NICK BRANDT: Inherit The Dust, a monograph

Wasteland With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt's latest book, Inherit The Dust, is a tragic desolate look into our fast approaching future without the majestic beauty of wildlife. An elegant, beautifully designed and printed edition with 68 black-and-white tritone images; two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa; and a behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt’s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs. One of the most important Best Books of 2016.

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Quarry With Lion, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Rhinos, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Quarry With Giraffe, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Underpass With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Cheetahs and Children, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Road Junction With Qumquat and Family, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Inherit The Dust Behind The Scenes

Elephant Panel on Dumpsite 

Photographs © Nick Brandt

 "Due to the urgent nature of the subject matter,

I'm on a mission to get this work exposed"-Nick Brandt

The wasted lands in Inherit The Dust were once golden Savannah, sprinkled with acacia trees, where elephants, big cats and rhinos roamed. These now dystopian landscapes - as Nick Brandt's unvarnished, harrowing but stunning work reveals - brings us face to face with a crisis, both social and environmental, demanding the renewal of humanity itself. -Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director, The Hurt Locker

Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land, documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs―showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras―placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. 

In 2010, Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham, co-founded the Big Life Foundation. Relying on a grass roots effort and calling on inclusive community collaboration, Big Life Foundation was the first organization in East Africa with a coordinated, cross-border anti-poaching operation covering the Kenya/Tanzania border. Five years after its creation, the Foundation now employs more than 300 rangers, 41 permanent and mobile outposts, 15 patrol vehicles, 2 planes for aerial monitoring, and protects over two-million acres of the land.

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

through May 7, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

through May 14, 2016

Inherit The Dust
Photographs by Nick Brandt
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

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Future Exhibition Dates:

May 18 - May 22 2016
ATLAS GALLERY, SOLO EXHIBITION 

PHOTO LONDON, LONDON

May 20 - September 11 2016
FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM

May 13 - July 9 2016
CAMERA WORK, BERLIN

May 23-July 30 2016
A GALERIE, PARIS

June 1 - June 26 2016
LOOK3 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

June 9 - July 23 2016
PHOTO-EYE, SANTA FE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA, MELBOURNE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA @ BLACKEYE, SYDNEY

September 15 - November 13 2016
WILLAS CONTEMPORARY, OSLO
 

FACES: The Darkroom Gallery

JUROR'S CHOICE:  Innocence

 Photograph by John F. Martin

FOUR HONORABLE MENTIONS

 Maleficent

Photograph by Lori Pond

045-Philadelphia

 Photograph by Sheri Lynn Behr

Portraits of Silence, Northern Sri Lanka

 Photograph by Ashok Sinha

David Bram

 Photograph by Nate Mosseau

THE PREMISE FOR SUBMISSIONS

"Each portrait reveals something of the sitter, the photographer and also of us as viewers. No one image can muster a whole and complete being, no matter how much we believe this could be so. This is the part of the photograph we create in our imagination, we fill in each crack and hole with a sort of personalized reasoning. And all these unknowns in the midst of true transparency."

"Eye contact is made or retracted, body language boastful, reticent or indecipherable. Facial expressions can be hard at work or numbly slack. While subjects have a power over these photographic outcomes, it is the choice of the photographer to coax or mute said expressions for their artistic offering." –  Damaris Drummond, Darkroom Gallery

THE JUROR'S FINAL SELECTION

"As a record number of entries were received for FACES, making the final selection for this exhibit was difficult. There were many impressive images and I found it painful to have to leave any behind. Among the many well-composed portraits, I chose images based not only on technical skills, but also on an indefinable element surrounding the expression or emotion projected. I favored images that evoked an air of mystery or clarity; a moment of joy; a secret not shared or a place we may never visit - a point in time captured in the past suggesting unknown possibilities in the future."– Juror, Elizabeth Avedon

FACES EXHIBITION

Dec 12 – Jan 5, 2014

 Faces Artist's Reception
Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 3:00pm
Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont

View All 60 Choices Here

Juror: Elizabeth Avedon 

LEICA GALLERY, LOS ANGELES: Exhibition Mary Ellen Mark, SEAL, Yariv Milchan

  Amanda and her Cousin Amy, Valdese, N.Carolina, 1990
Mary Ellen Mark - Leica, My First Camera

 Me
SEAL - Stopping Time

Emotions in Motion
Yariv Milchan - Leica. An Affair

MARY ELLEN MARK - Leica, My First Camera

SEAL - Stopping Time
YARIV MILCHAN - Leica. An Affair

Leica Gallery, L.A. is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition of three photographers: award winning international photojournalist MARY ELLEN MARK, Leica photographer and Grammy award winning singer/songwriter SEAL and Los Angeles fashion and celebrity photographer YARIV MILCHAN. Through August 31, 2013

MARY ELLEN MARK

 
The exhibition includes 50 iconic gelatin silver prints spanning both Mark's work in cinema as well her profoundly affecting social documentary portraits. Included are several of Mark's iconic Indian Circus images as well as significant environmental portraits from the South, Seattle, as well as New York Street photographs.

In addition to her deep affection for photographing people on the margins of society, Mark has long sustained her career by bringing her talents to Hollywood and European film sets. On display at Leica Gallery are several of her powerful set and backstage portraits capturing intimate moments of movie stars such as Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Johnny Depp. Mark's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums from New York to China, with work in the local permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, California Museum of Photography (Riverside), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Mark has 18 published books to her credit, including Indian Circus, Falkland Road, and Streetwise.

SEAL 

SEAL grew up in England and quickly established himself as a great singer of soul music. Over the span of his illustrious singing and songwriting career SEAL has won 4 Grammy awards, an MTV Video Music award and sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Seal is presently a Coach for The Voice Australia.

A self proclaimed "photography geek" and ambassador for Leica, Seal views his photographic practice as a means of connecting to people and "stopping time." SEAL has been a loyal Leica Camera collector for 25 years. He started shooting 35mm on the original M3 and more recently with the digital Leica Monochrome. His work on display at Leica Gallery includes environmental portraits from the streets of Varanasi, India as well as self-portraits.

YARIV MILCHAN

 
Photographer and film producer Yariv Milchan is Israeli born, educated in France and attended college in Los Angeles. Milchan describes himself as a "self taught photographer" beginning with early internships with world famous fashion photographers that eventually led to jobs with Vanity Fair magazine. Yariv's photographs share a depth and beauty whether he focuses his lens on the stunning California landscape or the sinuous curvature of a woman's back. The common thread always sewing his body of work together is his love of capturing great light, nature and beauty. His exhibition presents a selection of both his landscapes and portraits. (Text courtesy of the Leica Gallery, L.A.)

Through August 31

Leica Gallery, Los Angeles

MAGGIE STEBER+CARLOS RENÉ PEREZ: Collaborate at New York's Leica Gallery

Sleeping Beauty, 2008

 Photograph © Maggie Steber

Madje Steber sleeps in her bed with her stuffed kitty at Midtown Manor her home in Hollywood, FL. in 2008.  Dementia and the medications she takes to fight memory loss, causes Madje to sleep most of the day and night.

 

Cilla and Maggie, Mexico, 1992

Photograph © Carlos Rene Perez

Maggie Steber and Carlos Rene Perez collaborate in a combined exhibit, Presence and Absence. The personal nature of both presentations acts as a common bond and theme and deals with issues of isolation. A secondary bond is that until the mid-nineties the two photographers had lived together for over two decades and their continuing friendship creates a system of support and influence.

Maggie Steber’s exhibit, Rite of Passage, is an intimate recording of her mother’s voyage through the melancholy of dementia.  An only child of an only parent, Steber oversaw her mother’s care for nine years.  She used photography as a therapeutic tool to survive this longest goodbye. The fact that Steber never intended to share the work publicly makes the intimacy far more pronounced. Steber has worked in 63 countries as a freelance magazine photographer. While working as Director of Photography of The Miami Herald, the paper’s photo staff won a Pulitzer and were twice finalists for this coveted award. Her extensive work in Haiti in the 1980s and 1990s was published in an Aperture monograph entitled Dancing on Fire. Steber’s work is included in many private and museum collections as well as the Library of Congress.  She has been a recipient of grants from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Ernst Haas Foundation and the Knight Foundation.

In a remarkable contrast, the diversity of Carlos Rene Perez’s work exemplifies the role of the photographer as artist.  During almost 20 years of Leica Gallery’s existence, Perez has been a regular contributor to its calendar. With this exhibition, An Artist’s Life, he shows a remarkable multiplicity of style, vision and technical control, all along maintaining a truly personal perspective. His work spans 45 years beginning with traditional street photography but then veering off to fanciful tabletop toy adventures, and on to gilded masterworks inspired by Renaissance illuminations. In recent years he's been influenced by Edward Hopper's paintings focusing on the solitary experiences and encounters of individuals in intimate and introspective moments. Perez has consistently exhibited his fine art photography in New York and Texas and is in many private collections across the United States.  Commercially he's worked with Associated Press, USA Today and US News & World Report; Pratt Institute and Columbia University; New York Presbyterian and New York University Medical Centers; Bloomberg News; and 20 years covering New York fashion shows. (courtesy of the Leica Gallery, NY)

Presence and Absence

Maggie Steber and Carlos Rene Perez

 April 19 - June 1, 2013

Leica Gallery • 670 B'way • New York

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

MIKE BRODIE: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity Book + Exhibitions

 Photograph © Mike Brodie

  Photograph © Mike Brodie

  Photograph © Mike Brodie

 Photograph © Mike Brodie

 

  Photograph © Mike Brodie

Mike Brodie Talks To Elizabeth Avedon 

for Le Journal de la Photographie

"Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions..." Read Brodie's Interview

“Mike Brodie spent years crisscrossing the U.S. amassing a collection, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of American travel photography. At 17 he hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, FL thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, AL. Instead the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, FL. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked something and he began to wander across the U.S. by any means that were free - walking, hitchhiking and train hopping. Shortly after, he found a Polaroid camera stuffed behind a car seat. With no training in photography and coke-bottle glasses, the instant camera was an opening for Brodie to document his experiences. As a way of staying in touch with his transient community, he shared his pictures on various websites gaining the moniker “The Polaroid Kidd”. When the Polaroid film he used was discontinued, Brodie switched to 35mm film and a sturdy 1980’s camera.”–Twin Palms

Book

Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

First Edition, Casebound
Twin Palms Publishers

 

Exhibitions
Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity

March 7–April 6, 2013
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity

16 Mar - 11 May 2013
M+B Gallery, Los Angeles

ARLES: Le Journal Reports Daily from the Arles PhotoFestival July 2–Sept 23

THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2012

Le Journal de la Photographie has been covering everything from the ongoing Photography Festival in Arles, France. If you are vacationing in the South of France, many of the exhibits will continue through September 23. Read Le Journal's daily Arles reports: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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P.S. Note my "Interview with Anne Wilkes Tucker", Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is listed as "Best of Last Week" on Le Journal's site.

RACHEL PAPO: Lecture at The Center For Photography at Woodstock Feb 27th

Hava on Margosa Tree, Elroi, Israel 2011
Photograph (c) Rachel Papo /All Rights Reserved

RACHEL PAPO will be giving a lecture about her work at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Sunday, February 27, 11 am. This lecture is part of a new series, Near Here, featuring photographic artists living in the Woodstock area.

You can also view images from Rachel Papo's Exhibition, Serial No. 3817131, posted here 10.13.2009, at the Redline Art Space, Denver, Colorado, March 1-April 26; the Yangon Photo Festival, Yangon, Myanmar, February 24 - March 26; and Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, in May 2011.