11.25.2010
LENSCRATCH: The Family
11.21.2010
SPECIAL DECEMBER GIFT OFFERS collect.give : Give A Contemporary Photograph + Donate To A Worthy Cause + Receive Gift!
Cyclone, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 2005Photograph (c) David Leventi /$40 To Benefit: The International Rescue Committee
· From December 1st-8th, anyone who purchases a print will be eligible for the following gifts: (4) $100 gift certificates to the photo-eye Bookstore, (5) Food Journal booklets, created by collect.give contributor Mark Menjivar with Kate Bingaman-Burt.
· Buyers on Thursday, December 2nd (our official anniversary) will be eligible for a FREE PRINT: Buy one, and have your name in the running for a second print of your choice (any still available), regardless of price.
Please note that to be eligible for any of the above giveaways, you must email us with the date and print purchased: kevin@collectdotgive.org
Photographer: Mark Menjivar $40 To Benefit: World Hunger Relief; Photographers: Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman $40 To Benefit: The Voices and Faces Project; Photographer: Stella Kalaw $40 To Benefit: The Guidance Center; Photographer: Kerry Mansfield $40 To Benefit: Susan G. Komen for the Cure; Photographer: Amy Eckert $40 To Benefit: Feminist Eclectic Martial Arts; Photographer: Elizabeth Fleming $40 To Benefit: Austin Children's Shelter; Photographer: John Loomis $40 To Benefit: Texas Equusearch; Photographer: Jon Feinstein $40 To Benefit: Housing Works; Photographer: Max S. Gerber $40 To Benefit: Camp del Corazon; Photographer: Brea Souders $40 To Benefit: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana; Photographer: Kelly Shimoda $45 To Benefit: Start Small. Think Big., Inc; Photographer: Melissa Kaseman $50 To Benefit: Inglis House; Photographer: Annie Marie Musselman $50 To Benefit: Sarvey Wildlife Care Center; Photographer: Susana Raab $50 To Benefit: The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund; Photographer: Mark Brautigam $100 To Benefit: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders; Photographer: Matt Eich $100 To Benefit: Critical Exposure
11.18.2010
KERRY SKARBAKKA: Contructed Visions
Philosopher Martin Heidegger described human existence as a process of perpetual falling, and it is the responsibility of each individual to catch ourselves from our own uncertainty. – Kerry Skarbakka
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Melwood Gallery
November 1 - December 5
11.13.2010
TOP SELLING PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF ALL TIME
The exhibit was turned into a book with an introduction by Carl Sandburg, Steichen's brother-in-law. The book was published in the 1950s, and reprinted in large format for its 40th anniversary. It has sold more than 4 million copies (as of June 2010 Wiki)
Les Américains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, and in 1959 in the US by Grove Press, where it initially received substantial criticism. Popular Photography derided his images as "meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness." Though sales were also poor at first, Jack Kerouac's introduction helped it reach a larger audience because of the popularity of the Beat phenomenon. Over time, The Americans became a seminal work in American photography, and is considered the work with which Frank is most clearly identified.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first publication of The Americans, a new edition was released in 2008. Two images were changed completely from the original 1958 and 1959 editions. (Wiki)
100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Edited with text by John Szarkowski
Originally published in 1973, this collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Among the outstanding figures represented here are Hill and Adamson, Cameron, O'Sullivan, Atget, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Weston, Kertész, Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Lange, Brassaï, Ansel Adams, Shomei Tomatsu, Frank, Arbus and Friedlander. Reissued with new digital duotones in 1999.
Paul Kopeikin, Director of Kopeikin Gallery
Arbus? The Americans?
** This is based on a whole bunch of subjective opinions on a Friday morning no less, and not many facts... It's like guessing which book made the most emotional/overall impact on the consciousness of the fine-art photography community. If you had asked the question that way, I'd probably still say the same three books I started with. I guess I might switch out 100 Photographs for This History of Photography by Beaumont. If you think about it's use as a textbook over the last 5 decades, it's probably a bestseller."
For sure Family of Man; Diane Arbus Aperture monograph....but this is just anecdotal. Realistically, you might be looking at either some sorta kitsch like Anne Geddes, or something unexpected from a Time-Life series.
Melanie McWhorter, photo-eye Books, co-founder of Finite Foto
Eliot Porter's "In Wildness is the Preservation of the World" has sold over 1 million copies to date! (read about it here)
Russ Martin, photographer
Upton and London's textbook Photography (10th edition)
Lauren E. Simonutti, Photographer Edelman Gallery
Robert Frank 'The Americans', Joel Peter Witkin 'Gods of Earth and Heaven' and Larry Clark 'Tulsa'
Todd Walker, Photographer
William Eggleston's Guide (Essay by John Szarkowski, MOMA)
Book and Exhibition Design by Elizabeth Avedon
EJ Carr, Photographer
Avedon. In the American West

Anthony Jones, London-based Photographer
Susan Sontag's On Photography and
Ansel Adams The Camera/The Negative/The Print
Randy Magnus, The Kona Times
Ansell Adams
Danae Falliers, Photographer
Robert Frank The Americans
"There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment."
In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. The book's cover is by Henri Matisse. For his 4,500-word philosophical preface, Cartier-Bresson took his keynote text from the 17th century Cardinal de Retz: translated "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment". Cartier-Bresson applied this to his photographic style. He said: ""Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact". (wiki)
Observations, 1959. Photographs by Richard Avedon, Commentary by Truman Capote. Nothing Personal, 1964. Photographs by Richard Avedon, Text by James BaldwinMatthew Smith, Photographer PYMCA
Jean Ferro, President of Women In Photography International
Susan May Tell, ASMP/NY Fine Art Chair, Photographer
Marla Bane, Reach Media Inc., Senior Vice President
Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Ptolemy Tompkins, author The Divine Life of Animals and Paradise Fever
Eyelids of Morning, The Last of the Nuba (Photographs by Leni Riefenstahl), and The Book of Life come to mind...And there was a time when A Very Young Dancer was inescapable.
Blake Andrews, author Rumblings From The Photographic Hinterlands...
Read Blake Andrews contribution of current Amazon rankings here
Content Copyright © Elizabeth Avedon 2010, All rights reserved.
11.10.2010
KRISTINE POTTER: Women In Photography
Untitled, 2009 From The Gray LinePhotograph (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
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Women in Photography is a project of the Humble Arts Foundation, Co-curated by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips
11.08.2010
ARNALDO ANAYA-LUCCA: Iconic Imagery
Photograph of Tyson Beckford by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca“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-LuccaYou 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.































