RACHEL PAPO: Lecture at The Center For Photography at Woodstock Feb 27th

Hava on Margosa Tree, Elroi, Israel 2011
Photograph (c) Rachel Papo /All Rights Reserved

RACHEL PAPO will be giving a lecture about her work at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Sunday, February 27, 11 am. This lecture is part of a new series, Near Here, featuring photographic artists living in the Woodstock area.

You can also view images from Rachel Papo's Exhibition, Serial No. 3817131, posted here 10.13.2009, at the Redline Art Space, Denver, Colorado, March 1-April 26; the Yangon Photo Festival, Yangon, Myanmar, February 24 - March 26; and Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, in May 2011.

MIKAEL KENNEDY: Passport To Trespass

No. 101479-71
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

No. 101479-710
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Polaroid Vitae Vol. I: October 14, 1979
28 B+W Polaroids, 32 newsprint pages, 1000 copies

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Hunt Them Out is a Limited Edition Zine
1000 signed + numbered copies

Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Loading my SX70 and duffel with some of the last remaining packs of the film in the world I set out to gather as many portraits of the folks I had photographed over the years using this unique film before it disappeared forever...

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In the Seventh Volume of the Passport to Trespass series we are updated on several of the central characters in this decade long documentation of Mikael Kennedy's wanderings and adventures. Spanning 2008 and 2009 as Kennedy visited old friends and wandered the northern coasts of the country, these portraits give us a paused moment in the journey, where we face the individuals who have played recurring roles in the Passport to Trespass story.

Volume 7 takes on a new form from previous publications, this booklet printed in Zine form is a 24 page piece containing 20 Polaroid portraits shot with the rare Polaroid film; TZ Artistic. These muted and faded images reflect the vanishing Polaroid film.

Hunt Them Out is a limited edition Zine printed in conjunction with the release of these 20 Polaroids in an online only exhibition with Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, NY.

Mikael Kennedy

STEPHEN MALLON: The Next Stop Atlantic

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Kathleen Vance, Associate Director, Front Room Gallery, in front of Stephen Mallon's "Next Stop Atlantic" image

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

UPDATE!
"Next Stop Atlantic"
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
July 29 - September 25, 2011
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ

NYC Transit joined the artificial reef building program off the east coast of the U.S. in 2000, sending stripped subway cars on barges to be dropped into the Atlantic Ocean to build refuge for fish and crustaceans to colonize the structures. Photographer Stephen Mallon beautifully traces the progress of the train cars on their last voyage out to sea.

Mallon gained enormous acclaim for his series, "Brace For Impact: The Salvage of Flight 1549," documenting the salvage of the U.S. Airways flight piloted by Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who managed to emergency-land in the Hudson River in January 15, 2009 without losing any passenger lives.

Another Mallon Must See: Stephen Mallon produced and directed this video created from over 30,000 still images, posted in The Wall Street Journal: A New York Bridge Delivered (here). Follow the progress of this massive structure as it is floated, dragged, pushed and pulled over one hundred miles of New York's historic waterways.

UPDATE!
"Next Stop Atlantic"
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
July 29 - September 25, 2011
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Jill and Charlie
SmartPhonePhoto (c) Jill Cuticello /All Rights Reserved

Charlie
SmartPhonePhoto (c) Jill Cuticello /All Rights Reserved

Saint Valentine's Day
is an annual commemoration February 14th
celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.

ASMP-NY: Curators + Dealers Panel

(L to R) Moderator Susan May Tell, with Panelists: Jeff Rosenheim, Curator of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Howard Greenberg, Owner of the Howard Greenberg Gallery; Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, ICP, The International Center of Photography

Jeff Rosenheim, Howard Greenberg, Brian Wallis

February 2, 2011: Panelists Jeff L. Rosenheim - Curator of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Howard Greenberg - top photography dealer and owner of New York City's Howard Greenberg Gallery; and Brian Wallis - Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections and Chief Curator, International Center of Photography came together for a conversation on Fine Art Photography. The New York chapter of ASMP (American Society of Media Professionals) was host to this event, moderated by its Fine Art Chair, photographer Susan May Tell. The conversation took place at Soho Photo.

A few of the many topics discussed throughout the evening included, how each of them became interested in photography, their relationships with collectors and auction houses, how they choose exhibitions, the importance (or not) of prints being editioned and/or signed ("only one signature matters - Henri Cartier-Bresson"), and wet vs digital prints. The evening was casual and fun, while also inspiring and illuminating. One example is Rosenheim's response about editioning prints: "I am less concerned with rarity and more concerned with poetry."

Read more about the evening here: SHARPEN by Stella Kramer

HIROSHI WATANABE: Love Point

Mariko 2
Photograph (c) Hiroshi Watanabe /All Rights Reserved

Japanese Edition "Love Point" (Tosei, 2010)

 La Lettre de la Photographie 2.11.2011
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"I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order to confuse the readers. When the show opened in Japan, a newspaper article appeared saying that the show is about a real place in Japan where men play with real women and dolls. For me, the work is a kind of mind game. I hope I was able to intrigue."– Hiroshi Watanabe

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Japanese-born, California based photographer, Hiroshi Watanabe, has become an important force in photography over the past several years, with a growing list of monographs, artist's books, exhibitions and awards to his credit. He's known for his beautiful theatrical portraits of traditional Noh Masks of the Naito Clan and Kabuki Players (Hiroshi Watanabe, La Lettre de la Photographie, Jan 17, 2011)

La Lettre de la Photographie 1.17.2011
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....though here he has taken a slightly different turn, photographing artificial Japanese Sex Dolls as models, along with almost identical live models. The portraits are titled out of fictional characters in an accompanying short story by novelist Richard Curtis Hauschild and all reside in a fictional place, Love Point.

"The dolls are very expensive sex dolls (about $5,000). They are human size with real joint movements, soft skin, and weigh just like a woman. As in US and Europe, there are people in Japan who live and sleep with these dolls in lieu of wife or girlfriend. US dolls are more realistic in a way, but Japanese dolls are cuter and adorable (my opinion)."

"After I photographed the dolls, I photographed real human models dressed similarly. I wanted to puzzle and confuse what is real and what is not. Of course, one can tell the difference once he/she knows there are both. I could have made them more same and thus indistinguishable if I manipulated the images digitally, buytI kept them as they are on the film. I wanted to raise a question about perfectly (and easily) manipulated digital images that we see now everywhere."

“Love Point” was a collaboration of many. Hiroo Okawa of 4woods created the dolls which gave Watanabe's photographs their mysterious charm, along with the work of make-up artist, Kyoko Owada, stylist Hiromi Chiba, and models, Mariko Masu and Hiroko Sato. Richard Curtis Hauschild, “Bulldog”, wrote a strikingly original short story with the inspiration he received after looking at Hiroshi Watanabe's photographs. Kunihiro Takahashi of Toseisha belief in the work prompted an “I will publish it” response on the spot when shown the photographs, with book design by Satsuki Ishikawa. And more recently, Chris Pichler of Nazraeli Press, published the U.S. version, One Picture Book #66: Love Point (Nazraeli Press, 2011). – Elizabeth Avedon, La Lettre de la Photographie

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Love Point at Photo-eye Bookstore

10 BEST 10: Photography Competition

View 2010 Winners "10 BEST 10"
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Call for Entries until Feb 22nd!

iPhones to Pinholes, Polaroids to Droids, Holgas to Hasselblads
Any Camera, Any Subject, Any Country

NORMAN MAUSKOPF: Descendants

Photograph (c) Norman Mauskopf /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Norman Mauskopf /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Norman Mauskopf /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Norman Mauskopf /All Rights Reserved

"newborns scream their arrivals, and fathers with wrist chains and tattoos cling to their little loves in parks, and the circle widens and expands and ripples toward every closed gate, with tribal drums beating, gourds blowing and rattles rattling we are here, we are here, we are here" – New Mexican poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca

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Northern New Mexico is a complex weave of pride and history. In this region of ancient traditions and striking environmental and ethnic diversity, documentary photographer Norman Mauskopf has spent the last decade photographing the Hispanic people and their culture. The photographs that emerged depict the intersection of religion, injustice, community, and transcendence. – Twin Palms Publishers

Descendants: Photographs by Norman Mauskopf

MONIKA MERVA: The City of Children

Rabbit Ears, Hungary, 2005
The City of Children (Kehrer Verlag , 2011)

Mouse, Hungary, 2004
Photograph (c) Monika Merva /All Rights Reserved

Red Bottle, Hungary, 2005
Photograph (c) Monika Merva /All Rights Reserved

"Children generally know whom to trust, especially those who´ve experienced hardships. Monika Merva brought empathy and compassion as well as skill to this project and we can feel it in the children's responses. They allowed her into their private spaces and she's honored their trust with vivid, memorable portraits." –Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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The City of Children: Photographs by Monika Merva

"Monika Merva, a first generation American of Hungarian descent, has spent almost a decade visiting and photographing the children of Gyermekközpont in Hungary for this, her first monograph. Her photographs of the children are vivid and personal, the pacing of the rich, color images has a comfortably varied formal character. Though the cultural divide between the democratic West and former Soviet bloc countries seems almost unbreachable at times, Merva's images do so slowly — without obscuring their cultural specificity, they form a potent bridge between the viewer and subject."–photo-eye Books

Daylight Magazine Interview with Merva

THOMAS KELLNER: Photography In Art

London, Tower Bridge, 2001 

Photograph (c) Thomas Kellner /All Rights Reserved  

(click to enlarge these images)

 

Budapest Parliament, 2006  

Photograph (c) Thomas Kellner /All Rights Reserved

 

Monaco, Royal Palace, 2006 

Photograph (c) Thomas Kellner /All Rights Reserved

 

Beijing, Great Wall of Mutianyu 1, 2006 

Photograph (c) Thomas Kellner /All Rights Reserved 

 

"Each photographic work is made up of horizontally placed film strips of up to 1,269 individual pictures. Every single one of these smaller images was taken with the camera from a slightly shifted perspective and subsequently combined into an overall picture, creating an entirely new image." "To approach something like The Great Wall of China is much more complicated than it looks. Once you reach one of the accessible parts of The Wall, you have to walk, climb, and tumble up and down the path on top of the Wall and the many stairs that have been polished by the feet of thousands and thousands of soldiers, and later by millions of tourists. You have to get away from the mass tourism to find a place of silence. In the way that I work, it is not possible to photograph more than just a little piece out of the thousands of miles of this wall. It takes hours to expose 25 roles of 36-exposure film, or 900 shots, to be finished before the sunset, smog and fog enter the frame. In this image, I started with sunshine in the bottom of the image and ended with less sun towards the top."–Thomas Kellner

 

German born artist/photographer, Thomas Kellner, creates large scale images that combine photography, collage and moving pictures. His final images are contact prints of the films he shoots—the more film, the larger the final image. If he shoots one film, the size is 20cmx24cm; if he shoots 36 films, the print is 100cmx120cm. Read more here

Thomas Kellner Website

DIANA VREELAND: An Illustrated Biography

Diana Vreeland

Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

Diana Vreeland in her apartment
Photograph (c) Jonathan Becker /All Rights Reserved

from DIANA VREELAND by Eleanor Dwight
Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

Diana Dalziel, 1911 "I have always had a wonderful imagination, I have thought of things that never could be..." –Diana Dalziel diary

Diana Vreeland
Photograph (c) Louise Dahl- Wolfe /All Rights Reserved

Diana's friend Horst P. Horst photographed her in her "Garden in Hell." As she said in DV, "All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, 'I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist Temple' – they have no idea what I'm talking about. About the best red is to copy a child's cap in any Renaissance portrait." Photograph (c) Horst P. Horst

DIANA VREELAND by Eleanor Dwight
Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

"There's an excellent profile in Interview in which Jeanne Moreau says: "I shall die very young." "How young?" they ask her. "I don't know, maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young." – DV

Legendary fashion arbiter, Diana Vreeland, born Diana Dalziel in Paris in 1906 to an American socialite mother and British father, married businessman Reed Vreeland, and with their two young children, moved to London, where they spent six years. Vreeland made frequent visits to Paris; and befriended designers such as Patou, Schiaparelli and Chanel. Returning to the states in 1935, Vreeland wrote an inventive column for Harper's Bazaar, "Why Don't You?" and later became a top editor there. Vreeland photographed models in Frank Lloyd Wright homes instead of in staged studios. In 1963, she became Vogue's editor-in-chief during the "Swinging Sixties" youth quake era, traveling to exotic locales in Africa, India, Turkey, China, Japan, and South America with famed models of the time Jean Shrimpton, Veruschka, Penelope Tree and Twiggy. In 1971, Vreeland became the consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, creating the most exquisite exhibitions; "The Glory of the Russian Costume" prepared with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; "Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes"; "Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era"; "Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design"; "The Eighteenth-Century Woman", among many others. Mrs. Vreeland lived an artistic life, always fashionable and immensely creative. She died in 1989.

An illustrated Biography

DIANA VREELAND by Eleanor Dwight (William Morrow)

A MONKS PHOTO JOURNAL: Preparing For HH The Dalai Lama's Visit to Mundgod

The monks of Rato Dratsang preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit

Rato Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, India

The monks of Rato Dratsang preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit

Preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit, Rato Dratsang Monastery

Preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit, Rato Dratsang Monastery

Rato Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, India

A Monk's PhotoJournalist, Nicholas Vreeland

The monks of Rato Dratsang Monastery, in Mundgod, Karnataka, India, are preparing for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Inaugurate their Monastery January 31, 2011, followed by Teachings Febuary 1-5th. HH The Dalai Lama Schedule of teachings Here. Many of the new buildings for the Monastery were provided for from the sale of photographs by Nicholas Vreeland through the Rato Dratsang Foundation. Early in his career, Vreeland worked for both Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. An exhibition of his photographs will be shown at the Leica Gallery, New York, April 22- June 4, 2011.

All Photographs (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

2011 CENTER AWARDS: Last Call for Entries

Corridors of Power / New School, New York
CENTER 2010 Project Launch Award, Honorable Mention
Photograph (c) Luca Zanier

Deadline for Review Santa Fe, Project Competition, Project Launch and The Choice Awards is January 27, 2011 VisitCenter.org

ANTHONY JONES: Urban Environment

Black Dog Portfolio: Street Study II
Photograph (c) Anthony Jones /All Rights Reserved

London Taxis, 1998
Photograph (c) Anthony Jones /All Rights Reserved

Canary Wharf Station
Photograph (c) Anthony Jones /All Rights Reserved

Puddle, London
Photograph (c) Anthony Jones /All Rights Reserved

Man Walking Down a Passageway
Photograph (c) Anthony Jones /All Rights Reserved

"I still have that first roll of film (I ever took), it was of Trafalgar Square, the photographs are of the space, the built environment of the square and not the people. I return there often to photograph."

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Anthony Jones is a London based photographer known for his black and white images of the urban environment. He uses a Hasselblad medium format camera. His work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and through many galleries, including the John Stevenson Gallery in New York.

Purchase silver gelatin prints by Anthony Jones here