Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe Website is Finally Live

The website for the Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe is finally live with a description of the exhibition, a list of all photographers, thumbnails and enlargements of all the photos included in the show, video interviews and a schedule for related events and lectures and most importantly a list of sponsors and other contributors.

Tonight in Santa Fe and Five Other Photo Exhibits Still Showing

Two great openings will take place tonight in Santa Fe:



Zane Bennett Gallery at 435 Guadalupe Street will be exhibiting Open Photography Project with works by Jonathan Blaustein, Diana Blok, Grégoire Cheneau, Wei Meng Foo, Todd Hido, George Hirose, Patti Levey, Judy Miller, Deborah Oropallo, Tony Soulie, and Donald Woodman. The opening reception is from 5 to 7 pm with and artist's talk and book signing by Todd Hido at 6pm.



At the Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe, The Valley: Six Albuquerque Photographers with Leigh Anne Langwell, Patrick Nagatani, David Ondrik, Cecilia Portal, Adrienne Salinger and Jeff Willis and curated by David Leigh. The exhibition runs through April 24th. For more info, call 505.472.6341 Photo credits starting from top and counter clockwise: Cecilia Portal, Carne Hueso #20; Adrienne Salinger, Porn Kid and Jeff Willis, Wires.

Three other photo exhibits still showing in Santa Fe:
Monroe Gallery presents and exhibition on The City of New York

Verve Gallery of Photography showcases the lensless photography of Martha Casanave and solar plate etchings of Laurie Archer

Portrait and Place: Contemporary Latin Photography at Eight Modern
231 Delgado Street

Endangered Cultures: Galisteo Basin Photography Project at photo-eye, 376 Garcia Street

Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe at The Palace of the Governors and Through the Lens: Contemporary Santa Fe, Santa Fe Community College

Through the Lens: Contemporary Santa Fe Opens January 29, 2009

Through the Lens: Contemporary Santa Fe opens this Thursday, January 29, 2009 at Santa Fe Community College, School of Arts and Design Gallery with a gallery talk by historian and writer Andrew Lovato at 6pm. See the invitation above for the address and info on the panel discussion on March 5, 2009. Artist include Sam Adams, Gay Block, Kent Bowser, David Bram, Polly Brown, Robert Chavez, Briar Clark, Brian Edwards, Jamie Hart, Doug Keats, Howard Korder, Herb Lotz, Lynn Lown, Lawrence McFarland, Melanie McWhorter, Duane Monczewski, Margaret Moore, Joan Myers, Teresa Neptune, David Noble, Jack Parsons, Alan Pearlman, Pat Porter, Ian Ramirez, Ford Robbins, Alan Ross, Meridel Rubenstein, Nancy Sutor, Melanie West, Richard Wilder, And Wendy Young.

The Staff Show at photo-eye

Melanie McWhorter

Daniel Espeset

Cliff Shapiro

Ben Lerman

Anne Kelly

Heather Prichard

Adam Figliola

On December 18th, photo-eye Bookstore hosted the first ever photo-eye Staff Show. I have been at photo-eye for over 10 years and I have seen many talented artists pass through including Chris Bennett of Newspace, Darius Himes of Radius Books and many others. This show is a long time coming. The exhibition runs through January 31, 2009 at photo-eye Bookstore, 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe. If you are in Santa Fe, stop by and see the work. You can also email melanie (at) photoeye (dot) com for inquiries.

Jonathan Hollingsworth Book Party, November 22nd in Santa Fe

Everybody I Ever Met in L.A. by Jonathan Hollingsworth.

Two Big Photo Events this Friday, November 21st in Santa Fe

Radius Anniversary Party with 6 of the Radius artists hand signing their books:
Julie Blackmon, John McCracken, Michael Lundgren, Judy Tuwaletstiwa,
Johnnie Winona Ross and Joan Watts and have all 8 of the 2008 books, as well as our titles from last Fall.


And Through The Lens: Creating Santa Fe opens.

Photography in Santa Fe in November

Photographic Events in Santa Fe for the next couple of weeks:

Mass book signing at College of Santa Fe on November 15th from 1 to 3 pm. See the invitation below for a list of photographers and location.




Following the signing is a unrelated lecture and panel discussion hosted by Santa Fe Art Institute titled History of the Future/La historia del futuro with Michael Berman and Julian Cardona at Tipton Hall across the hall from the Marion Center. The panel discussion will be from 3 to 5 pm and a signing and reception at Santa Fe Art Institute is from 5 to 7pm.

There will be a lecture at College of Santa Fe's Tipton Hall with Tony O'Brien titled Afghan Dreams on Wednesday, November 12th at 6pm. The show opens at Verve Gallery of Photography on Friday, November 14th, along with the work of Ruijie and Karin Rosenthal.

On Friday, November 21st from 5 to7pm, Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe exhibition opens at the Palace of the Governors.

College of Santa Fe's Film and Lecture Series Next Event, Alex Harris and Bill DeBuys

College of Santa Fe's Marion Center for Photographic Art's next event, co-sponsored by Verve Gallery of Photography, will be a lecture and book signing by Alex Harris and Bill DeBuys on there book project, River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life. The lecture will take place on the campus of College of Santa Fe in Tipton Hall on October 30th at 6pm. It is free and open to the public. The next in the series will be the film, The Devil's Miner on November 4th at 7pm. Check and save the image above for the complete schedule.

Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe

Photo Archives at the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum, Museum of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs opens its first major photography exhibition in 25 years. Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe will open to the public on Friday, November 21, 2008 with a reception, hosted by the Women’s Board, from 5 – 7 PM. Co-curated by Mary Anne Redding, Curator of Photography at the Palace of the Governors and independent curator, educator, and photographer, Krista Elrick, Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe is part of the city wide celebration of the 400th anniversary of Santa Fe as well as the centennial of the Museum of New Mexico.

© Melanie McWhorter

The Museum of New Mexico Press is publishing a book of the same name to be released at the end of January 2009 with essays by Frances Levine, Lucy Lippard, Andrew Lovato, Siegfried Halus, David Noble, Rina Swentzell, and Mary Anne Redding.

A satellite exhibition, Through the Lens: A Contemporary View of Santa Fe will be hosted at the Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe Community College opening on Thursday, January 29, 2009 with 40 images by contemporary photographers living and working in Santa Fe will be on view through March 9, 2009.

The list of photographers included is quite long, (over 150 years of photography included):

Ansel Adams
Sam Adams
Lewis Baltz
Thomas Barrow
Ray Belcher
George C. Bennett
Gay Block
Kent Bowser
David Bram
Nicholas Brown
Polly Brown
William Henry Brown
Jesus Sito Candelario
John Candelario
Paul Caponigro
Aryan Chappell
Walter Chappell
Dana B. Chase
Robert Luis Chavez
Blair Clark
William Clift
J. L. Clinton
Van Deren Coke
John C. Collier
Linda Connor
Aaron B. Craycraft
Thomas J. Curran
Edward Curtis
Julie Dean
Tyler Dingee
Brian Edwards
James L. Enyeart
Steve Fitch
Lee Friedlander
Miguel Gandert
Laura Gilpin
Kirk Gittings
Ernst Haas
Betty Hahn
Philip Embury Harroun
James Hart
Henry T. Heister,
John K. Hillers
William Henry Jackson
Zig Jackson
Bill Jay
Kate Joyce
Christian G. Kaadt
Doug Keats
Edward A. Kemp
Ernest Knee
Rolf Koppel
Howard Korder
Lisa Law
Paul Logsdon
Herbert A. Lotz
Lynn Lown
Cissie Ludlow
Charles Lummis
Greg MacGregor
Douglas Magnus
Roxanne Malone
Norman Mauskopf
Lawrence McFarland
Melanie McWhorter
Duane Monczewski
Margaret Moore
Wright Morris
Joan Myers
Teresa Neptune
Beaumont Newhall
Nicholas Nixon
David Grant Noble
Anne Noggle
Mark Nohl
Jesse Nusbaum
Tony O’Brien
Timothy O’Sullivan
T. Harmon Parkhurst
Jack Parsons
Alan Pearlman
Bernard Plossu
Horace Swartley Poley
Eliot Porter
Patrick Porter
Ian Ramirez
Edward Ranney
Eric Renner
J. R. Riddle
Ford Robbins
Alan Ross
Meridel Rubenstein
Andre Ruesch
Janet Russek
David Scheinbaum
Robert Shlaer
Nancy Spencer
Paul Strand
Nancy Sutor
Carlan Tapp
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Craig Varjabedian
John Vavruska
Carlos Vierra
Adam Clark Vroman
Todd Webb
Melanie West
Edward Weston
Richard Wilder
Ben Wittick
James Wood
Donald Woodman
Wendy Young