KRISTINE POTTER: Women In Photography

Untitled, 2009 From The Gray Line
Photograph (c) Kristine Potter /All Rights Reserved

Untitled, 2009 From The Gray Line
Photograph (c) Kristine Potter /All Rights Reserved

Untitled, 2009 From The Gray Line
Photograph (c) Kristine Potter /All Rights Reserved

Kristine Potter’s first solo exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, culls from images made during the last four years as she has been mining her complex feelings toward the military, a subject which she has long, familial connection. For many generations most of the men in her family earned their living and defined their purpose as military officers. Growing up in this military culture, Potter’s childhood was saturated with orderliness, hierarchy, patriotism and a certain knowledge of “the enemy”. Being a child (and adult) interested in nuance, culture, progressive ideas and non-conformity, she was often at odds with the governing forces in her life. She says of her childhood, “True respect aside, I struggled to understand war and how one could take command to engage… I wanted to understand the organization of violence and power, and I yearned to humanize the tough exteriors of these men against all of the anxieties I felt when thinking of their jobs and of their structure.” Despite the long line of military men in Potter’s family, her generation has declined to enroll, ending the long lineage. read more here

Nov 4- Dec 23

THE GRAY LINE: Photographs by Kristine Potter

Daniel Clooney/Fine Art

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Women in Photography is a project of the Humble Arts Foundation, Co-curated by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips

ARNALDO ANAYA-LUCCA: Iconic Imagery

from Anaya-Lucca's 2009 Adam & Eve exhibition
Photograph (c) Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca

Photograph of Tyson Beckford by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca

“I had a beautiful childhood in Puerto Rico, very magical, and I guess that kind of sets the way you experience and see life in the future. My boyfriend and friends always say I am like a 5-year-old, which its kind of true. I get very excited every morning about what the day might bring. I guess I managed to keep that child inside of me. When you are excited about life in general, you feel very grateful and that breeds a very positive state of mind. And only a positive state of mind is able to see the endless beauty surrounding us. My inspiration always comes from every day life. People, places, history, art, society. It’s the way we see ordinary events, objects that leads us to creativity and then the way we experience those things that leads us to our unique style. But my way of seeing things was definitely influenced by the works of Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel and Herbert List‘s magical photographs.”

“I always loved taking pictures but never dreamed it could become a career for me. When I was in high school, one of my older brothers, Abel, started taking pictures and I got the bug. On my 18th birthday, my parents bought me my first camera, a Yashica FX3 (I still have it) I told my parents I wanted to major in photography but that did not go over well. My Dad was a cardiologist and to him photography could only be a hobby, so I went to college and majored in Finance. I became a yearbook photographer at my College (I went to school in Kansas City, Mo.). To this day all my college friends think of me as always having a camera around my neck and to them this career is not a surprise but it is to me.”

“After college I moved to NY and after being turned down 4 times…yes, I got 4 rejection letters in one year, I landed a job with Ralph Lauren at the Polo Mansion on 72nd St. in the spring of 1988 in the men’s clothing department selling suits. You see I had become a bit obsessed with Ralph Lauren and my dream was to one day work along side “The Man” himself.”

Photographs by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca

“After 4 1/2 years in the mansion I got my big break in the beginning of 1993 and was offered a position in Ralph Lauren’s Men’s Design Studio. I was now working and developing Men’s Lines with Ralph…my dream became a reality or so I thought!! I was still taking pictures but design was my focus and I loved it. It was Ralph’s eldest son, Andrew Lauren, that inadvertently opened my photography’s Pandora’s box in late 1994. Andrew’s then girlfriend and my best friend, Rebecca Indri, told Andrew that he should ask me to photograph him as he was interested in becoming an actor and needed a head shot. She told him that my hobby was taking pictures and that I was good. I photographed him a few weeks later and the result was amazing. I shot him in my apartment with daylight b&w portraits against a white wall. He looked like a 1950′s movie star in my photos. A month later I was in a design meeting with Ralph he pulled out the photos and said, “Your pictures of Andrew are unbelievable…you captured him like no one has in the past and he has been photographed by many top fashion photogs!” He said,“You have a gift, an amazing eye and I want you shoot an ad campaign for me.”

Photograph by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca

Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca and Ralph Lauren

“Well he kept his word and 3 month’s later I photographed Tyson Beckford for the launch of Ralph Lauren’s high-end men’s brand, Purple Label. The photo ran in American GQ in the fall of 1995. It was my 1st published photograph and still one of my favorites! My photography career was born and in the summer 1997 I left Ralph Lauren after 10 years in the company to pursue photography full-time with Ralph’s blessing. He became my most loyal client. That’s the real dream for me, shooting Ad campaigns for my mentor, Mr. Ralph Lauren.”

You can read the full Interview with Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca and photographer Navo on The Minority Reports. Thanks so much to Navo for letting me excerpt from your Interview.

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It was Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca who "discovered" my son Matthew Avedon, took his photograph and brought it in to Next Model Management. Matthew signed up for a modeling contract and has been working ever since. Thank you Arnaldo!

GUGGENHEIM BILBAO: "Haunted" Contemporary Photography Exhibition

'Humanos' ('Human', 2004), by French artist Christian Boltansky. The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. EPA/MIGUEL TONA

'Self-Portrait with 3 Years' (2004), by English conceptual artist Gillian Wearing, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. EPA/MIGUEL TONA

Click Video Interview: Nat Trotman, Curator
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Nov 6, 2010 - March 13, 2011
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. read more here...

ArtDaily.org

SHERI LYNN BEHR: Rock and Roll Archive

Bono, NYC, 2005
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

The Ramones, CBGB's, 1977
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

Neil Giraldo and Pat Benatar, The Bottom Line, 1979
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Madison Square Garden, 1977
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

Sheri Lynn Behr grew up in the Bronx, and studied photography and digital imaging in New York City at the New School, ICP, and Pratt Manhattan. Her photographs of musicians in the 1970s appeared in most music publications of the time, including Rolling Stone, Creem, and Billboard, and she often shot on assignment for major recording companies such as RCA and Arista and Atlantic Records. These images are now considered fine art photographs and have been included in several photography exhibitions.

Sheri Lynn Behr

Rock and Roll Photography Archive

Sheri's Blog includes a look back on shooting Iggy Pop, The Clash, Ian Dury, David Johansen, Meat Loaf, Hot Tuna, U2, Lou Reed, Garland Jeffries - I'm looking forward to more posts! Also view Behr's Lucky Cats

SHARPEN: Stella Kramer on ASMPNY's Fine Art Photography Bloggers Panel

(l to r) Susan May Tell, Stella Kramer, Rubin Natal San-Miguel, Elizabeth Avedon, and AD Coleman. Photograph by Frank Rocco

ASMPNY

"Conversations with Fine Art Photography Bloggers"Review for ASMP-NYs Sharpen by Panelist Stella Kramer

"Wednesday night's panel with Elizabeth Avedon, Ruben Natal San-Miguel, A.D. Coleman and yours truly, (Stella Kramer), moderated by Susan May Tell, was a lively discussion about fine art blogging, enhanced by the fact that we all come to it from a different perspective. Alan Coleman (first photography critic for the NY Times and named one of "The Top 100 People in Photography" by American Photo Magazine) comes to it as a social commentator, and has been blogging since 1995. As a leading writer on the subject of photography at Photocritic International, he uses his blog as a platform to be a journalist, having exposed and followed such stories as the dismantling of the Polaroid collection. He's now reporting on the story of the recently "rediscovered" Ansel Adams negatives.

Elizabeth Avedon likens blogging to, putting a message in a bottle and throwing it out into the ocean. You don't know who may find it. But with an international audience Avedon shows work by not just photographers, but all artists whose work moves her. And (as a former Gallery Director) "knowing how few shows galleries are able to put up in a year, blogging is a good forum."

The idea of blogging reaching out to an international audience was echoed by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, who sees his blog, Art Most Fierce, as a business whose purpose is to promote art collecting. He began collecting art after Sept. 11, and after buying the art he writes about it. He promotes artists and not-for-profit organizations to raise money for them. He was most direct in talking about the importance of using Facebook and Twitter in concert with his blog to promote photography.

For me (Stella's blog is Stellazine) the important thing is to know why you're blogging. Without a strong definition, a blog can just be more noise. I love the fact that I can say anything I want, and the work I feature is work I like. It's discussing the creative process that I find most satisfying--giving photographers a chance to talk about what they do, why they do it, and what it means to them.

The one problem we find with blogging is that it is not going to make money--but then none of us started with that intent , although Ruben is adamant about it being a business for him. He sees his blogging as a way to put info out there for others to benefit from. He curates shows which sell work, and speaks of treating work as special--not overexposing it everywhere. Avedon had a different opinion of that, saying putting work out there was a way for people to find out about it. But the idea of scarcity creating interest for collectors was Ruben's impetus for cautioning people about overexposure.

(EA: At this time Galleries aren't worried so much about over-exposure as they are about not reaching enough people. It's been my experience that having exposure on several Photography Blogs has caught the attention of reviewers and curator's.)

While both myself and Avedon look at more work online both Ruben and myself go to shows--although he goes to many more than I do. Coleman doesn't go to shows, but he goes to FotoFest, and the Palm Springs Photo Festival to see work.

There was a large crowd who seemed to hang on every word, and I think we all enjoyed the discussion, hearing each other's point of view. If you weren't there, plan on being at the next panel. If you were, let us know what you thought by commenting here." – This post originally appeared on ASMP/NY's Sharpen

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Stella Kramer is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner while at The New York Times and the recipient of the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. Check out her blog Stellazine

JIM NAUGHTEN: Re-Enactors

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jim Naughten /All Rights Reserved

Nov 4 - Dec 18
Re-Enactors at KLOMPCHING

"London-based photographer Jim Naughten donned flack jacket and camouflage gear to enter the ranks of the world of war re-enactors: simulated battle and bully beef events attended by 20,000-odd UK individuals for whom tin soldiers were never quite enough. “I’d been looking for a large photographic project for a while” he explains. “When I came across the re-enactors I felt utterly compelled to capture them. I saw it as an opportunity to create my version of Avedon’s ‘In the American West’, a book I had loved since college”. Naughten admits to being fascinated as a child by the stories told by his desert rat grandfather and Spitfire pilot uncle; “I built model aircraft, tanks, soldiers and dioramas”. Once embedded with the re-enactors, he felt “an extraordinary sense of recognition…really seeing all my childhood toys full-sized for the first time”... read more here"

BOOK SIGNING:
Sat. Nov 6, 3:00pm—4:00pm

Dumbo, 111 Front Street, Suite 206, Brooklyn
F (York Street) A, C (Brooklyn Bridge / High Street) 2, 3 (Clark Street)

100 PORTRAITS/100 PHOTOGRAPHERS: FlakPhoto at FotoWeek DC

Soldier: Birkholz - 353 Days in Iraq, 205 Days in Afghanistan, 2004
Photograph (c) Suzanne Opton /All Rights Reserved

Marine, Hotel Near Airport, Richmond, 2009
Photograph (c) Susan Worsham /All Rights Reserved

Steven, Route 10, Louisiana, 2006
Photograph (c) Amy Stein /All Rights Reserved

100 Portraits — 100 Photographers
Selections from FlakPhoto.com's Archive

Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com teamed up with Indie Photobook Library creator Larissa Leclair to produce a Flak Photo screening (featuring work published on FlakPhoto.com over the past four years) to be shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art during the FotoWeek DC festival. NOV 6-13, 2010.

About the Night Gallery
List of 100 Artists

LENSCRATCH: An On-line Exhibition Opportunity

Family by Aline Smithson

Lenscratch will be creating exposure opportunities for photographers with group on-line exhibitions. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition and all photographs will be published.

Submission Guidelines:
Image size: 72dpi at 1000px on the long side. Send name, title, location, and link to your work (website or other). In the subject of your e-mail, type the name of the exhibition (FAMILY, etc) and e-mail to: alinesmithson@yahoo.com. If your images are sized incorrectly or the submission is incomplete, they will not be posted.

Due Date: November 14th
Send one image that best represents your idea of FAMILY. Post will run on Thanksgiving

Due Date: December 27th
Send your FAVORITE image that you took in 2010. Post will run on New Year's Day

Due Date: March 17th
Send one image that best represents LUCK. Post will run on St. Patrick's Day

Due Date: April 25th
Send your favorite SELF PORTRAIT. Post will run on May 1st

ASMPNY: Join Me for Conversations on Fine Art Photography Bloggers

INFLUENTIAL FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY BLOGGERS PANEL

Join ASMP-NY's Panel: Elizabeth Avedon, A.D. Coleman, Stella Kramer, and Rubin Natal-San Miguel

Fine art photography blogs have changed the landscape for sharing and reviewing work. Blogs are more personal and idiosyncratic while attracting a wide audience, and doing so more quickly and inexpensively. Photographers no longer have to wait for a review of a bricks-and-mortar exhibition by a very small group of print publications. The objective of this night is to inform photographers about fine art photography blogging and how to get your work noticed.

Nov 3rd 7-9 pm Soho Photo 15 White St NYC

Register Here

CRITICAL MASS TOP 50: Congratulations!

Photograph © Elin Høyland/ All rights reserved

Photograph © Sam Comen/ All rights reserved

Living Room
Photograph © Natan Dvir/ All rights reserved

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CRITICAL MASS TOP 50, 2010

LA LETTRE: The First Issue!

Mallam Galadima Ahmadu with Jamis, Nigeria, 2007
Photograph © Pieter Hugo from La Lettre 26.10.2010

Tony With Shadow, Los Angeles, 1988
© Herb Ritts Foundation, Courtesy of Fahey Klein Gallery

La Lettre de la Photographie: The First Issue!

Founded by: JEAN JACQUES NAUDET, former editor-in-chief of the French monthly, PHOTO, and editor at large of AMERICAN PHOTO in the USA; MAGNUS NADDERMIER, art director and former creative director of GQ, Condé-Nast en France; and ALEX KUMMERMAN, president of Clicmobile and co-founder of Soundwalk, new media specialist and entrepreneur.

La Lettre De La Photographie will provide daily coverage of all major photographic events, and will have special daily themes as follows:

Monday: A behind the scenes look at fashion, advertising and the world of celebrities. Tuesday: Great historic archives will be revealed, featuring former stories from great magazines and exceptional photo agencies. Wednesday: One photographer, one story. A photographer tells us the story about a picture, a great success, or a catastrophic failure. Thursday: With 90 percent of all agency files and independent works unpublished, this daily report will feature an insider's look at some of the best current events stories that we won't find on the front pages. Friday: Our "Coup de Coeur" will feature an unknown, yet emerging talent we would like to help support and recognize, or a talent from the past we'd like to revive. The Week-end agenda: Saturday and Sunday will provide international coverage of shows, exhibitions, prints, books, fairs, auctions, blogs and websites.

A free subscription to La Lettre Here

BLURB POP-UP/NYC: Editing Your Images

Blurb 10 Day Pop-up Store
60 Mercer St. (Broome x Grand) NYC

Blurb 10 Day Pop-up Store

Blurb staff helps customers with questions
or assists them in creating their own book on the stores computers

Blurb Pop-up Store/Events

OREGON WILDFIRE FIGHTERS
Photographs by Brad Bunyea

October 30 11 am - 12 pm 60 Mercer St

Levi's Photographer BRAD BUNYEA joins me for
"Editing Your Images | 3000 images to 30"
How to edit thousands of images on a very short deadline
RSVP to This Event

The Levi’s Photo Workshop is a few blocks away

OLAF OTTO BECKER | Above Zero Book Review. photo-eye Magazine

POINT 660, 08/2008
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

Becker photographed glaciologist and climate researchers, Konrad Steffen and seven scientists, at their measuring station, Swiss Camp, where they work on predicting the planet's future. Even at Point 660, a popular tourist spot, taking photographs of one another proudly in this formidable landscape may soon be over. 

RIVER 3, POSITION 1, 07/2008
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

Olaf Otto Becker | Above Zero

photo-eye Magazine

Becker is a modern day explorer, no less a pioneer than his famous "pole fever" predecessors, from Carsten Borchgrevink, the first Norwegian explorer to set foot in Antarctica, to Ernest Shackleton's well-known Endurance expedition. Between 2003 and 2006, Becker traveled a total of 2,500 miles up and down the coast of Greenland in a rigid inflatable boat...One hundred years from now his photographs may be all that's left to view of this extraordinary world. — From Elizabeth Avedon's photo-eye Review of Above Zero

purchase: photo-eye Bookstore

SLANE: New Name | New Logo Design

  Landon Slane's Collection Preview at The Lambs Club

Landon Slane and Alexander Vreeland, SLANE President and COO

[2012 update: Vreeland is now President of Diana Vreeland LLC]

"I returned to NY in order to find projects that could both fascinate me and give me new challenges. I have found all of this and more in Slane." –Alexander Vreeland on his move from Paris to New York

Landon and Heath Slane

"Bi-coastal sisters Heath and Landon Slane joined creative forces in 1995 to design a line of high end sterling silver jewelry. Their vision for the collection was then and remains today a varied mix of influences to include: architecture, nature and spiritual symbols. Each of their collections represents both their philosophical and aesthetic sensibility.

Drawn to the healing and transformative powers of jewelry, Heath and Landon continue to welcome a collaborative approach to the design process and to the creative realization of jewelry totems which afford comfort or meaning to their owners. Collections consist of an array of shapes and textures which have numerous classical influences with contemporary appeal. Designing a palette from which women could create their own SLANE (formerly known as Slane & Slane) look has been the intention of the design-duo since the company’s inception. An unintended but celebrated distinction in the business is its founding and operation by women, who design for women.

Heath serves on the board of Los Angeles based Street Poets, a poetry-based peace-making organization dedicated to the creative process as a force for individual and community transformation. Heath has been a board member since 1998. Landon has served on the board of DreamYard since 1995. DreamYard is a New York-based organization which transforms Bronx public schools and communities through the power of project-based arts learning.Heath and Landon have only used 100% recycled sterling silver and eighteen karat gold which is 80% recycled. All diamonds are conflict free."– Website

Illustration by Kareem Iliya featuring SLANE's signature "Twin Link" necklace. New Logo Design by Elizabeth Avedon

The Old Logo Above

Rebranding: New Name
New Logo Design by Elizabeth Avedon

The new logo I designed for SLANE reflects the brands sleek, modern look and defines the companies new singular name SLANE (formerly Slane and Slane). The Heart represents both of the sisters, created using two cap S's facing each other in the typeface Colonna. A new Website (SlaneJewelry.com) and an informative blog will be coming in a few months. Shop for Slane Holiday gifts on their current site, Slane and Slane.

SUSAN MAY TELL: André Kertész

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell /All Rights Reserved

When André Kertész, my favorite photographer of all time, and who lived nearby in Greenwich Village, saw this photograph he told me: "Many times I see that and say I have to photograph it. Now that I've seen this, I no longer have to."–Susan May Tell

–from Susan May Tell's slide presentation Photographs of Space, Silence, and Solitude, hosted by photographer David Brommer, B+H's Event Space Coordinator.

BLURB POP-UP STORE: NYC Events

Blurb's New Pop-Up Store in Soho, NYC!

Yikes! I'm giving a Workshop with Photographer Brad Bunyea

Blurb's New Pop-Up Store in Soho!
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October 21 to October 31st
60 Mercer St. (between Broome and Grand), SoHo

Great Workshops, Speaker Sessions, and Events

Aaron Kenedl, Editor-in-Chief for Print Magazine; Jen Bekman, founder of Jen Bekman Gallery, 20x200, and Hey, Hot Shot!; editor Alan Rapp; Mommy Poppins Blogger Ana Fader; Fashion Photographer Michael Creagh; Marcy Ray from WireMedia Communications and Ferentz Lafargue from the virtual-placemaking organization Nostrand Park; Liz Danzico from School of Visual Arts; myself and Photographer Brad Bunyea; Blurb advisor Dan Milnor; Portfolio Workshops; and Etsy creatives! RSVP to these events!