Opening Today: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

(via The Museum of Modern Art)

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

May 7, 2010–March 21, 2011


The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019
The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor

For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

Isa Leshko: Catalog and Print Sale

Thrills and Chills Catalog, Photographs by Isa Leshko

Isa Leshko's photographs from Thrills and Chills is currently on view at the Griffin Museum of Photography until May 9th. She has also produced a beautiful catalog to accompany the exhibition, which is currently up for sale on her artist website. A portion of our Conversation is also featured in the catalog.

Catalog Specs
ISBN: 978-0-615-35421-7
First Edition: 250 copies, each signed & numbered
Pages: 28, with 19 images and accompanying text
Size: 6 x 6 inches
Publisher: Exit 12 Press, an Isa Leshko Project
Purchase Here

The Wave, from Thrills and Chills, © Isa Leshko

Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Image Size: 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Paper Size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches.
Edition Size: 100, each signed & numbered verso (on the back)
Purchase Here

In addition to the catalog, Isa is also selling a limited edition print from Thrills and Chills shown above.

She has also had a lot of wonderful press lately from the exhibition, including Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Mark Feeney who reviewed her work in an issue of the Boston Globe.

Catherine Opie at Gladstone Gallery

Catherine Opie exhibition, courtesy of Gladstone Gallery

Catherine Opie
"Girlfriends"

Gladstone Gallery
515 West 24th New York
Mar. 19 - April 24, 2010

Opening Tomorrow: Megan Cump at Collective Gallery

Human Nature

a two person show with Megan Cump and Thierry Kupferschmid

Collective Gallery 173-171

April 3 - May 4, 2010
Opening Reception: April 3, 2010, 6-8pm

173-171 Canal Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10013
between Mott and Elizabeth Streets

Opening Reception Tonight: Lydia Panas

© Lydia Panas

Family Pictures... Untold Stories
Fourteen Photographs
by Lydia Panas

March 27 - May 23, 2010

Opening Reception: April 2, 2010 / from 6-9 PM
Artist's Talk: 5-6 PM

The Banana Factory
25 W. Third St.
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Opening Tomorrow: "Select Gender" at Farmani Gallery

© Kate Hutchinson

Kate Hutchinson sent us a note of a group exhibition showcasing 14 rising photographers whose work focuses on gender and sexuality curated by Rafael Soldi, Paolo Morales, and Elle Perez.

Farmani Gallery is proud to present Select Gender, introducing fourteen rising photographers communicating their contemporary viewpoint within fine art photography. The exhibition, co-curated by budding artists Rafael Soldi, Paolo Morales and Elle Perez, will present a diverse selection of innovative artworks that focus on the theme of gender perceptions and the role of sexual assignments in America and abroad. This exhibition embraces the mission of the gallery and the curators in their support of promising talent and our hopes to further a conversation through photographic works of present-day subject matter.

Select Gender revolves around the themes of gender-based identity, self-awareness and gender-specific culture. Whether they are discussing their own identity or that of others, this diverse group of emerging photographers shows us different aspects and interpretations of perceived gender roles. The juxtapositions of gender queer, hyper masculinities, and ambiguous representations force the viewer to question his or her own perceptions and the legitimacy of a gender binary. Ultimately the goal of Select Gender is not to expose, shock, or titillate, but to offer reflection on the constructs and wide range of possibilities for gender expression.

Farmani Gallery
111 Front Street
Suite 212,
Brooklyn (DUMBO), New York 11201

April 01, 2010 – May 22, 2010

Press Preview: Thursday, April 1, 2010, from 5-6PM

Opening Public Reception: Thursday, April 1, 2010, from 6-830PM

Photographic works by:
Daniel Aguirre, Carl Bower, Caleb Cole, Nicolas Djandji, Jason Hanasik, Jamil Hellu, Monique Bergen Henegouwen, Kate Hutchinson, Katie Koti, Diane Russo, J. Aiden Simon, Sarah Sudhoff, and Molly Landreth + Amelia Tovey

Opening Tomorrow: The Urban Forest by Kate Glicksberg

Court and Luquer, Brooklyn, 2009

Chromogenic Print
24” x 20”
Edition of 3
© Kate Glicksberg

THE URBAN FOREST
By Kate Glicksberg

April 1 – 18th, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: April 1st: 7 – 10pm

Opening night music provided by Treehouse DJs (Raspberry Jones & Treeboy)

Chashama
30 W. 8th Street (at MacDougal)
New York City
hours: Wed – Sun 1 – 7pm or by appointment

A Conversation with Anne Lass

Milwaukee Avenue #2, 2005, © Anne Lass

Milwaukee Avenue #3, 2005, © Anne Lass

The photography of Anne Lass is often about the relationship to landscape and the question of anonymity. In this week's conversation, she presents a selection of photographs from several different series.

Nymphoto: Tell us a little about yourself?

Anne Lass: I grew up in northern Germany being part of the Danish minority. Our family has always enjoyed to travel and discovering all these unknown places as a child has had a great impact on me. After high school I moved to London, then to Copenhagen where I attended different art schools. Hereafter I began my Diploma Studies in Essen, Germany, where I studied Documentary Photography with Jörg Sasse. I was lucky to be in a group with quite a few very talented photographers - we still have good exchange and collaborate in different projects. Right now I am based in Berlin, am the proud mother of a one year old boy and enjoy to live in this diverse city.

Untitled, Zurich, 2006, © Anne Lass

Untitled, Chicago, 2005, © Anne Lass

NP: How did you discover photography?

AL: As a teenager I attended a darkroom course and found out what a mirror reflex camera is all about. The work with photography immediately became highly fascinating to me and has been ever since.

Untitled, Aspen, 2006, © Anne Lass

NP: Where do you find inspiration?

AL: I like to walk for hours and observe my surroundings. Going places and discovering new areas is always inspiring to me. From recreational areas to places which people avoid - it does not really matter, as long as I find this certain atmosphere I am looking for. Despite of this, a good conversation, an interesting article or an old image found on a flea market can be very inspiring too....

Untitled, Praia das Macas, 2009, © Anne Lass

NP: How do your projects come about?

AL: For my project Wandeln, which is about contemporary life and living space, I can photograph anytime and everywhere. The project contains so far over 60 images from Australia, Europe and the States. The images are connected in different groups and relations depending on the context Other projects deal with a specific geographic area, for example the Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. At the moment I feel drawn to situations which seem staged, yet it is not a dogma that my photographs have to be "real". If something needs to be changed to make the image better, I will do so. The final image is important to me and the world delivers the material.

Untitled, Chicago, 2008, © Anne Lass

Untitled, Portugal, 2009, © Anne Lass

NP: What’s next?

AL: I am currently working on a project about areas changing because of erosion, places which might disappear within the next days, months or years. Furthermore I will do a landscape project in Belgium this spring and have plans to photograph a suburb of Lisbon - and I have quite a few new images for my project Wandeln which I am looking forward to connect with the other ones. And today my solo exhibition, In Our Time, opens at the Goethe Institute in Washington D.C.

Untitled, Milan, 2009, © Anne Lass

Untitled, Victoria, 2005, © Anne Lass

Thank you for participating Anne!

To see more of her work, please head to www.annelass.de.

In Our Time (In unserer Zeit)
Photographs by Anne Lass
Thursday, 25 March 2010 - Friday, 28 May 2010
Goethe-Institut Washington, FotoGalerie

Opening reception
Thursday, March 25, 6 – 8 pm
with photographer Anne Lass and Al Miner, Independent Curator and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Curatorial Assistant

Alessandra Sanguinetti Exhibition and Lecture tomorrow

(via Boston Photographic Resource Center)

Alessandra Sanguinetti’s On the Sixth Day exhibition and lecture

The Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery

Thursday, March 25, 5 pm - 7 pm.

Alessandra Sanguinetti will be discussing her work On the Sixth Day, a series of animals on a farm in Argentina, exploring the relationship between man and beast. The documentary style photographs were taken in a province of Buenos Aires by roadsides, fields and woods as she observes the rituals and traditions of local farmers and animals - rabbits, horses, pigs, lambs, cows, chickens - caught in the cycle of life and death.

All events are free and open to the public.

Sanguinetti will be giving a free guest lecture on Tuesday, April 20. at 6:30 pm, Room 101, Boston University Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Picture(s) of the Week: Toni Pepe

Installment 1, © Toni Pepe

Installment 2, © Toni Pepe

Installment 3, © Toni Pepe

Installment 4, © Toni Pepe

Installment 5, © Toni Pepe

Installment 6, © Toni Pepe

Installment 7, © Toni Pepe

Installment 8, © Toni Pepe

Toni Pepe, who we previously interviewed, sent us some photographs from her new body of work titled, "The Gesture of Tradition."

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.” – Woody Allen

The Gesture of Tradition is a series of photographs that deal with the manifestation of identity through domestic tradition and ritual, art history and the mass media. Familial and cultural history is a specific kind of narrative, one that is shrouded in reverence and subject to memory. The photograph, an object heavily involved with memory and narrative works seamlessly to convey this approach to legacy and identity.

The Gesture of Tradition is an investigation of the family tree – a physical and visual diagram of the qualities of one’s own past. I use myself as both subject and author in an attempt to simultaneously experience the gestural characteristics of my heritage, while at the same time maintaining a sense of control as narrator. I am focused on the structure of ancestry – of what has come before us and how that defines an individual. Throughout this series, I strive to implement a sense of history – a narrative beyond the frame, delicately woven into the objects, gestures, lighting, and character. Everything within the frame is considered and functions to evoke something in the viewer that is familiar, but perhaps forgotten.

The Gesture of Tradition will be on display at Stony Brook University and she will also be presenting a paper at their Philosophy and the Arts Conference. The conference will be held on Stony Brook University’s Manhattan campus (110 East 28th Street) the weekend of March 26th-27th.

Toni's panel, Recollective Generations is scheduled on Saturday, March 27th from 1:45-3:30 p.m. and the photographs will be up beginning Friday, March 26th. For more information about the conference please visit their site: www.philosophyartconference.org.

Opening Reception Tonight: Erica Allen

Gentleman #14, from Untitled Gentlemen Series, © Erica Allen

via Melanie Flood Projects:

Exhibition Dates: November 8 -- December 2, 2009
Reception Tonight: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6-9pm

Melanie Flood Projects is pleased to present "Untitled Gentlemen", a solo exhibit of photographs by Erica Allen.

A series of fictional photographic portraits exploring representations and constructions of identity. Created with faces from contemporary barbershop hairstyle posters and figures from found studio photographs, this work gives new value and meaning to otherwise discarded and primarily functional photographs.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erica Allen is a Brooklyn based artist, originally from Oakland, California. She received her BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003 and completed her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Awards for her work include the Aaron Siskind Scholarship, the William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship, and Women In Photography-Lightside Individual Project, runner-up grant. Her photographs have been published internationally including The Outlook Magazine and the Visual Arts Journal. She has exhibited in New York City at the Broadway Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery and the Camera Club of New York.
www.ericaallenphoto.com

For more information about the exhibit, the gallery, or to RSVP please contact:

Melanie Flood Projects
186 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
mfloodprojects@gmail.com

If You Are in Riverside, California

Off the Grid & (-Americans)
Keliy Anderson-Staley
UCR/California Museum of Photography
October 01, 2009 - November 27, 2009

from the press release:

In the photo series Off the Grid and (-Americans), Keliy Anderson-Staley uses the conventions of portraiture and landscape to raise questions about representation, individuality and the many ways photography has shaped notions of identity from the 19th century to today’s digital age. In (-Americans) Anderson-Staley uses the wet plate collodion process to capture her sitters both individually and in couples. By utilizing the same antique process made popular in the 1850s and 1860s, when many believed that photography could scientifically record and catalogue a person’s racial or ethnic identity, Anderson-Staley probes technology’s claim to absolute objectivity. In Off the Grid, she focuses on the construction of place, using digital technology to capture how communes, communities, and collectives form identities from alternative or traditional philosophies.

Lecture, Keliy Anderson-Staley and curator Lisa Henry, 1st Thursday ARTSwalk, October 1, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Artist Reception, 8:00-9:00pm

Photo Studio, features public sittings for 19th-century style portraits, available for purchase Friday, October 2, 12:00 – 5:00pm (Reservations required: Limit 25)

Photo Studio, features public sittings for 19th-century style portraits, available for purchase.
Monday, October 5, 12:00 – 5:00pm (Reservations required: Limit 25)

For more info, contact: Digital Studio Program @ UCR ARTSblock (951) 827-4796 or digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu

UCR/California Museum of Photography is located at 3824 Main Street, on the Pedestrian Mall in downtown Riverside, California. Regular Gallery and Museum Store hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM to 5 PM. Admission is $3 for the general public and free to members, students and seniors. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. UCR/CMP offers guided educational tours to groups of 10 or more. Guided tours must be scheduled in advance and are appropriate for adults and grades 7-12; a nominal scheduling fee of $35 is charged. Waiver of the fee will be considered for groups with special needs. For more information, please call our 24-hour info line: 951.784.FOTO or visit http://www.cmp.ucr.edu on the World Wide Web.

Posing Beauty - Curated by Deborah Willis

Posing Beauty

September 1, 2009 – October 18, 2009
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Location:

Gulf + Western, Tisch Windows, and 8th Floor Galleries
721 Broadway at Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003

Find out more at: www.admin.tisch.nyu.edu/object/PosingBeauty.html

In California: Keliy Anderson-Staley solo show @ UCR

from University of California, Riverside:


Yule Harvesting Ice Whipple Pond, Maine 2006 © Keliy Anderson-Staley

Off the Grid & (-Americans)
Keliy Anderson-Staley
On View September 26- November 27, 2009
Reception: October 01, 2009

In the photo series Off the Grid and (-Americans), Keliy Anderson-Staley uses the conventions of portraiture and landscape to raise questions about representation, individuality and the many ways photography has shaped notions of identity from the 19th century to today’s digital age. In (-Americans) Anderson-Staley uses the wet plate collodion process to capture her sitters both individually and in couples. By utilizing the same antique process made popular in the 1850s and 1860s, when many believed that photography could scientifically record and catalogue a person’s racial or ethnic identity, Anderson-Staley probes technology’s claim to absolute objectivity. In Off the Grid, she focuses on the construction of place, using digital technology to capture how communes, communities, and collectives form identities from alternative or traditional philosophies.

Lecture, Keliy Anderson-Staley and curator Lisa Henry, 1st Thursday ARTSwalk, October 1, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Artist Reception, 8:00-9:00pm

Photo Studio, features public sittings for 19th-century style portraits, available for purchase Friday, October 2, 12:00 – 5:00pm (Reservations required: Limit 25)

Community Portrait Studio
First Sunday Family Day, October 4, 1:00 – 4:00pm
Digital portraits to be exhibited on-line

Photo Studio, features public sittings for 19th-century style portraits, available for purchase.
Monday, October 5, 12:00 – 5:00pm (Reservations required: Limit 25)

For more info, contact: Digital Studio Program @ UCR ARTSblock (951) 827-4796 or digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu


Earthway's Lodge in Winter Canaan, Maine 2006 © Keliy Anderson-Staley

Stay tuned for our Conversation with Keliy coming up in October.

Opening Soon: REVERIE & RHAPSODY

REVERIE & RHAPSODY
Susan Burnstine • Susan kae Grant • Beth Moon

Verve Gallery of Photography is pleased to present Reverie & Rhapsody, an exhibition exploring dreams, memory and time, and the rhythm of contemplation and mystery that is held within all three. The three-person exhibition includes Verve gallery artists Susan Burnstine, Susan kae Grant and Beth Moon.

VERVE Gallery of Photography
219 East Marcy Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Opening Reception: Friday, August 28, 2009, 5-7pm
Exhibit is on view through Saturday, November 7, 2009

Gallery Talk with Beth Moon and Susan Burnstine,
Friday, August 28, 3-4pm

Gallery Talk with Susan kae Grant and Sarah Alexander,
Saturday, August 29, 2-4pm

(via Fraction Magazine)

I Don't Believe In Miracles

I don’t believe in miracles

August 14 – August 31, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, August 14, 2009, 6:00 – 8:30 P.M.
Summer Hours: Thursday – Monday, 12:00 – 7:00 P.M.

Spacewomb is pleased to present I Don’t Believe in Miracles, curated in participation with Alana Celii, an exhibition which features a breadth of artists using different photographic processes such as collage, manipulation, and alternative materials to explore the classical elements: earth, air, fire, and water. The artists featured in this exhibition include Alexander Binder, Charlotte Bonjour, Amy Giese, Nicholas Gottlund, Jessica Hans, Jessica Williams, and Grant Willing.


22-48 Jackson Ave #1
Long Island City, Queens 11001

http://www.spacewomb.com

Image: Somewhere in the Sky by Nicholas Gottlund

Opening Tomorrow: Chibi Lai's "We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow"

Photographs by Chibi Lai

Chibi Lai
We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow

The show will be held from August 4th-30th, 2009

Opening Reception is on August 5th, 6-8pm

The Broadway Gallery

475 Broadway, 7th Floor (between Grand and Broome St)

tel: 212-274-8993

From the artist:

'We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow'

This series is a continuation of my 'Displacement' series, focusing on the concept of solidarity and wanderlust. This project was shot in Iceland. In comparison to the usual self portraits I make within landscape ('Displacement'), these images are not of myself but speak of how it feels to be in solitude and searching for the right place to be from a universal standpoint. With nature playing a huge role in this series, a timeless place has been created, where everything becomes dreamlike, where nothing seems to be real or certain.

www.chibilai.com ('Displacement' and 'We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow' series could be viewed on site)

Martien Moulder's From Blue to Blue

Martien Mulder
From Blue to Blue

Capricious Space
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick
103 Broadway, 917-438-7015
July 9 - August 9, 2009

From the press release:

Capricious Space is proud to present FROM BLUE TO BLUE, a selection of images extracted from 10 years of personal work by Martien Mulder. With a focus on landscape and portraiture, this particular edit is based on the monochromatic quality of each photograph. The primary color in every image determines its place in the space. Even though the images have their own individual meaning on the level of representation, they are sorted by their formal values. Mulder treats them as colors in a color scheme while designing within the graphic space: whether it is the pages of a book, or a gallery. Her installations are site specific.

Dutch-born Martien Mulder discovered her love for photography as a teenager. Her first pictures date from her high school years, when friends would pose willingly in her homemade studio. After her art history studies, with a major in contemporary photography, she decided to take her own pictures more seriously. By composing handmade books of her photographs, she established a visual language that connected to the magazine world. She started traveling the world, wherever assignments would lead her, and created personal work at the same time. Mulder has always been interested in the relationship between people and their environment.

She currently lives in New York and her pictures have appeared in magazines such as Purple, 10 Magazine, French Vogue and Fantastic Man. She has had exhibitions staged in New York, Amsterdam and Tokyo. Her book, also titled “From Blue to Blue” will be available for purchase.

If You Are in Berlin, Germany

Lea Golda Holterman
Orthodox Eros
The body is a temple

@

Dada Post
Nordbahnstr. 10, 13409 Berlin
Germany
Phone: 030.51060224
www.dadapost.com
-through July 31, 2009

If You Are in Madrid, Spain

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
Comunidad de Madrid / Alcalá 31
Alcalá 31, 28014 Madrid
Spain
- through Sep 06,2009
Phone: +34 91.7208117
Tue-Sat 11-14, 17-20:30 . Sun 11-14