
Gallery Director Sandra Kraskin and Photographer Magdalena Solé

After the Water Receded: Images from Japan
"1,000 Portraits of Hope" by Naoto Nakagawa

JAPAN | AFTER THE WATER RECEDED
Photographs by Magdalena Solé and
Portraits by Naoto Nakagawa

Curators: Elizabeth Avedon and Sandra Kraskin

April 20 – May 18, 2012
Sidney Mishkin Gallery
135 East 22nd Street, New York
(646) 660-6652

"After the Water Receded documents and commemorates the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown which struck northern Japan March 11, 2011. Artist Naoto Nakagawa exhibits 1,000 Portraits of Hope; drawings of survivors, and Magdalena Solé exhibits color photographs taken after the disasters, some within the 12-mile radius around the nuclear power plant. Together, the work of these two artists forms a visual narrative that provides some of the untold stories of this disaster and the rebuilding of Fukushima prefecture."

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New Book by Magdalena Solé
New Delta Rising
(University Press of Mississippi 2012)

KEITH CARTER + DORNITH DOHERTY: Houston's McMurtrey Gallery

Gaillardia, 2011
Photograph © Dornith Doherty

Red Yucca, 2011
Photograph © Dornith Doherty

Habitat, 2011
Photograph © Keith Carter

Cruise Ship, 2011
Photograph © Keith Carter

Poppy, 2010
Photograph © Dornith Doherty

Cache: "In this new body of work, Dornith Doherty explores the role of seed banks and their preservation efforts in the face of climate change, the extinction of natural species and decreased agricultural diversity. Traveling from the Arctic tundra of the Svalbard Archipelago to the Sonoran desert in Arizona since 2010, this new exhibition includes large format photographs of key global seed banks as well as archival pigment prints and digital chromogenic lenticular prints of x-ray collages of seeds and plants."

Read my 2011 Interview with Doherty after her travels close to the North Pole to photograph the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Imagining Paradise: "Imagining Paradise reflects a new world in Keith Carter's visionary universe. With decreased eyesight following a medical condition Mr. Carter explains: "...my current visual world is now flat and two dimensional, similar to looking at a medieval painting, and scattered with black holes, mottled shapes, sparkles, and occasional light shows..." Keith Carter's new photographs of paradise are inspired by a deterioration of the real that Keith has turned into an ideal: "Using traditional silver-rich film and photographic papers, along with arcane chemistry and non-traditional technique, I am paying homage to the mystery of binocular vision and the history of the medium itself.""

McMurtrey Gallery, Houston

March 24 - April 21, 2012

Look for the upcoming April 2012 issue of
SPOT MAGAZINE | Houston Center for Photography
"An Interview: Dornith Doherty with Elizabeth Avedon"

JASON FLORIO: Burma Freedom Fighters

KNLA - Karen National Liberation Army
Freedom Fighter and Film Maker
Photograph (c) Jason Florio/All rights reserved

Retired KNLA -
Karen National Liberation Army Freedom Fighter
Photograph (c) Jason Florio/All rights reserved

KNLA - Karen National Liberation Army
Freedom Fighter and Medic
who lost his leg after stepping on a land mine
Photograph (c) Jason Florio/All rights reserved

I have been arrested by the Taliban...ridden into far-flung Afghan valleys in search of nomads with mujaheddin as my security, dressed as a woman to cross a border, was at the foot of the Twin Towers as they collapsed, enjoyed the 'comforts' of a Cuban hospital, hunted bats in Surinam, chatted with Somali pirates over Coke and biscuits and danced like a fiend in Beirut nightclubs...among other things – Jason Florio

JASON FLORIO was born in London and relocated to the USA in 1987. He moved to NYC to pursue photography after seeing Richard Avedon's In The American West exhibition. "Florio photographed freedom fighters and civilians who struggled for independence in the Karen State of Burma, along the Thailand border in what is now the world’s longest ongoing conflict. The ill-equipped people have been fighting for an independent homeland against the ruling Burmese military government. “The Karen people have been locked in a David-and-Goliath conflict with a powerful authoritarian regime that seeks to push the Karen people off the map.” reports the award-winning photographer. Self -funded, he decided to bring the under reported struggle for survival against the brutal junta, to a wider audience."' – Gallery

JASON FLORIO
Portraits from the Jungles of Burma
Messineo Art Projects Wyman Contemporary
March 8 – May 4th
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Jason's Makasutu: Mecca In The Forest Project

KEN ROSENTHAL: Photographs 2001-2009 at KLOMPCHING in DUMBO

Seen and Not Seen #1311-3 (2001)
Photograph ©Ken Rosenthal
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Seen and Not Seen #001-A-1 (2001)
Photograph ©Ken Rosenthal
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Ken Rosenthal (b. 1964) is an American artist living and workingin Tucson, Arizona. Since 2001, his subject has been an over-arching study of time, collective memory, fiction and cultural iconography; as seen through a somewhat brooding re-interpretation of historic negatives and photographs—specifically imagery from his own family album. He presents exceptionally crafted photographs—bleached, split-toned and blurred—that bring together a range of associations that seem at once shared yet highly personal, unknowable yet familiar. Like memory, his photographs are ethereal and ambiguous.–Klompching Gallery

March 9 – April 20, 2012
Artist Reception March 8 6–8PM
KLOMPCHING GALLERY
111 Front Street | Brooklyn NY 11201

GEORGE PLATT LYNES | The Jack B. Woody Collection: Steven Kasher Gallery to April 7

James Leslie Daniels, ca. 1937
(Jimmie Daniels, Singer at Le Ruban Bleu...read more)
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Self-Portrait, ca. 1945
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Robert McVoy, ca. 1941
(Robert McVoy was a dancer in Lincoln Kirstein’s company,
Kirstein co-founded the New York City Ballet...read more)
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

George Tichenor, 1939
(Lynes fell in love with his studio assistant George Tichenor,
who was killed during the War...read more)
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Gloria Swanson, ca. 1939
(One of the most prominent stars of silent films)
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marsden Hartley, 1943
(American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist)
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Bill Miller, 1944
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Jack B. Woody | George Platt Lynes Collection at Steven Kasher Gallery

Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

JACK B. WOODY, editor and publisher of Twelvetrees Press and Twin Palms Publishers, has produced some of the finest photography and art books for over thirty years. Woody’s first published photography book, George Platt Lynes: Photographs 1931-1955 (Twelvetrees Press, 1981), was immediately recognized as a classic monograph. Platt Lynes had been a highly successful fashion and portrait photographer in the 1930s and 1940s, rediscovered by Woody in the late 1970's. His George Platt Lynes Collection can now be viewed at the Steven Kasher Gallery through April 7.

From An Interview with Jack Woody: "While working as Director of Photography for the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in L.A. in the late '70's, Duane Michals told me, “There’s someone really out of fashion, a photographer named George Platt Lynes, you might be interested in.” About six months later someone called the gallery and said, “There’s a man in Berkley that wants to sell an album of approximately fifty photographs. Most of them are male nudes.” I went to San Francisco to meet Samuel Steward. George Platt Lyons’s had given him all of these photographs in the ‘50’s. There were fifty photographs. I had gone with a dealer from San Francisco, so I put up half the money and he put up the other half and we bought the album. That became the basis for my first photography book."

"I decided I wanted to do the George Platt Lynes book. I had the collection of fifty images, but I wanted about a hundred for the book. I spent two years tracking down all the living models and accumulating their photographs for this book – I borrowed some and some I bought.. Back then they weren’t worth anything. No one even knew who this George Platt Lynes was. I applied to the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant for the book and I got $12,500. from one of the non-profit arts organizations in LA."

"I sold the books by hand to the Strand and took them to Rizzoli on 57th Street in New York; they bought like fifty of them and put them in the window on Fifth Avenue. I went home and got a call from Andy Grundberg of the New York Times. He said, “I saw your George Platt Lynes book at Rizzoli. Could you send me a review copy?” I had no idea what a review copy was, all I knew is it was free. I said, “What is it for?” He said, “I’d like to write a review”. He gave me The New York Times Fed Ex number, so I sent it to him. He wrote this amazing review, and it just exploded from there."–Jack B. Woody (read more here)

George Platt Lynes
March 1st to April 7th
Steven Kasher Gallery

521 west 23 street new york

An Interview with Jack Woody
La Lettre de la Photographie

VOJTECH V. SLAMA: Wolf's Honey

TV Show (2004)
Photograph ©Vojtěch V. Sláma
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Bodies (2002)

Photograph ©Vojtěch V. Sláma
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Vojtech V. Sláma (b. 1974) lives and works in the Czech Republic. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous venues across the United States, Europe and Asia. In Wolf’s Honey, Vojtech V. Sláma offers a wonderful glimpse of his world—days spent with friends, observations of his artist peers, visits to places and events, glances of strangers, still life and figurative studies—all personal vignettes inherently connected to the tradition of Czech photography. Together they reveal Sláma’s fascination with the beauty of ordinary life and moments that he snatches without fanfare and yet with such poetic force. Stunningly rendered by the artist into Silver Bromide prints, the photographs are quiet, melancholic and at times—timeless.–Klompching Gallery

March 9 – April 20, 2012
Artist Reception March 8 6–8PM

KLOMPCHING GALLERY
111 Front Street, Suite 206 | Brooklyn, NY 11201

MAX SNOW: 100 Headless Women

An Interview: Max Snow Talks to Elizabeth Avedon

click on La Lettre de la Photographie

Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
March 2 to March 27

View Images Here
(I can't post Nudes)

ADAM BARTOS: Travel Work

Teotihuacan, Mexico (agave plants), 1981
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

Mombasa, Kenya (park), 1980
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

County Road 80, Southampton, NY, 2010

Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

Martin's Marine, Bay Shore, NY, 2010

Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

"Adam Bartos’ interest in the 19th century travel work of Samuel Bourne, Robert MacPherson, and others, led him to Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large format camera and color film. His images are thoroughly modern, yet their energy is inspired by the lucid depiction of form and light that the earlier photographers achieved. His attention to the picture plane creates a tension that resonates between the photograph as both his expression of a place and an object in and of itself. None of the photographs are constructed wholly from incident or narrative."–Gitterman Gallery

Adam Bartos | March 1–May 5
Gitterman Gallery
New York, NY

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL: Prison Photography Exhibition Part II

Photograph © Stephen Tourlentes

Series: Of Lengths and Measures. Year: Ongoing (1996-present)

Title: Comstock, NY State Prison.Year: 2009

Photograph © Joseph Rodriguez
Series: Juvenile. Title: Juvenile Hall Intake

Photograph © Lizzie Sadin

Series: Mineurs en Peines. Year: 1999-2007. Title: Surveillance camera, Black Canyon School, Arizona. Video surveillance of solitary confinement cells where young inmates can be held for a week. They are placed there if they display aggressive behavior to either staff or inmates or attempt suicide.

Photograph © Lloyd Degrane

Stateville in a basement storage area- Electric Chairs (no longer in use) one from the State the other from Cook County- during an electrocution a prisoner's hair would catch fire and sometimes their eyeballs would melt, so a helmet, on each chair, was placed onto their heads so that witnesses wouldn't be subjected to such visual horror –1993.

Photograph © Scott Houston

Series: Chain Gang. Year: 2003. Brian Gawlik looks out the window of his cell at Estrella Jail after performing chain gang duty. Brian was convicted for possession of a " dime bag of weed" and sentenced to four months. During lock down, inmates stay in 8x12 foot cells for 23 hours a day unless they are out on assigned chain gang duty.

Photograph © Richard Ross

Series: Juvenile-In-Justice. Year: 2006-2011

"Time-out room” in the education wing, South Bend
Juvenile Correctional Facility, South Bend, Indiana

"Prisons are "home" for over 9 million people on this planet, and their numbers are likely to increase in the coming decades. As Curators, we hope this show will act as a moment to ask ourselves what our different societies should hope to achieve by (mass) incarcerating those who transgress." – Curators Pete Brook and Hester Keijser

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Cruel and Unusual is a curatorial collaboration between guest curators Pete Brook and Hester Keijser. The exhibition showcases the work of Araminta de Clermont, Amy Elkins, Alyse Emdur, Christiane Feser, Jane Lindsay, Deborah Luster, Nathalie Mohadjer, Yana Payusova, Lizzie Sadin, Lori Waselchuk, and others.

Noorderlicht Gallery is producing a 'must-have' catalog for Cruel and Unusual, designed as a newspaper by Pierre Derks in an edition of 4,000. Along with visuals from the main exhibition, the catalog contains articles, interviews, ephemera and material from photographers Pete Brook encountered during his crowd-funded road-trip through the U.S (here), capturing the chaos, interactions and visual excitement he saw in photographers’ studios, contact-sheets and home-towns while on the road.

Newspaper Catalog Available Here

Cruel and Unusual
18 February - 1 April, 2012
Noorderlicht Gallery
9711 JB Groningen, Netherlands

Prison Photography's Pete Brook

Talks Blogs, Prisons, Road Trips and Photography

February 18th 4:00 - 6:00 pm

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL: Prison Photography Part I here