AVEDONS MAKE NEWS: Top Fashion Magazines September Issues

Emma Ferrer, Grand-daughter of Audrey Hepburn
Photograph by Michael Avedon

"Harper’s Bazaar‘s September issue will feature a photograph of Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter, Emma Ferrer, shot by Richard Avedon’s grandson, Michael Avedon. Avedon, 23, has been pursuing photography since 2006, and photographed fashion editorials for Harper’s Bazaar Paris and Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book."(from artnet news)

Check out Michael's website to view his fashion editorials and portraits including Coco Rocha, Chuck Close, Peter Beard, Francesco Clemente and beautiful series of his Grandmother, Elizabeth Moynihan.

Michael Avedon Photography

Matthew Avedon and

The Kings County Swing on Twitter

Michael and (half-brother and my kid) Matthew Avedon, are both featured in this September's top fashion magazines. Matthew and Supermodel Magdalena Frackowiak were photographed by fashion Photographer Nathaniel Goldberg in "An Affair To Remember" story for Vogue China's September 2014 issue.

Magdalena Frackowiak and Matthew Avedon 

Photograph by Nathaniel Goldberg 

for Vogue China September 2014

Magdalena Frackowiak and Matthew Avedon

Photographs by Nathaniel Goldberg

Vogue China September 2014

Supermodel Magdalena Frackowiak and Matthew Avedon photographed by Fashion Photographer Nathaniel Goldberg in "An Affair To Remember"story for Vogue China's September 2014 issue.

Matthew Avedon, represented by DNA Models, is a talented musician, well-known around the New York City and Brooklyn music scene. He plays a mix of gypsy jazz, country and swing. Kings County Swing

Matthew Avedon and

The Kings County Swing on Twitter

AMY POWELL: ERICA + I

 Photograph © Amy Powell

Photograph © Amy Powell

Photograph © Amy Powell

Photograph © Amy Powell

"When my mother gave birth to my half-sister Erica, I was twenty years old. Sitting in the hospital room with my camera, she made giving birth look easy.  I photographed as Erica made her way into the world, cut her umbilical cord myself, and was the very first to hold her.  In that moment, I gave her a name she inevitably didn't get to keep.  And she peed on me. Ever since, having a much younger sibling has given me the unique experience of observing the way in which I may have been raised. Photographing Erica has become a window into my own elusive childhood." –Amy Powell

Erica:  I see my camera.  I see your camera.  You always print your pictures big.  It ain't fair.  I want mine big.  Can you get me more cameras again for Christmas next year?
Amy:  Sure, why do you want more cameras?
Erica:  I like taking pictures.
Amy:  What do you like to take pictures of?
Erica:  My toys.  Hannah Montana.  My mom.  My princess tent.  You got that tent for me, and now it's broken. 
Amy:  Anything else you like to photograph?
Erica:  I think that's it mommy... I mean Amy!

amy-powell.com

SHERI LYNN BEHR: No Safe Distance

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Safe Distance

This photograph is in the current exhibition at the 

Griffin Museum of Photography's

Peter Urban Legacy 20th Annual Exhibition

Juried by Aline Smithson

Exhibition to August 31, 2014

No Safe Distance: "These photographs address my interest in photography without permission. Today we live in a post-privacy world, an image-obsessed society where cameras are everywhere. With or without our knowledge, we are being photographed countless times a day. When I make these images, I am separated from my subjects by glass store windows. Having a camera with a big lens pointed by an unknown person outside the store creates a moment of sudden awareness of something unexpected. Reactions are varied."

"By cropping and enlarging the faces, which are often distorted by the window's reflections, and by removing the context, there is a certain ambiguity created. The images can reference mug shots, identity cards, Facebook friends, missing persons, even paparazzi celebrity captures. More closely they resemble surveillance photos, which is what they really are. They are meant to challenge our expectations of anonymity and privacy." 
– Sheri Lynn Behr

Work from this series was used to receive a 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship for Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series Watching You

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series Watching You

Watching You: "The camera portraits of Watching You are taken with my iPhone. While the quality of the images is acceptable, they are often grainy and soft. The more I see surveillance footage on the news, the more odd and abstract the images appear. I want to give these photographs a similar distance from reality." read more here

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Matter Where

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Matter Where

No Matter Where: "We know that cameras are everywhere. We try to avoid people pointing smartphones and other hand-held cameras at us as we walk down the street, but are we conscious of all the cameras lurking above, hiding in plain sight? We know we’re being watched, even in the most benign locations, yet as we become more accustomed to the presence of surveillance cameras, we stop paying attention." read more here

Catalog Back Cover Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr,

from the series No Safe Distance 

Buy The Exhibition Catalog

Griffin Museum of Photography's

Peter Urban Legacy 20th Annual Exhibition

Juried by Aline Smithson

Exhibition to August 31, 2014

The complete list of photographers selected for the exhibition here

Sheri Lynn Behr Website

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL: PhotoWorld 2014 Exhibition Invitation

Photograph © Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête

NYPH, 2011

"New York Photo Festival presents PhotoWorld 2014, a wide-ranging exhibition invitational selecting the best new documentary, fine art, and motion and drone photography being produced today, determined by top photo and image professionals from The New Yorker, CNN, Fortune, National Geographic, International Center for Photography, Esquire, Foto Visura, LensCulture and L'Oeil de la Photographie."

"Finalists chosen will exhibit their work in an installation at POWERHOUSE Arena opening September 26 during the DUMBO Arts Festival. Grand prize winners also receive a one-hour consultation with one of the esteemed jurors. PhotoWorld 2014 is an unparalleled opportunity to jump start your career in Photography."

Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, L'Oeil de la Photographie; Jim Casper, LensCulture; Neil Harris, Fortune; Elizabeth Griffin, Esquire; Whitney Johnson, The New Yorker; Elizabeth Krist, National Geographic; Adriana Letorney, FotoVisura; Graham Letorney, FotoVisura; Aline Smithson, Lenscratch.

Follow NYPH News for Juror Features here.

Details to Enter here

Extended Deadline: September 16th, 2014

Complete your uploads by 
Tuesday September 16, at midnight (pst).

Details to Enter here

Extended Deadline: September 16th, 2014

Complete your uploads by 
Tuesday September 16, at midnight (pst).

Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

DENNIS DeHART: Spot Photography Gallery

Tampere Seating

Photograph © Dennis Dehart

Structure Voipaala

Photograph © Dennis Dehart

Triangulating

Photograph © Dennis Dehart

SPOT PHOTO WORKS, "THE" new Contemporary Photography Gallery in Los Angeles, opens with an exhibition of photographs by artist Dennis DeHart. "Compelled by the connections and conflicts of the natural and cultural worlds, Dennis DeHart's images weave together a mix of landscape, portraiture and still life into pristine color photographs. During a recent artist residency in Finland, DeHart traversed the countryside extensively. The resulting photographs are heavily influenced by Scandinavian aesthetics of light, design, craftsmanship and simplicity."

Dennis DeHart Photographs

SPOT PHOTO WORKS

6679 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles

Artist Reception: August 2, 6-9pm – September 16, 2014 

SPOT Photo Works is a partnership between Kathleen Clark and Russell Adams. SPOT’s Director Kathleen Clark, has mounted exhibitions at a variety of locations including Clark|Oshin Gallery, Leica Gallery Los Angeles and Month of Photography LA. She was the longtime Photo Director at Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly. Read SPOT Director Kathleen Clarks Lenscratch Mixtape here.  

Russell Adams has owned and operated Schulman Photo Lab (located next door to SPOT) since 1991.  The boutique analog darkroom and digital lab specializes in fine art exhibition printing as well as printing for photographic book projects.  

Spot Photo Works is located at Crossroads of the World one of Los Angeles and Hollywood’s architectural gems. Designed by architect Robert V. Derrah and built in 1936, Crossroads of the World was initially opened as America’s first outdoor shopping mall. Derrah’s unusual design features a central streamline moderne building resembling a cruise ship at dock between buildings reflecting an array of international village themes: Spanish, Moroccan, English Cottage. 

JANELLE LYNCH: Presence

"PRESENCE"

Photographs by Janelle Lynch. Essay by Nancy Weekly

"Presence celebrates my kinship with Charles Burchfield, which is based on a reverence for and anthropomorphic vision of the natural world, an appreciation for solitude as well as close relationships, and a commitment to creative freedom.”—Janelle Lynch 

"Lynch was first drawn to Burchfield’s work in 2006 due to a shared capacity to imagine human-like characteristics in nature; hence,she anthropomorphizes her subjects. Lynch, like Burchfield, was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s nature writings and transcendental philosophy, which suggests the natural world is formed and informed by spirits, and that its elements are symbols of a great spirituality. Lynch’s work reflects a recent shift among artists away from secular concerns towards a renewed interest in the metaphysical in art." A selection of sixteen works made during her residency are being shown. Read more here.

JANELLE LYNCH: PRESENCE
on view through November 30, 2014

BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER

SUSAN KEISER: In Memory's Dream

from the series "In Memory's Dream"

 Photograph © Susan Keiser

from the series "In Memory's Dream"

 Photograph © Susan Keiser

from the series "In Memory's Dream"

 Photograph © Susan Keiser

"My parents weren’t much for taking pictures. The entire family archive fit into a small cardboard box—two barely started albums and a pile of photo envelopes from various drugstores. Growing up I’d spent hours studying and restudying those snapshots, looking for insights even in the badly blurred ones, hoping they could tell me what really happened. Part memory, mostly invention, the stories I wove became my history."
 

"The box sat unopened for years until a frozen pipe burst, flooding the basement of my mother’s empty house. While the ruined photos were irreplaceable, the history was my own, and the loss freed me to reimag(in)e my story on a larger scale, from a more universal point of view. The result is A River Made of Time and Memory, photographs that are not the record of actual events, but of emotional truths, shaped and colored by years of reflection. Fresh visions appear, images aggregate into chapters, and the river flows on. " – Susan Keiser (read more here)

SUSAN KEISER PHOTOGRAPHY

LISA ELMALEH: American Folk at Foley Gallery

Matthew Kinman and Moses Nelligan, West Virginia , 2013
Photograph © Lisa Elmaleh

 

 Janice Birchfield, Tennessee, 2013
Photograph © Lisa Elmaleh

Jim Costa's Porch, West Virginia, 2013
Photograph © Lisa Elmaleh

Lisa Elmaleh has been creating tintypes of traditional folk musicians who live in and around the Appalachian Mountains since 2010. Her project grew out of a love of the land, American folk music, traditional American culture and her own romance with this 19th century photographic process.

Portraits captured by tintype call for great patience from both the sitter and the photographer. An entire day is spent with each musician - each 8x10 plate is hand coated, exposed in a large format camera, and developed on-site. The tradition of American folk music echoes in the historic nature of the tintype photographic process, connecting photographer with subject, each with their pursuit of keeping their own respective histories alive and well in the 21st Century.

These warm-toned portraits combined with a selection of their natural landscape counterparts, provides a full setting for understanding a way of life.  The crops are garlic and tobacco and the wardrobe is dungaree and flannel.  Hands are well worn, larger from labor and the rigorous playing on their instrument of choice.  Elmaleh’s approach is simple and straight forward which echoes the lifestyle and the plain dresses worn by her female subjects.
 

Elmaleh lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NY.  Her photographs have been exhibited widely including a solo exhibition at Candela Books + Gallery in Richmond, VA. Group exhibitions include ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, FL; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Bronx Biennial Group Show, Bronx, NY.  Her work has been published in Harper’s and Black & White magazines.  She is a past recipient of the Tierney Fellowship. (Text courtesy the Foley Gallery)

Lisa Elmaleh - American Folk

July 17 - August 9, 2014

FOLEY GALLERY, NY

INTERIORS: Flowers Gallery New York

JULIE BLACKMON

Hair, 2013. Photograph © Julie Blackmon
About Julie Blackmon

JASON LARKIN

Museum11. #3, 2009. Photograph © Jason Larkin

INTERIORS features contemporary photographers Tina Barney, Julie Blackmon, Edmund Clark, Jacqueline Hassink, Nadav Kander, Jason Larkin, Lori Nix, Robert Polidori, Hrvoje Slovenc, Richard Tuschman, and Shen Wei. Opens July 17 at Flowers Gallery, New York .

INTERIORS

July 17 – August 30

Flowers, NY

SVA MPS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Book+Branding Class of 2014. Part III

 MARK ROUSSEL  Finding and Losing My Father

Photograph (c) 2014 Marc Roussel

 EVELINA REINHART  The Joy of Eating

Photograph (c) 2014 Evelina Reinhart

HENNY GYLFA  Park Hill Boxing Club

Photograph (c) 2014 Henny Gylfa

JAMIE SHIELDS Less Is More

Photograph (c) 2014 Jaime Shields

SHARRON DIEDRICHS Burden of Existence

 Photograph (c) 2014 Sharron Diedrichs

 WON KIM Stereotypes

Photograph (c) 2014 Won Kim

ERIKA VELASQUEZ  Below The Surface

Photograph (c) 2014 Erika Velasquez

ZILAN FAN Between Dream and Reality

Photograph (c) 2014 Zilan Fan

 TAYLOR MICKLE  Futurama

Photograph (c) 2014 Taylor Mickle

SVA Masters in Digital Photography 2014 Grads - Part III

Leading-edge Masters Degree program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts, Chaired by "Photoshop Diva" Katrin Eismann (check out her Books on Amazon!), with Associate Chair and "Color Guru" Tom P. Ashe, (check out his Color Management book); and with an unbelievable faculty of photography professionals I'd list but do not want to leave anyone out! Congrats to all my students on their final Branding, Book and Portfolio Designs!

Book+Branding Part I

 Book+Branding Part II

*all names are Website links

SVA MPS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Book+Branding Class of 2014. Part II

 JAIME CODY  Recollection

VICTORIA HARDINA  Together

Photograph (c) 2014 Victoria Hardina
 

CLAREESE HILL  My Black Face

Photograph (c) 2014 Clareese Hill

AILIN BLASCO  Ourea

Photograph (c) 2014 Ailin Blasco

KEVIN WO  Announce

Photographs (c) 2014 Kevin Wo

 CHUCK ALMAREZ  A Time Gone By
Photograph (c) 2014 Chuck Almarez

 LACY KIERNAN  URBAN LANDSCAPES
Photograph (c) 2014 Lacy Kiernan

ANDRE AVANESSIAN  phobophobialand

  ADRIANO HULTMAN  Things We Can See 

Photograph (c) 2014 Adriano Hultman

SVA Masters in Digital Photography 2014 Grads - Part II

Leading-edge Masters Degree program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts, Chaired by "Photoshop Diva" Katrin Eismann (check out her Books on Amazon!), with Associate Chair and "Color Guru" Tom P. Ashe, (check out his Color Management book); and with an unbelievable faculty of photography professionals I'd list but do not want to leave anyone out! Congrats to all my students on their final Branding, Book and Portfolio Designs!

Book+Branding Part I

 Book+Branding Part III

*all names are Website links