UNDER A SACRED SKY: The Enchanted Cosmos With Ray Grasse // Photography + Astrology

 The Sphinx
Photograph (c) Ray Grasse

Exploring The Plateau

Photograph (c) Ray Grasse

 Long Shadows from his series Night Vision

Photograph (c) Ray Grasse

  

Photography + Astrology with Ray Grasse

One of my favorite Chicago-based photographers, Ray Grasse, is an accomplished Renaissance Man; writer, musician, photographer, and astrologer. Ray has written many important and impressive articles and books on astrology, and his latest recently published Under A Sacred Sky is now available on Amazon.

From the book's jacket: "Under a Sacred Sky is a fascinating collection of essays by the author on the ancient art of astrology, ranging from discussions of its use in our personal lives to its value for understanding historical cycles and patterns. Along the way Ray Grasse also interjects the story with some of his own personal experiences in the discipline, while exploring its broader implications for subjects like synchronicity, spirituality, and the yogic concept of the chakras. This book includes interviews with Rick Tarnas and Laurence Hillman and is suitable for both beginner and advanced students of the subject."

If you're interested in a wide-ranging, philosophical exploration of our place in the cosmos, and the relation of the planets not only to our personal lives but to cultural forms like cinema, religion, and politics, check out Ray Grasse's book on Amazon and his Astrology website here.

Ray Grasse Photography

and Ray Grasse: Music CD

http://www.raygrassephotography.com

ARTHUR MEYERSON: The Color of Light

 

"The Color of Light"

 Front Cover: Red Hat, Wyoming

Buy The Book Here

Red Car, Blue Interior

"An Arthur Meyerson image is both original and classic. There is no more winning combination. Looking at his photographs one feels they have entered a world more beautiful than any they could have imagined" – Amy Arbus. Photographer, New York

 The Palio, Italy

"Powerful, elegant photographs by one of the most respected photographers working today. The world according to Arthur Meyerson, is one f enchanting color, deep beautiful, humor and hope." – Keith Carter, Photographer. Beaumont, Texas

 Blue Suede Shoes Salook, Memphis

 "Why in God's name would anyone believe anything good I say about Arthur Meyerson? After all, everyone knows he's one of my best friends. – Jay Maisel, Photographer

Exhibition: Colorful and exotic locales captured by award winning photographer, Arthur Meyerson on his photographic journeys to all seven continents. 

JOURNEYS: Photography by Arthur Myerson

The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas

Now through February 18, 2014

"The Color of Light"

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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

JOHN SCHABEL: Passengers ICP BookSigning postponed due to Blizzard rescheduled for Friday, Feb 22nd, 6–7:30pm

  Untitled [Passenger] 1994-1996 © John Schabel

Untitled [Passenger] 1994-1996 © John Schabel

Le Journal de la Photographie: Interview

I said: "I have the feeling you wouldn’t want to give the literal details of where you took these photographs. I’m not even sure I want to know."

He said: "The thing about them is they are so ‘no place’. The idea of being in a plane is so much about being between places and that’s part of that state of mind I wanted to try and photograph. It’s so much about the in-between time and a mixture of feelings and emotions; I thought maybe I could make portraits of people in that state of mind you get into when you fly."

John Schabel "Passengers"
(Twin Palms Publishers, 2013)

ICP Book Signing

Friday, February 22, 6:00pm–7:30pm

International Center for Photography

1133 Avenue of the Americas

TOM CHAMBERS: Dreaming In Reverse / Soñando Hacia Atrás

Presumptuous Guests / Invitados Presuntuosos
Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

Two Chairs / Dos Sillas
Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

Stuck In The Key Of C / Atrapado en la Tecla de C
Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

Glass Flower / Flor de Vidrio Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

"Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened by the physical beauty of the landscape and the simple, pure lifestyles shared by both the Hispanic and indigenous people of Mexico. A sense of spirituality and magic were imbedded in their religious practices, crafts, art, dance, and literature...Sensing that little time remains to photograph the beauty of Mexico, I have created the series, Dreaming In Reverse, to express both my concern for cultural loss, as well as my appreciation for the inherent loveliness of Mexican life. Employing Magic Realism, an art genre used in the early twentieth century in Mexico, I have attempted to create images of Mexico which seem true and believable, but also perhaps improbable."– Photographer Tom Chambers

photo-eye Editions just released a portfolio of twelve pigment ink prints from this series, Dreaming In Reverse, housed in an archival anodized aluminum box is published in a limited edition of thirty with two artist’s and two printer’s proofs. The prints were produced with archival pigment inks printed on hahnemühle photo rag baryta.

Dreaming In Reverse / Soñando Hacia Atrás
Photographs by Tom Chambers
August 5 - September 25
photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe

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Also on View
Aline Smithson: In Case of Rain

States Puzzle
Photograph (c) Aline Smithson

"We live in a world full of technical distractions. I see my children gathered around their computers as though it’s a summer campfire, faces aglow, as they peer into a world of friends and fantasy, participating in a new forms of entertainment that further remove them from the childhood that I experienced...

...And it’s because of this that I have been looking at bookshelves and untouched childhood pursuits with a new eye. With great sadness, I realize that these objects will someday be obsolete, at least in their current incarnations. And like a curator of antiquities, I see them now as beautiful objects to be admired and preserved, if only on film."—Aline Smithson

Aline Smithson: In Case of Rain
photo-eye Photographer's Showcase

Aline's PDN September 2011 Cover!

NICHOLAS VREELAND: "Return To The Roof of The World" Leica Gallery June 4th Last Day!

Circumambulation, Labrang Tashi Kyil, Amdo, Tibet

Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Monks, Labrang Tashi Kyil, Amdo, Tibet
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

(l) Novice Monk, Labrang Tashi Kyil, Amdo, Tibet, 2003.
(r) Senior Monk, Wato Monastery, 2003
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Debate, Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet, 2003
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Guard Dog at the entrance to HH Dalai Lama's Birthplace, Takser, Tibet
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Nicholas Vreeland Exhibition
Leica Gallery • 670 Broadway • NYC

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Return To The Roof of the World
Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland
Curated by Elizabeth Avedon
April 22 - June 4

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La Lettre de la Photographie: Nicholas Vreeland
www.nicholasvreeland.com

NICHOLAS VREELAND: Leica Gallery, New York

Pyramid, Tibet, 2003
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland
(click images to enlarge)
 

Khyongla Rinpoche on His Mountain, Dagyab, Tibet, 2003
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland

Debate, Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet, 2003
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland

Lama Dance, Tibet, 2003
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland

Nicholas Vreeland in Tibet

Riding Towards Wato, Tibet

 
The Nechung Medium and Dog, Dharamsala, India, 1979
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland

Return To The Roof of the World
Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland

April 22 - June 4, 2011 • Leica Gallery • 670 Broadway • NYC

This exhibition of over 35 black and white images, follows the journey of photographer and Buddhist monk, Nicholas Vreeland, as he accompanied his teacher, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, in 2003 on his return to his birthplace in Dagyab, Eastern Tibet after 50 years. Rinpoche, author of “My Life and Lives,” with Joseph Campbell, fled Tibet in 1959.Vreeland, born in Geneva, Switzerland, a protégé of Henri Cartier – Bresson, son of American ambassador, Frederick Vreeland, and grandson of fashion icon, Diana Vreeland; studied film at NYU, initially working for Irving Penn, before later working for Richard Avedon. He photographed throughout India carrying a Deardorff 5×7, photographing some of Tibet’s most important Buddhist teachers in exile. A select few of these treasured color portraits will hang in the Leica Gallery’s ‘Oskar Barnack Room’....read more on La Lettre de la Photographie

Leica Gallery

Limited Edition Prints available
16x20: edition of 25
20x24: edition of 20
30x40: edition of 10

NicholasVreeland.com
RatoDratsangFoundation.org
Silver gelatin prints by Laurent Girard/Griffin Editions

BRANDON SCHULMAN: A Portrait of America Left Behind

La Lettre de la Photographie
Hearst 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial

Sugar Cane Processing Plant, Atchafalaya Delta, LA
Photograph (c) Brandon Schulman /All Rights Reserved

Windmill, Carson City, NV
Photograph (c) Brandon Schulman /All Rights Reserved

Eight winners and ten honorable mentions were selected for the 2011 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial from over 4,600 entries from across the U.S. and 70 other countries. Brandon Shulman was awarded an Honorable Mention for his series A Portrait of America Left Behind.

"A Portrait of America Left Behind is a photographic study that I have been conducting over the past two years. The photographs represent the presence that humanity plays on the land even when they are not in view. The objects and buildings that we create for our needs, and our discarding when they are not. Zig-zagging my way thru 13 states, 15,000 miles over 3 trips, 2 months and 100’s of hours in my darkroom it has yet come to an end."

Brandon Schulman Website

La Lettre de la Photographie
Hearst 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial: Part I
Hearst 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial: Part II

CYCLING THE WORLD: Global Citizen Furtemba Sherpa Promotes Peace

"My Name is Furtemba Sherpa, I am a world Cyclist.
I have left Nepal December 25, 2003"

New York City

Italy

Helping in Haiti

Iguaçu Falls, South America

The Healing Center of "John of God"
Casa de Dom Ignacio, Abadiania, Brazil

Brasília

Furtemba Sherpa, World Tour Cyclist

"My name is Furtemba Sherpa, a Global Citizen. Originally, I am from a small village called Sankuasabha in Nepal. At the age of 26, I started world cycle tour with the cause of "World Peace and Environmental Protection." Since 2003, I had been cycling to 46 countries and intend to cycle 150 countries all together which should be done by 2020."

Furtemba Sherpa is the great-grandson of Tenzing Norgay, who first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside Sir Edmund Hillary. Conquering the Himalayas has been considered by most Sherpas in Nepal as the pinnacle of success, but Furtemba is embarking on his dream to become the first Sherpa to cycle around the globe to promote his message of World Peace and Environmental Protection.

FOLLOW FURTEMBA HERE

JULIE BLACKMON: New Domestic Vacations

Loading Zone, 2009 © Julie Blackmon / All rights reserved

Portrait, 2009 © Julie Blackmon / All rights reserved

The After Party, 2010 © Julie Blackmon / All rights reserved

Tinkertoys, 2010 © Julie Blackmon / All rights reserved

The stress, the chaos, and the need to simultaneously escape and connect are issues that I investigate in this body of work....I believe there are moments that can be found throughout any given day that bring sanctuary. It is in finding these moments amidst the stress of the everyday that my life as a mother parallels my work as an artist, and where the dynamics of family life throughout time seem remarkably unchanged. As an artist and as a mother, I believe life’s most poignant moments come from the ability to fuse fantasy and reality: to see the mythic amidst the chaos.

Julie Blackmon

Domestic Vacations
Published by Radius Books (here)

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