San Francisco, CA

03/01 - 05/26/07

San Francisco, CA

03/01 - 05/12/07

San Francisco, CA

03/01 - 05/12/07

Philadelphia, PA

06/01 - 08/10/07

Rochester, NY

Absence/Excess/Loss: Marni Shindelman and Sarah Webb (invited curators)

Lubbock, TX

Joseph Labate: Domestic Tableau

Philadelphia, PA

04/13 - 05/04/07

Syracuse, NY

Photographs by Ben Gest

Philadelphia, PA

03/16 - 04/06/07

Winter Park, FL

Rochester, NY

Winter Park, FL

Huron, OH

Cincinnati, OH

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Brooklyn, NY

Winchester, MA

Lubbock, TX

Janet L. Pritchard: Dwelling: Expressions of Time

Houston, TX

Miami, FL

Minneapolis, MN

Tucson, AZ

Glendale, CA

Philadelphia, PA

Rochester, NY

San Diego, CA

Woodstock, NY

Woodstock, NY

New York, NY

Chicago, IL

Philadelphia, PA

Andrea Baldeck: T he Heart of the Matter, curated by Stephen Perloff

Syracuse, NY

William Earle Williams: Unsung Heroes. African American Soldiers in the Civil War

Cary, NC

Kim Kauffman: Florilegium, and other exhibitions

Suffern, NY

Collette Fournier: Amistad. From Mystic Seaport to Halifax, Nova Scotia

Lubbock, TX

Amy Holmes George: Awakening to a Dream

London, England

New York, NY

San Francisco, CA

01/05 - 02/24/07

Philadelphia, PA

01/05 - 02/02/07

Philadelphia, PA

01/05 - 02/02/07

Pittsburgh, PA

New York, NY

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Cape Town

Silver Spring, MD

Rochester, NY

Washington, DC

New York, NY

Orléans, France

Doylestown, PA

East Hampton, NY

Philadelphia, PA

New York, NY

Pittsburgh, PA

Daytona Beach, FL

Charlotte, NC

Intrinsic Artifice: Susan Brenner, David Maisel, Carl Chiarenza, and Stan Brakhage

New York, NY

Boston, MA

Santa Fe, NM

Chicago, IL

Brooklyn, NY

Dresden, Germany

Pasadena, CA

Los Angeles, LA

Rochester, NY

New York, NY

New York, NY

Denver, CO

New London, CT

Jersey City, NJ

Chicago, IL

Lincoln, MA

Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women

Drawing on the collection at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, and guest curated by Dore Bowen and Isabelle Massu, Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women features a range of projected images and prints that call into question preconceived notions of Middle Eastern photography, in general, and Arab women in particular.

Purchase the journal, which features an in-depth look at the exhibition, here.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 5 pm

Admission
Free to SF Camerawork Members
$5 for the public
$2 for seniors and students with ID
Free admission first Tuesday of each month

SF Camerawork's New Location
657 Mission Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-4104
TEL: 415.512.2020
FAX: 415.512.7109

For more information on these and other events, please visit us online at: http://www.sfcamerawork.org/

Become a Camerawork Member online: http://www.sfcamerawork.org/membership.html

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With its ambitious, seemingly paradoxical premise, Seeing Beyond Sight challenges our definitions of art, vision, and perception and what it really means to see. This exhibit is in conjunction with a new book by Tony Deifell (Chronicle Books).

Learn more about Seeing Beyond Sight here.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 5 pm

Admission
Free to SF Camerawork Members
$5 for the public
$2 for seniors and students with ID
Free admission first Tuesday of each month

SF Camerawork's New Location
657 Mission Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-4104
TEL: 415.512.2020
FAX: 415.512.7109

For more information on these and other events, please visit us online at: http://www.sfcamerawork.org/

Become a Camerawork Member online: http://www.sfcamerawork.org/membership.html

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Running time: 32 minutes

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 5 pm

Admission
Free to SF Camerawork Members
$5 for the public
$2 for seniors and students with ID
Free admission first Tuesday of each month

SF Camerawork's New Location
657 Mission Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-4104
TEL: 415.512.2020
FAX: 415.512.7109

For more information on these and other events, please visit us online at: http://www.sfcamerawork.org/

Become a Camerawork Member online: http://www.sfcamerawork.org/membership.html

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Rebecca Sexton Larson: Visual Diaries
June 1-August 10, 2007

Recently named the Photographer Laureate of Tampa, Rebecca Sexton-Larson's pinhole photographs and collages evoke old family photographs, letters and journals, and examine family structures and relationships.

Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 215.717.6300, http://www.uarts.edu/events/rwg/index.cfm

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Jeff Murphy: The F Word: Faith in Bits and Pieces
June 1-August 10, 2007

These richly-detailed photocollages explore the themes of religion, science and technology.

Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 215.717.6300, http://www.uarts.edu/events/rwg/index.cfm

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Absence/Excess/Loss

Invited Curators: Marni Shindelman and Sarah Webb

April 20 - May 20, 2007
Opening Reception: April 20 7 – 10pm

Absence/Excess/Loss is a group exhibition of installation-based work, which considers how the process of repetition informs memory and melancholia. Specifically, how does the creation of repeated objects relate to the act of mourning? This exhibition will consider the work of seven artists - each sharing an affinity for vernacular and domestic materials in which process comes to bear as much meaning as the (final) object. Each artist will create an installation unique to the gallery space at the Rochester Contemporary, considering how the act of repetition, and the making of multiples, generates memory and meaning.

Artists:
Penelope Stewart, Toronto. Canada
Daniela Rumpf, Minneapolis, MN
Sarah Hutt, Boston, NY
Tara Parsons, New York, NY
Marie Kennedy, Chicago, IL
Wendy Kwabata, Honolulu, HI
Andrea Cote, Brooklyn, NY

Rochester Contemporary (RoCo), 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604, 585.461.2222, www.rochestercontemporary.org

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Joseph Labate: Domestic Tableau
April 16 - May 12, 2007

Joseph Labate creates digital photography tableaus with objects collected during the routine activities of daily life.

SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, 2802 18th Street, Lubbock, TX, 806-742-1947

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Gabe Martinez: Current Mischief
April 13-May 4, 2007

Current Mischief will showcase Gabe Martinez' new explorations on the theme of male sexuality. The Equality Forum advances national and international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights by educating the GLBT community and society at large about GLBT issues. This exhibition is an annual showcase for photographers whose work corresponds to this mission.

Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 215.717.6300, http://www.uarts.edu/events/rwg/index.cfm

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Photographs by Ben Gest
April 2 - July 27, 2007

Gallery reception, April 19, 5-8pm

Ben Gest's work gives new meaning to the expression "more than meets the eye." His work is as contemplative and quiet, as it is restless and emotionally charged. Gest modestly describes his work as "narratives of personal and simple everyday activities." But he goes through extensive steps to create these narratives from multiple separate phtographs. The end results are large-scale phtoographs that are alluring from a distance and unexpectedly detailed upon closer examination. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in August 2005.

Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, 315/443-1300, www.lightwork.org

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Michael Marshall: Natural Histories
March 16-April 6

Michael Marshall presents his Natural Histories series which explores the intersection of the investigative process of science and the left brain sensibilities of intuition and emotions.

Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 215.717.6300, http://www.uarts.edu/events/rwg/index.cfm

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10th Bi-annual Southeastern Photography Invitational: The Portrait
March 9, 2007 - April 28, 2007

Through photographic portraiture, artists capture not only faces and moments in time, but also teh culture, the ideas, and epic life story behind the eyes of each individual. This exhibition features the work of Daytona, Florida photographers Den Beckendorf and David Paul Scott; Glen McClure of Norfolk, Virginia; and David Wharton from the University of Mississippi.

Curator: Rich Lang, SPE Member.
Glen McClure lecture and opening reception, Friday, March 7, 7:00-9:30pm

Alice & William Jenkins Gallery at the Crealde School of Art, 600 St Andrews Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32792
407/671-1886, www.crealde.org

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Upstate Invitational
March 9 - April 8, 2007

Opening Reception: March 9 7 – 10 pm

This exhibition is intended to showcase the very best of the Upstate Region in the last year.

Artists include:
Mahine Rattonsey, Rochester, NY.
Anne Havens, Rochester, NY
Jason Smith, Buffalo, NY.

Rochester Contemporary (RoCo), 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604, 585.461.2222, www.rochestercontemporary.org

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The Art of Fellowship
March 2 to May 12, 2007

Opening reception Friday, March 2, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

An exhibition featuring current work from Crealdé’s emerging artist program in photography.
Curator: Rick Lang.

Showalter Hughes Community Gallery at the Crealde School of Art, 600 St Andrews Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32792
407/671-1886, www.crealde.org

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Kim Ellen Kauffman: Florilegium: Cameraless, Filmless Images
Feb. 26 - April 4, 2007

There are many inspired artists creating brilliant work focused on the human condition. Barry Lopez makes an important point when he says, “Increasingly our culture is shaped by culture and not by landscape, so that our culture, spinning at an ever increasing rate, increasingly refers only to itself.” In our urban modern culture, full of self-reference, perhaps we need more images of nature in our every day lives in order to live more conscientiously in the natural world. I make these images not only to revel in the beauty of my subjects but because I wish to help create a balance - equipoise - with my images of the botanical world.

Little Gallery - Firelands College BGSU, One University Drive, Huron OH 44839
419/433-5560, www.firelands.bsu.edu/arts/littlegallery

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Walt Bistline and others will be showing their work at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati from February 23 through March 31. We'll be holding open houses on Friday evening and during the day on Saturday, February 23 & 24, and again on March 30 & 31, so come on by and see art by over 150 artists under one roof!

You may also see a selection of Walt Bistline's images at www.flickr.com/photos/waltbistline. You can even leave comments. And all the images are for sale, so if something strikes your fancy, let me know! Walt Bistline's photo "Frozen Trees, No. 2" received a "Top 10" award from Yale University curator Pamela Franks in this year's Whitewater Valley art competition, while my photos "Seip Mound" and "Snow Urchin" received the Photography and Merit Awards, respectively, from Indianapolis art critic Julianna Thibodeaux in the Richmond Art Museum's annual competition.

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Work from the ‘Tales of a City – Delhi’ and ‘Homelands’ series by Sunil Gupta

Feb. 16 – March 23, 2007
Opening: Feb. 15

Belfast Exposed Photography, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF, Northern Ireland, +44 028 90230965
www.belfastexposed.org, info@belfastexposed.org

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Rough Beauty, images by Dave Anderson
February 15 - April 15, 2007

Opening Reception with the artist
Thursday, February 15, 7 – 8:30 PM. Open to all. RSVP by February 10

Rough Beauty explores the character and burden of Vidor, Texas, a poor, rural community branded and reviled for its history of Klu Klux Klan activities.

The Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Rd, Winchester, MA 01890, 781/729-1158, www.griffinmuseum.org

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Henry Horenstein: Close Relations
Feb. 15 - March 18, 2007

opening and booksigning on February 15, 6-8

powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St., Brooklyn, NY 11201
http://www.powerhousearena.com/Close_Relations/

Book publication:
In Close Relations, Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made when he was a student at Rhode Island School of Design. Mixed with humor and history, this collection of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery describe a time familiar to everyone, when one moves from adolescence to adulthood—remaining a part of a family while beginning to create a world of one’s own. As a history student in the late 1960s, Horenstein learned the importance of preserving the present to create a record for the future. As he took up photography, he carried these lessons with him. In CLOSE RELATIONS he offers us a warm and quirky look at his personal history, and at that of a particular place and time.

CLOSE RELATIONS, photographs by Henry Horenstein, published by powerHouse Books March 2007, ISBN 1-57687-327-7, $40 retail
http://www.closerelationsbook.com/

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Janet L. Pritchard: Dwelling: Expressions of Time
Feb. 12 - March 10, 2007

Janet L. Pritchard's landscape photographs create a sense of place that unfolds through research and exploration.

SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, 2802 18th Street, Lubbock, TX, 806-742-1947

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FOTO: New Photography from Denmark
Feb. 1 - March 10, 2007 

FotoFest Presents an Exhibit of 39 Contemporary Danish Photographers.

The largest survey of contemporary Danish photography to come to the U.S. opens in Houston as FotoFest’s featured exhibit in February-March 2007. Scandinavian photo-based art is considered to be among the most vibrant in Europe today, and Danish artists are known for their mastery of new and old genres of photography.

Artist included: Per Morten Abrahamsen, Atila, Henrik Brahe, Nanna Bisp Büchert, Ole Christiansen, Krass Clement, Colonel (Thierry Geoffroy), Tina Enghoff, Torben Eskerod, Mads Gamdrup, Charlotte C. Haslund-Christensen, Keld Helmer–Petersen, Camilla Holmgren, Nicolai Howalt, Per Bak Jensen, Adam Jeppesen, Fie Johansen, Kirsten Klein, Tove Kurtzweil, Finn Larsen, Steen Larsen, Mads Ljungdahl, Søren Lose, Birgitta Lund, Hans E. Madsen, Finn Manford, Hans Manner-Jakobsen, Eli Ponsaing, Inger Lise Rasmussen, Jytte Rex, Viggo Rivad, Henrik Saxgren, Lars Schwander, Saul Shapiro, Jacob Aue Sobol, Trine Søndergaard, Erik Steffensen, Susanne Wellm, Ebbe Stub Wittrup.

FotoFest Headquarters, 1113 Vine Street, Houston TX  77002, www.fotofest.org

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En Foco Presents:
New Works #10 at Diaspora Vibe Gallery

Featuring Meg Escudé, Stephen Marc and Divya Murthy, alongside Diaspora Vibe artists Noelle Théard and Rosamary Berrios

February 8 - March 24, 2007

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 8, from 7-10pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 10, from 2-4pm

Diaspora Vibe Gallery, 3938 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136
305 573-4046 www.diasporavibe.net

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ICY: Clear Views 01:
Caroline Burghardt, Kelli Connell, and Jean Laughton

Jan. 27 to March 25, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 27
5:30 pm Artist Panel with Caroline Burghardt, Kelli Connell, and Jean Laughton
7 - 9 pm Opening Reception

Three photographers from across the United States will inaugurate ICY: Clear Views, a new, annual series of exhibitions at MCP that will showcase from two to five contemporary artists working in the region and around the world. The seriesprovides an opportunity to experience recent photographic projects in a comparative forum, to examine and contrast accomplished bodies of work in depth.

Minnesota Center for Photography, 165 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, 612/824-5500, www.mncp.org

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Mary Daniel Hobson: Figuratively Speaking: Mary Daniel Hobson, Eriks Rudans and Paula Wittner
January 27 - March 17

Etherton Gallery is delighted to present emerging photographer Mary Daniel Hobson along with Tucson artist Eriks Rudans and Patagonia painter Paula Wittner in its new exhibition, Figuratively Speaking, a show of wonderment, myth, character, soul and miracles. Figuratively Speaking is about the “emotions and experiences that are imprinted on our bodies.” All the work in the exhibition is “inspired by personal history,” yet “transcends its origins” to the universal.

California photographer Mary Daniel Hobson adds her miracles to this soulful show with a mix of photographs printed on transparencies laid over beautiful collages, composed of maps, botanical drawings, hand written postcards as well needle, thread, butterfly wings and shells. Her work explores what lies beneath our tender skin and the emotion that can be conveyed through simple gesture. In Flight (1998), she creates a delicate photographic collage using a small photograph of a woman’s back, laid over sheet music, stitched together with needle and thread and topped with butterfly wings. We must literally look beneath the skin to understand the fragmentary past that informs her figures.

Etherton Gallery, 135 South 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701
520/624-7370, www.ethertongallery.com

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Photo-Chimera: Ten California Photographers
Jan. 27 - Feb. 23, 2007

Artists: Nicole Belle ~ Angela Diamos ~ Nicholas Fedak II ~ Dona J. Geib ~ Robert Koss ~ Lesley Krane ~ Lis J. Schwitters ~ Don Suggs ~ Arlene Vidor ~ Tal Yizrael

Works of art in this unique exhibition challenge the popular expectations of photography as a reproductive, objective and even two-dimensional art form. Each of the photographers represented in the exhibit is actively engaged in changing and expanding the medium, combining advances in technology with the creative impetus to explore new and expressive ways of seeing. Photo-Chimera is curated by Gloria Williams Sander a Glendale resident and curator at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.

Brand Library Art Galleries, 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale, CA 91201
818-548-2051, www.brandlibrary.org

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From the Cabinet of Curiosities
An exhibition of tintype photographs by Alida Fish

January 26 - March 3

Opening Reception: Friday, January 26th, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Schmidt Dean Gallery, 1710 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-569-9433, www.schmidtdean.com

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Maker/Mentor: Joan Lyons, Selected Work/Four Decades & A Reading Room: Books from Visual Studies Workshop Press
Jan. 26 - Feb. 25, 2007

Opening reception, January 26 from 7 - 10pm
Artist's talk, February 9 at 7pm

The Maker/Mentor Series is one of the cornerstones of RoCo annual programming. This program highlights one of the Rochester area's "living treasures." The artist selected is one who has been influential in the local arts scene for a number of years and in that time has helped to shape the careers of many others. The artist is then asked to select a group of other artists to exhibit with her. As Founding Director of the VSW Press, a leading publisher and printer of artists' books, Lyons has been active in the evolution and definition of the field and responsible for the production of more than 400 books by artists. Selected titles from the VSW Press are included in this exhibition.

Lyons has shown her work national and locally for over the past three decades. Her work is grounded in the understanding that photography and print, in their myriad permutations, are inextricably connected. This exhibition includes silver gelatin prints, archaic photography processes, pinhole photography, offset lithography, Haloid-Xerography, digital prints, a cyanotype quilt and artist's books.

This exhibition inaugurates RoCo's 30th Anniversary year.

Additional information can be found on the artist's website at: www.joan.lyons.name

Rochester Contemporary (RoCo), 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604, 585.461.2222, www.rochestercontemporary.org

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Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now
January 20 - May 13, 2007

Curated by Merry Foresta, Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, Tell Me A Story includes images by contemporary artists who address issues of narrative, including Tracey Moffat, Gavin Hipkins, Melanie Pullen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Anna Gaskell, Polixeni Papapetrou, Nikki S. Lee, Muriel Hasbun, Barbara Probst, and Jem Southam

The Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
619-238-7559, www.mopa.org

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Kiss & Tell
January 20 - March 18, 2007

Kiss & Tell curated by CPW's Kate Menconeri, features work by eight artists from the US and abroad who explore intimacy through photography. The title, inspired by the work of featured artist, Sara Macel, suggests both the veiled privacy we share with intimates, as well as the provocative act of photographing it, thereby bringing the personal realm into the public sphere.

Exhibiting artists, Elinor Carucci, Todd Jordan, and Kyung Duk Kim, visually share personal moments between themselves and their lovers. Johnny Miller's homage to his parents via love letters sent during wartime, Bharti Parmar's delicate Victorian amulets, and Sara Macel's collection of favorite kiss sites, all look at the meaning of intimacy through the artifacts and mementos that we hold. Offering an alternative and often overlooked interpretation, Karen Brett's larger than life color prints of physically engaged elderly couples and Kelli Connell's digitally constructed images featuring a couple in which both models are herself, investigate with sensitivity, the shifting sexual and interior selves within relationships.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498, 845/679-9957, www.cpw.org

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Lisa Robinson: snowbound
January 20 - March 18, 2007

Lisa Robinson's eloquent series, Snowbound, hones in on the man-made objects and traces of human existence left amidst the stillness and cover of snow. The images, a snow dusted tree house, a trampoline, or just the tiniest hint of a fence post poking through tundra, are contemplative and quiet with reverence for the cyclical nature of seasons and time. Like a haiku poet, Robinson seeks beauty in plain and simple language by observing ordinary things closely. Her images force the viewer to slow down and invite them into spaces that are as much a part of imagination as meditations on the familiar world we inhabit.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498, 845/679-9957, www.cpw.org

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Jana Marcus: Transfigurations
January 19 - March 31, 2007

"Transfiguration" - The Award-Winning Photodocumentary by Jana Marcus, explores transsexuals and their notions of masculinity and femininity as they change gender identities. Discovering that gender is both real and illusory, natural and constructed, Marcus’ photographs shed light on the transformation from one sex/gender to another. Large photographs, with text, explore the importance of the body to gender identity as well as the effects of transformative practices on the body, creating a reality beyond ordinary experience.

I Gallery, 39 West 14th Street, suite 205, New York, Ny 10010
212-243-8181, Igallerynyc.org

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Robert Heinecken 1932-2006: Sex and Food, a Memorial Exhibition
January 19 - March 24, 2007

In honor of Robert Heinecken’s crucial contributions to the world of fine art photography, the Museum of Contemporary Photography will mount an exhibition of selected projects—magazine alterations, a satire on fashion photography, and some rarely seen Polaroid photograms using perishable food.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, 312.663.5554, http://mocp.org/

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Andrea Baldeck: The Heart of the Matter,
curated by Stephen Perloff

January 17 - March 18, 2007

Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Also, see interview with Stephen Perloff on Manhattan Arts Ezine

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William Earle Williams
Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
January 16-March 16, 2007

Light Work gallery reception and artist lecture featuring William Earle Williams:
Thursday, February 1, 2007 from 5-8pm

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over forty stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story. Williams has been pursuing this series for over ten years. He has photographed significant Civil War sites in the South and North, recording both historically recognizable as well as forgotten locations.

Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, 315/443-1300, www.lightwork.org

Other exhibitions in conjunction with Light Work's main exhibition:

WILLIAM EARLE WILLIAMS: Underground Railroad Made Visible
January 16-March 8, 2007
Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY 13210
www.communityfolkartcenter.org

CORIANA CLOSE: A Journey Towards Hope. Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
February 1-March 1, 2007
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center, 303 University Avenue, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
January 16-April 19, 2007
Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Schine Student Center, 303 University Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

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Florilegium (One Person Show)
Jan 15 - May 31, 2007
Umstead Gallery, Cary, NC

The Artistic Pulse of Post Industrial Michigan Part II (Group Show)
Jan 12 - Feb 3, 2007
Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI

Group Show With a Spin
Jan 20 - Feb 24, 2007
River Gallery, Chelsea, MI

Florilegium: Cameraless, Filmless Images (One Person Show)
Feb 26 - April 4, 2007
Little Gallery at Bowling Green State University (Firelands), Huron, OH

Art Alfresco - Garden Inspired Art (Group Show)
May 10 - June 30
Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Group Show
Nov 1 - Nov 30, 2007
River Gallery, Chattanooga TN

One Person Show
Nov 29 - Jan 24, 2008
University Gallery, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg KS

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Amistad: From Mystic Seaport to Halifax, Nova Scotia
Photographs by Collette Fournier

January 15 - February 27, 2007

Collette Fournier, 845/574-4549 or 845/574-4032

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Amy Holmes George: Awakening to a Dream
Jan. 15 - Feb. 10, 2007

Amy Holmes George uses her collection of objects to create constructed still life photography that invest meaning into the simple object forms. These are not illustrations of a specific dream stroy rather something more real and tactile, like the memory of a dream.

SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, 2802 18th Street, Lubbock, TX, 806-742-1947

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Rik Pinkcombe: On Thin Ice
Jan. 10-20, 2007

On Thin Ice is an exhibition of new photographic work created on the Autograph ABP Light Work AutoResidency 2005 by Rik Pinkcombe, that uses the frozen landscape as a metaphor for the examination of cultural identity and division. Shot along the Canada/USA border at Niagara Falls, the images explore the cultural divisions signified by the fissures of the ice. Pinkcombe considers the experience of migration and the idea of the border as a force for both division and connection. Using image distortion and manipulation to create misleading perceptions of perspective and scale, Pinkcombe draws on this sense of the artificial to reflect on the separation these borders impose.

After the reception there will be the opportunity to go ice-skating at Greenwich Ice Rink, from 9-10pm. Located on the grand terrace of Wren’s magnificent Old Royal Naval College, overlooking the Thames, the ice-rink is adjacent to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery. Places to go ice-skating are limited and will be allocated on a first- come, first-serve basis. If you would like to reserve a ticket, or if you have any other queries about the exhibition, please contact Kelly O’Reilly on 020 8331 8988 or 07941125901 or k.oreilly@greenwich.ac.uk

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Park Row, London SE10 9LS

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DIGITAL TRANSITIONS: Selections from the Light Work Collection

January 23–April 1, 2006
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

January 8–March 16, 2007
Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University Lubin House, New York, NY

After being on display in Syracuse, the exhibition "Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection" is currently on view at the Palitz Gallery in New York City.

Artists in this exhibition include Anthony Aziz & Sammy Cucher, Lois Barden & Harry Littell, Matt Black, Ben Gest, Terry Gips, Myra Greene, Sunil Gupta, Deborah Jack, Mona Jimenez, Keith Johnson, Martina Lopez, James Nakagawa, Barry Perlus, John Pfahl, Keith Piper, Neal Rantoul, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Matthew Swarts, Scott Townsend, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, and Kim Waale.

Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery in the Joseph I. Lubin House, 11 E. 61st Street, New York, NY 10021. 212.826-0331.

Exhibition details can be found on the Light Work website

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Alexander Mouton and Christian J. Faur’s Ethereal Landscapes

Ethereal Landscapes is an interactive video that invites immersion into a generative audio/video database that can be interacted with in real-time through scanning the bar codes on the pages of an accompanying photographic book. The piece challenges traditional limitations of the forms of Video + Audio as passive and linear through the interactivity and non-linearity provided by the barcodes and scanner, and it challenges the limitations of the form of the Book as static and non aural by integrating projected moving images and sound.

As a generative installation, Ethereal Landscapes employs computer programming in order that factors such as the time of day a viewer enters the installation or the order in which the pages of the book are turned can effect the projection of videos and sound, which are synchronized in real-time with the scanning of the book’s pages. The book itself has 23 spreads and there are a multitude of video and audio pieces that entwine in a poetic arc around the processes of life, the passage of time, and our un-deniable mortality.

SF Camera Work, 657 Mission St, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105-4104
415-512-2020, www.sfcamerawork.org

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Tamara Lischka: Important Things
Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 2007

Photographs of delicate biological specimens held tenderly in hands. Fetus, fish, squid - the lifeless bodies of these creatures appear eerily animate, even grotesque out of context. Yet the hands that hold them nurture as much as they expose.

Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 215.717.6300, http://www.uarts.edu/events/rwg/index.cfm

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Nate Larson: Burden of Proof
Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 2007

Nate Larson's photographic work explores the way that we construct meaning in contemporary culture through the lenses of both religious and secular cultures. These photographs question how belief is formed in our culture and how it shapes our lives.

Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 215.717.6300, http://www.uarts.edu/events/rwg/index.cfm

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John Milisenda: My Family
Jan. 4 - Feb. 3, 2007

Reception: Thursday, January 4, 6-8pm

The Brooklyn-based photographer explains, 'The subject of these photographs is my own family--my parents and retarded brother, Dennis. I have been photographing them continuosly from 1968 to the present. The photographs avoid easy interpretation. They capture the paradoxes and mysteries of my family's dynamics. They are also projections of my own fluctuaring feelings toward my family, a balance between light and dark, closeness and alienation.' He ads, 'Mom is concerned about what will happen to Dennis after she dies. As she grows older (she is now 78), she finds it harder and harder to care for him. Dennis had feared leaving home and going to a residence for the developmentally disabled. However, on September 25, 2001, Dennis did just that. It was the first time in 52 years that my mom and Dennis had separated.'

Soho Photo, 15 White St., New York, NY 10013
212/226-8571, www.sohophoto.com

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NEW WORKS GALLERY ONLINE
Jan. 1 - March 31, 2007

New works by:

Patty Arnold, San Luis Obispo, CA
John Davis, Pittsburgh, PA
Amy George, Nacogdoches, TX
Fiona Wilson, Pittsburgh, PA
Gideon Barnett, Chicago, IL

Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 412.431.1810, www.silvereye.org

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Nicky Bird: Question For Seller
Dec. 8, 2006 - Feb. 2, 2007

Nicky Bird is interested in the contemporary status and relevance of ‘found’ photographs.  She collects family photographs through the Internet marketplace of eBay.  She buys photographs that no-one else bids for, with the connotation that they are unwanted and therefore of no significant value. Bird approaches the seller with a question: How did you come across the photos and what, if anything, do you know about them?  Their replies, however brief, are as important as the photographs they are selling. Sometimes they allude to part of a discarded family history, or to everyday life where commonplace photographs of unidentified portraits have long since lost their original meaning. The show aims to explore the commercial expanse of eBay as a context for viewing intimate family photos, and to find out what happens when ‘worthless’ family photographs re-enter the market as art, in the form of an artist’s book; family album.

Belfast Exposed Photography, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF, Northern Ireland, +44 028 90230965
www.belfastexposed.org, info@belfastexposed.org

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Santu Mofokeng: Invoice
Dec. 2, 2006 - May 2, 2007

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, produced in partnership with Autograph ABP and Momo Gallery

Invoice is a major retrospective, designed to coincide with the photographer's 50th year. The exhibition will include photographs from virtually all of his major bodies of work, including Townships, Rural Bloemhof, Chasing Shadows, Memory of the Landscape and Landscape and Ideology.

Mofokeng is a highly individual observer of reality who has consistently bucked prevailing trends in photography and art, avoiding brash political statement and easy conventions. His deviation from traditional subject matter included photographic enquiries into spirituality, a project undertaken in the face of criticism for its lack of “political correctness”.

SA National Gallery, Government Avenue, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
(0)21 467 4660, http://www.iziko.org.za/sang/

The same exhibition will also be exhibited at
The Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
30 Jan - 17 March, 2007
phone +27 (0) 11 631 1889
http://www.standardbankgallery.co.za/

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AGING by Gail Rebhan
Dec. 2, 2006 - Jan. 14, 2007

A critical graphic portrayal of the mental and physical deterioration that often accompanies the end of life.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org

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16th Annual Members Exhibition
Dec. 1, 2006 - Jan. 14, 2007

This event features the work of RoCo's members as well as reciprocating members of Hallwalls. With over 100 works exhibited by as many members it is truely an adventure in the varied works represented. Grant Holcomb, Director of the Memorial Art Gallery, served as invited juror.

Awards were presented to Best in Show, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Membership Awards, Bill Havens Memorial Award (sponsored by Anne Havens), and Record Archive Award (sponsored by Richard Storms). This exhibition was open to all members of Rochester Contemporary and Hallwalls in Buffalo. It features over 100 local and regional artists and ranges in media from metal sculpture and handmade books to painting and black & white photography, there’s even a piece that requires 3D glasses.

Recipients of the Bill Havens Memorial Award included SPE member Bleu Cease – “Portrait of Obediah Dogberry”

Rochester Contemporary (RoCo), 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604, 585.461.2222, www.rochestercontemporary.org

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DOCUMENTED: The Community Blackboard
Nov. 30, 2006 - Jan. 06, 2007

A site-specific, community-based space for dialogue beyond borders, for the preservation and recovery of memory through family photos and documents...

Breaking Borders/Rompiendo Fronteras

an exhibition of photography and digital art by the Salvadoran community


Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, 201 18th Street, NW – Washington, DC, (202) 458-6020

http://www.museum.oas.org/exhibitions/museum_exhibitions/breaking%20borders/blackboard.html
http://www.museum.oas.org/exhibitions.html
http://www.murielhasbun.com

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Gail Albert Halaban: This Stage of Motherhood
Nov. 30, 2006 - Jan. 6, 2007

Gail Albert Halaban photographs communities of mothers. Like an anthropologist, she portrays the private lives of these women as they journey from single life through motherhood. At first glance, they seem to have everything--education, elegance, wealth and family. Yet for these women, such advantages are not without conflict. They must weigh having children with the desire to maintain an identity as it was prior to entering this stage of motherhood. Gail Albert Halaban's satiric yet compassionate images illuminate their struggle to balance their children's need for an emotionally available mother with their own inclination to hold onto the independence of youth.

Although the photographs in This Stage of Motherhood seem to ebe spontaneously captured, they are in fact intricate tableauz created by the artist within the homes of hte women she photographs. This theatricality grants Gail Albert Halaban access to the emotional lives of her subjects.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 30th 6-8pm
Press Interview: Thursday, November 30th 10am-12pm

Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Ave, New York, NY 10001
212/989-7600, www.robertmann.com

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Orléans, France

El Maghreb: Photographies et textes de Malik Nejmi
Nov. 21, 2006 - Jan. 14, 2007

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, place Sainte-Croix, 1, rue Fernand Rabier, 45000 Orléans, France

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Constructions: Photographs by Michael Becotte
Nov. 18, 2006 - March 18, 2007

Constructions is sponsored by Mary Lou and Andrew Abruzzese, The Pineville Tavern.

This exhibition features more than a dozen large-scale photographs. Although Becotte made his reputation as a traditional photographer, he has become a master of digital photography in recent years, creating images constructed from family heirlooms as well as random objects retrieved from flea markets, abandoned buildings, and dumps. Over the past ten years Becotte has collected an extensive inventory of props and environmental material. The gathering of these items is a key part of his creative process. He arranges and photographs these objects as a way of exploring his memories and fantasies of family and childhood, and delves into such issues as daydreams, gender, fear, isolation, decay, and mortality.

To view or download high-resolution images from this exhibition, please visit our online press room at www.michenerartmuseum.org/press/. The username is “media” and password is “impress5.”

The James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, and at 500 Union Square Drive in New Hope.
215/340-9800, www.michenerartmuseum.org

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El Maghreb: Photographies et textes de Malik Nejmi
Nov. 21, 2006 - Jan. 14, 2007

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, place Sainte-Croix, 1, rue Fernand Rabier, 45000 Orléans, France

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OUR TOWN TODAY: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS OF EAST HAMPTON BY EAST END PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nov. 18, 2006 - Jan. 7, 2007

To complement the past, Guild Hall Curator Christina Strassfield chose to profile the work of present day East End photographers in the exhibition, Our Town Today: Contemporary Visions of East Hampton. Contemporary visual images of East Hampton today will be exhibited by noted Hampton photographers: Richard Avedon, Ann Chwatsky, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Giard, Ralph Gibson, Gerry Gilberti, Michael Knigin, Doug Kuntz, Fred W. McDarrah, Ken Robbins, Walter Schwab, Kathryn Szoka, Tom Steele and Bruce Weber.

Works will include both black-and-white and color prints depicting a variety of imagery ranging from definitive landscapes and portraits to works with atmospheric details and ethereally composed landscapes. Each artist will be represented by several pieces that capture "a moment in time" documenting
Our Town today and the artists' individual vision of the East End.

Guild Hall, 158 Main St., East Hampton, NY 11937, 631/324-0806, www.guildhall.org

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Donald E. Camp: Dust Shaped Hearts
Nov. 17, 2006 - Jan. 13, 2007

Gallery 339, 339 S. 21st Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215/731-1530, www.gallery339.com

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Charles H. Traub: Indecent Exposure. Photographs from 1980 - 1982
Nov. 16, 2006 - Jan. 6, 2007

Daniel Cooney Fine Art is proud to present an exhibition of vintage color photographs from 1980 – 1982 by Charles H. Traub (b. 1945). This series, early color work of the photographer, began with an ad that was placed in a local paper calling for nude models. Those who responded, mostly women, did so with a variety of motives, from the need for money to exhibitionism. Traub was interested in making images that were not typical of the stylized photographic female nudes of the time. His models reveal a variety of emotions and project as many attitudes.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street, #506, New York, NY 10001, 212/255-8158
www.danielcooneyfineart.com

An exhibition of Traub’s vintage black and white work from the mid 1970’s is on view at Gitterman Gallery until December 2. The gallery is located at 170 East 75th Street. For more information please contact Gitterman Gallery at 212-734-0868.

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Howard Henry Chen: Multiple Entry Visa: To Vietnam and Back Fellowship 2006
Nov. 15, 2006 - Feb. 10, 2007

Multiple Entry Visa: To Vietnam and Back focuses on globalism and the tourism boom in a country that has been a battlefield for a hundred years, Additionally, ten photographers have been selected as Honorable Mention Photographers by Rod Slemmons, this year’s Juror. Admission is free.

Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson St., Pittsburgh, PA 15203
412-431-1810, www.silvereye.org

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Douglas McCulloh, Jacque Garnier: On the Beach: Chance Portraits From Two Shores
Nov. 15, 2006 - Jan. 19, 2007

"The ocean's edge is a place of freedom and desire, a place to stare and to strut, to see and to be seen. Beaches are half display, half voyeurism. This is the precise terrain of photography--one side posing, the other looking. Cameras belong on the beach." --Douglas McCulloh

"The portraits of On Beach are fast, aggressive, and chaotic. Through rigorous framing, energetic cropping and spontaneous interaction, an almost surrealistic dialogue commences..the ideal moment with these beach portraits arises from a spontaneous ballet between teh models who are freee to do as they wish and the photographer who is looking of a moment of magic." --Jacques Garnier

"The beach eliminates conceits, concealment, and clothing. It removes everyday roles, stances and status. The beach is a set of subtractions. When you cross onto the sand you become a little naked." --Douglas McCulloh

The real life characters photographed for this exhibition reveal the rich diversity and color of the beach as a social and cultural pageant. Florida's beaches are a magnet, not only for the local population, but for the millions who visit Florida each year. This exhibition features images made of the last 2 years on Florida's beaches, combined with a campanion series made on the beaches of Southern California.

On the Beach rises from a powerful straighforward idea--go to beaches and capture a chance sample of beachgoers. The idea of sampling drives the project. In the words of artist Sol LeWitt, "the idea becomes a machine that makes the art."

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, 1200 International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL
386/506-4475, www.smponline.org

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En Foco’s Touring Gallery presents

Julia Cowing: Series. 2 Generation, 1 American
Nov. 13 to Jan. 12, 2007

Location: Vantage Point Gallery
A Partnership between the International Center of Photography and The Point CDC
940 Garrison Ave, Bronx New York 10474
718-542-4139, www.thepoint.org, www.enfoco.org

Directions: #6 Train to Hunts Point Avenue, Walk under the Bruckner, Right at the light onto Garrison

En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary photgraphers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage. Founded in 1974, it ahieves its mission by introducing its artists to a national audience while facilitating the access of their work to local comunities, and creating a cultural synergy with curators and arts profressionals.

1738 Hone Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, 718.584.7718, info@enfoco.org, www.enfoco.org

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Intrinsic Artifice: Susan Brenner, David Maisel, Carl Chiarenza, and Stan Brakhage
Nov. 10, 2006 - Feb. 8, 2007

Abstraction has traditionally been known as a genre dedicated to speaking in terms of form, texture, and composition. This usually included an inherent negation of reality by making the familiar look unfamiliar. Abstract Expressionist painting quickly reached wide scale popularity in the 40's and 50’s and today remains one of the biggest selling genres. Abstract Expressionist Photography grew alongside painting, using extreme angles and cropping, altering contrast, and often creating abstract arrangements and then photographing them. Today there is a new post modern breed of photographers who actually use abstraction to hint at a narrative or conceptual reference, leading viewers in the opposite direction from their forefathers. The Light Factory has combined the traditional and modernist black and white constructions of Carl Chiarenza and the experimental hand colored abstractions of Stan Brakhage short films, with the new post modern aerial photographs of David Maisel’s waste sites and the digital works of Susan Brenner that indirectly reference the internal environments of the body.

The Light Factory, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square, Suite 211, 345 North College St, Charlotte, NC 28202, 704.333.9755, www.lightfactory.org

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Various: PRC/POV: Photography Now and the Next 30 Years
11/03/2006 - 01/28/2007

In honor of our 30th Anniversary, the PRC presents an exhibition featuring new and novel ideas in photography and related media. Nominated by past and present PRC staff, board, and luminaries, this unique exhibition highlights 30 people, places, and things that will make a contribution to photography’s next 30 years. The PRC has always been at the forefront of emerging ideas, and we invite you to enjoy this innovative and interactive space that is dedicated to future-focused work.

Founded in 1976, the Photographic Resource Center is