AMY ARBUS: Tintype Portrait Evening Dec 13

One 8" x 10" portrait with Amy Arbus - $600

Penumbra Foundation brings you the exclusive opportunity to have your own 8" x 10" tintype made by renown portrait photographer Amy Arbus. For more details and to book your appointment visit their Website. 

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AMY ARBUS
Tintype Portrait Evening
December 13th | Friday
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Photographer Amy Arbus has published five books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called The Fourth Wall her masterpiece. Her most recent, After Images, is an homage to modernism's most iconic avant-garde paintings. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, Aperture and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, NORDphotography, Anderson Ranch and The Fine Arts Work Center. Amy Arbus is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Massachusetts. She has had twenty-five 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.View more of Amy Arbus's work.

NY ART BOOK FAIR PS1 MoMA: Self Publish!

 Q13 "Self Publish, Be Happy" Publisher Bruno Ceschel

 http://www.selfpublishbehappy.com

List of Book Publishers showing at the 2013 NY Book Fair

Top; Q13 "Self Publish, Be Happy" Publisher Bruno Ceschel talks Self-Publishing to my SVA students outside; Ceschel with Harry Gould Harvey IV, author of "Canadian Fruit". Center; B13 Pau Wau Publication Founders Andreas Laszlo Konrath and Brian Paul Lamotte. R01 Little Brown Mushroom Books, Alec Soth Publisher.

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR

September 19 – 22,  2013

MoMA PS1

FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL: Self-Publish + Design Your Own [Photo] Book Workshop 9.26.2013

 Portfolio Reviews • Workshops • Evening Programs • Exhibitions  

 In The American West • Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

FilterPhotoFestival

Self Publish+Design Your Own [Photo] Book 

Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon

My Brother's War • Photographs by Jessica Hines

Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

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FilterPhotoFestival 

Self Publish+Design Your Own [Photo] Book 

Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon

With the emergence of high quality commercial digital presses and the availability of design software, artists are now able to produce their own hardcover and softcover books online at a relatively low cost and with the creative freedom of going it alone.

Self-Publishing Your Own [Photo] Book will cover the basic principles of designing your own photography book. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Elizabeth will demonstrate the bones of putting together a successful photography book; demonstrate how to easily design a great book dummy, including interior design decisions, editing, sequencing, typography and cover design. We will explore what comprises good design from bad, creating a framework for the participant to build upon with their own book project; and the importance of branding, including using your self-published book as a valuable leave behind. Details here

FilterPhotoFestival 

September 25 – September 29th

Chicago 2013

The 2013 Filter Festival Portfolio Review

Check out all of the great Programs, Workshops, Exhibitions

SVA MASTERS in DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Silent Auction to Benefit Scholarship Fund

End of the Year Party + Silent Auction

and photos from my "Thesis: Book + Branding" Class Review

SVA Digital Photography End of the Year Party and Silent Auction to benefit the 2014 Scholarship Fund was a HUGE success raising $4200 that was matched 100% for a total of $8400! View photos here

SETH CASTEEL: Five Questions for the Author of "Underwater Dogs"

 From the New York Times Bestseller, Underwater Dogs

 From the New York Times Bestseller, Underwater Dogs

From the New York Times Bestseller, Underwater Dogs

 

 The New York Times Bestseller, Underwater Dogs

 5 Questions For Seth Casteel

Author of the NY Times Best Seller Underwater Dogs

Seth Casteel is an award-winning photographer and New York Times Best Selling Author. His series of photographs, Underwater Dogs, has been seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world. He cheerfully answered my 5 questions:

EA: What camera do you use for shooting underwater dogs?
 

SC: Canon 7D, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Speedlite and Surf Housing.

EA: Were your first underwater shots by accident or were you experimenting for awhile before you achieved these extraordinary results?

SC: My first shots were with a point-and-shoot underwater camera, and then I began to explore the concept further with different gear. :)

EA: Did you study Photography or assist for a commercial photographer?
 

SC: I am a self taught photographer and have never assisted for a commercial photographer.

EA: What have you learned about dogs single minded attention to their ball or ring?
 

SC: I have learned that game is a favorite among many dogs and have also learned that so many dogs around the world love the water and have a connection with it.
 

EA: What was your first dogs name and how old were you at the time?
 

SC: I grew up with a Miniature Dachshund named Duchess. She came into my life when I was 5. :) I absolutely credit her with inspiring my love for dogs. 

ONE PICTURE SAVES A LIFE

Seth Casteel and model

Photographer Seth Casteel is passionate about helping animals. He volunteers with animal shelters and rescues around the world, professionally photographing homeless pets to increase adoption rates. By teaching workshops at shelters, Seth's mission is to educate and inspire other passionate animal ambassadors to improve the image of rescue and adoption.

Seth is excited to partner with Greater Good, The Animal Rescue Site, The Petfinder Foundation and John Paul Pet to inspire others to save lives through grooming and photography! If you would like to help with this effort, please visit OnePictureSaves.com to sign up for a workshop in your area! You don't need to be a professional photographer! You just have to have a passion for animals and a dedication to help!

SETH CASTEEL

and on Facebook

JEFF JACOBSON: The Last Roll [Of Kodachrome]

 Diner, Lone Pine, California, 2009

Photograph © Jeff Jacobson

 Mt. St. Helens, Washington, 2008

 Photograph © Jeff Jacobson

 Motel 6, Kansas City, Kansas 2009

 Photograph © Jeff Jacobson

"For 35 years, photographer Jeff Jacobson has worked exclusively with Kodachrome film to create images of people and landscapes, mostly made in America, that push the boundaries of photojournalism to present a more poetic and subjective view of the world. Jacobson has described his approach to his photography as rooted in the world but having "one foot in the real world, and one foot somewhere else." His photographs, which are sometimes difficult to decipher, can be beautiful, dreamlike, theatrical, artful, meditative, or quirky, reflecting the artist's personal approach to his work."

"The work in The Last Roll was not a pre-planned concept, but rather evolved out of the blue as a result of timing. In December of 2004, Jacobson was diagnosed with cancer. He underwent chemotherapy treatment, and his life temporarily stopped. While recovering at his home in the Catskills, he was at first too weak to leave the house so he started shooting inside (something he would never have imagined doing previously), out the window, and as he regained his strength outside the house in his backyard, on the street, and by the river. After six months he took his first trip on a plane to resume photographing the rest of America."
 
"In 2009, while still working on the The Last Roll, Kodak announced that it was discontinuing the production of Kodachrome film. The last roll of the film that Jacobson had used throughout his career was processed in 2010. While grappling with his own mortality, Jacobson was working in a medium that had already ended."

"In his personal statement Jacobson writes: "A few days before Christmas, 2004, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. Some present. After each chemotherapy session I retreated to our home in the Catskills to recuperate. I began photographing around the house, as I was too sick to go anywhere else. As my strength returned, my photographic universe slowly expanded. Shortly thereafter, Kodak discontinued production of Kodachrome. I loved Kodachrome. It helped shape my photographic vision. I filled my refrigerator and wine cooler with the stuff and kept shooting. I have outlived my film. A few days before Christmas, 2010, I exposed my last roll."

"The Last Roll is Jacobson's attempt to answer his question "what do you do when you are presented with your own physical and creative mortality?" This beautiful and compelling body of photographs provides a nuanced, first person depiction of a cancer patient's changing perspectives on life, death, art and the world at-large. The colors in Jacobson's photographs of deer basked in car headlights, a lake at dusk, cranes in flight, a tree splattered with blue paint, Mt. St. Helen's, his wife looking out the window, a self portrait, are more muted than in his previous work as he moves into a deeper place of self reflection. Jacobson refers to photography as the fulcrum of his life, no matter what else is going on, and this feeling is celebrated in The Last Roll. The photographs are accompanied by a poem written by Jacobson's wife Marnie Andrews." (Courtesy of Daylight Books)

JEFF JACOBSON: THE LAST ROLL

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

Exhibition through June 16, 2013 

The Last Roll  

Daylight Books, 2013. Printed in Iceland by Oddi Press 

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THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK
is located in upstate New York in the heart of the Catskill Mountains

LAUREN HENKIN: Self Publishing Artist Books

This Is Your Land 2 

Photograph © Lauren Henkin

 

 This Is Your Land 3

Photograph © Lauren Henkin

 This Is Your Land 4

 Photograph © Lauren Henkin

Lauren Henkin with "This Is Your Land"

“My work focuses on the question, What will last? I work from the inside out, using internal narrative as the foundation in which to produce objects that reinterpret space, light and form found in the external."–Lauren Henkin

Last week I went to the Center for Alternative Photography to hear artist photographer Lauren Henkin speak about her work and her self-publishing ventures. Born in Washington, D.C., artist Lauren Henkin grew up in Maryland, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and now resides in New York City.

Henkin is an educator, reviewer, frequent speaker, photolucida advisory board member, author and publisher of multiple books, and active member in the photographic community. Her work is widely collected by institutions such as the Southeast Museum of Photography, Yale University and Dartmouth College as well as numerous private collectors. Her work has been published in numerous journals on photography and book arts including Black+White Magazine, Photo District News, Shots Magazine, Diffusion Magazine, Flak Photo, Urbanautica, Landscape Stories, Parenthesis and The Washington Post. She is both a Px3 multi-category award and Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council grant winner, with other award nominations in both the Brink Emerging Artist and Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. She also founded her own imprint, Vela Noche, a small fine press publishing company and online shop.

Lauren Henkin
Workshop: Self-publishing Artist Books, An Introduction

Center for Alternative Photography

36 East 30th Street

May 18

2012 HOLIDAY BOOKS: A Few More Favorites II

Nadav Kander: Obama's People

Publisher: Flowers

Each subject was photographed in front of the same white backdrop, standing in a 2ft by 2ft box marked out by tape. They were asked to bring an item that disclosed something about their personality. "One guy [Senator Robert Casey] brought a basketball because he played daily with Barack Obama," says Kander. "Other people brought me ties. Ken Salazar [interior secretary] brought his cowboy hat. A lot of people said, 'Look I've got two BlackBerries.'

 REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota

Photography and text by Rebecca Norris Webb
Edited with Alex Webb (Radius, 2012)

"In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people." More here

 Lise Sarfati: "She" 

Text Quentin Bajac. Twin Palms Publisher, 2012

 The women in "She" have a vaporous relationship with their surrounding, their house, their streets, and their landscapes. They are shut in their neurotic attitude from where it is difficult to perceive the outside world. Read more in my Interview with Lise Sarfati...

Interview with Lise Sarfati here

 

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from The Unconscious

Aperture, 2011

Thames+Hudson, UK; Actes Sud, France

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection follow an unprecedented theme in which the subject’s eyes are averted, hidden, concealed, pierced, or missing in every photograph. Selected works include photographs by Man Ray, Irving Penn, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Edward Steichen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Berenice Abbott, and Nadar in a range of formats from daguerreotype to digital...Read more in my Interview with Wm. Hunt

Interview with W.M. Hunt here

Jerry Atnip: Gone South

Jerry Atnip's beautiful limited editioned book, "GoneSouth," images of the American South, from Tennessee to Georgia. 200 copies and includes a signed/numbered print. “Many photographers feel that they need to travel to faraway or exotic places to capture great images. I also travel the world on assignments, but enjoy recording the land I was raised in. I find I’m never at a lack for interesting subject matter throughout the South.”–Jerry Atnip

 

Tod Papageorge: Core Curriculum
Writings on Photography. Aperture , 2011

"Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, a collection of essays, reviews and lectures by Tod Papageorge, one of the most influential voices in photography today. As the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art, Papageorge has shaped the work and thought of generations of artist-photographers, and, through his critical writings he has earned a reputation as an unusually eloquent and illuminating guide to the work of many of the most important figures in twentieth century photography. Among the artists Papageorge discusses in this essential volume are Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Robert Frank (with Walker Evans), Robert Adams and his close friend Garry Winogrand."

2012 BOOKS: A Few Favorites I

NY BOOK FAIR: MOMA PS1 This Weekend!

  Self Publish, Be Happy 

Book Club 1, 2012

Self Publish, Be Happy 

2nd floor, Q42

 

Self Publish, Be Happy, Q42

Antonio de Luca (left), Art Director, and Bruno Ceschel (right), Director of Self Publish, Be Happy. Check out their selection of remarkable, rare contemporary books at the NY Book Fair, 2nd floor, Q42!

Bruno Ceschel, "Self Publish, Be Happy" Founder/Director, talks to photography students from my School of Visual Arts "Professional Community" class.

"Self Publish, Be Happy is an organization founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010 with the aim of celebrating, studying and promoting self-published photo books through events (such as exhibitions, displays and talks), publications and online exposure. Self Publish, Be Happy also organizes workshops that help artists and photographers make and publish their own books." selfpublishbehappy.com

A-Jump Books,  R15

"A-Jump Books is a small publishing house dedicated to producing photo-based books that challenge convention through understatement and artistic rigor. a-jumpbooks.com/Home.html

 Little Big Man Books, R04

Limited edition (100) silk-screened box, hand numbered and signed by the artist. Contains additional 11×14 traditional c-print, and loose silkscreen cover image.

 Photography Critic Vince Aletti at the NY Book Fair

There are literally hundreds of incredible book publishers to check out at the New York Book Fair this weekend at MOMA's PS1 in Long Island City. Easy to get to on the M, G, 7 trains. 

New York Art Book Fair

September 28-30

iPhone snaps © Elizabeth Paul Avedon/all rights reserved.

2011 BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS | Part I

A few of my choices for

The Best Photography Books of 2011

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The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious
Aperture, 2011

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York to Feb. 19, 2012

"When I turned 50, I decided my life’s mission would be to promote the pleasure of photography." William Hunt, collector, curator, consultant, writer, teacher... Read La Lettre's Interview with WM. Hunt

"The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals. Amassed over the course of thirty years by New York collector W. M. Hunt, the collection includes works by masters such as Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Frank as well as lesser-known artists and vernacular images." –Aperture

Eyewitness. Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century
Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi
Royal Academy Publications, 2011

"At a crucial moment between two world wars, five men changed the face of photojournalism and art photography, and inspired the world. With their groundbreaking shots, Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, and Munkásci radically redefined photographic practice and theory, ushering in the modern era." Publisher's Description

Vivian Maier, Street Photographer
PowerHouse Books, 2011

"The elusive Vivian Maier has left us many clues and a diary of over 100,000 negatives that reflect her time and her place. The quiet observer,the plain spoken no non-sense woman, the obsessive photo taker, the nanny and mysterious legend in the making. There are a lot of good images revealed in these books all leading us to learn a little more from this sphinx like creature" – John A. Bennette, Curator of Maier's first New York exhibition, "Vivian Maier, Photographer," at the Hearst Gallery, New York

In 2011, Aperture released Diane Arbus: A Chronology and newly reissued Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and Untitled: Diane Arbus on the fortieth anniversary of the original publication.

Who Is Marvin Israel? DVD

You and I. Photographs by Ryan McGinley
Twin Palms, 2011

"Following in the footsteps of Allen Ginsberg and his "Snapshot Poetics," McGinley turned his lens on the bodies and pastimes of his Lower East Side milieu, adding another generation to the History of Photography. This work, from the first years of this century, has given way to Ryan’s subjects running through and falling out of otherworldly utopian landscapes, caverns, forests and deserts; worlds away from the Chinatown tenements he still calls home."–Jack Woody, Twin Palms Publisher

Ryan McGinley Portfolio on La Lettre

Bordeaux Series. Photographs by Mona Kuhn
Steidl, 2011

Working with preeminent photography publisher, Gerhard Steidl, on her newly released Bordeaux Series, Kuhn said, “The thing is, I only have really wonderful things to say about Gerhard. He is indeed a genius of publishing.”–Mona Kuhn

Read Mona Kuhn's Interview

Salt & Truth. Photographs by Shelby Lee Adams
Candela Books, 2011

The Bridge at Hoover Dam. Photographs by Jamey Stillings
Nazraeli Press, 2011

Moby: Destroyed
Damiani, 2011

“When I play music, I’m just exclusively focused on the music. When I’m taking photographs, I’m exclusively focusing on that. There’s not a lot of interdisciplinary stuff going on in my head.”– Moby

Read Moby's Interview

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Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography
By Tod Papageorge. Aperture, 2011

Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography is a collection of essays, reviews and lectures by Tod Papageorge, Photographer and Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art. Papageorge discusses with deep critical insight are Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Robert Frank (with Walker Evans), Robert Adams and his close friend Garry Winogrand.

Tod Papageorge

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Sylvia Plachy's Out of the Corner of My Eye: de reojo, Goings On About Town

Although Sylvia Plachy didn't publish a book in 2011, her work remains timeless. Plachy, a Hungarian/American photographer, was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1943. Her family moved to New York City due to the Hungarian Revolution where she met photographer Andre Kertesz. Plachy's photo essays and portraits have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Granta, Artforum, Fortune, and everywhere else. They have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Berlin, Budapest, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Paris and Tokyo. Her book, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home (2005), is a personal history of Central Europe with photographs and text, received a Golden Light Award for Best Book in 2004. In 2009, she received the Dr. Erich Salomon Preis in Berlin for Lifetime Achievement in Photojournalism. This January 2012, Plachy and Jeff Liao will be exhibiting Panoramic Photographs of New York City when The South Street Seaport Museum reopens.

sylviaplachy.com

2011 BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS | Part II