WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL | DIANE ARBUS SLIDE-SHOW + TALK

Who Is Marvin Isreal? DVD
Directed by Neil Selkirk and Doon Arbus

WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL? is a short documentary on the life, work, and world of the enigmatic Marvin Israel (1924-1984), artist, designer, art director, and teacher. Israel's influence on Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, and many others is explored in the words of those who knew him. Directed by Neil Selkirk.

Who Is Marvin Israel?
and
A Slide-Show and Talk by Diane Arbus

SVA Theatre
333 W 23 ST (8th x 9th)
Thursday December 15th 7:30 PM
Free Admission

Self-Portrait
Marvin Israel | Painter, Book Designer...my Mentor

Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus photographed at her
1971 master class by her student Cosmos Sarchiapone

SLIDE SHOW AND TALK BY DIANE ARBUS - DEC 15th

An original audio recording of a 1970 slide presentation by Diane Arbus in which she speaks about photography using her own work and other photographs, snapshots and clippings from her collection. Compiled and edited by Neil Selkirk, Doon Arbus and Adam Shott.

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An encore screening of a rare historic 1970 slide presentation given by the legendary photographer Diane Arbus where she discusses her work and her motivations. The presentation will be accompanied by a screening of the short documentary Who is Marvin Israel? (2005), an examination of the life of designer Marvin Israel, a friend of Arbus and an influence in her work. Presented by SVA and introduced by Chair of the Photography Department, Stephen Frailey, in conjunction with the Aperture Foundation.

A Slide-Show and Talk by Diane Arbus
and
Who Is Marvin Israel?

SVA Theatre
333 W 23 ST (8th x 9th)
Thursday December 15th 7:30 PM
Free Admission

Celebrating the release of Diane Arbus: A Chronology and the newly reissued Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and Untitled: Diane Arbus, books will be available for purchase at a reception following the screening.

WILLIAM CLIFT: Photographs + Books

Charis, Bandelier, N.M., 1974
Photograph Copyright (c) William Clift

Intuition precedes everything. When I look back at my first photographs taken around 12 years old, I'm surprised certain things are there so early in one's life. You have no idea where the hell it comes from.

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WILLIAM CLIFT is recognized for his exquisite New Mexico landscapes, of Mont Saint-Michel, France, for documentation of our nation’s courthouses, the New York State Capitol in Albany, and the Hudson River Valley. Past publications include, Certain Places (1987), A Hudson Landscape (1993) and A Particular World (2008). He grew up on Boston's Beacon Hill and now lives with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As early as 10 years old, Clift was already working in his own darkroom from images he'd taken with his Brownie camera. He saved his money summer after summer caddying until he'd saved enough to purchase a Polaroid camera in 1956. As film was expensive, he was very careful to take only a very few images. Not taking quantities of pictures has seemingly become a habit that's lasted throughout his career.

At 12, he photographed the luminous image, Barbara's Table, Boston, Mass., 1956 (the frontispiece of his book, Certain Places) with his Poloroid. At 15, he took his first photography workshop with Paul Caponigro. He became the youngest member of the Association of Heliographers (named after the 1929 sun-imagery process) founded by Walter Chappell, along with Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, and a few other established photographers.

WILLIAM CLIFT's latest book, A Particular World, may be one of the most exceptional photography books of this decade. An assembly of 25 color photographs by William Clift taken with a Polaroid Spectra camera of his family and home.

A PARTICULAR WORLD, 1987-2007
Designed by Eleanor Caponigro. Pearmain Press, 2008
Available at Photo-Eye Books

William Clift Website

21 Questions with daughter, Carola Clift

DIANE ARBUS and MARVIN ISRAEL: Original 1970 Audio Slide Presentation + Screening

Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus photographed at her
1971 master class by her student Cosmos Sarchiapone

An Evening With
DIANE ARBUS AND MARVIN ISRAEL

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A SLIDE SHOW AND TALK BY DIANE ARBUS
and a screening of
WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL?

The SLIDE SHOW AND TALK BY DIANE ARBUS is an original audio recording of a 1970 slide presentation by Diane Arbus in which she speaks about photography using her own work and other photographs, snapshots and clippings from her collection. Compiled and edited by Neil Selkirk, Doon Arbus and Adam Shott.

WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL? is a short documentary on the life, work, and world of the enigmatic Marvin Israel (1924-1984), artist, designer, art director, and teacher. Israel's influence on Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, and many others is explored in the words of those who knew him. Directed by Neil Selkirk.

SVA Theatre
333 W 23 ST (8th x 9th)
Thursday October 6th 7:30 PM
Free Admission

Celebrating the release of Diane Arbus: A Chronology and the newly reissued Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and Untitled: Diane Arbus, books will be available for purchase at a reception following the screening.

JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE: Diary of A Century

Au Sentier de la Vertu, 1912
Photograph (c) Jacques Henri Lartigue

Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1911
Photograph (c) Jacques Henri Lartigue

Car Trip, Papa at 80 kilometers an hour, 1913
Photograph (c) Jacques Henri Lartigue

The ZYX 24 takes off, Rouzat, 1910
Photograph (c) Jacques Henri Lartigue

Simone Roussel on the Beach at Villerville, 1906
Photograph (c) Jacques Henri Lartigue

Zissou, Rouzat,1911
Photograph (c) Jacques Henri Lartigue

Lartigue Retrospective Exhibition at CaixaForum, Madrid
March 4 to June 19th, 2011

A Floating World: Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), features 182 modern prints of Lartigue’s photographs, including 18 modern recreations of his stereoscopic pictures with their original three-dimensional effect-taken with a stereoscopic camera, a device very much in fashion at the time, in the attempt to capture reality in all its dimensions. Also, the show includes an insight into the different techniques that Lartigue used to create and organize his works. The section includes 23 vintage prints, produced between 1905 and 1926, as well as 3 cameras that belonged to Lartigue, some stereoscopic glasses, 8 autochrome prints (coloured photographs), four albums of original photographs and 6 volumes of the diaries and agendas that he kept throughout his life.

Lartigue's first book, Diary Of A Century, was made in collaboration with Richard Avedon and designed by Bea Feiter, 1970

Jacques-Henri Lartigue took his first photographs at the age of six in 1900. He was considered a child prodigy and produced incredible images of his family and friends by the time he was twelve. In the dozen or so years before World War I, whether it was racing cars, flying machines, people jumping, glider planes, ladies of fashion strolling in the park, or people at the seashore and at the races, the young Lartigue was fascinated by movement. Lartigue was rediscovered in the 1970s with the publication of Diary of a Century, edited by Richard Avedon.

Jacques Henri Lartigue Foundation

ARNOLD NEWMAN: 93rd BirthDay

Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York, NY , 1947
Photograph (c) Arnold Newman /All Rights Reserved

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, New York, NY, 1941
Photograph (c) Arnold Newman /All Rights Reserved

Stieglitz & O'Keeffe, New York, NY, 1944
Photograph (c) Arnold Newman /All Rights Reserved

Igor Stravinsky, New York, NY, 1946
Photograph (c) Arnold Newman /All Rights Reserved

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."

"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."

"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses." – Arnold Newman

Photographer Arnold Newman, one of the best portrait photographers of the 20th century, would have been 93 today. "He helped me find my way with photography when I was young and trying to figure things out. One of the things he taught me was that I should pursue what I know best, much like an author"...read more on Photographer Larry McNeil's Photoblog

SUSAN MAY TELL: André Kertész

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell /All Rights Reserved

When André Kertész, my favorite photographer of all time, and who lived nearby in Greenwich Village, saw this photograph he told me: "Many times I see that and say I have to photograph it. Now that I've seen this, I no longer have to."–Susan May Tell

–from Susan May Tell's slide presentation Photographs of Space, Silence, and Solitude, hosted by photographer David Brommer, B+H's Event Space Coordinator.

FOUND MY PHOTOS: Master Photographers

Photographer Saul Leiter in his Studio, 1972

Contact sheet (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved

Photographer Ernst Haas and Artist Anders Holmquist  
Contact sheet, 1976 (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved

Photographer Art Kane and model Susan Forristal, Puerto Rico

Contact sheet 1972 (c) Elizabeth Paul /All Rights Reserved

Found my contact sheets and found my negatives, 
but no longer have a darkroom to print in...

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Alfred Stieglitz Photo 1 of 10 Most Expensive Ever Sold

Georgia O'Keeffe
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Hands, 1918
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

"Hands" (Georgia O'Keeffe's) by Alfred Stieglitz sold for almost $1.5 million dollars at a 2006 Sotheby’s auction. View The Ten Most Expensive Photographs In The World Ever Sold. Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

PRESIDENTS DAY: Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe

Senator John F. Kennedy Campaigning with his Wife in Boston
Photograph Carl Mydans © Time Inc.

Navy CPO, Graham Jackson, Playing "Going Home" as President Roosevelt's Body is Carried, Warm Springs, GA, April 13, 1945. Photograph © Ed Clark /All Rights Reserved

Richard Nixon giving a Victory Speech, 1968
Photograph Lee Balterman © Time Inc

The Lindy Hop, The Savoy, Harlem, 1939

Photograph © Cornell Capa /All Rights Reserved

The Monroe Gallery of Photography, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, specializes in classic black & white photography with an emphasis on humanist and photojournalist imagery. It was founded in 2001 by Sidney and Michelle Monroe, following 20 years of gallery experience in New York City. The gallery features work by more than 50 renowned photographers and also represents a select group of contemporary and emerging photographers. Gallery Photographers

THE MONROE GALLERY

TOD PAPAGEORGE: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge/Courtesy Pace/MacGill, New York

TOD PAPAGEORGE is one of four artists nominated for this year's Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Originally an English Literature major at the University of New Hampshire, and, since 1979, Yale's Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, he is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships, author of important essays and many articles on photography, and a photographer whose work has been collected in major collections all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Tod Papageorge's photographs are up for the prestigious 2009 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize now being exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London. This exhibition runs through April 11, 2009. The Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW.

Interview by Richard B. Woodward BOMB MAGAZINE

Interview by Christine Smallwood: THE NATION
Insight BLOG
Steidl Book Passing Through Eden

Tod Papageorge at PACE/MACGILL

Sent from Tod Papageorge: A ROBERT FRANK INTERVIEW

Deutsche Borse Prize: THE GUARDIAN VIDEO CLIP

WILLIAM CLIFT: Photographs + Books

Charis, Bandelier, N.M., 1974
Photograph Copyright (c) William Clift

"Intuition precedes everything. When I look back at my first photographs taken around 12 years old, I'm surprised certain things are there so early in one's life. You have no idea where the hell it comes from."

+ + +

WILLIAM CLIFT is recognized for his exquisite New Mexico landscapes, of Mont Saint-Michel, France, for documentation of our nation’s courthouses, the New York State Capitol in Albany, and the Hudson River Valley. Past publications include Certain Places (1987), A Hudson Landscape (1993) and A Particular World (2008). He grew up on Boston's Beacon Hill and now lives with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As early as 10 years old, Clift was already working in his own darkroom from images he'd taken with his Brownie camera. He saved his money summer after summer caddying until he'd saved enough to purchase a Poloroid camera in 1956. As film was expensive, he was very careful to take only a very few images. Not taking quantities of pictures has seemingly become a habit that's lasted throughout his career.

At 12, he photographed the luminous image Barbara's Table, Boston, Mass., 1956 (the frontispiece of his book Certain Places) with his Poloroid. At 15, he took his first photography workshop with Paul Caponigro. He became the youngest member of the Association of Heliographers (named after the 1929 sun-imagery process) founded by Walter Chappell, along with Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, and a few other established photographers.

WILLIAM CLIFT's latest book, A Particular World, may be one of the most exceptional photography books of this decade. An assembly of 25 color photographs by William Clift taken with a Poloroid Spectra camera of his family and home.

A PARTICULAR WORLD, 1987-2007
Designed by Eleanor Caponigro. Pearmain Press, 2008
Available at Photo-Eye Books
William Clift Website