Liz and the Sonia Braga doppelganger

Liz, © Will Steacy

Ever since Kiss of the Spiderwoman, I have loved Sonia Braga. Now, every day, the Sonia Braga look-a-like walks by my window at work looking like she was clothed from the wardrobe department of Grease, Olivia Newton-John as virgin or greaser, depending on the day. I stop and watch her every day. It is not love or lust, but a mild obsession; I have to look at her.

A year or so ago, a card was mailed to my office. It was a postcard for a show of Will Steacy's work and on the front was the image of Liz. It was probably for Darius, but I took it anyway. I have to look at Liz like I do the Braga doppelganger (I love this word). I do not want to know her, or be her friend, or girlfriend. I want to watch her with the frozen wind in her hair.

Flak Photo showing Art for Obama

Art for Obama has changed some of the details of the auction. Bidding is happening until this Friday, October 10th and it will go to moveon.org, not directly to the campaign. For all the details on why the change, check out the entry at Fraction. You can view some of the photos on display at flakphoto.com this week or check out artforobama.net.

Errata Editions on Press at 5b4

Jeff Ladd at 5b4.com has been sharing his experience of printing four titles for his new imprint Errata Editions.

Not that Ladd has created these entries to compliment my mission, but he is promoting my belief in democratic books (to borrow a term from the website of that name, democraticbooks.org) by making the books affordable and also sharing the experience of five days on press in China.

Errata Editions, founded by Jeff Ladd, photographer Ed Grazda and a third partner, will be producing a series called Books on Books, which will reproduce, along with scholarly essays, Atget, Photographe de Paris, Walker Evans's American Photographs, Sophie Ristelhueber's Fait, and Chris Killip's In Flagrante. Take a look at his detailed description of the aforementioned titles and the on press story.

PS One of my favorite books is Sophie Ristelhueber's Details of the World.

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

Call for Entry: Shots 102, Portfolio Issue

SHOTS no. 102: The 2008 Portfolio Issue

Photographers chosen for publication will be interviewed and featured on at least 4 pages in this annual issue. (Note: Photographers previously featured in Shots’ interviews and past Portfolio Issues are not eligible for this issue.) Deadline November 3, 2008

Send up to 20 images (prints or files on a CD) for consideration.

Call for Entry: Fraction Group Show

Here are the rules for the Fraction call for entry for the November issue. The deadline is October 10.

Please read the following guidelines carefully. Deviating from these will make the work ineligible. The theme for the show is Typologies. The typology has become a major part of the history of photography as well as a major force in contemporary photography. We wanted to see what the current state of the typology is and how current artists are using it. The show will include up to 20 artists and each artist will have 3 pieces of work up, a link to their website (if you have one), and contact information. Here are the rules for submission:

1. Make sure your work actually falls under the category of Typology. If you have any question at all as to whether or not it does, then it probably doesn't. 2. Send us three images that are 700 pixels on the longest side.
3. Make sure they are in a jpg format. No PSDs no TIFFs no GIFs. 4. Send them in an email to us at fractionmag@gmail.com Make sure the subject of your email is Group Show. Please include your name, website address (if you have one) and an email address where you can be reached. 5. The deadline for submission is October 10th. We will decide on the final artists by October 15th. Publication of Issue 4 will be in early November. Good luck and we can't wait to start looking at work.

Call for Entry: Negative Space

Center for Fine Art Photography: Negative Space Juror: Brooks Jensen of Lenswork Magazine Deadline is October 14, 2008

Other calls coming up from Center for Fine Art Photography: Idea of Self, Deadline is November 12, 2008 Perspective, Deadline is December 9, 2008
Image shown, Waiting, Harry Longstreet