The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship 2020

 

The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship 2018
Mother Series © Copyright 2018 | Jennifer Georgescu

 

The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship 2019 

Not Waving But Drowning © Copyright 2019 | Michelle Rogers-Pritzl

 

The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship 

 

Deadline to Apply extended to November 1, 2020

The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship seeks to recognize, encourage and reward photographers with the potential to create a body of work and sustain solo exhibitions. Awarded annually, the Scholarship provides recipients with a monetary award of $3,000, exhibition of their work at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a volume from John’s personal library of photography books. The Scholarship seeks to provide a watershed moment in the professional lives of emerging photographers, providing them with the support and encouragement necessary to develop, articulate and grow their own vision for photography.

"The scholarship is open to photographers who have produced individual works of photography and/or are in the process of producing bodies of work. We are looking for candidates who are serious about photography, whose potential is emerging and whose photography will benefit from this scholarship. Candidates can be currently enrolled in a photography degree program if in their graduating year.  There is no age limit. There are no residency requirements. There is no application fee.

Photographers without gallery representation who have not exhibited solo in a commercial gallery, academic gallery (except for thesis shows), galleries in organizations like the Griffin Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography etc. or a museum setting or have not received significant (over $3000) grant funding are eligible (coffee shop, community gallery, library, academic thesis exhibitions, etc. are eligible exhibition settings). Past awardees of the Chervinsky Scholarship, paid employees of the Griffin Museum or their immediate families, Griffin Museum board members and jurors’ immediate families and those immediate families of Griffin board members or jurors’ paid employees are not eligible.

This scholarship is not for well-established photographers. Well-established photographers are individuals in mid-photography-careers and are seen by the public and peers as distinguished in the field of photography and have many accomplishments as a photographer.  Of note, receiving a Fulbright Scholarship would disqualify a candidate from receiving this scholarship. Producing a published (by a publisher) photo book would disqualify a candidate from receiving this scholarship. Self publishing does not disqualify a candidate." See more on Griffin Museum of Photography website.

More Info Here

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THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Enter the 26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition

“Posts” by Brian Kosoff, Winner of the Griffin Award, from the Griffin Museum 25th Annual Juried Exhibition (courtesy of the Griffin Museum of Photography).

“Tapestry #6 (A Pleasure to Give) by Astrid Reischwitz, from the Griffin Museum 25th Annual Juried Exhibition (courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas).

From the Mother series by Jennifer Georgescu, from the Griffin 25th Annual Juried Exhibition (courtesy of the Griffin Museum of Photography).

Griffin Museum of Photography

26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
JUROR: Alexa Dilworth 

July 18 – August 30, 2020

Reception July 18, 2020 

Deadline to Enter: April 19, 2020

Programming with Alexa Dilworth and Aline Smithson will take place on July 18, 2020. Awards include a total of $4000 in monetary prizes; 4 exhibitions will be awarded that will take place next June and July 2020.

More information here: griffinmuseum.org/show/26th-annual-juried-members-exhibition/

ARNOLD NEWMAN PRIZE for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture

Photograph by Viktoria Sorochinski, series “Daddy“

2018 Arnold Newman PrizeWinner

Prepare your Entry for the "Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture," a $20,000 prize awarded to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture. In addition to the winner, the jury selects three finalists each year who are invited to participate in an exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography.

The Jurors are: Paula Tognarelli, Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography • Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator, PhotoBook + Exhibition Designer • Jessica Dimson, Deputy Photo Editor, The New York Times

The Prize is funded by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation and administered by Maine Media Workshops + College.

  

 ENTER HERE

 mainemedia.edu

SHERI LYNN BEHR: BeSeeingYou at The Griffin Museum of Photography

Photography Without Permission

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr

Announcements

Photographs © Sheri Lynn Behr

"BeSeeingYou"
Sheri Lynn Behr's upcoming book!

BeSeeingYou
Sheri Lynn Behr
June 14 – July 15, 2018

Reception: June 14, 2018 7-8:30 PM

Gallery Talk: June 14, 2018 6:15 PM

The Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road , Winchester, Ma 

Sheri Lynn Behr’s work deals with photography without permission and our surveillance society. Her photographs have been widely exhibited, at spaces including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography, and The Center for Fine Art Photography. They also appear in American, international and on-line publications, including Harper’s Magazine, Slate: Behold blog, People’s Photography (China), and The Boston Globe. In 2012 she received a Fellowship in Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. A shout out to Griffin Museum Director, Paula Tognarelli, always ahead of our time. And thanks to the Puffin Foundation for funding this exhibit.

Sheri Lynn Behr

GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOCUS AWARDS 2017 + MIMOSA BRUNCH OCT 22

Griffin Museum of Photography Focus Awards 2017 

Brunch, October 22, 2017

The Focus Awards recognize individuals making critical contributions to the promotion, curation and presentation of photography. The awards this year celebrate three individuals and one organization instrumental in building greater awareness of the photographic arts in the general public. 

The Awards will take place on Sunday, October 22, 2017 as part of The FlashPoint Boston Festival. The awards’ Ceremony is at the Griffin Museum at 67 Shore Rd. in Winchester, MA 01890 at Noon. Prior to the awards ceremony a mimosa brunch will take place at 11:00 AM. A limited amount of tickets are available for $85. We are offering a limited amount (20) of free tickets to full-time students of our Academic Membership Institutions. These tickets are for the awards ceremony only and does not include brunch. Valid Student ID required.

On Saturday October 21, 2017 portfolio reviews and walk will take place at Boston University as part of the FlashPoint Boston Festival. Tickets are available. A few of the reviewers include David Carol, Elizabeth Avedon, and Sean Perry; more to be announced later.

On Friday, October 20, 2017 Beuford Smith will give a lecture at the Marran Theater at Lesley University as part of The FlashPoint Boston Festival. The Marran Theater is located at 34 Mellen St. at Wolfard Hall and may be accessed via the Quad. The theater is just past the Office of Public Safety in Wolfard Hall. Tickets are available. 

The Focus Awards

  

The FlashPoint Boston Festival

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ELIZABETH AVEDON

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

PRESENTED BY SEAN PERRY

Photograph © Jerry Atnip

Elizabeth Avedon is an independent curator and writer, photography book and exhibition designer. She is a sought after consultant for photographers; editing, sequencing, and advising towards their exhibition, book, and portfolio projects. She is the former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe; Creative Director for The Gere Foundation; and received numerous awards and recognition for her exhibition design and publishing projects, including the fashion retrospective book and exhibition, “Avedon: 1949–1979” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, among others; and “Richard Avedon: In the American West” for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago; and exhibition designs for the Estate of Diane Arbus, the Menil Collection,Texas and the Leica Gallery, New York. In conjunction with Random House, she co-published the series “Elizabeth Avedon Editions/Vintage Contemporary Artists”, working with distinguished art critics such as Donald Kuspit and Peter Schjeldahl, and contemporary artists Francesco Clemente, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg and others.  

ElizabethAvedon.com

 Sean Perry

Sean Perry is a fine-art photographer based in Austin, Texas and New York City. His photographs and books center on architecture, space and light – the ambiance felt within built and temporary environments. Perry currently serves as Associate Professor of Photography at Austin Community College where he founded a mentoring program and lecture series titled, The Picture Review. 

Sean Perry Photography

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BEUFORD SMITH

A CULTURE OF LEGACY AWARD

PRESENTED BY BILL GASKINS

Beuford Smith photo by Cydnii Jones / Cesaire Agency

Beuford Smith was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A self-taught photographer, he began freelancing in the late 1970s. His clients include Black Star, AT&T, Emory University, Merrill Lynch, Avon, and GE. Smith is the founder of Cesaire Photo Agency and a founder and chief photo editor of the Black Photographers Annual (1973-1981). He has taught photography at Cooper Union, Hunter College, and the Brooklyn Museum. Smith served as staff photographer for EBC from 1995-2007. He also was a writer and volunteer for the James Van Der Zee Institute Newsletter. Smith is a former President (1997-2003) and member (1965-2005) and now president emeritus of Kamoinge, Inc. Smith spearheaded the group’s effort to achieve 501(c)3 status and facilitated collecting photos for Kamoinge’s book, The Sweet Breath of Life. Smith served on the curatorial committee for the Committed to the Image exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001. He is also a former Advisory Board member of En Foco, Inc. (2005-2012).

 Bill Gaskins

From a professional base in photography and arts writing, an academic foundation in fine art, the history of photography, American Studies and the perspective of a citizen of the United States, the work of Bill Gaskins explores questions about photography and the portrait in the 21st century. A critical entry point for the viewer is his fascination with the myths of photography and American culture and representations of African American people. His approach to photography as both producer and critical spectator has garnered attention through commissions, artist residencies, grants, public lectures, solo and group exhibitions, exhibition catalogs and books. As a professor of art, Bill Gaskins has taught at The Ohio State University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Missouri, the College of Art, Media & Technology and the College of Art and Design Theory and History at Parsons School of Design, and the graduate program in Media Studies in The New School for Public Engagement. Presently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art with a faculty appointment in the American Studies Program at Cornell University.

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AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVES

ACCEPTED BY MARY ENGEL

THE SPOTLIGHT AWARD

PRESENTED BY JUDITH THOMPSON

 Mary Engel Photo © Andrew French

The American Photography Archives Group (APAG) is 501(c)(3) non-profit that is a resource organization for individuals who own or manage a privately held photography archive. Collectively, the group has dealt with everything from archival supplies and copyright infringement to working with photo dealers. Mary Engel will accept the award for APAG. APAG began when founder and president, Mary Engel, assumed responsibility for the archive of her mother, photographer and filmmaker Ruth Orkin. It was a difficult task, with much to learn about intellectual property rights, conservation and preservation, promotion, and the world of photography galleries and dealers. Mary has gained a wealth of knowledge and know-how, and when her father, photojournalist and filmmaker Morris Engel, passed away in 2005, she inherited his archive as well. Over the years, Mary reached out to others who were in a similar situation and became an informal consultant. As her network of fledgling archive managers grew, so did the demands on her time. She realized that everyone could benefit from each other’s experience, so she started organizing meetings. At first the group was small enough to meet over dinner in a restaurant. Soon, however, more people joined, and a larger, quieter meeting space was needed. Mary arranged for the group to meet at ICP, and the organization has became more structured, holding meetings three or four times a year. 

 www.apag.us

Judith Thompson

Judith Thompson is the Director of the Harold Feinstein Photography Trust. In that role she works to preserve and promote the legacy of her late husband, Harold Feinstein who was awarded the Living Legend Award by the Griffin Museum in 2011. Like others who have inherited the estate of a well known artist, she has been on a steep learning curve and credits APAG and Mary Engel for providing crucial support and guidance. For nearly three decades prior to her current responsibilities she worked in the field of reconciliation and social healing running organizations and speaking worldwide. She has a Ph.D. in peace studies and was a former Peace Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard.

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PAUL MESSIER

THE NEW ENGLAND BEACON

PRESENTED BY MELISSA BANTA

Photo by Jon Atherton, Yale

Paul Messier is a photograph conservator working at Yale and in private practice in Boston. He is the founder and Pritzker Director of the Lens Media Lab at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Established in 2015, the focus of the LML is the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of large datasets derived from museum and reference collections of artist materials. Notable among these is the LML’s collection of historic photographic papers which is the largest of its kind in the world and was assembled by Paul over the course of decades. Paul’s Boston based private conservation practice was founded in 1994. The practice serves collectors, galleries, auctions houses as well as public institutions included leading museums, libraries, and archives worldwide. This practice has served as a training platform for numerous pre- and post-graduate interns all of whom have filled photograph conservation positions within prestigious cultural intuitions, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives. Paul has published widely, holds two patents covering innovative techniques for the characterization of cultural materials, served elected terms to the Board of Directors of the American Institute for Conservation, and recently completed a multiyear Mellon-funded initiative to establish a department of photograph conservation at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

ipch.yale.edu/people/paul-messier

Melissa Banta

Ms. Banta is an author and the projects curator at Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center. In her role at Weissman Preservation Center, Melissa works to preserve, enhance access to, exhibit, and publish special collections throughout Harvard Library. She was formerly director of the photographic archives at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. She also serves as an exhibit curator at Baker Library, Harvard Business School and as a consulting curator for Mount Auburn Cemetery.

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Many thanks to Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, for her tireless dedication to and love of Photography! xx

DAWN WATSON: Message from GRACE at LACP

 © Dawn Watson

© Dawn Watson

© Dawn Watson

“Message from GRACE: Imaginings of an Altered World” 

“…the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.” – Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Dawn Watson's “Message from GRACE: Imaginings of an Altered World,” was top winner from the Fourth Annual Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) Members’ Exhibition. Her work was selected for solo exhibition by juror Paula Tognarelli, Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA.

Dawn Watson writes, "High above the Atlantic, suspended between time zones and uncertain outcomes, sleep comes fitfully. In the dark, the world shifts. Midnight reading offers a distraction but also deeper evidence for concern. Earth’s axis tilts, gravity pulls, seasons change, ice melts, flooding waters rise, or the earth is left parched, the natural world changes beyond recognition. Human activity contributes to these seismic shifts in Earth’s mass and atmosphere. Heightened awareness of our ever-changing world leaves bodies and spirits under stress from this increased vulnerability. Adapt and change to a new way of being or turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to the  comprehensive observations from both elders and science warning of the consequence of denial. “Message from GRACE” offers an inverted reality, present but not yet seen. Delicate details or vast landscapes are familiar yet strange, hold both beauty and decay, alarm and possibilities. How to make sense of our off-kilter politics, environment, relationships? How can we shape our near and distant future?"

“NASA’S GRACE Mission satellites, (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) relay data that has transformed analysis of changes in the Earth’s system. GRACE-FO, scheduled for launch in late 2017, will continue the work of tracking Earth’s water movement to monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in large lakes and rivers, soil moisture, ice sheets and glaciers, and sea level caused by the addition of water to the ocean. These discoveries provide a unique view of Earth’s climate and have far-reaching benefits to society and the world’s population. “https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/overview”

I offer my deep gratitude to juror Paula Tognarelli and the Los Angeles Center of Photography for their dedication to the photographic process and community.

Dawn Watson's "Message from GRACE: 

Imaginings of an Altered World"

August 12, 5-8pm

 Los Angeles Center of Photography

515 Wilcox Ave., Los Angeles, CA

lacphoto.org

THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 22nd Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition

THE PETER URBAN LEGACY EXHIBITION
Opening night reception was well documented 

by the many photographers who attended. 

Take a look on Facebook here

The 22nd Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition 

Juried by Elizabeth Avedon 

Open through August 28, 2016

THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA

Thanks to Griffin Director, Paula Tognarelli, and her incredible team - Mike Bodall, Meg Birnbaum, Iariza Menjivar,  Julie Williams-Krishnan and volunteers - who work tirelessly to promote photography! 

Steven McCarthy sponsored this Exhibition in honor of photographer Peter Urban's Legacy. Many thanks to Steven, The Peter Urban family and the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston.

Buy The Catalogue here $28.00

Read More here

THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 22nd Annual Juried Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition July 14 – Aug 28, 2016

Lissa Rivera

The Peter Urban Legacy Award

  Jennifer McClure

The Arthur Griffin Legacy Award

Rebecca Biddle Moseman

 The Griffin Award

Statement for the 22nd Juried Exhibition 

Juror: Elizabeth Avedon

“Garry Winogrand was, of course, an artist who practiced an art of having “something to say, sound or unsound.” In fact, I believe that he said more in his work than any photographer of his time.”– Tod Papageorge, Core Curriculum (Aperture)

I was honored to be invited to jury the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 22nd Annual Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition. With this call to entry, no boundaries were set, no requests were made to follow any particular theme, medium, style or schools of thought to participate. Traditional, contemporary, experimental and mixed-techniques were welcome and encouraged. I believe the unspoken commonality was our shared love of the medium and magic of the photographic image.

My introduction into the extraordinary world of photography began with the traditional study of Atget, Brassai, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Robert Frank, the ‘core curriculum’ as relayed by Tod Papageorge. Instilled with a high regard for black and white images and a passion for “street photography” early on, I was later thrown into the high fashion and fine art worlds of Saul Leiter, Richard Avedon, Diana Vreeland and others, cultivating a taste for an eclectic range of color, motion, glamour, and unconventional work, reshaping my aesthetic and wide-ranging love around the medium.

Decades later, I find my interests evolving away from the photography I’ve worked with most of my career. I’ve razed old rules, burned some bridges, set horses free, and am now open to be delighted by whatever lays on the road ahead. I believe there is an audience for everything; from the inexplicably mundane to the super electrifying. As before, as now, and as we continue – meaningful work resonates regardless of what camera you prefer, what lens you choose, what app you favor, or what paper you swoon over. “Real” photography finds its audience.

With this on my mind and an open heart I began to review the 2000+ photographs entered into this year’s exhibition. The images ranged from mysterious and evocative to realistic and naturalistic. I recognized many from portfolio reviews, including friends and colleagues I’ve viewed and worked with over the years. I had to edit known work as if seeing it for the first time, and to view new work as if they were familiar images I want to get to know better. I spent weeks going back and forth, whittling down only a few each day, until I finally narrowed the 2000 images down to 300. I then had to turn a ruthless eye on the remaining 300 to arrive at the last, and most potent 50 or 60.

While looking for that elusive essence – what moved me visually or emotionally, what seduced me with a new point of view, striking a fresh chord – I tried to imagine how I would feel in a room with this photograph on the wall, and how I may miss it by its absence there.

These final pictures, including the award winning images, sit well with me in the end. Each image has a different voice that takes me on a journey I have not been on before. They whisper and call for me to look again, and isn’t that all we ask and hope for from the medium we love, and the photographs that find us?

Elizabeth Avedon
July 1, 2016

Susan May Tell

Honorable Mention

Ashly Leonard Stohl

Honorable Mention

Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Honorable Mention

Ben Altman, Craig Becker, Sheri Lynn Behr, Norm Borden, Chris Borrok, Joan Lobis Brown, Anja Bruehling, Lynne Buchanan, Lauren Ceike, Tom Chambers, Keith Conforti, Francis Crisafio, Francisco Diaz Deb Young, John Delaney, K.k. DePaul, Norm Diamond, Nicholas Fedak II, Selma Fernandez Richter, Bill Franson, Jennifer Georgescu, Laurent Girard, Tessa Gordon, Tamar Granovsky, Meg Griffiths, Tytia Habing, Suzy Halpin, Amanda James, Yoichi Kawamura, Asia Kepka, Jung S Kim, Karen Klinedinst, Molly Lamb, Yvette Meltzer, Ralph Mercer, Jenna Miller, Andrew Mroczek, Toni Pepe Dan, Jaime Permuth, Zoe Perry-Wood, Camilo Ramirez, John Rizzo, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Russ Rowland, Lee Saloutos, Wendi Schneider, Raphael Shammaa, Lacey Terrell, India Treat, Dawn Watson, Aaron Wax, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Guanyu Xu, Anna Katharina Zeitler

 The Griffin Museum of Photography

22nd Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition
Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
July 14 – Aug 28, 2016
Reception: July 14th, 7pm

67 Shore Road, Winchester MA

ALINE SMITHSON: Monograph | Self + Others: Portrait As Autobiography

Self + Others: Portrait As Autobiography

Photographs by Aline Smithson

Published by the Magenta Foundation

 Available for pre-purchase here

 Fur from Daughter

Photograph © Aline Smithson

Special Edition soft-cover in a fabulous Drawer Box!

Mr. Malin from Hollywood at Home

Aline Smithson is known as a superstar among her peers. She is beloved in the photo community she so generously promotes and supports daily in her award winning journal, LENSCRATCH, she teaches workshops at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, jury's exhibitions and reviews at portfolio reviews all around the country – while working full-time on her own photography career.

Now, the Magenta Foundation is publishing Aline Smithson's first monograph, Self + Others: Portrait As Autobiography, portrait photographs spanning over twenty years. A gorgeous must-have photography book, with a foreword by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator at the Griffin Museum of Photography; an introduction by Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and some very interesting, revealing text from the photographer about her photographic series, opens each chapter.

Self + Others: Portrait As Autobiography

Photographs by Aline Smithson

Published by the Magenta Foundation

Available for pre-purchase here

I have always been partial to Aline Smithson's black and white photographs of her family with her children at various ages and stages. I was interested to learn she was inspired by some of my favorite photographers. She writes "...I was drawn to the humanity of the early portraits of Keith Carter, captured near his home in Beaumont, Texas; I was fascinated with the intimacy Diane Arbus was able to create with strangers; and I was affected by Matt Mahurin’s moody and gestural images, which inspired me to print darker and take risks in the darkroom."

Night Light from Daughter

Photograph © Aline Smithson

Brothers

Photograph © Aline Smithson

Venus Rising from Inside Out

Photograph © Aline Smithson

Hardcover
11" × 12"
216 pages with foldout section
55 B&W photographs and 75 colour photographs
Full colour throughout and gilded edges
ISBN 978-1-926856-06-3
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Special Edition soft-touch cover book,
inside of a high-gloss, foil stamped
drawer box with a pull-tab
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$60 (book)
$150 (special edition book in box)
$300 (special edition book in box, with print)

Self + Others: Portrait As Autobiography

Photographs by Aline Smithson

Available for pre-purchase here

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"Aline Smithson Talks To Elizabeth Avedon" 

L'Oeil de la Photography Interview here 

GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Honors IPL Founder Larissa Leclair with Spotlight Award

 LARISSA LECLAIR

Founder, Indie Photobook Library

The Indie Photobook Library is a U.S. based archive that collects and showcases self-published and indie published photobooks, and facilitates discourse on trends in contemporary publishing and scholarly research now and in the future, founded by Larissa Leclair.

On October 25, 2014, Larissa Leclair was honored with the Spotlight Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts. The Focus Awards at the Griffin recognize individuals making critical contributions to the promotion, curation and presentation of photography. The Spotlight Award is given to an entity that consistently shines a light on photography and has created a far reaching impact in the field.

Larissa Leclair's Focus Award Tribute VIMEO (3:45) includes Darius Himes, Elizabeth Avedon, George Slade, Daniel Boetker-Smith, and Aaron Canipe. Check it out: http://vimeo.com/109813546

Play the VIMEO

SHERI LYNN BEHR: No Safe Distance

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Safe Distance

This photograph is in the current exhibition at the 

Griffin Museum of Photography's

Peter Urban Legacy 20th Annual Exhibition

Juried by Aline Smithson

Exhibition to August 31, 2014

No Safe Distance: "These photographs address my interest in photography without permission. Today we live in a post-privacy world, an image-obsessed society where cameras are everywhere. With or without our knowledge, we are being photographed countless times a day. When I make these images, I am separated from my subjects by glass store windows. Having a camera with a big lens pointed by an unknown person outside the store creates a moment of sudden awareness of something unexpected. Reactions are varied."

"By cropping and enlarging the faces, which are often distorted by the window's reflections, and by removing the context, there is a certain ambiguity created. The images can reference mug shots, identity cards, Facebook friends, missing persons, even paparazzi celebrity captures. More closely they resemble surveillance photos, which is what they really are. They are meant to challenge our expectations of anonymity and privacy." 
– Sheri Lynn Behr

Work from this series was used to receive a 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship for Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series Watching You

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series Watching You

Watching You: "The camera portraits of Watching You are taken with my iPhone. While the quality of the images is acceptable, they are often grainy and soft. The more I see surveillance footage on the news, the more odd and abstract the images appear. I want to give these photographs a similar distance from reality." read more here

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Matter Where

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Matter Where

No Matter Where: "We know that cameras are everywhere. We try to avoid people pointing smartphones and other hand-held cameras at us as we walk down the street, but are we conscious of all the cameras lurking above, hiding in plain sight? We know we’re being watched, even in the most benign locations, yet as we become more accustomed to the presence of surveillance cameras, we stop paying attention." read more here

Catalog Back Cover Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr,

from the series No Safe Distance 

Buy The Exhibition Catalog

Griffin Museum of Photography's

Peter Urban Legacy 20th Annual Exhibition

Juried by Aline Smithson

Exhibition to August 31, 2014

The complete list of photographers selected for the exhibition here

Sheri Lynn Behr Website

AMY ARBUS: After Images ( two ) Exhibitions

 Nina / After Jeanne, 2012

Photograph © Amy Arbus

Libby / After Therese, 2012
Photograph © Amy Arbus

"I chose portraits that I found emotionally intense 

and heartbreakingly beautiful," says Arbus

 Nina / After Melancholy, 2012
Photograph © Amy Arbus

"Amy Arbus is fearless…Her astonishing and pitch-perfect pictures say as much about the sweetly treasured past of painting as they do about the unpredictably hybrid future of photography." –Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, International Center of Photography

AFTER IMAGES

PHOTOGRAPHS: AMY ARBUS

Amy Arbus is no stranger to portraiture but this latest series takes her work to a new level. These photographs are a discussion of what occurs in the lens between the real, the represented, and how memory influences perception. It is an homage to classic paintings by masters such as Picasso, Modigliani, Cezanne, and Courbet wherein Arbus extends photography's range. Her chiaroscuro lighting and lush colors produce emotionally dark trompe l'oeil portraits in which the live models appear to be trying to escape the confines of the picture.

"Re-enacting a painting requires a very deliberate kind of scrutiny,” says Amy, "It's like dissecting and re-assembling. The challenge for me has been to use extremely soft lighting and to figure out how to represent the sloped shoulders, elongated necks and fingers that don't exist in real life. I was always too intimidated to create portraits in the style of another photographer, yet ironically with this series, in taking liberties from the original, I feel I was able to make my most unique body of work yet. When people first see them, they are convinced they are paintings."

Amy Arbus has published four  books, including the award winning On the Street and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called her most recent book, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in more than 100 hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, and The Fine Arts Work Center and NORDphotography. Arbus is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery and The Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. She has had 24 solo exhibitions worldwide and her photographs are a part of the collection of The National Theater in Norway, The New York Public Library, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. (NYDC/1stdibs)

Books and prints available: Blair Douglas blair@nydc.com + 1stdibs.com

 1STDIBS @ NY DESIGN CENTER

200 Lexington Avenue • 10TH FLOOR • NY NY  

April 2 to 29th

 GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA 

Artist Talk: April 12, 7PM

April 9 to June 2

ICP Book Signing: Amy Arbus "After Images"
ICP Store, 1133 Avenue of the Americas
Friday, April 26, 6:00pm–7:30pm  

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And one of my favorite AMY ARBUS books...

 The Fourth Wall * Amy Arbus * Welcome Books

Available here Photo-Eye Book Store