SATURDAY: Art + Photography

ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY: Chelsea
First Class / Second Class: March 31 - May 7

Glamour Break Diva, 2009
Photograph (c) Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Blass & Co. (Bill Blass, Nancy Kissinger, Mica Ertegun and Duane Hampton at the Seventh on Sale benefit, New York City), 1995 Photograph (c) Miles Ladin

Nan Kempner at the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show, 1995
Photograph (c) Miles Ladin

Wrestling Dalton, 2006
Photograph (c) Chris Verene

First Class/Second Class: Curated by Asya Geisberg and Leah Oates, includes Chris Verene, Rebecca Morgan, Miles Ladin, Devin Troy Strother, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Holly Jarrett, Conor McGrady, and Brian Shumway. Asya Geisberg Gallery 537B West 23rd St NYC

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STEVEN KASHER GALLERY: Chelsea
Phyllis Galembo / Maske: March 2 - April 2

Zambia, 2007
Photograph (c) Phyllis Galembo

Reflection in the window – the illusive John A Bennette, NY Photography Collector and SlowExposures PhotoFestival Curator at the Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd NYC

Zambia, 2007
Photograph (c) Phyllis Galembo

Phyllis Galembo: Maske, an exhibition featuring recent photographs by Phyllis Galembo, large-scale color prints presenting African and Haitian figures in indigenous masquerade costume. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd NYC

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FINCH + ADA: Chelsea
The Pleasure Is All Mine: March 24 - April 8

Photograph (c) Jonathan Levitt

from the series "Spring Fever"
Photograph (c) Aline Smithson

Photograph (c) Toby Burrows

Photograph (c) Dolly Faibyshev

The Pleasure is All Mine: Curated by Elizabeth Barragan & Kathleen Mahoney-Cobb, includes Toby Burrows, Bill Durgin, Dolly Faibyshev, C. Finley, Maciek Jasik, Jan von Holleben, Jonathan Levitt, Diane Russo, Aline Smithson, Rachel Styer, Justin Walker, Rachael Warner, Jill Waterman and Logan White. Finch & Ada, 548 W. 28th St., Space A, Ground Floor, NYC

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ALLEGRA LaVIOLA GALLERY: Lower East Side
Jennifer Riley / Fire-Fangled Feathers: March 23 - April 30

Hermitage, 2011
Painting: Jennifer Riley

2011 Pastel Drawings
Drawings: Jennifer Riley

“Fire-Fangled Feathers”, painter Jennifer Riley maintains her exploration of line, color, shape and space in a series of new paintings and pastels. Allegra LaViola Gallery, 179 East Broadway NYC

HAITI KIDS PHOTO WORKSHOP: Contribute A Digital Camera for Kids in Haiti

2010 Photography Workshop, Cité Soleil
Photograph © 2010 Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon

2010 Photography Workshop, Cité Soleil
Photograph © 2010 Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon

Photography Workshop, ACFFC - field trip to Marigot (Cheldine in pink)
Photograph © 2010 Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon

Our very first Zanmi Lakay Photography Workshop with ACFFC in Jacmel, Haiti, 2007. Photograph © 2007 Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon

It really is magic
putting the cameras in the hands of these kids
–Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon

The next Workshop will be in July in Jacmel, Haiti. The kids need digital cameras for the Project. If any of you have an extra camera or work for companies that might be able to donate, please contact the Zanmi Lakay organization below.

Zanmi Lakay is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for current and former street children in Haiti by providing educational and economic opportunities and resources to help these children. If you would like to donate towards any of the Workshop's expenses in Haiti, read more here.

Send Digital Camera's and Photo Books to:
Jennifer Pantaléon at Zanmi Lakay
153 Montecito Avenue, Pacifica, CA 94044
info@zanmi Lakay

And don't forget the chargers and cables, CF and SD cards, extra AA batteries and photo books the kids can look at!

KATHLEEN LARAIA MCLAUGHLIN: Transylvania Project

Watch Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin's KickStarter Video!
"The Color of Hay: The Peasants of Maramures"

Gheorghe, Mara, Maramures, 1999
Photograph (c) Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

Maria, Sarbi, Maramures, 2003
Photograph (c) Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

Northern Transylvania is the last bastion of subsistence peasant villages in Europe. It is an area so remote that the Romans never conquered them. Yet just two decades after the fall of communism, modernity is finally overcoming their centuries old traditions.

"In a single generation, the villages shown here have gone from illiterate poverty to cell phone towers. Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin's photographs capture both the traditions and the change of the first decade of the 21st century. Using a medium format camera with traditional film negatives, she pursues the mission of a documentary photographer by preserving a piece of fading history.

"Your contributions will allow us to make the final payment to the printer. Up to now, we have spent our money and the money of friends. This final amount will complete the long journey to publication."

Over 130 photos are displayed throughout 200 pages. Each image carries a caption, a location and a date. The book is organized into chapters on the seasons, the ceremonies, and the meaning of life. Throughout, there are essays, poems, proverbs, ghost stories and songs to add depth to the lives of these special villages." (...KickStarter Video)

Read The Interview with Aline Smithson on Lenscratch

JACK B. WOODY: Twin Palms Photography Book Publisher

Jack Woody, NYC. Photograph by Duane Michals
read profile on
Le Journal de la Photographie

Helen Twelvetrees Photographed by Edward Steichen

Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press, named for his grandmother, early Hollywood movie star Helen Twelvetrees (above), includes her beautiful portraits in his exquisitely printed book, Lost Hollywood, along with Lillian Gish, Jean Harlow, Charlie Chaplin, Theda Bara, Erich von Stroheim, Greta Garbo, and Rudolf Valentino by photographers George Hurrell, William Mortensen, Clarence Sinclair Bull, and Edward Weston.

Jack Woody's Grandparents 

Film star Helen Twelvetrees and Frank Woody, actor and stuntman in John Ford movies, 1933. From 1929-1939, Twelvetrees starred in movies with Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Barrymore. Her initials “HT” are still inset in stained glass above the original front door of her Brentwood home on Mulholland Drive and Outpost, now home to a current movie star. 

"Walk of Fame Star" on Hollywood Boulevard © Stefano Paltera

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1984
(Twin Palms 1985)

  

"...the Robert Miller Gallery did an exhibition of George Platt Lynes prints and after the exhibition they gave a big party. A guy comes up to me, all in black leather, and starts talking to me. It was Robert Mapplethorpe. He said he really loved the book, thought it was great and wanted to know if I’d be interested in working with him on a book...We ended up doing a book together, “Certain People: A Book of Portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe", with gravure plates printed in Spain. He’s on the front cover in leather and the back cover in drag. Susan Sontag wrote the text."

 

 Matt Mahurin (Twin Palms 1999)

"Matt Mahurin’s book was the ultimate book for gravure printing. That’s a beautiful book. Beautiful, rich, dark – there’s a whole school of people who copy his work now."

 
Disfarmer: 1939-1946 Heber Springs Portraits
(Twin Palms 1996)

"The first book I published was Christopher Isherwood’s beautiful journal called “October” (Twelvetrees, 1980). Don Bachardy, Christopher Isherwood’s lover, was a portrait painter. He did a portrait everyday in the month of October, and every day Christopher would do a journal entry, so we paired each journal entry with Don’s portraits of Gore Vidal, Joan Didion and everybody who was anybody in L.A. Then I found a little printer in the valley, Cunningham Press. A couple of old guys ran it and took pity on me. That was about 1978 or 1979."

read the entire Jack Woody Interview
Le Journal de la Photographie

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY: Raymond Meeks

Fallen Tree, 1996
Photograph (c) Raymond Meeks

"I was driving towards the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the home of the Oglala Sioux nation and the birthplace of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted for aiding and abetting the execution style murder of two F.B.I agents during a 1975 shootout on the reservation. The indictment has been controversial (here), the subject of a film by Robert Redford and Michael Apted, Incident at Oglala, which portrays Peltier as a political prisoner.

I had just come from the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas where I’d made a few portraits of Leonard Peltier for a magazine commission. The fallen tree, partially submerged in this dried, frozen river bed, seemed a fitting metaphor to accompany the story I was illustrating."–Raymond Meeks (from photo-eye Blog: 3.22.11)

Raymond Meeks

photo-eye Gallery Artists Exhibition
March 2011, Santa Fe

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Incident at Oglala: Robert Redford
Must Read: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Trail of Tears Documentary, DVD

American Indian Movement
Statement From Leonard Peltier
Petition For Leonard Peltier

MARK MORRISROE (1959-1989): Exhibition

Mark Morrisroe, "Jonathan (Jack Pierson)," 1982, Chromogenic print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet), 15 x 15 inches (image), Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City © Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection), Fotomuseum Winterthur

Mark Morrisroe, "Untitled (Self Portrait)," 1988, Photogram (Unique), 14 x 11 inches, Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City © Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection), Fotomuseum Winterthur

Mark Morrisroe, "Untitled (Jonathan Pierson)," 1978, Polaroid print (Unique), 3.75 x 3.75 inches, Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City © Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection), Fotomuseum Winterthur

Monograph: Mark Morrisroe (Twin Palms Publishers)
Photographs +Text by Mark Morrisroe, 200 plates

"It kills me to look at my old photographs of myself and my friends. We were such beautiful, sexy kids but we always felt bad because we thought we were ugly at the time. It was because we were such outcasts in high school and so unpopular. We believed what other people said. If any one of us could have seen how attractive we really were we might have made something better of our lives. I'm the only guy that I know who wanted to runaway to be a prostitute."– Mark Morrisroe

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Mark Morrisroe studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he became life long friends with Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Davis Armstrong and Jack Pierson, now collectively called "The Boston School." He died in 1999.

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Nan Goldin wrote: "Mark was an outlaw on every front-sexually, socially and artistically. He was marked by his dramatic and violent adolescence as a teenage prostitute with a deep distrust and a fierce sense of his uniqueness. I met him in Art School in 1977; he left shit in my mailbox as a gesture of friendship. Limping wildly down the halls in his torn t-shirts, calling himself Mark Dirt, he was Boston's first punk. He developed into a photographer with a completely distinctive artistic vision and signature. Both his pictures of his lovers, close friends, and objects of desire, and his touching still lifes stand as timeless fragments of his life, resonating with sexual longing, loneliness, and loss."

MARK MORRISROE (1959-1989)
ClampArt | Exhibition
March 24 - April 30
521 west 25th st, nyc

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Monograph: Mark Morrisroe (Twin Palms)

read Twin Palms Book Publisher, Jack B. Woody profile:
La Lettre de la Photographie 3.26.2011

LIFE SUPPORT JAPAN I+II+III: Online Auction

Spirit Stories #19, 2010 (8 available) $50
Photograph (c)Jessica Hines

Japanese Macaques, 2010 (10 available) $50

Photograph (c) Mike Gibson

No. 61, 2011 (3 available) $50
Photograph (c) Kerry Mansfield

Rabbit, 2010 (8 available) $50
Photograph (c) Monika Merva

$1 Of Panko Bread Crumbs, 2008 (5 available) $50
from the series The Value Of A Dollar
Photograph (c) Jonathan Blaustein

life support japan I
life support japan II
life support japan III
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wall space gallery

the photo community has pulled together at warp speed to help disaster victims in Japan. powered by aline smithson of lenscratch + christa dix of wall space gallery, Life Support Japan has already raised $20,000. over 900 photographers are donating their work and images are being uploaded every day, so check back often - for $50 you will get an 8 X 10 signed print, one of a special limited edition of ten - 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the non-profit organizations, Direct Relief International and Habitat for Humanity Japan

new images posted daily
seattle 206.330.9137 | santa barbara 805.637.3898

purchase thru google check-out. international buyers: email gallery@wall-spacegallery.com for an invoice and pay thru paypal. buy multiple prints, pay shipping once. also click on "Life Support Japan I" on the bottom of the page

MARGARET McCARTHY: Late Night Animals

LATE NIGHT ANIMALS 1

Photograph by Margaret McCarthy

LATE NIGHT ANIMALS 3

Photograph by Margaret McCarthy

LATE NIGHT ANIMALS 5
Photograph by Margaret McCarthy

"This series began as a visual journal; I found myself drawn to the humor, wackiness and pathos in the spectacle of wild animals as guests on late night talk TV. The animals are often brought on as TV guests with the best of intentions: to educate the mass TV audience. Often these species are perilously close to extinction. I found myself wondering: does our culture handle the vanishing of a species by giving them 15 minutes of fame before they are gone for good? In these pictures, I try to speak to our conflicted reactions about co-existing with wildness and the natural world, and the irony of a culture that seems to love these animals to death but can't seem to leave them alone." – Margaret McCarthy

LATE NIGHT ANIMALS
Raandesk Gallery thru April 23
16 W. 23rd St, NYC

JONI STERNBACH: Art Nation Video

PLAY VIDEO!

SurfLand: 06.07.12 #4 Lone Surfer / 8" x 10" unique tintype. Ditch Plains
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

SurfLand: 09.08.24 #4 Len / 14" x 17" unique tintype. Radars, Camp Hero

Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

Joni Sternbach Unique Tintypes

Artist in Residence: March 2011 The Art Park/Atlantic in Byron Bay, Australia. Into the Ether: Wet Plate Collodion Workshop: June, 2011 in conjunction with Luz Gallery, British Columbia. Into the Ether: Master Class in Wet Plate Collodion: October 22nd and 23rd, 2011 at Houston Center for Photography...more about Joni Sternbach

NY AIPAD PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: to March 20

Alhaji Hassan with Ajasco, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007
By Pieter Hugo at Yossi Milo Gallery # 103

Julie Blackmon
Catherine Edelman Gallery # 309

Saul Leiter: Early Color
Susan Forristal next to her friend Saul Leiters work
Howard Greenberg Gallery # 309

Paul Kopeikin in front of Marta Soul
Kopeikin Gallery # 209

AIPAD Photography Show
March 17-20 • Park Ave Armory x 67th St

Photo Collector's Alert: The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, the best of the best, are here in NYC this weekend. Check out all the modern, contemporary work, old masters, civil war treasures, salt prints and painted tin types (at Gary Edwards Gallery). It's like the History of Photography all under one roof - only it's for sale. Martine Fougeron at Galerie Ester Woerdehoff, Mona Kuhn at M+B #109, The Oval Office, 2001 at Monroe Gallery #417, Laura Gilpin's 1928 Narcissus platinum print at Scheinbaum & Russek #214, Leopoldo Pomes' Calitx, 1947 at Michael Hoppen...over 70 Galleries.

LIFE SUPPORT JAPAN: Photography Auction Funds Benefit Japan Disaster

SILENT AUCTION: JENNIFERSCHWARTZ Gallery
Atlanta, GA, March 19th. 11am-5pm
Absentee Bidding VIEW IMAGES

Maiko Takaku, Matsuo Kabuki (2003)
Photograph (c) Hiroshi Watanabe

Big with Monkey Doll, Suo Sarumawashi (2008)
Photograph (c) Hiroshi Watanabe

Barefoot Guitarist (2009)
Photograph (c) Gabe Sheen

Life Support Japan is an effort by photographers and galleries around the world to raise money to support those affected by the earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11th, 2011. Money raised from these joint efforts will be donated to Direct Relief International and Habitat for Humanity Japan.

Silent Auction: Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA, March 19th. 11am-5pm. Winners Announced at 6pm on March 19th. Bids will be taken at the Gallery and also by Absentee Bidding. Absentee Bids can be sent to auction@jenniferschwartzgallery from 11am-5pm (Eastern Standard Time). They will accept absentee pre-bids Friday March 18th from 5pm-7pm. Additionally there will be a "buy it now" option, where the bidder can buy the lot at the full retail price.

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20x200: A JEN BEKMAN PROJECT
(limited editions x low prices) + the internet = art for everyone

Imperial Palace Gardens with Wall, Tokyo, 2009
Photograph (c) Emily Shur

All of the proceeds from the sale of this print benefit Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund. Japan Society has created a disaster relief fund to aid victims of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan. 100% of the contributions will go to organization(s) that directly help victims recover from the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. 20X200

"I have photographed in Japan since my first visit in 2004 . . . I identify deeply with the level of respect that nature commands there, as well as the mesmerizing attention to detail prevalent within Japanese life. This honoring of the natural world is indicative of a certain way of thinking; a collective consciousness that goes beyond simply caring for plants or animals or taking pride in one’s work." –Emily Shur

Purchase Imperial Gardens: 20X200

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LIFE SUPPORT JAPAN: WALLSPACE Gallery
Online Auction: new images posted daily
VIEW IMAGES

Hope, India, 2011 $50
Photograph (c) Manjari Sharma

January Rain, Tokyo, 2009 $50
Photograph (c) Michael Kirchoff

the photo community has pulled together asap, powered by aline smithson of lenscratch and christa dix of wall space gallery. at this time, over 850 photographers have donated their work (!) so new images are being uploaded every day - check back often - for $50 you will get an 8 X 10 signed print - one of a special limited edition of ten - 100% of the proceeds will be donated to non-profit organizations, Direct Relief International and Habitat for Humanity Japan, benefiting disaster victims.

*purchase thru google check-out. international buyers: email for an invoice and pay thru paypal. buy multiple prints, pay shipping once.

note: Life Support Japan is planned as a long term project, not a short term fix to help Japan. they are creating a website, I'll post when it's live. "thank you from the bottom of my heart for this huge outpouring of support in this effort to help."–gallery owner, christa dix