Diane Arbus Archives given to the Met

Diane Arbus' archives has just been given to the Met by her estate. Read about it in this NYTimes article. In the retrospective the Met put up two years ago, the personal effects displayed as recreations of her darkroom and library were informative and offered an insightful view on the personal side of a well known photographer. This will become a great resource for Arbus scholars.

Reminder: Margot Quan Knight's Opening Reception this Saturday

Intervals © Margot Quan Knight

Nymphoto's Margot Quan Knight's solo show "Intervals" opens December 15h at Randal Scott Gallery in Washington, DC. Please join & meet the artist at the opening reception from 6-8 pm.

Opening Reception: December 15th, 2007 6-8 pm
Dates: December 15th, 2007 - January 19th, 2008
Location: 1326 14th Street NW Washington,DC
www.randalscottgallery.com

US vs. THEM ... or flogging a dead horse

This applies not only to the editorial photographer and is worth thinking about for a minute. Read:
"US vs. THEM ... or flogging a dead horse" on Robert Wright's Blog.

Maria Passarotti in Domino & on Etsy

Maria motors on! Nymphoto's Maria Passarotti's beautiful Cyanotype bird print reproductions are recommended as a smart & beautiful buy in this month's Domino Magazine (article by Holly Becker of decor8) and can be purchased via etsy.com.


see more on www.etsy.com © Maria Passarotti

5 Years Ago

December 2002 1st Nymphoto Show © nymphtoto

Margot Quan Knight Opening/Show

Intervals © Margot Quan Knight

Nymphoto's Margot Quan Knight's solo show "Intervals" opens December 15h at Randal Scott Gallery in Washington, DC. Please join & meet the artist at the opening reception from 6-8 pm.

Opening Reception: December 15th, 2007 6-8 pm
Dates: December 15th, 2007 - January 19th, 2008
Location: 1326 14th Street NW Washington,DC
www.randalscottgallery.com

Gallery Statement:

How do we experience the passage of time?
While physics may accurately describe a universal space-time, our human experiences seem to defy uniform time on a daily basis: each of us has lived a moment that seemed to last forever, or hours that passed by in a heartbeat.

Margot Quan Knights large scale photographs turn to the physical body, that portal through which all experience arrives. She proposes that the body responds to dense experience by expanding mental focus on the activity at hand, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.

In creating the Intervals series Knight looked to Caravaggio, especially his painting Death
of the Virgin, and more current works by Bill Viola, Karolina Sobecka, and Sam Taylor Wood as inspiration. She also drew on the personal experiences of losing herself in thought,
in a household task, in the chaos of her wedding, and in the interminably long,
clear moment of a car accident.

The Intervals series was sponsored in part by a 2006 CityArtist Grant from the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and a 2006 Special Projects Grant from 4Culture.

Rona Chang on Asian Photography Blog

Take a look at Rona work at Ch'ng Yaohong's Asian Photography Blog.


Urban Scale © Rona Chang

Maria Passarotti in American Photography

This years American Photography (23) features two of Nymphoto's Maria Passarotti's Urban Landscape Photographs.


Day & Night on the Upper West Side © Maria Passarotti

Maria's work always searches for beauty and often she locates that beauty in seemingly mundane environments, subtly guiding the viewer to reconsider the everyday landscape, and thus ultimately calling on her audience to reconsider their perspective on life.

To discover more about/of Maria's work visit her website at: www.mariamotorina.com or inquire with Susan Eley Fine Art.

Nymphoto Website

The Nymphoto website is temporarily under construction, but will be back soon. Stay tuned.

New Permit Rules -Town Hall Meeting at ICP

TOWN HALL MEETING ON
NYC Photography Permit Rules
Monday | December 3 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
ICP Museum
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street

Join a Town Hall Meeting with the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting
(MOFTB) to discuss the new draft of their proposed Permit Rules. All are welcome.

Please go to MOFTB's website to review the new proposed film rules in advance: www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/110107_moftb_issues_new.shtml
Questions or comments? Please email the Mayor's Office at message@film.nyc.gov by November 30
so they can come prepared.

Please RSVP online in advance if you would like to attend the Town Hall Meeting. Seating is
limited.

Where Are All the Women?

worth reading: Jerry Saltz's "Where Are All the Women?" article, published on November 18, 2007 in New York Magazine.

Rona Chang

Nymphoto is delighted to announce that photographer Rona Chang has joined the collective.


Frost og Funi ©Rona Chang

Much of Rona's work chronicles the imprint man leaves on earth. A visual anthropologist she conveys to her viewers a portrait of mankind in the context of nature.
Extensive travel has given Rona the opportunity to create an expansive collection of imagery that, as she rightly states, is material evidence of who we are.
See more of Rona's work on her website: www.ronachang.com

Maria Passarotti

A quick review of Nymphoto's Maria Passarotti's "Botanical Series" work (currently on view at Soho Art) can be read on ninacorvallo.blogspot.com and some of Maria's work is available for purchase at etsy.com. A great opportunity to own an affordable print of Maria's work, especially if you missed her at tinyshowcase.com.


© Maria Passarotti

Nina Buesing

A picture taken in the Bahamas by Nymphoto co-founder Nina Buesing in a recent issue of New York Magazine.













© Nina Buesing/Getty Images/courtesy New York Magazine

Juried Alternative Process Competition

Two cyanotypes from Maria Passarotti's Botanical Portrait series were chosen by juror Tricia Rosenkilde to be included in Soho Photo's Juried Alternative Process Competition. Inspired by such subjects as Victorian paper cuts and the botanical photograms of scientist Anna Atkins, Passarotti's Botanical Portraits combine figural imagery with photograms to create hauntingly beautiful images where the subject is married to their landscape.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, 6-8 PM, November 6, 2007
Dates: November 6 - December 1. 2007
Location: Soho Photo, 15 White Street, NYC

Caution!

Rapist possibly targeting women downtown: http://gothamist.com/2007/10/30/rapist_may_be_t.php

Michelle Kloehn

Michelle Kloehn's work is featured in this month's Blindspot. Michelle Kloehn participated in the first Nymphoto Show.

Nymphoto Blog

Nymphoto is a collective of women photographers dedicated to creating a community of and for female artists, in order to span the gender divide that pervades throughout the art world today. Our primary concern is to increase the exposure of our photographers and the work they create. To this end Nymphoto is now also a blog.