PORTALS: Enter by September 17, 2021

 

"View" © Leslie Jean-Bart⁠

"Leaving" © Amanda Smith

"Portal" call for Submissions due by Friday September 17, 2021

A Smith Gallery. Juror, Elizabeth Avedon.

Portal :  doorway, entrance, opening, entry, gate, egress, opening, aperture, porte, exit, hatch, mirror, passage, threshold, cut, entrada, hole, scuttle, window, approach, camera, breach, mirror….

Deadline: Sept. 17, 2021

Submission Link: http://asmithgallery.com/main-gallery-call-for-entry/

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Portals have been sought as long as man has been man:  real and imagined.

A lecturer in art history expressed that the painter Paul Gauguin sought a portal into the home of his artistic daemon by traveling to Tahiti. She defined the word daemon as: a supernatural being whose nature is intermediate between that of a god and that of a human being. Many of her students were frightened, many were intrigued. Some began painting.

Was Jim Morrison simple – “The Doors?”

Danny Sugarman sat in the Jardin in San Miguel de Allende, haranguing a retired Wyoming dentist, expressing his tremendous delight at the invention of the digital camera; “Man this place is lousy with doors, really killer doors. Can you imagine the pain in the ass shooting all these doors with film would be?”  The Dentist replied, “Tan absolutamente hermosa, aqui es un lugar de puertas majias, portales de espiritu y gente muy amable.”  “Ok, yeah,” said Danny Sugarman.

“The old saying goes, “The eyes are the windows of the soul.”  So, probably right but some folk’s eyes are doors, windows are primarily made to look out of, but doors are for walking through, running through, hauling groceries through, heading out of, bringing bourbon through for the eggnog, opening when you’ve burned the bacon…  ” From “Lost in the Neighborhood With Books” By Franklin Cincinnatus

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Image: Amanda Smith

"PORTRAITS" A Call to Enter yours! 

JUROR | Elizabeth Avedon 

A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
Entries due: March 23, 2020. 

Exhibition: May 8 – June 21, 2020.
Image: Amanda Smith

ENTER HERE

Submission Guidelines 

Questions: amanda@asmithgallery.com

INTERIORS: Call For Entry | A. Smith Gallery | Juror Elizabeth Avedon | Deadline Aug 20th

Photograph © Amanda Smith

“Interiors” Call for Entry: A Smith Gallery

Juror | Elizabeth Avedon

Entries Due | August 20, 2018

Exhibition | October 5 to November 11, 2018

Reception | October 27, 2018, 4 to 8pm

INTERIORS: inside, details, furnishings, space, indoors, within, internals, contents …. Creativity is encouraged! Jurors Award – $325.00. Directors Award – $250.00. And more ..... ELIGIBILITY |  Submissions are open to all photographers both professional and amateur working in all photographic mediums and styles. International entries are welcomed. Work that has been previously exhibited at A Smith Gallery is not eligible. View Submission Guidelines here

A. Smith Gallery

YUKARI CHIKURA “ZAIDO” | FotoFest

 Performers walking through the snow to the shrine.

Photograph © Yukari Chikura

A shrine, hidden in an otherworldly snow landscape, dedicated to the Sun Goddess Amaterasu. It is located in an area known for its heavy snowfalls, the border between thethree prefectures of Aomori, Iwate and Akita. © Yukari Chikura

The Godaison-mai. The two wearing the golden masks are the Ōbakase and Kobakase. The chant of the Ōbakase has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. Because of the sudden death of an Ōbakase a long time ago, its meaning was lost and the performer is actually only pretending to chant. © Yukari Chikura

Photograph © Yukari Chikura 

A nōshū performing mizugori (cold water ablutions) at Makanaiyado, a ritual that is currently only executed at one of the four original localities. On this day the lake in front of the house had frozen, making the task even harder. © Yukari Chikura

YUKARI CHIKURA 

ZAIDO (Dedicated to My Father…)

“My deceased father came to me in a dream. “Go to a village hidden in deep snow where I lived a long time ago,” he whispered to me. As if in a dream, I followed his instructions and boarded a train; when I disembarked at a small village, I found it covered in silvery-white snow; the landscape an otherworldly dream.” – Yukari Chikura

Following a succession of tragedies, including her father’s sudden death, her own critical injuries from an accident, and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Yukari Chikura set off on a pilgrimage to northeast Japan. Her father’s whispers from a dream inspired her to follow his instructions, which were to document the 1,300-year-old Japanese ritual New Year’s festivity. Described by Steidl in a soon to be published monograph, Chikura captures photographs “of snowscapes that border on abstraction with images of the intricate masks and costumes of Zaido, depicting the cultural diversity of the participants, as well as their common bond in creating collective memory and ensuring the survival of this ritual.” I am deeply taken both visually and emotionally with the metaphysical nature of these performances

Yukari Chikura, Fotofest Portfolio Reviews 2016

FotoFest invited me to select one artist whose work I found particularly compelling from my experience as a reviewer at the 2016 Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews. I selected Yukari Chikura from the many wonderful photographers I reviewed as I was most impressed with her images and their back story. Her photographs, along with the other nine photographers chosen by 2016 reviewers, will be featured in the Biennial's "Discoveries of the Meeting Place" exhibition at the Spring Street Studios in Houston from March 10 through April 22, 2018. EA  

www.fotofest.org

Artists Reception: March 20, 2018, 6-8pm 

DISCOVERIES OF THE MEETING PLACE

March 10 - April 22, 2018

Spring Street Studios

1824 Spring Street

Houston, Texas

Marina Black (Russia/Canada): Selected By Patricia Conde, Director, Patricia Conde Galería (Mexico City, Mexico)

Jinhyun Cha (South Korea): Selected By Elda Harrington and Silvia Mangialardi, Encuentros Abiertos (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Yukari Chikura (Japan): Selected By Elizabeth Avedon (New York, USA), Independent Curator  

Debi Cornwall (USA): Selected By Duan Yuting, Founder and Director, Lianzhou Foto, (Guangzhou, China)

Kirk Crippens + Gretchen LeMaistre (USA): Selected By Maarten Schilt, Founder and Director, Schilt Publishing & Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

David Fathi (France): Selected By Louise Clements, Artistic Director, Quad; and Director, Format International Photography Festival (Derby, United Kingdom)

Thomas Holton (USA): Selected By Jae-Hyun Seok, Independent Curator and Professor at Daegu Mirae College (Daegu, South Korea)

Priya Kambli (India/USA): Selected By Dan Leers, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Elaine Ling (China/Canada): Selected By Xavier Soule, Owner & President, Galerie VU' & Agence VU' (Paris, France)

Dylan Vitone (USA): Selected By Malcolm Daniel, Gus And Lyndall Wortham Curator Of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas, USA)

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www.fotofest2018.art

Alongside the FotoFest 2018 Biennial's central exhibition, INDIA/Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art,FotoFest sponsors the popular Discoveries of the Meeting Place, an exhibition that originates from the FotoFest International Meeting Place Portfolio Review for Artists. FotoFest invited ten reviewers to select artists whose work was an interesting discovery from their experience at the 2016 Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews. These artists are featured in the Biennial's Discoveries of the Meeting Place exhibition. The Meeting Place has established itself as a launching pad for the careers of artists, and these Discoveries are among its most successful, finding opportunities for exhibition, publication, and sales across the globe as a result of the portfolio reviews. FotoFest is proud to highlight this group of artists as a testament to their success. 

A. SMITH GALLERY: Black and White

 William King / Give Peace a Chance

 Mark Coggins / Geisha Confidential

 Leslie Jean-Bart / The Cargo Has Arrived

Francis Crisafio / Holdup in the Hood 1

Black + White

“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.” – Henri Matisse

The call to enter was simple. Black and White. The possibilities of what may be entered are limitless. “All the masters shot in black and white,” as Daido Moriyama has put so simply, “but then again, that is all they had.” Today there are so many other choices, and directions photographers can take, but thankfully many continue to embrace the choice toward black and white imagery.

I never get bored looking at images. I’m drawn to all types, all subjects, and all genres. What makes one image more interesting to me than another is hard to define. Finding something, perhaps the smallest detail, is the extraordinary that waits to be discovered.

And so with this call for entry I was not disappointed by the results. From over 1,000 images submitted, I found that there was more than one exhibition that could be edited from the whole. That is what makes jurying so difficult. There are only fifty seats at the table, but there are at least four or five times as many images that exceed expectations, that tell a story better than another, that make you feel strongly about something you may not have noticed before.

When I first viewed William King’s magical photograph of Coretta Scott King (no relation), I knew it had to receive the top Juror’s Award. It just rose above the others both in content and in skill. I had that same strong feeling when viewing Leslie Jean-Bart, Mark Coggins and Francis Crisafio' three Honorable Mention photographs. The images that followed were chosen individually for one reason or another, but not to say they were easy choices – there were so many that had to be left out for reasons of space. The photographs that weren’t “chosen” this time around – try not to take it personally – all of the work was very good. Continue to send your work out into the world as a big wide net. Let it come back to you from sources you couldn’t plan. You can never be sure who will find it, and contact you next.

– Elizabeth Avedon

black + white

Juror | Elizabeth Avedon
Exhibition dates | August 4 to September 10, 2017
Reception | August 26, 2017 from 4 to 8pm

A. Smith Gallery

photographic arts

103 N. Nugent Ave

Johnson City, Texas

Exhibition Online

    

BLACK / WHITE : A Smith Gallery Juried Results

Juror Award

William King / Give Peace a Chance

Juror Honorable Mention

Leslie Jean-Bart / The Cargo Has Arrived

Jurors Honorable Mention

Mark Coggins / Geisha Confidential

Juror Honorable Mention

Francis Crisafio / Holdup in the Hood 1

Juror | Elizabeth Avedon

Exhibition dates | August 4 to September 10, 2017

Reception | August 26, 2017 from 4 to 8pm

A Smith Gallery Photographic Arts

103 N Nugent Avenue

Johnson City, Texas

view all black/white images here

SHERI LYNN BEHR: The Polaroid Project at the Amon Carter Museum

 Over / Under © Sheri Lynn Behr

Headshot © Sheri Lynn Behr

"In July, 2016, FEP Suisse / Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland notified me that two of my photographs in "The Polaroid Collection" were chosen for inclusion in "The Polaroid Project" exhibition and catalogue at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, from June 3-September 3, 2017, and then travel to the WestLicht Museum for Photography in Vienna, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, C/O Berlin, and finish in late 2019 at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s very exciting and an honor to be part of it.” –Sheri Lynn Behr

The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

"The Polaroid Project" surveys the history of the innovative photographic company Polaroid and its intersection with art, science, and technology during the second-half of the twentieth century. Featuring a wide-ranging group of artists, the exhibition showcases the diversity of works produced over several decades. The Project displays a variety of image sizes and formats produced over the years and the rich legacy of technological and artistic experimentation that the company enabled prior to its obsolescence. This exhibition has been organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/NewYork/Paris/Lausanne, in collaboration with the MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., and the WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna.

The Polaroid Project

June 3, 2017–September 3, 2017
Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Fort Worth, Texas

Sheri Lynn Behr
Beyond Recognition 

www.sherilynnbehr.com

 

ENTER THE 'BLACK + WHITE' PHOTO COMPETITION: Amanda Smith Gallery

 “And Around…” | Fairgrounds

Black + White Photographs © Sean Perry

The Paramount Theatre | Austin

Black + White Photographs © Sean Perry

“Black + White" Call for Entrys
Elizabeth Avedon is Juror
Submissions Deadline June 19, 2017
A Smith Gallery: Entry Here

AWARDS|
Jurors Award – $325.00
Directors Award – $250.00
3 Honorable Mentions – Exhibition Catalogue
Director Honorable Mentions
chosen at the discretion of the Gallery Directors
– Exhibition Catalogue
Visitors Award – $100

Call For Entry Link

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@Sean.Perry on Instagram

 

BLACK + WHITE PHOTO COMPETITION: Amanda Smith Gallery Call For Entries

Photograph © Amanda Smith

“Black + White" Call for Entry

Elizabeth Avedon is the Juror

Submissions to June 19, 2017

A Smith Gallery

AWARDS|

Jurors Award – $325.00
Directors Award – $250.00
3 Honorable Mentions – Exhibition Catalogue
Director Honorable Mentions 

chosen at the discretion of the Gallery Directors 

– Exhibition Catalogue
Visitors Award – $100.

ASHOK SINHA : At Scale, Dallas

NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES #1

© Ashok Sinha

NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES #2

© Ashok Sinha 

 SOUTH OF CONVERGENCE #2

© Ashok Sinha 

SOUTH OF CONVERGENCE #1
© Ashok Sinha 

AT SCALE 

 

Photographs by ASHOK SINHA

Sherle Wagner Art Gallery
Presented by Uprise Art
March 9 - April 28, 2017
Opening Reception March 9, 5-8pm

1025 Slocum Street

Dallas, TX 

Ashok Sinha (b. 1975) was born in Calcutta, India. Since 2009, he has worked as a professional photographer in New York City. Interested in portraits, travel, and architecture, Sinha has voyaged to over forty countries photographing remote tribes, vast landscapes, and local culture. Capturing a distinct sense of place is a recurring theme throughout his work, through a portrait of a person in their home or place of work, or images of the built environment. His photographs have been published by numerous publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, and Interior Design Magazine while his fine art photography has been collected and exhibited in galleries in the United States and abroad. In 2011, he founded Cartwheel Initiative, a nonprofit organization that uses photography and creative media to help young people build bridges within their communities and across ethnic and social divisions.

  

Ashok Sinha 2012, 2013 on EA Journal

 

FOTOFEST BIENNIAL 2016: Portfolio Reviews Founders and Reviewers

FotoFest Co-Founders, Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin

 Photographer Rania Matar with Marta Sanchez Philippe, 

FotoFest Projects Coordinator

 Reviewers Robert Morton, Robert Morton Books

and James Estrin, The New York Times LENS

 Christopher Rauschenberg, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland; 

Reviewee; Ricardo Viera, Lehigh University Art Gallery; 

Itala Schmelz, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City

 Texas Art-Insider, Clint Willour, The Galveston Art Center

Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center, Austin; 

Geoffrey Koslov, Foto Relevance LLP, Houston

 Debra Klomp Ching, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn;

Geoffrey Koslov, Founder, Foto Relevance LLP, Houston

Rixon Reed and Vicky Bohannon,  

photo-eye Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM at FotoFest

"Over its 30-year history, FotoFest’s Meeting Place Portfolio Reviewshave been a launching pad for the careers of hundreds of photographic artists. Many artists have been discovered by this program and many reviewers have found new talent to exhibit, publish, collect, and represent. In 2016, FotoFest brings 165 international, professional reviewers to meet one-on-one with registered artists. They include museum curators, editors, publishers, gallerists, collectors, and photo agency representatives to review the work of 450 registered artists." (FotoFest)

I was honored to be one of the almost 50 Reviewers for the 1st of 4 Sessions for FotoFest’s Portfolio Reviews from March 12–April 24th. These are snapshots of a few of my colleagues during our short breaks. A complete list of Reviewers here.

READ MORE HERE

L'Oeil de la Photographie

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS of 2015....and Some Honorable Mentions

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FACING CHANGE: DOCUMENTING AMERICA a collection of images by award-­winning photographers Maggie Steber, Donna Ferrato, Carlos Javier Ortiz, David Burnett, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Stanley Greene, Andrew Lichtenstein, Darcy Padilla and Lucian Perkins, authored by Leah Bendavid-Val. It includes a wealth of images and important documentary stories that tell the story of today’s America....www.facingchangeusa.org/book

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 Bil. Sandusky, Ohio. Photograph Alec Soth

SONGBOOK by Alec Soth. Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country read more here.

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Mrs. Jefferson, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950

Photograph by Gordon Parks 

GORDON PARKS: BACK TO FORT SCOTT by Karen Hass. Photographs by Gordon Parks (Steidl). The first African American photographer to be hired full time by Life magazine, Gordon Parks was often sent on assignments involving social issues that his white colleagues were not asked to cover. In 1950 he returned on one such assignment to his hometown of Fort Scott in southeastern Kansas: he was to provide photographs for a piece on segregated schools and their impact on black children...read more here

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DETROIT: UNBROKEN DOWN Photographs: Dave Jordano; Text by Nancy Watson Barr, Dawoud Bey and Sharon Zukin (powerHouse Books). Dave Jordano returned to his hometown of Detroit to document the people who still live in what has become one of the country’s most economically challenging cities....read more here

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CHARTH VADER Photographs by Ashly Stohl. Follow the journey of the the photographer's visually impaired son, Charth Vader, as he battles his way through childhood. Profits from this book benefit the Vision Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, published by Peanut Press.

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THE PHONE BOOK by Robert Herman (Schiffer). Known for his award winning street photography, Herman used Hipstamatic's square format to create this unique collection of iPhone photographs made while traveling across the world. The New York Times Review here

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Black #14, as seen at The Marlborough Gallery, 2011

POULTRY SUITE: Photographs by Jean Pagliuso (Hirmer Publications). Fashion photographer Jean Pagliuso created an homage to her childhood in Southern California, where she helped her father breed and show Bantam Cochins. POULTRY SUITE showcases more than twenty breeds of chickens—from Sebrights to Spangled Hamburgs—as they have never before been seen. 

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"Shrouds/Sudarios" haunting images of women either in agony or ecstasy—the viewer doesn’t know which until he learns that these women were forced to witness the torture of their loved ones––are printed on linen in an effect that resembles the Shroud of Turin.

"Drifting Away/Rio Abajo" images of artifacts of the hundreds of people who have “disappeared" without a trace in Columbia ––a shirt, a shoe, or a pair of eyeglasses–– are photographed in water and then suspended in glass.  

A tribute to the more than 250,000 
"disappeared" in Colombia...

MEMENTO MORI: TESTIMENT TO LIFE (George F. Thompson Publishing) Photographs and text by Columbian photographer Erika Diettes. With an Interview by Anne Wilkes Tucker. Essay by Ileana Diéguez. "MEMENTO MORI: Testament to Life" presents four bodies of work in two volumes in a transparent slipcase. The first volume contains installation shots of the work in cathedrals, churches, museums, exhibitions, and memorials in Latin America, Europe, Australia, and the United States. The second volume contains the plates of the three series: Drifting Away/Rio Abajo, Relics/Relicarios, Shrouds/Sudarios.

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 Photograph by Ming Murray Smith

View "Kamoinge Book Signing 2015" on YouTube

TIMELESS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAMOINGE Edited by Anthony Barboza and Herb Robinson, Coedited by Vincent Alabiso, Foreword by Quincy Troup (Schiffer). Kamoinge is the oldest collaborative group of photographers in the nation, a pioneering Photographic Collective of NY-based African-American Photographers founded in 1963 at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement. Roy DeCarava was their first Director. To commemorate it’s 50th year, this book includes over 280 stunning photos interspersed with insights and thoughts from Kamoinge’s 30 members, who include many of the nation’s most acclaimed photographers; Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Salimah Ali, Mark Lee Blackshear, Spencer Anthony Burnett, Gerald Cyrus, C. Daniel Dawson, Albert Fennar, Collette Fournier, Russell K. Frederick, Jerry Jack, Wayne Lawrence, Ming Murray Smith, Toni Parks, John Pinderhughes, Radcliffe Roye, Herbert Randall, Eli Reed, Herb Robinson, June DeLairre Truesdale, Jamel Shabazz, Frank Stewart, Shawn Walker, Budd Williams.

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INDECENT EXPOSURES: Eadweard Muybridge's "Animal Locomotion” Nudes" by Sarah Gordon (Yale University Press). Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. He made thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion, including more than 300 plates of nude men and women engaged in activities such as swinging a baseball bat, playing leapfrog, and performing housework—an astonishing fact given the period’s standards of propriety. This book includes many lesser-known photographs published for the first time.

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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: Photographs to Electrify You with Delight and Startle the World by Curator Marta Weiss (MACK Books). Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) was one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century. Criticized in her lifetime for her unconventional techniques, she is now celebrated as a pioneering portraitist. 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of her first museum exhibition – the only one in her lifetime – held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1865. Drawing on the V&A’s significant collection, which includes photographs acquired directly from Cameron and letters she wrote to the museum’s founding director, Curator Marta Weiss tells the story of Cameron’s artistic development. She presents, for the first time, a group of photographs recently revealed to have belonged to Cameron’s friend and mentor the artist G.F. Watts. This discovery sheds light on previously unacknowledged aspects of Cameron’s experimental approach.

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 A is for Angels

In her new book, ALPHABET by Debbie Fleming Caffery (Fall Line Press), inspired by her grandchildren created a children’s book disguised as an art book (or vice versa). Caffery, one of my favorite photographers, extraordinary photographs are full of shadows and secrets. In this book she chose 26 black and white photographs of her work to illustrate the letters of the alphabet; creating some new images for the book, while pulling others from her extensive archive. This collection will warm both your eye and your heart. 

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 Fur from Daughter
Photograph © Aline Smithson

SELF + OTHERS: PORTRAIT AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Photographs by Aline Smithson (Magenta Foundation) Aline Smithson's first monograph includes 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.

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Joni Sternbach/Courtesy of Rick Wester Fine Art

Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type (Damiani) texts by noted photo critic and historian Lyle Rexer, curator April M. Watson, and Chris Malloy and Johnny Abegg, both well-known surfers and filmmakers. Over the past decade Brooklyn-based photographer Joni Sternbach has traveled around the world, creating tintype portraits of contemporary surfers using the nineteenth-century wet-plate collodion process. Stunning in their detail, these one-of-a-kind images evoke the romance and adventure of surfing, and the bold individualism of the men and women who live to ride the waves. 

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THE WATCHERS: Photographs by Haley Morris-Cafiero, Text by Amanda de Cadenet (The Magenta Foundation). Haley Morris-Cafiero has travelled the world to capture how people judge one another. Working with an assistant, she photographs herself in various locations being leered at, laughed at or ignored by people on the street. Each frame is chosen based on the strangers in the background, if they have a critical or questioning look, or if there is a gesture in their body language. By reversing the gaze back on the strangers, the collection begins a conversation about nonverbal interaction and the view society has on body image.

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EVERY BREATHE WE DREW: Photographs by Jess T. Dugan; Text by curator Amy Galpin; interview by Dawoud Bey, (Daylight Books). Over the past decade, Jess T. Dugan (born 1986) has created intimate portraits that engage with issues of identity, sexuality, gender and community. Her first book, Every Breath We Drew, compiles color portraits of the artist and others….read more here

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Honorable Mentions

Irving Penn "Beyond Beauty” by Curator Merry A. Foresta (Yale University Press). Drawing from the extensive holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, including a major gift from The Irving Penn Foundation, this magnificent catalogue compiles 161 of Penn’s iconic images, including a number of unpublished works.

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That Day: Pictures in the American West. Photographs by Laura Wilson; Essay by Curator John Rohrbach (Yale University Press). Wilson’s subjects range from legendary West Texas cattle ranches to impoverished Plains Indian reservations to lavish border-town cotillions. Also featured are compelling portraits of artists who are associated with the region, including Donald Judd, Ed Ruscha, and Sam Shepard.

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COSPLAY IN AMERICA, Volume 2 by Ejen Chuang. Cosplay in America V2 takes a reader on a visual journey through the culture of cosplay in the United States. Photographer Ejen Chuang spent two years visiting 20 cities to gather images for this book... read more here

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FINDING HOME: SHELTER DOGS AND THEIR STORIES by Traer Scott (Princeton Architectural Press). Scott began photographing these dogs in 2005 as a volunteer at animal shelters. Her first book, Shelter Dogs, was a runaway success, and in this follow-up, Scott introduces a new collection of canine subjects, each with indomitable character and spirit: