JAMES ESTRIN: OBSERVANCE | Photographs of Spiritual Experience

Silence and Dust, 9/11 Memorial, 2002

Photograph: James Estrin/The New York Times

Photograph: James Estrin/The New York Times

Here To Serve

Photograph: James Estrin/The New York Times

"Spirituality is often an underlying force in his photographs"

JAMES ESTRIN, NY Times Senior Staff Photographer and Co-Editor of NY Times "LENS", started at The Times back in 1987. He was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for the series “How Race is Lived in America.” In 2004, he was the first journalist to photograph an assisted suicide in Oregon, an event which he documented through articles, photographs and an audio slide show. Internationally, he has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict several times and chronicled the journey of Mexican immigrants who shuttle between their lives in the United States and Mexico. Estrin was the moving force behind Lens, The Times's photography blog, and has been a co-editor since it went online in May 2009. 

James Estrin's

PHOTOGRAPHS OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

January 7 – March 3,  2014

92nd St. Y in Manhattan

 

James Estrin at CENTERS Review Santa Fe

Photograph: Elizabeth Avedon

NYC STRAND BOOK STORE: Print Is Not Dead!

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CENTER: 2014 International Call For Entries

REVIEW SANTA FE: JUNE 26-29, 2014: Review Santa Fe is designed to facilitate relationships between photographers and leading industry professionals looking for new work. PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT: 2014: Project Launch is presented to an outstanding photographer working in fine art series or documentary project. ENTER NOW!

NICK BRANDT: Across The Ravaged Land

 Across the Ravaged Land (Abrams, 2013)

Nick Brandt's final book in his trilogy documenting 

the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa. 

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Lion Trophy, Chyulu Hills, 2012

Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt 

 Calcified Fish Eagle, Lake Natron 2012

Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt

 

Lion & Wildebeest, Amboseli 2012

Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt

Elephant Skull, Amboseli 2010

Photograph © 2011 Nick Brandt 

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Now in his third book, Across the Ravaged Land, Brandt has taken his stately images to the next level, exposing a darker vision. These extraordinary photographs, shot between 2010 and 2012, are haunting. Through the series of dried and calcified animals out on a weathered and ravaged land, elephants watching protectively over an elephant skull, or lion and buffalo heads mounted on posts as trophies overlooking the Chyulu Hills of Kenya, Brandt brings us full circle back to a solemn close to his trilogy of books documenting the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa." – Elizabeth Avedon (photo-eye)

ACROSS THE RAVAGED LAND 

available at photo-eye

Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli 2008

Leading Matriarch Killed By Poachers, 2009 
 Photograph ©2011 Nick Brandt 

Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephants, Amboseli 2011
Photograph © 2011 Nick Brandt

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THE PHOTOGRAPHY MASTER RETREAT: In the South of France July 12-19, 2014

Location: La Bastide d'Esparon, South of France

Mentors: Photographer Martine Fougeron and Curator Elisabeth Biondi
Photograph © Elizabeth Avedon

The Photography Master Retreat 

July 12-19, 2014

A one-week retreat in the South of France for passionate photographers seeking to refocus their personal/professional work and take it to the next level under the guidance of distinguished mentors, Elisabeth Biondi: Visuals Editor and Independent Curator; Martine Fougeron: Photographer and Artist; Lyle Rexer: Critic, Curator and Educator.

The Retreat begins on Saturday July 12, 2014 and concludes on Saturday July 19,2014. These dates have been chosen so that participants may attend the nearby Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, if they wish, the week before from July 7 to 11, 2014.

The Photography Master Retreat

Application due January 6, 2014!

PHONE IN BIDS: Tonights Friends of Friends Photography Auction Absentee Bidding

S144 Saul Leiter
Street Scene, 1963

C-print. Printed in 2002. 13½ x 9". Signed in ink on the verso
Estimate $4,000. Donated by the artist courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
http://www.howardgreenberg.com

S150 Daido Moriyama
Untitled from the series Japan: A Photo Theater, 1968

Gelatin silver print. Printed in 2012. 13 x 9⅛". Signed in pencil on the verso

Framed. Estimate $3,000. Donated by the artist courtesy of Daido Moriyama

Photo Foundation. www.moriyamadaido.com

 S75 Ken Rosenthal
Not Dark Yet #ZVB-52-9, 2002

Gelatin silver print. Printed in 2002. 15 x 15"
Signed, titled, editioned and year of work in pencil on the verso
Edition no. 4/25. Estimate $1,000
Donated by the artist courtesy of Klompching Gallery and Anne Reed Gallery

S85 Richard Gere
Gilmore Pond II, 2012

Pigment print. 6¼ x 9½". Signed and titled in pencil on the verso
Estimate $1,600. Donated by the artist courtesy of The Gere Foundation
www.gerefoundation.org

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Friends Without A Border
16th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction
December 10, 2013, 6-8:30 p.m.
Metropolitan Pavilion, NY

BOOKS I: Photography Books Given and Gotten

Robert Polidori: After The Flood (Steidl)

Flowers Gallery, London

In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark....read more here

Matthew Flowers with Photographer Robert Polidori

Photo (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon

 Ken Rosenthal: Photographs 2001 – 2009

Photographs: 2001-2009 is the long awaited first publication of work from Ken Rosenthal. Published on the occasion of his Fall 2011 exhibition at Wall Space Gallery, titled Retrospective, this catalogue offers a condensed yet potent survey of Rosenthal's evocative split toned silver-gelatin prints....read more here

 Ken Rosenthal: Limited Editions

Designed and published by Jace Graf, Cloverleaf Studio

Bruce Morton: Forgottonia

Bruce Morton: Forgottonia

Yes, such a place exists.  It is actually the nickname for several counties in far west central Illinois.  The reason for the nickname started in the 1950s and 1960s when the interstate highway system was being designed and constructed.  Many times a route from Chicago to Kansas City, which would run thru the heart of this region, was considered but....read more here

Tom Chambers: Entropic Kingdom

 Tom Chambers: Entropic Kingdom

Having grown up on a Pennsylvania farm, I am inspired by Andrew Wyeth's rural landscapes, characterized by subtle, but powerful emotion. I hope to strike a similar emotional connection in the viewer by illustrating a disturbed ecosytem created by man's self-serving interests....read more here

 

Jane Fulton Alt: The Burn (Kehrer Verlag)

 Jane Fulton Alt: The Burn (Kehrer Verlag)

 Book Review by Douglas Stockdale here

 

Kottie Gaydos: Genong

 

Kottie Gaydos: Genong

The images in Genong were taken in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China between 2010-2012. This handmade casebound book is the culmination of the three year photographic project, Genong....view more here

This is the first of several BOOK posts coming up. I was honored to receive most of the above books from their authors, including three from this year's Filter Photo Festival; Kottie Gaydos, Jane Fulton Alt and Bruce Morton. This list includes some famous photography publishers as well as a self-published book or two. – EA

FACES: The Darkroom Gallery

JUROR'S CHOICE:  Innocence

 Photograph by John F. Martin

FOUR HONORABLE MENTIONS

 Maleficent

Photograph by Lori Pond

045-Philadelphia

 Photograph by Sheri Lynn Behr

Portraits of Silence, Northern Sri Lanka

 Photograph by Ashok Sinha

David Bram

 Photograph by Nate Mosseau

THE PREMISE FOR SUBMISSIONS

"Each portrait reveals something of the sitter, the photographer and also of us as viewers. No one image can muster a whole and complete being, no matter how much we believe this could be so. This is the part of the photograph we create in our imagination, we fill in each crack and hole with a sort of personalized reasoning. And all these unknowns in the midst of true transparency."

"Eye contact is made or retracted, body language boastful, reticent or indecipherable. Facial expressions can be hard at work or numbly slack. While subjects have a power over these photographic outcomes, it is the choice of the photographer to coax or mute said expressions for their artistic offering." –  Damaris Drummond, Darkroom Gallery

THE JUROR'S FINAL SELECTION

"As a record number of entries were received for FACES, making the final selection for this exhibit was difficult. There were many impressive images and I found it painful to have to leave any behind. Among the many well-composed portraits, I chose images based not only on technical skills, but also on an indefinable element surrounding the expression or emotion projected. I favored images that evoked an air of mystery or clarity; a moment of joy; a secret not shared or a place we may never visit - a point in time captured in the past suggesting unknown possibilities in the future."– Juror, Elizabeth Avedon

FACES EXHIBITION

Dec 12 – Jan 5, 2014

 Faces Artist's Reception
Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 3:00pm
Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont

View All 60 Choices Here

Juror: Elizabeth Avedon 

SAMANTHA VanDEMAN: No Vacancy

No Vacancy

Photograph (c) Samantha VanDeman

 No Vacancy

Photograph (c) Samantha VanDeman

No Vacancy

Photograph (c) Samantha VanDeman

I met photographer Samantha VanDeman at this year's Filter Photo Festival in Chicago. Her series, No Vacancy, has won many awards in the last couple of years. She made Review Santa Fe's Top 100 and is both a Critical Mass and Flash Forward finalist. Several pieces are currently on exhibit in collaboration with Vogue Italia at the Photo Lux Festival at Real Collegio in Lucca, Italy  through December 15th. 

Samantha VanDeman

BEN MARCIN: Last House Standing

 Silver Run, MD, 2009

Photograph (c) Ben Marcin
 

 Howard County, MD

Photograph (c) Ben Marcin

 Alamosa County, CO, 2013

 Photograph (c) Ben Marcin

New London, MD, 2013

Photograph (c) Ben Marcin

"One of the architectural quirks of certain cities on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. is the solo row house. Standing alone, in some of the worst neighborhoods, these nineteenth century structures were once attached to similar row houses that made up entire city blocks. Time and major demographic changes have resulted in the decay and demolition of many such blocks of row houses. Occasionally, one house is spared - literally cut off from its neighbors and left to the elements with whatever time it has left."

"My interest in these solitary buildings is not only in their ghostly beauty but in their odd placement in the urban landscape. Often three stories high, they were clearly not designed to stand alone like this. Many details that might not be noticed in a homogenous row of twenty attached row houses become apparent when everything else has been torn down. And then there's the lingering question of why a single row house was allowed to remain upright. Still retaining traces of its former glory, the last house standing is often still occupied." – Ben Marcin

Last House Standing (And Other Stories)

Photographs by Ben Marcin

Dec 18 - Jan 25, 2014

C. GRIMALDIS GALLERY  

523 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland