tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44073881073762904352012-01-04T20:52:42.087-07:00Melanie McWhorterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05585623969101107999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407388107376290435.post-27135574110575645202012-01-04T20:51:00.000-07:002012-01-04T20:52:42.105-07:00

My list of Best Books of 2011 as posted on photoeye.com. Mexico Roma. GRACIELA ITURBIDE Last year, Graciela Iturbide was able to actualize a long-awaited project with work she produced in Mexico City between 1974 and 2009 and

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Cropped images shown above by Allison Ramirez, Anne Kelly, Antone Dolezal, Cliff Shapiro, Melanie McWhorter and Sarah Bradley, respectively The 3rd Annual Staff Show Photographs and other works by Allison Ramirez, Anne Kelly, Antone Dolezal, Cliff Shapiro, Melanie McWhorter and Sarah Bradley. Opening Friday, December 16th, 4:30-7:00 pm On Display through February 4th, 2012 At photo-eye

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Read a brief post on some of my experience for Lishui 14th International Photography Festival in China on photo-eye's Blog.  For more reading from some of my humorous travel companions, visit Jennifer Schwartz's entries Taking China by Storm, Day... I have no idea what day it is in China, Holgas, hikes and holes, Back to Shanghai or And the China Adventure Comes to an End or Michael

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I am one of the editors to be selected for the new portfolio review website Access2Editors. Access2Editors will help people prepare for a more successful review experience...finalize sequencing, get feedback on a statement, etc. Access2Editors is partnering with CENTER's annual competitions leading up to Review Santa Fe. The prizes are listed on the respective pages for CENTER's The

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McNair Evans is from my world-- both the American South and, of course, photography. He is a southern gentleman and being the small photo world as it is, we have some friends in common who still live and practice the art in South Carolina and surrounding states. His photos bring to mind the slow living in this area of the United States. He captures quite moments that could be almost anywhere,

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I have been trying to think of a creative way to promote the artist I like. Like is such a good, simple word even if Facebook has usurped its meaning. I feel a connection and a warm feeling when looking at the work whatever the subject matter-- comforting or disturbing. I finally just started looking around my desk. At work, I hang up family pictures, phone lists, drawings but also postcards

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For a few years now, Fraction Magazine has been hosting a Holiday Print Sale to benefit the artists whose work has been show on Fraction. Many artists also choose to donate back to Fraction to keep this online magazine up and running as a valuable contribution to the online photography community. This year there are also a few book/book and print choices including the ones by Susan Burnstine and

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Atlanta-based gallerist and photographer Jennifer Schwartz is leaving on a crusade, a Crusade for Collecting. Much lighter in mission and less dangerous than the crusades of long ago, Schwartz is on a mission to encourage people of broad income levels to collect art, art that makes your life richer, and she is so dedicated to this mission that she is taking the message on the road. With the

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Although I love to travel to other cities for portfolio reviews and art festivals, I feel privileged to live in a city that hosts Review Santa Fe, one of the most prestigious reviews in the world. When Review takes place in Santa Fe in June, the air is cool in the evenings and the days are often pleasant even with the unusually small amount of humidity in the air. This year's portfolios and

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Liz Cohen, Bodywork. Michael Schmelling, Atlanta, James Mollison with Rainbow Nelson, The Memory of Pablo Escobar My essay The Punctuation of Photobooks in Ahorn Magazine was published upon the release of Ahorn's newest issue. Check out the article along with interviews with Cuny Janssen and Jocelyn Lee, a conversation with Ron Jude and Ed Panar, and book reviews by Nicholas Gottlund and Adam

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Following in the spirit of my friend David Bram of Fraction, I have decided to list all photographers whose work I had the pleasure of reviewing at Photolucida. Here is a list of all photographers who happened to "get me" for 20 minutes. More features on these photographers' work and other work I saw at the open portfolio viewing or additional reviews will be posted at a later date. Take some

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If you are in Portland, Oregon this week, there are some fantastic lunch time talks and events around Photolucida's portfolio reviews and Portland Photo Month. Below is the schedule of lunch time chats. There is also a lecture by Todd Hido at the Portland Art Museum and the Portfolio Walk among many other events. More info can be found on Photolucida's site or Portland Photo Month site.

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The new issue of Finite Foto just released last week. View the entire issue on finitefoto.com    IN ISSUE FOURTEEN:If the complete lack of antihistamines at Walgreens didn’t make it clear, a quick look out the window will confirm it: New Mexico is in the midst of spring. The trees are budding, flowers blooming, and the winds are raging. The temperature is just about perfect. The bees are back

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The next issue of Finite Foto will be out next week. Make sure to check out the Cultural Landscape issue before the Environmental Issue is live. All the back issues, can be read on the archive page. Sign up for our mailing list on the home page. Finite Foto - Issue Thirteen - Cultural LandscapeIn this issue, we feature works by Eric Cousineau and Alex Leme who photograph the

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This year's SPE was held in Atlanta, GA. As part of every SPE, they host an open portfolio viewing on one of the evenings of the conference. Every year it seems that more and more photographers vie for a table to show work. I am not sure how many individuals were showing work at the open portfolio this year, but students and teachers filled one big exhibition room with tables running along the

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I have been teaching and speaking about photobooks recently and writing for online magazines so I have put the blog on the back burner. I have to catch up on images from Critical Mass, PhotoNOLA and SPE. More images and other info to come.

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In January of 2008, I started this blog because I wanted to share my favorite books of 2007. Since that time, I have been posting as part of my position at photo-eye on the magazine. This year I am please to have participated in the selections for photo-eye's Best Books of 2010. Below are my selections and links to all of the contributors on photo-eye Magazine. Repose.

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I first met Elizabeth Avedon when she was the Gallery Director at photo-eye. Since the time Elizabeth departed Santa Fe, she established her own blog which has become a recognized voice in the photography community featuring portfolios and interviews, including my first interview about my photography. I am delighted to turn the tables on Ms. Avedon and allow her to discuss her profession: Book,

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One of the larger issues associated with working on a personal project that an artist hopes to launch for a larger audience is creating a universal appeal for the work. Elin Høyland's Brother project, although an intimate portrait of two lifetime companions expands into broader themes of, literally, brotherly love, devotion and friendship with another human being and the feeling of loss and

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If you were thinking of purchasing a print from the Fraction Holiday Print Sale, shop now as the sale ends on January 2nd, 2011. The site includes some fantastic images by many great working photographers and photo professionals with work ranges from $35 to $100. Some of the prints have sold out so do not wait to purchase.  Norman Mauskopf  Lydia Panas  Susan Worsham  Matt Eich  Melanie McWhorter

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We launched Finite Foto's Alternatives issue last month. We have switched to a bimonthly magazine so the recent content is online. Visit finitefoto.com to see the entire issue or search the back issues. "Alternative is a tricky description. To be meaningful, it relies on an accepted mainstream. And when something that was once an alternative becomes ubiquitous, is it still useful to call it

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After a trip to PhotoNOLA, a workshop at the New Orleans Photography Workshops and long holiday break, I am back at the blog. I have a few more Photolucida post to include and some highlights from PhotoNOLA and a great interview with photobook designer Elizabeth Avedon. My selection of Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman as a Photolucida favorite might stem from my own since of paranoia about social

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Pavel Maria Smejkal Reading a recent issue of GUP Magazine featuring vernacular imagery, there is an article that references a piece that Dutch photobook publisher, designer and vernacular photography collector Erik Kessels exhibited. In this show, Kessels appropriates images shot by a motion detector camera set up in the woods of Texas which capture many unsuspecting deer. The images, which

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The exploration of the natural history museum diorama is nothing new, but Traer Scott's newest project adds another dimension to this exploration. There is always a voyeuristic aspect to viewing through the lens and the same feeling is evoked when looking into the diorama with taxidermied animals mixed with artificial plants and imported environment. It is all there for our viewing pleasure.

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Jamey Stillings In 2009, I went on a family vacation where we drove to California and en route back from that state, we decided to drive over the Hoover Dam. I was not familiar with the new bridge being constructed over the Dam and was amazed and awestruck as we drove around the bend to find this structure which would ultimately be 2,000 foot long with a 1,060 twin-rib concrete arch about

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I have decided to start a series of posts with individuals and companies who design quality photobooks. I have an email from one designer requesting a post and I thought it would be a nice feature for this blog. If you have a great designer to recommend for this feature, please email me melanie (at) melaniemcwhorter.com.

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My third top pick for Photolucida is Christopher Churchill. I found this work fascinating as I look at the work before the statements and I often enjoy guessing what the work is about. I was quite surprised that the 10 images used to represent his work here we under the theme of American Faith. Christopher Churchill  Christopher Churchill Christopher Churchill Christopher Churchill "American

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 Alexandra Arzt  Alexandra Arzt I know the work of artists like Robin Schwartz, Colleen Plumb,  and Amy Stein (Amy even won one of the Photolucida book awards) have worked with the idea of human and animal interaction and the intermingling or intersection of one in the lives of the other and vice versa. I obviously enjoy this genre even picking Nicole Jean Hill's portfolio Home Turf for a brief

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For the judging of Photolucida's Critical Mass, the jurors get to score the entrants with four different scores. The best of which is Wow. It is difficult to define what Wow is exactly even though you are given a definition by the staff of Critical Mass. My decisions were based on strength of the entire project. If every image was strong, in my opinion, it often got a Wow. If the concept of the

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 Dying Birds by Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard   Dying Birds by Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard Buy it here

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I became aware of the Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra with his book 101 Billionaires, a project based in the former Soviet Union depicting the quotidian lives of the average citizen in the new capitalist economy through portraiture and text. Since making this book and the follow-up after the 2008 economic crisis, 101 Billionaires: The Crisis Edition (Down to 49), Hornstra has been working with

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Iscah Trujillo "In one short year, this collective has struggled with many issues. Longevity in the time of the internet can be short-lived, but we hope that Finite Foto will continue to produce quality content for years to come. The images in this, our First Anniversary Issue, are a mix of shoot-from-the hip snapshots and well-rounded portfolios about each artist’s notion of their idea of

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As part of the panel discussion at Click646, I mentioned that I was still working on ideas about the ongoing project The Un-Natural Nature of Food where I am exploring on many levels our relationship with food and how photographic imagery can be used as a vehicle for information and education. After the panel Adam Jacono approached me about his project Leftovers. Here is a taste of some of

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I just got into Santa Fe late last night after spending a week in Greenwood, SC. I am still reeling from the wonderful weekend filled with photographic festivities at the second year of the annual festival Click 646. The event was one of the loveliest and most professional events I have attended. The first evening Sundance Gallery hosted an opening reception with a potluck dinner of many

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copyright, Melanie McWhorter I will be teaching a workshop at New Orleans Photographic Workshops following PhotoNOLA on December 6th and 7th, 2010. The description is below and more info or to sign up, visit New Orleans Photographic Workshops site. Email the Workshops or me with questions. This two-day workshop covers the evolution of a photography book from its inception as an idea to a

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For this issue of Finite Foto, we are pleased to present work by some artists who are using the photographic medium to document projects about controversial and political issues and who use photography as a means to advocate for a change in the surrounding world. Three broad topics are covered in this month's issue: United States and Mexico border, New Mexico Food Advocacy and The Three Gorges

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I just got the poster for the Click646 festival held annually in October in Greenwood, SC. This year, the events will take place on October 1st and 2nd. There will be music, exhibitions, portfolio reviews, Taste of Greenwood and lectures. Ann Jastrab, Cig Harvey, Ben Ham and I will be speaking as well. Go to Click646 for more info or email me to get the exact schedule.

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Years ago, Gregory Schaffer walked into my office looking for a photobook. He has an extensive photobook library and he was hungry for a purchase. I suggested one of my favorite books at the time (and one which has continued to be a favorite) Sophie Ristelhueber's Details of the World. That recommendation forged a pen pal-type relationship that lasted through his time in the Peace Corps in China

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David Carol This year David Carol's book All My Lies are True... was selected by PDN as a Best Book of 2010 and Carol has shown the power social media by selling numerous copies of this new publication on Facebook. Antone Dolezal states of Carol's newest book: "In the spirit of celebrating the self-published book, I thought I would share one of my favorite self-published titles of 2010. David

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I am pleased to be reviewing portfolios, lecturing and jurying alongside Cig Harvey and Ann Jastrab in Greenwood, SC in October 2010 for Click646. This is the second year of the festival which will feature the work of Ben Ham and the work of many students and professors from South Carolina colleges and universities. If you would like to have your work reviewed, contact Jon Holloway as soon as

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Thanks to those who emailed my as a follow up to the Newsprint and Contemporary Photobook Series (No. 1 with Soth and Roth, No. 2 with Gottlund and Willing, and No. 3 with van der Weijde, Mazzeo and Gossage) David Schoerner at Hassla emailed me the link to rgb transferences, 2010 by Pierre Le Hors. Le hors used the medium of newsprint to produce his publication on the occasion of his MFA

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Daniel Shea Tabitha Soren Phil Underdown The newest issue of Fraction Magazine, Issue 17, has the work of Amy Elkins, Daniel Shea, Phil Underdown, Tabitha Soren and Tom Griscom along with a wonderful review by Susan Burnstine of Dave Anderson's One Block and Tom Leininger's review of Trent Parke's Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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 Maurice Sherif Wendy Young If you have missed us, Finite Foto is taking August off. We will launch Issue 10: Politics and Advocacy in early September with contributions from David Ondrik, Jonathan Blaustein, Jennifer Schlesinger, Antone Dolezal and myself featuring photographers in the US and abroad who are working on projects relating to this theme. In the meantime, check out issue nine:

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 Announcement of The Mushroom Collector (glassine case with color cards and letterpress insert ) I emailed photographer and publisher of J&L Books Jason Fulford to thank and compliment him on his beautiful old-fashioned snail mail announcement for The Mushroom Collector soon to be published by The Soon Institute. Jason informed me that he would be going to press in South Korea in the following

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I neglected to include an important addendum to Michael Mazzeo's interview about Down These Mean Streets. I am listing the comment below an adding to the previous post.  The inspiration for the Down These Mean Streets newspaper came while walking around the New York Photo Festival with Jörg Colberg, of the Conscientious photography blog. While looking at publications and talking about Will's

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In this third entry on Newsprint and the Contemporary Photobook, photographer John Gossage writes about Here... Half Blind and Michael Mazzeo about Will Steacy's Down These Mean Streets-- both published in conjunction with 2010 exhibitions, Gossage's work at Rochester Art Center in Minnesota and Steacy's work at Mazzeo's NYC gallery. Finally Erik van der Weijde speaks about his series, Foto.Zine

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In Part 2 of Newsprint and the Contemporary Photobook, Nicholas Gottlund and Grant Willing discuss their publications Wild Prayer and Svart Metall. Gottlund started Gottlund Verlag in Pennsylvania in 2007. He has since published books by Henry Roy, Coley Brown, Andrew Laumann, Peter Sutherland and others. Grant Willing is a New York based photographer who exhibits widely and recommends books and

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A couple of years ago, Alec Soth published The Last Days of W on newsprint. I speculated, as I always do about the meaning of great book design as much as I would the meaning of a great piece of contemporary art, about what this medium meant in relation to the work. I decided that there were many reasons for printing on newsprint or lesser/lighter/non-archival papers: First is easy

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  Isabelle Pateer  Jane Alden Stevens  Taylor Glenn Today, Fraction 16 launched with the work of David Taylor, David Leventi, Isabelle Pateer, Jane Alden Stevens, Susan Lynn Smith and Taylor Glenn. Those featured are some of the artists that David Bram reviewed at Review Santa Fe.There is also a review of West and West by Larissa Leclair and Danny Lyon's Memories of the Southern Civil Rights

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 Bryan Formhals Christy Karpinski  Jane Tam I am not the best a self-promotion as I neglected to promote the last issue of Fraction which included the work of Blake Andrews, Bryan Formhals, Christy Karpinski, Geoffrey Ellis, Jane Tam, Joerg Colberg, Todd Walker and me.   Blake Andrews As a result of our work being published in Fraction, Blake Andrews and I participated in a online panel

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In the last few weeks, Mörel Books published a book on Asger Carlsen titled Wrong. I am always sad to say that I do not know everything and I had not seen Carlsen's work. Since discovering his work and in combination with viewing the work of Gerry Johansson in Ulan Bator, I am once again obsessed with black and white photography and feel that I have thrown color to the curb (well, in my own

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In this next issue of Finite Foto: Issue Eight: PhotojournalismPhotographs are an important tool to help us understand what’s going on around us. Whether it’s coverage of an extremely local event or a global disaster, without photographs we would have less understanding of important events. For our June issue, Finite Foto is showcasing photographers who keep us up to date on important events

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 copyright elviegraphisme Many of you out there, assuming that there are many, will notice that my photo has disappeared and been replaced by a logo not unlike an abstract, computer-generated interpretation of a typological form often photographed by Hilla and Bernd Becher. Well, good guess! It is an abstract, computer-generated interpretation of a typological form often photographed by the

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Too many things going on, including posting on the photo-eye Blog now. My first post is an entry on the excellent new book by Ed Templeton,  Drinking the Kool-Aid.  Enough on that though, you can sign up for the RSS to get more from myself and the photo-eye staff on books and such while on our day job.

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I HEART LONDON and here are two more reasons why: Self Publish, Be Happy curated by Bruno CeschelHuh Magazine

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copyright David Ondrik My friend David Ondrik has been shooting a new project on farms around Albuquerque, NM. Food photography has a particular interest for me as seen in The Un-Natural Nature of Food show I curated for Fraction. Here's a sample of a David Ondrik's work and much more can be found on his blog.copyright David Ondrikcopyright David Ondrikcopyright David Ondrikcopyright David Ondrik

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Kevin Miyazaki is an photographer and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. In addition to be in a great photographer, innovative educator and all-around charming fellow (see his about page on his website), now he has added philanthropist to the resume. His new website, collect.give, has raised over $6000 for worthwhile charities chosen by the featured artists. Here he answers a few questions about

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Annick Ligtermoet, The WidowAnnick Ligtermoet, Posledniy GeroiAnnick Ligtermoet, BulgakovI guess I am feeling somewhat romantic or nostalgic nowadays, but Annick Ligtermoet might be my new favorite photographer (don't get me wrong, I still love Susan Worsham). I saw her work in GUP and immediately looked her up online and fell in love with the work even more.

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Feeding our Brains: A review of New Topographics at CCPby Jonathan Blaustein, photos by David BramAn Interview with LAUNCHPROJECTS’ Cyndi Conn and Ben Lincolnby Jennifer Schlesinger Catching up with a MasterAn Interview with Patrick Nagatani, by Jonathan Blaustein An Interview with Leigh Anne Langwellby David Ondrik Look at Me: 2010 SPE Open Portfolio Highlightsby Melanie McWhorter

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Fraction Magazine has a new look. Check out the new issue with new work by This issue features the work ofEllen RennardIan van CollerJake MendelDavid MaiselPhil ToledanoAlso, a group show that I curated from the work selected by curators invited to prepare and attend an exhibition at the Lishui Photo Festival in China and, one of the invited curator's, Taj Forer, thoughts on his first trip to

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Mikael Kennedy Polaroids

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Alec Soth is back to blogging with http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/. Along with Soth, Carrie Elizabeth Thompson, Charlie B. Ward, Lester B. Morrison, Osage Gelder and The Intern are contributing to the Little Brown Mushroom Blog and Bookstore.

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I rarely promote my own work with this blog, but I am going to increase the prices of my project Nuclear Family Reaction in two weeks so I thought I would post a notice. This increase coincides with the opening of a group exhibition on January 15th, 2010 at Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL that includes my work along side that of Kay Denton, Andrea Land, Juanita Hong, and Debbie

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copyright Marty CrandallMarty Crandall - Photographer, Musician, Dragon Master: An Interview by David Ondrikcopyright Daniel MeloChampioning Nature: A Curated Group Exhibition by Jesse Chehakcopyright Eileen KennedyLaura Wzorek Pressley is in the Building: An Interview by Jonathan Blausteincopyright Daniel EspesetPhotographs taken at age 23 -- A Conversation between Daniel Espeset and Sarah

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copyright Jason Fulfordcopyright Sheilah WilsonI have been very busy lately with the new collaborative effort, of which I am part, Flash Flood. We have just launched Issue 2. This issue includes interviews and works with David Bram, Jason Fulford and Holly Roberts from New Mexico and a showcase of images by Sheilah Wilson. I hope to be back to this blog soon with new interviews. In the meantime,

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There were over 200 people from varying backgrounds judging the second round of work submitted to Critical Mass this year so the picks were spread far and wide. I would like to add my opinions about some of the artist who did not make it to the top 50. Here is a list of my favorites:Erica Allen (not in the top 50,... but fantastic!!) Tony Chirinos (not on the top 50) Susan Worsham (not on the top

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First Wednesday Photography SalonArtists presenting: Kelly Eckel, Greg MacGregor, and Ford RobbinsNovember 4th, 2009, 6:30 meet the artists, 6:45-9 salonphoto-eye Gallery, 376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501Contact: Melanie McWhorter505.988.5152 × 112melanie@photoeye.comFirst Wednesday’s October salon will be held on October 7th, with the opening reception starting at 6:30pm and the salon

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copyright Scott B. DavisThe blog has not been very active for the month of October because I was working on a collaborative effort with four other New Mexico photographers--Jonathan Blaustein, Jesse Chehak, David Ondrik and Jennifer Schlesinger-- to form Flash Flood. Although my article was delayed, there is some great content on the site including:The Clock Didn’t Really Stop Long Ago by David

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Shots Magazine: The 2009 PORTFOLIO ISSUE Submit a cohesive series or simply a selection of your best images. Photographers selected for inclusion will be interviewed for publication and featured on at least 4 pages in this annual edition of SHOTS. (Note: Photographers who have been featured in past Portfolio Issues or who have been the subjects of interviews are not eligible for this issue.)

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SHOW OFF YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS/SCULPTURE/PERFORMANCE:Submissions for the Theme section are still being accepted - for Issue#3 the theme is open so there is no specific subject.For an idea of what they publish check out the previous two issues on the website (do not forget you can still find Issue#1 in the Archive),and please read the Submission Guidelines before submitting.Deadline is November 1st,

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Grasslands October 3–December 12, 2009 at 516 Arts Grasslands is a photographic series by Michael P. Berman about the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands in New Mexico, Texas and the northern border of Mexico, where he has wandered into the desert without a compass to, in his words, “live deliberately.” He believes that how you see the land comes down to what you value. “I

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Women Photojournalists of Washington FOTOWEEK: November 7th - 14th FOTOWEEK DC Opening Reception: November 7th @ 7pm Show Length: November 7th – 2010 As WPOW evolves from a local organization into a national nonprofit, the showrepresents the organization's mission to connect to and educate the public of the work of women photographers, appropriated titled Launch. Members entries were

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GUP is calling all photographers and artists for the 2009 edition of the Prize for Unique Photography (PUP). Deadline is October 1, 2009.After four editions of PUP we have revamped the concept. Blurb decided to hook up with us and give PUP a fresh feel. Entering the PUP competition is simple: Any photographer under 35 years of age with an idea for a book - which is largely based on autonomous

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Center's Review LA January 14-16, 2010Center's Review LA is a two-day photographic event in Santa Monica, CA, that provides photographers a platform to network and share work with one another and photography professionals. Photographers have the opportunity to purchase 3, 6, or 9 reviews. Participants partake in portfolio reviews, a night of Portfolio Viewing open to the public,

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spreads from Paul Herbst, My Shit is GoldI usually try to keep up with all the small book publishers out there, but this world is ever-expanding. One great one that I missed was Morel Books. Luckily, Aron Morel emailed me a few months back about his new book on Jonnie Craig. Morel is pushing the bounds of the zine publications and branching into the addicting world of photobook publishing. MM:

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The Age of Stupid Global Premiere Trailer from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.More videos on Vimeo.

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Erik van der Weijde from This is Not My SonA little after I started this blog, I added an entry about the photo zine which sparked some debate at work about the true nature and definition of a zine (maybe I will discuss this more later). This post also brought my blog to the attention of photographer Erik van der Weijde. He emailed me about his website 4478 zine where he lists and sells all his

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This issue of Ahorn features two portfolios, one by one of my favorite photographers, Susan Worsham, and Shen Wei; interviews with Ron Jude, Andrew Phelps and Karin Apollonia Muller; two book reviews of Westward the Course of Empire featuring photos by Mark Ruwedel and Peter Sutherland's Muddy Treads and Simon Roberts discusses his project and book, We English.

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copyright, Bruce HaleyClick this link for a chance to win a free copy of Bruce Haley's limited edition portfolio. Here is the info on the hunt from Bruce: The section of this website entitled “The Post-Apocalyptic World” is strictly for you industrial junkies, you science fiction lovers, you gamers - all of you who enjoy immersing yourself into vast wastelands of dead machinery… I have a

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September 15, 2009: Grants to Individuals The application deadline for Grants to Individuals is September 15, 2009. The Inquiry Form for this deadline is available on the Graham Foundation website, www.grahamfoundation.org, and must be submitted online. The Inquiry Form is the first stage of a two-stage application process. Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the

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From SuperMassiveBlackHole newsletter:The theme for the final issue of 2009 is OPEN so there is no specific subject as with previous issues. Issue#3 will accept the usual 1 - 3 images for the Theme section, this time on any subject. Please check the Submission Guidelines for info. Deadline is 1st November (5pm GMT).So good luck to everyone submitting work! Don't forget Issue#2 is OUT NOW and you

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The Ice Plant usually publishes two or three books a season. They have published great photobooks like Ron Jude's Other Nature, Jason Fulford's Raising Frogs for $$$ and Mike Slack's Scorpio and the reprint of OK OK OK. This new season brings another Mike Slack Pyramids and C'EST le PIED II illustrations Tamara Shopsin. Here are a few of the illustrations from Shopsin's new book.

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Lens Culture is calling for images to be submitted by Sept. 15, 2009 for a portfolio award and single image award. The jury comprised on a international panel of experts will award four winning photographers cash prizes — plus prominent, exclusive photo features in Lens Culture and $1000 credit toward a professional, custom-designed portfolio website by liveBooks, plus a personal Blurb

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Nicholas Gottlund's studio and workshopColey Brown - Jam, Jelly, Honey, Wild RiceAndreas Banderas & Nicholas Gottlund - U Tell MeNicholas Gottlund is a small publisher Gottlund Verlag based in Kutztown, PA. He has published numerous books including the award-winning Jam, Jelly, Honey, Wild Rice by by the ever-so-young Coley Brown, Andrew Laumann's New Messages, and his own epitome of the

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The new group show on Fraction Magazine is curated by Aline Smithson titled Fathers and Sons. This group show features the photographic work of: Blake Andrews Timothy Archibald Dennis Chamberlin Todd Deutsch Shawn Gust Warren Harold Tom Leininger Shawn Records Peter Tonningsen Tread Byron Wolfe

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The proud husband Eric Miles sent me the link to the interview with his lovely, funny, happy and very talented wife Brenda Millis on Stellazine.

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From Photolucida Blog:Kyohei Abe Jenn Ackerman Jody Ake Erica Allen Leslie Alsheimer Jane Fulton Alt Andres Arenas Mary Ellen Bartley Jacqueline Bates Sue Bednarz Susan Bein Gabriel Benaim Hollis Bennett Victoria Bjorklund Jonathan Blaustein Tami Bone Carl Bower Ellie Brown Jesse Burke Ryan Bush

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I just found this link in an email from Andy Adams from a July 2, 2009 PDN Online feature called The Digital Curator by Conor Risch.

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WORLD IDENTITY LABIdentity is partly defined by belonging to a particular group and by social roles, the "us". On the other hand, identity also exists, at least in our society, in the encounter with our own uniqueness, the "me", which each individual experiences in his or her own way.Am I woman or wife, sister or colleague, freelancer or animal rights activist, single traveller or Brit? Am I man

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A belated thanks to Ellen Rennard for this lovely print.

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Last year, I reviewed portfolios at PhotoNOLA in New Orleans, LA. It was a great time of year to be in New Orleans. The PhotoNOLA staff and volunteers created an relaxed environment to view and show work. The artists ranged from local Louisana artists to great national and international photographers. The Photo NOLA portfolio reviews registration opens on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. There is some

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photo-eye Bookstore is excited to host the opening reception for Empty Spaces: A Exhibition of Color Photographs by Eric Cousineau and Barbara A. Diener on Friday, August 28th, 5-7 pm. The exhibition will continue through October 17th, 2009. Eric Cousineau and Barbara Diener's portfolios explore the concept of home through the juxtaposition of the familiar and foreign. Cousineau's images capture

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Reverie & Rhapsody:Susan Burnstine Susan kae Grant Beth Moon August 28, 2009 - November 7, 2009Reception: August 28, 2009 5-7pmGallery Talk with Beth Moon and Susan BurnstineFriday, August 28, 3-4pmGallery Talk with Susan kae Grant and Sarah AlexanderSaturday, August 29, 2-4pm

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Color Dying Light Sam Falls 9 x 12 in., saddle-stitched, 16 pages, self cover, color offset Edition of 500 ISBN 978-0-9800935-9-9 Publication date: August 2009 14 USD http://www.hasslabooks.com In the spring of Obama's first year in office I was driving Sam to an Easter service at a Mennonite church in Portland, and he described to me, in one sentence, the feeling he often hoped to

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Ed Ranney and Charles Ross (creator of Star Axis) will talk about their years of collaboration around the project, Star Axis. The talk will take place at the Albuquerque Museum on Sunday, August 30 at 1pm.The talk is part of the show "The Shape of Time: Photographs of Star Axis by Edward Ranney, 1979 – 2009" and it runs from June 28 - September 20, 2009More details at http://www.cabq.gov/

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Susan S. Bank founded Sagamore Press in 2008 to publish here work titled Cuba: Campo Adentro. Here Susan discusses some of the aspects of the publishing process. MM: What made you want to self-publish? Have you had any experiences with publishers in the past?SB: It would be misleading to say that I set out with a desire to self-publish! My decision to self-publish was based on ‘accepting the

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Jeff L. Rosenheim of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Inaugural Juror for the Michael P. Smith Grant for Documentary Photography for 2009.The New Orleans Photo Alliance will award one $5000 grant annually to a photographer residing in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Both emerging and established photographers living in Texas, Louisiana,

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Taj Forer has just release two of his images on 20x200.To live with you alone, Red Boiling Springs, TennesseeBoots and raincoats, San Diego, CaliforniaHis book of photographs titled Threefold Sun with an essay by Carol Mavor on Rudolf Steiner's philosophical movement is still available.

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I just found on 1000 Words Magazine.3rd Ward is pleased to announce its first ever GROUP SHOW Open Call for Photography. This call culminates in an AMAZING group exhibition of the top 25 submissions - PLUS - one photographer will be awarded $500 & a 3rd Ward bike!Deadline is July 31st, 2009.

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