Tomorrow: Andrea Modica Lecture in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)

Andrea Modica Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org

Andrea Modica works with an 8x10 camera to slow down the process of picture making and to create intimate dramas. One of her images taught her that, until that moment, she had been photographing like a tourist. Learning to contemplate the fictitious town of Treadwell in upstate NY, she made pictures that were mysterious and portrayed the anguish of adolescence and the idea of growing up. The photographer balances sadness with empathy and brings a spiritual dimension to her work. Modica’s images include photographs of a halfway house, a Catholic girls school, and a minor league baseball team. Andrea’s photographs have been compared to those of Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, and her friend, Sally Mann. A graduate of Yale University, her work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and International Center of Photography, among many prestigious venues. New York Times, Elle, New Yorker, American Photo, and Vanity Fair have featured her work and she has five monographs, Treadwell, Minor League, Real Indians, Barbara, and Human Being. The Edwynn Houk Gallery in NYC represents her work.

Tomorrow: Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb Lecture in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)

Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org

Alex Webb, a member of Magnum Photos since 1976, has published eight books including Hot Light/Half Made Worlds, Under a Grudging Sun, Crossings: Photographs from the U.S. Mexican Border, and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names. He has worked for many major publications including National Geographic, Life, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. Webb’s work is represented by Hasted-Hunt Gallery in NYC and has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe in museums such as the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet and journalist, had her first NYC solo exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in 2006, the same year her first book, The Glass Between Us, was published with support from a Blue Earth Alliance Grant. Her series, which uses text and images to explore the complicated relationship between people and animals in cities, has also been included in several group exhibitions, including “Why Look at Animals?” at the George Eastman House. She is currently working on a series of photographs in the American West called My Dakota. Rebecca teaches photography workshops with Alex in the U.S., Italy, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, and Spain. For more about Rebecca visit www.theglassbetweenus.com.

Tomorrow: Susan Wides Lecture in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)

Susan Wides: Picturing Landscape
Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org

Susan Wides is best known for her cityscapes, landscapes, botanicals, and waxworks. Wides has engaged familiar genres and proceeded to reinvent them. She uses the essence of her equipment–a view camera and lens–to explore perception and camera vision. Her photographs have been featured in 18 one-person shows and over 60 group exhibitions in the US and Europe. Wides has had solo exhibitions at The Center For Creative Photography, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Art in General, Urbi et Orbi Galerie and PS122 and next year will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum. Her work is in the permanent collections of The International Center of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale, Norton Museum and Museum of the City of New York, among others. Articles about her work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, New York Times, New Yorker, Village Voice and many catalogues. She contributes to magazines such as New York, Harpers, Architecture, and 2wice. Wides is represented by the Kim Foster Gallery in New York City. You can learn at www.susanwides.com

Tonight: An Evening with Mary Ellen Mark in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)


Mary Ellen Mark Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org


Mary Ellen Mark is one of the most respected and loved documentary photographers in the world. Her photographs of world cultures, subcultures, and personalities are landmarks in the field. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous photo-essays and portraits in such magazines as The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Stern, Details, Allure, Rolling Stone, Vogue, US, Life, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. For almost three decades she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Mark, a socially committed photographer, who continues to make images of passion and integrity, has been the recipient of the Cornell Capa Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, ICP’s Infinity Award for Journalism, and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark has published fourteen books including the most recent Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set, (Phaidon, November 2008), Falkland Road, Mother Teresa’s Mission of Charity in Calcutta, A Cry for Help, Indian Circus, Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years, American Odyssey, and Twins. Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC represents her work. Her website is www.maryellenmark.com

Josephine Sacabo Exhibit Extended

Selected images from Josephine Sacabo's bodies of work "Nocturned" and "Geometry of Echoes" are currently on view at Galerie BMG (in collaboration with The Center for Photography at Woodstock) - the exhibit has been extended through August 4, 2008.

Regan Avery / Photography Now 2008

Regan Avery's work can be seen in the Photography Now 2008 show juried By Darren Ching of PDN and Klompching. The opening reception is tonight at The Center for Photography at Woodstock on Tinker Street.