MICHELLE FRANKFURTER: Destino

Oaxaca, Mexico 2010
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Home of Mercy Migrant Shelter, Arriaga, Chiapas, 2009
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Hermanos en El Camino Migrant Shelter, Ixtepec, Oaxaca, 2009
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Orizaba, Veracruz, 2010
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Hermanos en El Camino Migrant Shelter, Ixtepec, Oaxaca, 2009
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

"Destino, meaning both "destination" and "destiny” in Spanish, is a selection of images from Photo-Eye 'Photographer's Showcase' artist Michelle Frankfurter portraying the perilous journey across Mexico of undocumented Central American migrants as they attempt to enter the United States in pursuit of a better life. The unprecedented wave of Central American migration to the U.S. began in the 1980s – the consequence of bloody civil wars, crippling economic policies and relentless poverty. In a wandering odyssey, migrants travel by rail, relying on the network of freight trains inexorably lurching across Mexico...Victimized both by global economic trade policies that make earning a living wage in their native countries impossible and by a broken immigration policy in the United States, these itinerant Central Americans represent the quintessential underdog." –Photographers Showcase, Photo-Eye

Photo-Eye's Interview with Michelle Frankfurter

Photographers Showcase Destino Portfolio

ARLES: Le Journal Reports Daily from the Arles PhotoFestival July 2–Sept 23

THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2012

Le Journal de la Photographie has been covering everything from the ongoing Photography Festival in Arles, France. If you are vacationing in the South of France, many of the exhibits will continue through September 23. Read Le Journal's daily Arles reports: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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P.S. Note my "Interview with Anne Wilkes Tucker", Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is listed as "Best of Last Week" on Le Journal's site.

GYPSY JAZZ: Cafe Moto

Guitarist's Joel V. Beaver and Matthew Avedon with Jay Sanford on Bass
Don't forget to leave an expression of appreciation $$ in the Fire bucket!

Moto: good food and great music by candle-light

We had a fantastic evening last night lstening to some good ol' Gypsy Jazz at Moto until midnight. Guitarist Matthew Avedon, Jay Sanford on Bass, played in the style of legendary Gypsy Guitarist Django Reinhardt along side Guitarist Joel V. Beaver (of the Lower Eastside Hot Club). Beaver studied with guitar master Stephane Wrembel who scored Bistro Fada the theme to Woody Allen's 2012 Academy Award winning film Midnight in Paris. Remember Wrembel performing live during this year’s Oscar’s telecast? French-born guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel learned his craft among the Gypsies at campsites in the French countryside. Now Brooklyn-based, he is one of the most original guitar voices in contemporary music.

I don't have a recording from last night's transcendent performance by Avedon, Beaver and Sanford at Moto, so here are a couple of great YouTube video's of Wrembel playing Bistro Fada from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.

Stephane Wrembel plays "Bistro Fada"
his theme song for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris
(on the Kojo Nnamdi Show)

Stephane Wrembel's Midnight in Paris Theme "Bistro Fada"
(Painting by Vincent van Gogh)

Matthew Avedon Trio, Tuesday's 9 to midnight Cafe Moto, 394 Broadway (Hooper x Keap), Hewes St (J or M train), Brooklyn. Don't forget to leave an expression of appreciation $$ in the Fire bucket!

LE JOURNAL: New Logo Design

The new Le Journal de la Photographie Logo

Design by Art Director Magnus Naddermier

La Lettre de la Photographie is dead. Long live Le Journal de la Photographie. We waited for the right moment to tell you. With the opening of the Arles Festival , the most important photography festival in the world, the moment is now.

Why the title change? Because the adventure that began 18 months ago; has since exploded into notoriety and audience, that the term 'La Lettre', very French, was disconcerting to the majority of the readers from the 113 countries that are with us daily, that it was in total discrepancy with the coverage of the news in the world of photography, and would have hindered the new rubrics, territories and areas that we want to cover. As of this morning, you can discover our new logo. Starting in September, a new layout will be presented, other applications will also follow. Le Journal de la Photographie welcomes you aboard! Jean-Jacques Naudet

PHOTOGRAPHER'S i MAGAZINE: iPad Only

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3
Cover by Steve McCurry

Stephen Mallon with Elizabeth Avedon

“Mallon’s work harkens back to the heroic industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White and Charles Sheeler, who glorified American steel and found art in its industrial muscle and smoke during the Great Depression.”–David Schonauer

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3

Issue #3 for iPad includes Steve McCurry Retrospective, Stephen Mallon Reclamation Projects, Joyce Tenneson, Stephen Wilkes, Dave Beckerman, Thom Hogan, Roger Pring, Lara Jade, Simon Bond, Carl Heilman II, Adam Juniper, Brooke Shaden, Michael Freeman, John Beardsworth, Nancy Brown, Richard Hood, Grahm Davis. Download iPad app: bit.ly/Lvueox

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3 for iPad
On iTunes Newsstand Now. App: bit.ly/Lvueox

LAWRENCE SCHILLER | Photographs at Steven Kasher Gallery through June 30

Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand on the set of "Let's Make Love, 1960"
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marilyn Monroe, 1962
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marilyn Monroe and Wally Cox.
Monroe's 36th Birthday Party. June 1st, 1962
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.

Self-Portrait, Lawrence Schiller, 2012

Wiener/Schiller Archives

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a successful photojournalist with Look, Life, Paris Match, making a name for himself with exclusive photographs of Marilyn Monroe, many taken on the set of her unfinished last film, George Cukor’s Something’s Got To Give, 1962.

"I had three Gods in my life in Photography. One was Yousuf Karsh, one was W. Eugene Smith and one was Dick Avedon. There was another one who was a kind of semi-God, which was Hiro, who was Dick’s assistant for a lot of years...he did extraordinary work."

Lawrence Schiller's exquisite exhibition
Marilyn & Me
Steven Kasher Gallery

"...a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame"

Contact Sheet, Marilyn Monroe "Let’s Make Love,"1960
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.

Let’s Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, 1960.
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching memoir. Revealing and readable, it’s a book I couldn’t put down." —Tina Brown

"In the new book (Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words & Photographs, Taschen Books 2012), there are at least thirty images that came from the shooting for Look Magazine. I’m not exaggerating, until last year I had never looked at that shooting since the day the film was sent into Look Magazine and Marilyn approved the contact sheets. They went into the Look Library, I owned the copyright. Look ran one picture of mine, some with Bob Vose, some with Guy Villet and John Bryson, who was a God to me. I just never looked at it. Now I look at it and I come up with this image, the first picture I ever shot of her. This picture [above] was never published; it’s on the cover of the Talese book (Marilyn & Me, Nan A. Talese/Random House). It comes from a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame. She said to me as I’m shooting, “Oh you’ll never get a good picture from that angle. Go over there where the light will be better and I’ll show you what a good picture is.” Then she turns and that’s that. Over fifty-two years I never looked at this contact sheet..." as told to me in Le Journal de la Photographie. Read the Interview with Lawrence Schiller here.

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota

My Dakota (Radius, 2012)
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Rearview Mirror
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Blackbirds
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Storm Light
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota
Photography and text by Rebecca Norris Webb
Edited with Alex Webb

"In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people. It’s a land of powwows and rodeos, a corn palace and buffalo roundups. Dominated by space and silence, South Dakota’s harsh and beautiful landscape is sometimes prey to brutal wind and extreme weather. The next year, however, everything changed for Norris Webb, when one of her brothers died unexpectedly of heart failure. “For months,” she writes in the afterword to this volume, “one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota…I began to wonder — does loss have its own geography?” My Dakota — which interweaves her spare text and lyrical photographs — is a small intimate book about the West and its weathers, and an elegy for a lost brother." –Radius Books

Weather
Ricco Maresca Gallery, NY
June 21 - August 17, 2012

CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait, Leica Gallery

Group of Bears, Central Park, 1993
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard

CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait
June 8 - August 4
Leica Gallery • 670 B'way • New York

Bruce Davidson • Elliot Erwitt • Ralph Gibson • Saul Leiter • Mary Ellen Mark • Nicholas Vreeland • Mio Nakamura • Arlene Gottfried • and more

MARILYN MONROE: Photographed by Lawrence Schiller at Steven Kasher

Marilyn By Lawrence Schiller on La Lettre (click here). Photographs by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"Lawrence Schiller's Exhibition of over fifty iconic images of Marilyn Monroe—many of which have been newly discovered in his archives, opened at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York last week, his first solo show in the U.S. Schiller met Monroe when he was just a 23 year old photojournalist. He describes meeting Marilyn for the first time, "I was scared shitless. I‘d never photographed somebody who had been photographed by every photographer in the world. I learned very quickly that Marilyn knew more about photography than I did...She could look anyway she wanted." These exclusive photographs of Monroe show her as "self-aware, in control of her image, yet fragile and vulnerable, and uniquely touching." – La Lettre de la Photographie

Steven Kasher Gallery
through June 30th

La Lettre de la Photographie Monroe and Schiller (here)

LISA LEONE: Then @HVW8 A+D Gallery

Wyclef and Lauren Hill - 1993 East Harlem NYC
Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Fabel and Wiggles - 1990 NYC
Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Before Hip-Hop was an Industry, it was a Community...
Lisa Leone Photographs | Then

2014 UPDATE

MITRA TABRIZIAN: Mise-En-Scenes

City, London 2008, 48 x 98.5 in / 122 x 250 cm, Edition of 5, 2 Aps
Mitra Tabrizian in collaboration with Zadoc Nava

Untitled 2009, 42 x 121 in / Edition of 5, 2 Aps
Mitra Tabrizian in collaboration with Zadoc Nava

Leila Heller Gallery
Mitra Tabrizian Photographs June 7 - July 7

Seven Monumental Photographs taken in Iran and England

LAWRENCE SCHILLER: Talks Marilyn Monroe at Steven Kasher Gallery

Larry Schiller and Steven Kasher, May 2012
Photo © Elizabeth Paul Avedon

Lawrence Schiller and Marilyn Monroe on the set of her unfinished last film "Something's Got to Give, 1962."©Lawrence Schiller/Courtesy TASCHEN... La Lettre de la Photographie 5.30.2012

Read My Interview | La Lettre de la Photographie

Schiller on Meeting Marilyn Monroe for the first time: "Here I am a 23-year-old kid out of college becoming a photojournalist and I was scared shitless...I had seen her on the cover of Time Magazine when I was in college. I had already photographed some celebrities for Life Magazine, but I ‘d never photographed somebody who had been photographed by every photographer in the world. By the time I was introduced to her in 1960, she had been photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Milton Greene, Philippe Halsman, Richard Avedon, you just name it..."

“Oh you’ll never get a good picture from that angle. Go over there where the light will be better and I’ll show you what a good picture is.” Then she turns and that’s that...

On his iconic photograph of Marilyn on the cover of his new book, Marilyn & Me: "I think there are probably some unedited Marilyn somewhere. In the new book, there are at least thirty images that came from the shooting for Look Magazine. I’m not exaggerating, until last year I had never looked at that shooting since the day the film was sent into Look Magazine and Marilyn approved the contact sheets...Now I look at it and I come up with this image, the first picture I ever shot of her. This picture was never published; it’s on the cover of the Talese book. It comes from a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame. She said to me as I’m shooting, “Oh you’ll never get a good picture from that angle. Go over there where the light will be better and I’ll show you what a good picture is." Then she turns and that’s that..." –La Lettre de la Photographie link to Interview

EXHIBITION Marilyn & Me
May 31 through June 30, 2012
Steven Kasher Gallery, NY

Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words & Photographs
TASCHEN ($1,000)
Talese/Doubleday/Random House ($20)

LAURIE LAMBRECHT: Paint at Pulse

Photographer Laurie Lambrecht in front of her latest photographs Paint (#4), 2010 and Paint (#5), 2010 (left) and Roy Lichtenstein series (right), at Rick Wester Fine Art

Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio By Laurie Lambrecht
View on Photo-eye.com

Photographers Laurie Lambrecht and Magdalena Solé

I'm just catching up after a short break from these pages. In early May, Magdalena Solé and I visited Pulse New York, an annual contemporary Art Fair. Photographer Laurie Lambrecht showed us her latest work Paint, portraits of artist Eric Fischl's oil palettes at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Also showing, Joni Sternbach (l); Garry Winogrand (c); Richard Avedon, William S. Burroughs (r), at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Joni Sternbach

SurfLand, Revisited 2006-2011
Rick Wester Fine Art
May 17 - June 23, 2012

Magdalena Solé's New Delta Rising on Photo-eye.com.
Buy a vintage copy of An Interview with Eric Fischl
Photos (c) Elizabeth Avedon. All rights reserved

JON RAFMAN: 9-Eyes of Google Street View

Google Street View
Nacozari De Garcia – Montezuma, Sonora, Mexico 2011

Google Street View
3081 Valmont Road, Boulder, Colorado, United States, 2012

Google Street View

Jon Rafman (b. 1981) "is a Montreal-based artist, filmmaker and essayist. Mixing irony, humor and melancholy, Rafman’s work explores the paradoxes of modernity. 9-Eyes of Google Street View consists of selected images taken by the cameras atop the Google Street View vehicles that document the world’s roadways in a constant mission to organize the world’s information. While Street View's only goal is to capture the planet, mediated and easy for a viewer to peruse, Rafman’s intervention is one of an Internet curator. He searches through the vast records of fleeting moments, holding up a planet size mirror to ourselves, nature and our constructed world."–M+B Gallery

M + B
19 May - 23 Jun 2012
Los Angeles

FAMILY ELDERCARE PHOTO CONTEST: Celebrating Older Americans

Photograph (c) Michael O'Brien

Photograph (c) Henry Horenstein

Photograph (c) Robb Kendrick

Who We Are

Family Eldercare is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a continuum of professional services to seniors, caregivers and adults with disabilities in Central Texas. Family Eldercare’s mission is to help people live with dignity and independence in their own homes and community for as long as possible. To celebrate Family Eldercare’s 30th Anniversary and raise awareness of the changing and growing needs of older adults in Central Texas, Family Eldercare is sponsoring this Professional Photography Contest.

A Call For Entries

This contest is open to all photographers, and all forms of photographic expression are welcome. The contest will culminate in an exhibition and all winning selections will be included in an exhibition catalog. Photographers are encouraged to submit any image of an older adult, alone or with others, and in all stages of life. The judges will be especially interested in photographs that highlight the focus of Family Eldercare – images depicting the challenges facing older adults as well as images celebrating older adults leading dignified, independent and engaged lives.

The Judges
Mary Virginia Swanson, Michael O’Brien
Leslie Baldwin, Robb Kendrick

The Awards

From all the entries submitted, the judges will first choose up to 30 Judges Selection Images to be Printed and Framed (at no cost to the winners) and displayed at the Family Eldercare Exhibition to open in September, 2012. The Judges Selection Images will all be featured in an Exhibition Catalog. From among those images, Judges will award: First Prize: $400 cash award, plus the winning image on cover of the Exhibition Catalog. Second Prize: $300 cash award. Third Prize: $200 cash award. Honorable Mention (2): $100 cash award. Best Submission from applicants 18 years of age and younger: $100 cash award. The contest submission closes on June 23, 2012.

To register & submit photographs, please go to:
Family ElderCare Photo Contest

Thanks to Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio and Sean Perry for alerting me to this rewarding organization and Photography Contest!

FORECLOSED: Exhibition and Talk

Photograph by Lauren Greenfield

"A home for sale with a dead lawn stands out next to it's green neighbor in the Rosetta Canyon development in Lake Elsinore, Calif."

Carl Rutberg, Executive Director of the Alice Austen House Museum (left) and Paul Moakley (right), Deputy Photo Editor for TIME and Curator of Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis

A special presentation by (l) Paul Moakley, Deputy Photo Editor TIME, and John Moore (r), Photographer for Getty, about his World Press Photo winning series documenting the American foreclosure crisis.

Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis
to June 14, 2012

"This exhibition examines how artists are using photography to record the aftermath of the housing bubble; from its’ beginning in 2006 to the dramatic effects it still has on the American Landscape today. The artists and photographers in the exhibition depict the ruins of rich and poor neighborhoods, as well as the families affected by the economic downturn. As a result, the exhibition aims to explore the disintegration of the American dream and how it effects a culture where home ownership is no longer a reality."– The Alice Austen House Museum

Photographer Susan May Tell and I took the Staten Island Ferry past the Statue of Liberty to the Alice Austen Museum for the Opening Reception of Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis.

Alice Austen (1866-1952)
One of America's earliest female Photographers

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$100,000 Grant Opportunity
Alice Austen Museum Grant

VINTAGE CAMERA DAY

May 20 1:00 – 4:00

1PM - Bring and share your vintage cameras or come see Alice's! 2PM - Alice Austen's Cameras: A Demonstration and Talk with Imara Moore, speaking about the two cameras in the Parlor and how they are similar to what Alice used as well as highlighting the glass plate shooting process of the late 1800's and early 1900's. 3PM - FREE with a $3.00 suggested donation. Call to reserve at 718 816-4508 ex13

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