REVIEW SANTA FE: June 4-7, 2009

2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography winner
Photograph (c) Hiroyo Kaneko/All rights reserved

2008 Portfolio Viewing. Photograph © Sara Stathas

"Review Santa Fe provides an excellent forum in which to review accomplished bodies of work and search for new talent."

—Yossi Milo, Yossi Milo Gallery

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REVIEW SANTA FE is a juried portfolio review event produced annually by CENTER (formerly known as the Santa Fe Center for Photography). The conference is for photographers who have created a significant project or series and are seeking wider recognition. Up to 100 photographers meet with esteemed curators, editors, art directors, publishers, gallery and agency reps, and alternative market professionals.

THE 100 REVIEW SANTA FE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Click to access the online listing of the 100 Review Santa Fe photographers work and links to their websites.

REVIEWERS Click to see the list of Reviewer biographies for 2009.

PUBLIC PORTFOLIO VIEWING Friday, June 5, 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to the public, Portfolio Viewing offers an opportunity for the public to view the 100 photographic projects from image-makers who were invited to attend Review Santa Fe 2009. Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM.

FLAK PHOTO CENTER teamed up with Flak Photo, a contemporary photography website highlighting new series work, photo books and gallery exhibitions from established and emerging photographers. In support of Review Santa Fe, Flak Photo editor and Review Santa Fe reviewer, Andy Adams features forty-five of the 2009 photographers in the online gallery from May 27-July 28, 2009.

After New York and Los Angeles, Santa Fe has the third largest art audience in the country.

NANCY NEWHALL: Photography Review

"Hands of Ann and Ansel Adams". Photograph (c) Nancy Newhall
Courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd

"Buckminster Fuller". Photograph (c) Nancy Newhall
Courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd

"When I married Beaumont, I married photography"

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NANCY NEWHALL played a major role in legitimizing photography as a fine art. She worked closely with her husband Beaumont Newhall and well known photographers Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston and Minor White. It was only after her death in 1974, her own photographs were revealed.

Beaumont Newhall founded the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935, and was curator and director of George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, from 1948 to 1971. Nancy assisted her husband (she assumed the role of MoMA's curator of photography during Beaumont's wartime service), was a founding member of Aperture magazine, wrote extensively about photography and curated independantly.

Newhall's photographs were recently shown in the exhibition "Nancy & Beaumont Newhall: A Centennial Celebration" presented by Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his current review in Art News, Tom Collins writes, "Beaumont Newhall's part in bringing photography to prominence in America is well known. This show, titled "A Centennial Celebration," convincingly places the contributions of Beaumont's wife, Nancy, on the same level as his. Born in 1908 and married in 1936, they both devoted their lives, in tandum and individually, to curating shows, charting and commenting on the evolution of photography, and making pictures themselves." Read the entire Art News Review

View "Nancy & Beaumont Newhall" Exhibition On-line
Nancy Newhall Bio
Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd

ADRIAN PANARO: Out My Back Door

Out My Back Door #5
Photograph (c) Adrian Panaro/All Rights Reserved

"My family and I were living in a loft three blocks south of the World Trade Center, at Trinity Place and Rector Street, and witnessed the first plane hitting the North tower from our six year old's school PS 234, at Greenwich and Chambers Streets. We weren't permitted to go home for about 6 weeks and when public policy dictated it was safe, our eyes and noses told us otherwise. We hoped things would improve, but in the end we decided to move out to New Mexico. "

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PHOTOGRAPHER ADRIAN PANARO now divides his time between New York and New Mexico. The destruction on 9/11 rendered his downtown residence/studio, like the rest of the neighborhood, uninhabitable and in 2002 he and his wife Tina moved their family to New Mexico.

Panaro began his professional career in New York City in the 1970's. After traveling extensively throughout Afghanistan, India and Nepal and attaining his undergraduate degree in Anthropology, he began working for Richard Avedon. During his 3 years with Avedon, he learned the fine points of studio lighting, participated in the preparation for and mounting of Richard Avedon's major retrospective Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while also serving for a time as studio manager. Panaro next worked with fashion photographer Bill King in Paris and New York.

When Adrian branched out on his own as a free-lance editorial and advertising photographer, his work was published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Details Magazine, and various international publications. Those early portraits of artists, writers and musicians included everyone from photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, artist Andy Warhol, to the legendary rock and roller Chuck Berry.

Since moving to New Mexico, his work has expanded, and taken him into a much different direction. "Due to my being an expatriate and from the experience of 9/11, I found myself drawn back to the original impetus that led me into photography as a medium of self expression."

ADRIAN PANARO

May 1st through May 30, 2009
Group Exhibition:Walter Randel Gallery
287 10th Avenue, NY, NY.
http://www.wrgallery.com

Adrian Panaro: http://www.adrianpanarophotography.com
ArtInfo: Robert Mapplethorp, Silver Gelatin Print, 10 x 10 inches