KLOMPCHING: Splash II

Bundle (2010)
Photograph (c) Cara Barer

International District, Seattle (2003)
Photograph (c) Doug Keyes

Beyond The View No. 5 (2009)
Photograph (c) Helen Sear

Attentional Landscapes No. 11 (2007-2008)
Photograph (c) Odette England

SPLASH II Group Exhibition
Opening Jan 6 - Feb 26

Sarah Lynch, Doug Keyes, Phillip Toledano, Helen Sear, Odette England, Cornelia Hediger, Cara Barer. Also showing Lisa M. Robinson's Snowbound.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206 | DUMBO Brooklyn

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF 2010

LEE FRIEDLANDER | DAP/FRAENKEL

SALLY MANN - The Flesh and the Spirit | APERTURE

TOD PAPAGEORGE - Opera Citta' | PUNCTUM PRESS

EUGENE SMITH - The Jazz Loft Project | KNOPF

CHRIS VERENE - Family | TWIN PALMS

ZWELETHU MTHETHWA | APERTURE

WILLIAM EGGLESTON - For Now | TWIN PALMS

NICK BRANDT | BIG LIFE EDITIONS

KENRO IZU - A Thirty Year Retrospective | NAZRAELI

ALEX WEBB + REBECCA NORRIS WEBB | RADIUS

DANNY LYON | TWIN PALMS

PAUL STRAND | APERTURE

Street Photography Now | THAMES + HUDSON

RENATE ALLER - Oceanscapes | RADIUS

RAGHU RAI | PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA

Bee | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY | APERTURE

I was invited to submit my top 10 choices for photo-eye Magazine's annual "Best Photography Books of 2010", along with other contributors from Todd Hido - whose book A Road Divided (Nazraeli Press) I now wish I had included in my top 10, Alan Rapp, Larissa Leclair, Bruno Ceschel, Melanie McWhorter and many more. I had a hard time keeping my list down to 10 choices, so I'm posting all of the books I would have liked to list - not in any favored order:

LEE FRIEDLANDER - America By Car | DAP/FRAENKEL "Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. Never has America been photographed so penetratingly and ingeniously as in Friedlander’s latest body of work."–Publisher

SALLY MANN - The Flesh and the Spirit | APERTURE "One of the apparent paradoxes in Sally Mann's work is her desire to show what lies beyond vision by using a medium invented to record reality's surface"– John B. Ravenal. This publication accompanied a significant exhibition of Sally Mann's photography in the special exhibition galleries of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's new McGlothlin Wing. The "Untitled (Self Portraits), 2006-7" make this one of my most treasured books.

TOD PAPAGEORGE - Opera Citta' | PUNCTUM PRESS "...Tod Papageorge imagines this book to be something like a photographic stepchild of one of Calvino's invisible cities, conjured up by a camera out of bits and pieces of a place called Rome..." Papageorge, the Walker Evans Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art, (and my first formal photography teacher), was invited to Rome to work for a month on the Rome Commission. In this perfect little book of color photographs, curated by Marco Delogu and designed by Nicola Scavalli, are some of my favorite Papageorge images (a cringe worthy charge, I'm sure)...read more

EUGENE SMITH - The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of Eugene Smith From 821 Sixth Avenue 1957 - 1965 | KNOPF 821 Sixth Avenue was a late night haunt of musicians–Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonius Monk among them. Between 1957-1965, Smith, then a 38 year old former Life Magazine photographer, shot 1,447 rolls of film at his 821 Sixth Avenue loft, roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work of his career. "Smith made several hundred photographs through the broken windowpane. The cracked window was a kind of aperture, and a metaphor." Buy the book-it's incredible!

CHRIS VERENE - Family | TWIN PALMS

Chris Verene follows the lives of his family and friends. The titles to his photographs tell the whole great story of what I love about his work; "My Twin Cousin's Husband's Brother's Cousin's Cousins"; "The Same Day They Signed The Divorce Papers, A Tornado Hit The House"...read more

ZWELETHU MTHETHWA | APERTURE His portraits are stunning! Photographing in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of aspects in present-day South Africa, from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues...read more

WILLIAM EGGLESTON - For Now | TWIN PALMS ‘This monograph is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda’s year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. Eggleston remarked “the book comes close to being a family album.”...read more on La Lettre

NICK BRANDT - On This Earth A Shadow Falls | BIG LIFE EDITIONS On This Earth, A Shadow Falls combines the best photographs from Nick Brandt's previous books. It features 36 images from On This Earth and 54 from A Shadow Falls and is the only publication where images from both books will appear in one volume, on a larger scale than the previous editions...read more

KENRO IZU - A Thirty Year Retrospective | NAZRAELI PRESS A book of treasures - priceless images of past civilizations. "A chance viewing of the mammoth plate photographs by the Victorian photographer Francis Frith led Izu to travel to Egypt in 1979, to photograph the pyramids and other sacred monuments. Thus began the artist’s renowned series “Sacred Places,” which includes work from holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, Easter Island and, more recently, Buddhist and Hindu sites in India, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China...more about Kenro Izu

ALEX WEBB + REBECCA NORRIS WEBB - Violet Isle | RADIUS BOOKS "This multi-layered portrait of “the violet isle”—a little-known name for Cuba inspired by the rich color of the soil there—presents an engaging, at times unsettling document of a vibrant and vulnerable land. It combines two separate photographic visions: Alex Webb’s exploration of street life, with his attuned and complex attention to detail, and Rebecca Norris Webb’s fascination with the unique, quixotic collections of animals she discovered there, from tiny zoos and pigeon societies to hand-painted natural history displays and quirky personal menageries."

DANNY LYON - Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement | TWIN PALMS In Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Danny Lyon tells the compelling story of how a handful of dedicated young people, both black and white, forged one of the most successful grassroots organizations in American history. The book depicts some of the most violent and dramatic moments of Civil Rights Movement...read more

PAUL STRAND - Paul Strand in Mexico | APERTURE Co-published with Fundación Televisa A.C., Mexico, 2010, this book documents the complete photographic works made by Strand during his 1932–34 trip to Mexico as well as a second journey in 1966—a total of 234 photographs, 123 of which have never before been published. Strand in Mexico tells the story of Strand's journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s. In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chávez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor.

Street Photography Now | THAMES + HUDSON Jointly curated by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, Street Photography Now presents 46 photographers noted for their everyday street, subway, and shopping mall scenes. Included are a few of Magnum's masters such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, along with new and emerging photographers work from New York to Dakar...more

RENATE ALLER - Oceanscapes | RADIUS BOOKS "Aller has been photographing the Atlantic Ocean for over a decade, from a single point on Long Island's fabled coastline. Her images capture the shifting colors and textures of the sky and water, and the beauty and grandeur of the ocean, providing a rich document of what has made the Hamptons such an integral aspect of New York life. The sublime beauty of this Atlantic view, which Aller connects to the great nineteenth-century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich."...more

RAGHU RAI - The Indians: Portraits from My Album. 150 Years of Portraiture In India | PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA "Raghu Rai has been in the forefront of photography in India for over 40 years. As a member of Magnum, he established an international reputation as a photographer with his special essay on the Bhopal Gas tragedy. Twenty-five of his photographs are held in the permanent collection of France's Bibliothque Nationale and in 1997 the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi gave him the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of a contemporary Indian photographer." An upcoming piece on Indian Photography Books is coming up soon on La Lettre de la Photography.

ROSE-LYNN FISHER - Bee | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS Bee was a winner in the International Photography Awards 2010: Books/Nature. "Melding art and science, photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher puts this modern tool to creative use in order to reveal the microscopic majesty of these natural wonders. BEE presents sixty astonishing photographs of honeybee anatomy in magnifications ranging from 10x to 5000x. Rendered in stunning detail, Fisher's photographs uncover the strange beauty of the honeybee's pattern, form, and structure. Comprising 6,900 hexagonal lenses, their eyes resemble the structure of a honeycomb."...more

WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY - Kodachromes | APERTURE This book includes work from 1964 to 2007. "As in all of Christenberry's photographs, the subject matter is the rural Deep South: the twisting back roads, open landscapes, rusted signage and ramshackle vernacular architecture found in Hale County, Alabama. Though many of the sites pictured in this rare collection are new, other subjects have grown iconic in Christenberry's oeuvre as he has returned to photograph them over the decades--the red building in the forest, Sprott Church, the Palmist Sign and the Bar-B-Q Inn, among others."

photo-eye Magazine's
The Best Photography Books of 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 1.1.2011

Moses and the Star Photograph (c) Aline Smithson

HAPPY NEW YEAR !
~
Wishing You All The Best In 2011

HH The Dalai Lama and Einstein Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith

...may 2011 be a
Prosperous + Peaceful New Year!

Must see LENSCRATCH today! 400 photographs posted - my favorites include tom chambers, julie blackmon, stephen mallon, sean perry, jessica todd harper, phillip toledano, gabriela herman, sheri lynn behr, ruben natal-san miguel, elizabeth opalenik, susan worsham, ellen jantzen, akihito yamamoto, jamie stillings, rania matar, christopher rauschenberg, gina kelly, manjari sharma, bruce barone, blake andrews, valery rizzo, mitch dobrowner, joni sternbach, liz kuball, russ martin and marcia schulman martin and more...

ORCHARD: A Series of Collaborative Journals From Raymond Meeks

ORCHARD: A Series of Collaborative Journals From Raymond Meeks

Volume One - Crime Victims Chronicle, with Deborah Luster

ORCHARD: A Series of Collaborative Journals From Raymond Meeks

Volume One - Crime Victims Chronicle, with Deborah Luster

ORCHARD: A Series of Collaborative Journals From Raymond Meeks

Deborah Luster
Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish

Opens Jan 6 – Feb 5, 2011 Jack Shainman Gallery, NY

Raymond Meeks Photography
The New Yorker

MELANIE MCWHORTER: Interview with PhotoBook Designer Elizabeth Avedon

Interview with Photobook Designer Elizabeth Avedon

I first met Elizabeth Avedon when she was the Gallery Director at photo-eye. Since the time Elizabeth departed Santa Fe, she established her own blog which has become a recognized voice in the photography community featuring portfolios and interviews, including my first interview about my photography. I am delighted to turn the tables on Ms. Avedon and allow her to discuss her profession: Book, Exhibition and Web Design + Curatorial Consultant. Here she discusses the photobook, print-on-demand, and some of her favorite projects.

Melanie McWhorter: At what point is it important to involve a designer in your project?

Elizabeth Avedon: There are different stages for a designer to step in for every project. It really depends on the artist/photographer. Some photographers will start talking to me years before they actually are ready to begin the layouts, others hand me a complete, finished edit when I first meet them. I can easily begin to sequence the work for them from that, but I think it's an important step in the overall process for the designer to be involved in the edit of the work from the start, to get a feel for the point of view of the photographer. Many times the designer will see an interesting "book" the artist hadn't imagined for themselves. Other times the photographer will be overly critical in their edit, second guessing themselves and their audience, leaving out images that may show important steps in the evolution of their work. Other photographers may not be critical enough with their work, unable to edit out images because of the people, place or action going on which may not actually come across so well in the image as they think. They are still visualizing the moment, but we don't see it in the frame. It's important for everyone to have an outside eye.

MM: Are most of your clients individuals and do you consult with them one-on-one or are most publishers?

EA: I'm not really a trade book designer, although I love the work I've done for them in the past. (Favorite was An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama for Little, Brown & Co). Almost all of my clients have been individuals or at least the projects start out as someone approaching me and then suggesting to their publisher they would like to work with me. I'm mostly asked to work on special projects. I recently had lunch with the son of a late great photographer to discuss a book of his father's iconic images. Fortunately I knew his father and many of these images are part of my own history, so it could work out well for both of us. We discussed whether to bring in a publisher at this juncture or design the completed book and package it to a publisher. Other times I'll design and print a 20-page dummy for someone to shop around to publishers.

MM: What do you feel is the role of a designer in a creating a photobook?

EA: I think a designer is there to organize the work, whether through a timeline, chapters, subcategories or just by the sequencing into a narrative. The way the works flows from one image to the next, one spread to another, should intuitively guide the viewer through the photographer's world - his or her intention with their work. It's really fun to do a very creative design, with crazy fabulous typography and collage the images and show off as a designer, but that isn't going to showcase a photographer's work. I try to let the work dictate what kind of book it wants to be and stay out of the way. Let the work speak for itself. I've worked on several long-term projects that began as one kind of book and when they were completed, I could see they wanted to be an entirely different kind of book. The work needed to be organized into its first incarnation, to see it was meant to be as an entirely different kind of entity...read more here

Melanie McWhorter Photo Blog

Photographer Melanie McWhorter has managed photo-eye BookStore, the best online Photography Bookstore in the world, for over 13 years. She is a regular contributor to the photo-eye Magazine, co-founder of FiniteFoto Magazine, curator and lecturer.

CRAIG SEMETKO: Unposed

Photograph (c) Craig Semetko /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Craig Semetko /All Rights Reserved

Published by teNeues
purchase

Photograph (c) Craig Semetko /All Rights Reserved

"...he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen."–Magnum Photographer Elliott Erwitt

CRAIG SEMETKO: UNPOSED
Jan 14 – Feb 26 2011
Leica Gallery • 670 Broadway/ NYC

"None of the pictures were staged...This requires a great deal of wandering around aimlessly with an empty head–a skill many teachers told me I had a gift for–only now I carry a camera to record all the strange and beautiful things in front of me. I look for the ironies and oddities that cross cultural boundaries and are common to the human condition. I strive to show authentic moments of joy, melancholy, irony—the full spectrum of human experience. To borrow a phrase from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photography is nothing-it’s life that interests me."– Craig Semetko

The Leica Camera Blog: Part I + Part II

DAVID S. ALLEE: Dark Day

4:02 PM, J Train, from Dark Day series
Photograph (c) David S. Allee /All Rights Reserved

10:37 AM, from Dark Day series
Photograph (c) David S. Allee /All Rights Reserved

5:31 PM, from Dark Day series
Photograph (c) David S. Allee /All Rights Reserved

David S. Allee: Dark Day
Jan 6 – Feb 19, 2011
Morgan Lehman Gallery
535 W 22 St NYC

DEBORAH LUSTER: Tooth For An Eye

Photographs (c) Deborah Luster/Courtesy of Twin Palms Publishers

DEBORAH LUSTER
Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish

Jan 6 – Feb 5, 2011

JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
513 West 20th Street, NYC

The New Yorker
Murder In The Round by Vince Aletti

"The city of New Orleans is a topographical/ architectural/material/cultural phenomenon with a diverse population participating in raucously colorful and fascinating pursuits and rituals. Homicide is a cultural fact of the life in the city as well. In Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish (Twin Palms, 2010), Deborah Luster explores the city in a new way, creating a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites. Following on from her first book, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms, 2003), Tooth for an Eye explores the themes of loss and remembrance in a series of tondo photographs that offer an opportunity for the viewer to enter deeper into the idea of the city, a place where life and death coexist, neither free of the other/s influence."–Twin Palms Publishers

NPR Interview: After Deborah Luster's mother was murdered, Luster turned to photographing prisoners...read more here

Large scale fine-art photographic printing for the exhibition created by Griffin Editions

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Peace on Earth

HRH The Prince of Wales with His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith/All Rights Reserved

Peace on Earth.
Best Wishes, Clive

(more HHDL by Clive Arrowsmith)

HIN CHUA: After The Fall

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

"For me, these photographs explore the effects of the conflicts and collisions that are gradually and chaotically reshaping the spaces around us, played out in slow motion with unpredictable, often disturbing results. This silent hand-over, the transformation of one environment into another, may speak to something deeper within our collective memories: the alteration of places we once knew, an inexorable reminder of the inevitability of change… a farewell to personal Edens"–Hin Chua

Hin Chua

LA LETTRE: William Eggleston: For Now

Untitled, Rosa Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee, 1971
Photograph by William Eggleston

Untitled, Walter Hopps, early 1970's
Photograph by William Eggleston

Twin Palms Publishers newly released monograph, William Eggleston: For Now, is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda’s year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. Eggleston remarked “the book comes close to being a family album.”...read more

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