Brooklyn, NY

11/19 - 12/31/07

various

various

Los Angeles, CA

11/08 - 12/08/07

New York, NY

11/26 - 12/28/07

London, England

10/05 - 11/24/07

Boston, MA

10/26 - 12/08/07

Los Angeles, CA

10/17 - 12/14/07

Miami, FL

10/11 - 11/20/07

Ada, OH

11/01 - 11/30/07

Belfast, Ireland

11/15/07 - 01/11/08

New York, NY

opens 10/27/07

Dallas, TX

10/18 - 11/05/07

Boston, MA

11/09/07 - 01/27/08

Houston, TX

10/25 - 12/08/07

Charleston, SC

12/21/07 - 03/16/08

Daytona Beach, FL

11/11/07 - 02/15/08

Daytona Beach, FL

11/11/07 - 02/15/08

Daytona Beach, FL

11/11/07 - 01/18/08

Los Angeles, CA

11/08 - 12/01/07

Cleveland, OH

11/02 - 12/15/07

New York, NY

11/03 - 11/25/07

Buffalo, NY

12/01/07 - 1/15/08

Sumter, SC

09/20 - 11/03/07

Saugatuck, MI

08/03 - 9/24/07

Minneapolis, MN

10/04 - 10/27/07

Cazenovia, NY

09/06 - 09/27/07

New York, NY

09/20 - 10/08/07

San Francisco, CA

09/14 - 11/17/07

Boston, MA

08/23 - 10/28/07

Washington, D.C.

09/07 - 10/06/07

Winter Garden, FL

10/20 - 12/01/07

Belfast, Ireland

08/10 - 09/21/07

Boalsburg, PA

09/09 - 09/28/07

Belfast, Ireland

09/29 - 11/07/07

Sydney, Australia

08/24 - 11/04/07

Santa Barbara, CA

10/13/07 - 01/13/08

Brno, Czech Republic

9/3 - 9/27/07

Brooklyn, NY

9/7 - 9/23/07

Richmond, IN

9/24 - 10/21/07

Richmond, IN

8/27 - 9/21/07

Muncie, IN

9/5 - 9/29/07

Murray, KY

9/26 - 10/18/07

London, England

9/3 - 9/8/07

Sydney, Australia

8/30/07 - 1/28/08

New York, NY

7/28 - 08/12/07

Palo Alto, CA

7/10 - 08/19/07

Rockport, ME

6/10 - 07/07/07

La Conner, WA

6/30 - 10/07/07

Dallas, TX

05/11 - 06/16/07

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

As The Veil Turns: Female Pioneers of the American Muslim Community

As The Veil Turns: Female Pioneers of the American Muslim Community
A photography and video exhibition by Nsenga Knight

OPENING RECEPTION Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3-6pm
ARTIST TALK (with video presentation) Friday, December 7, 2007, 6-8pm

Through Photography, video and oral history, Brooklyn-based artist Nsenga Knight explores the spiritual and community lives of Black women who converted to Islam prior to 1975 and pioneered Brooklyn’s oldest Muslim communities. Visit "As the Veil Turns" on the web at http://www.astheveilturns.blogspot.com

Exhibition Dates: November 18 - December 31, 2007

The Gallery at Harriet's Alter Ego
293 Flatbush Avenue (between Prospect Pl and St. Marks)
Brooklyn, NY 11213
http://www.harrietsalteregoonline.com/
Subway: 2 and 3 trains to Bergen, B or Q trains to 7th avenue.
Admission to the gallery is free open to the public
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 10am-8pm and Sundays 12-6pm.

For more information contact:
Laylah Barrayn, Laylah@harrietsalteregoonline.com, (646) 573-2422
Ngozi Odita, Ngozi@harrietsalteregoonline.com, (718) 783-2074

As the Veil Turns is sponsored in part by the greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural affairs administered by Brooklyn Arts Council incorporated (BAC). This project is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. In Kings County the Decentralization program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council incorporated (BAC). Funding and support is also provided by Puffin Foundation Ltd. and the BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Joint Multimedia Residency.

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Leah Oates exhibitions

Transitory Space, Chicago, Red House, c-print, 20"x24"/24"x30", editions of 10, 2007

Open Book Opens November 8th from 6-9pm Sara Meltzer Gallery Organized Regency Arts Press http://www.regencyartspress.org/ Meet Cute Opens on the 15th from 6-9pm Elizabeth Heskin Contemporary Curated by Marcy Brafman and Elizabeth Heskin 94 Prince St, 2nd Floor http://www.heskincontemporary.com/ TRANS Atlantic Works Gallery Boston, Masschusetts www.atlanticworks.org Objects of Power and Devotion, Contemporary Photography from the Americas January 21-March 15th Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS Photography Gallery Curated by Fabian Goncalves Washington, DC Pool Art Fair Miami Beach Open from December 7-9th from 4pm to 10pm Cavalier Hotel 1320 Ocean Drive, Rm 317 Two blocks from Collins Avenue by right by the beach back to the top >>

William Claxton Portfolio

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Kamoinge: Revealing the Face of Katrina

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London Is the Place For Me

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Gabriel Martinez: Self Portraits

Self Portraits by Heterosexual Men (Marc), 2007 chromogenic print 20 x 30 inches (51 x 79 cm), edition of 5 plus 2 APs

Gabriel Martinez
Self Portraits

October 26 - December 8

450 Harrison Avenue Storefront 63 Boston, MA 02118 T 617 357 7177

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays to Saturday 11 to 5PM &, of course, by appointment

preview@samsonprojects.com

Samson Projects excitedly presents Gabriel Martinez's Self Portraits, his first solo exhibition since joining the gallery.

In 1998, Martinez exhibited a project of small ambrotypes for the Philadelphia Museum of Art where he asked 100 heterosexual men to photograph their own feet (via an extended cable release and 35mm film) at the point of self-induced climax. Martinez reprises the project using digital in an almost life-size format (and a remote).

In Self Portraits by Heterosexual Men/2007, Martinez relays an intimate act of pleasure. A role of art is to give pleasure. Martinez asks by word of mouth, flyers and sites like craigslist.com. He sets up with a camera, a tripod, a light, a camera remote, lubricant and some porn, if they so wish to use it. The photographs are taken wherever is agreed. Martinez leaves and returns when instructed to collect his equipment.

Richard Torchia: "The work of Gabriel Martinez redirects the coded relays of the reflexive, sometimes transgressive, often self-punishing gay male gaze and places them in relation to broader social collectives and other ways of seeing. Grounded in performative actions-private and public, scripted and spontaneous, theatrical as well as vernacular and banal-they are often recorded by photographs invested with the potency of relics. While his general methods reflect the strategies of contemporary peers who have brought photography and performance closer together over the last three decades, his practice is distinguished by a largesse manifest by its often lavish materiality as well as the scope of the audience to which it is directed."

Gabriel Martinez was born in 1967 in Miami, FL; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He received a MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 1991 and a BFA in Photography from the University of Florida, 1989. He has created performances and exhibited at White Columns (NY), Franklin Furnace, Exit Art (NY), Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art (PA).

A catalogue with an essay by Richard Torchia is available. For further information, contact the gallery.

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Under Fire in Lebanon

"Under fire in Lebanon" war photography by Yoav Galai
Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel.

Hillel at UCLA
574 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Gallery Hours: Mo-Fri, 10-4pm
Exhibits runs thru December 14th
RSVP: 310-208-3081 ext. 125
For more information please contact Perla Karney - Artistic Director
310-208-3081 ext. 108

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Off Color

Bayeté Ross Smith, from "Our Kind of People," 2004

Off Color
curated by Hank Willis Thomas & Kalia Brooks
October 11-November 20, 2007
Diaspora Vibe Gallery
3938 N Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.diasporavibe.net

Artists: Elizabeth Axtman, Lauren Woods, Mansita Diawara, Nekisha Durrett, Stanley Squirewell, Bayeté Ross Smith, Russell Watson, Heather Hart, and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

Off Color is Hank Willis Thomas' and Kalia Brooks' curatorial debut. Hank Willis Thomas is based in San Francisco and New York City. Thomas graduated from California College of the Arts with dual degrees: an MFA in photography and an MA in visual criticism. As a visual artist and a writer, he is interested in notions of identity perception, commodity culture, and the impact of violence in African American communities. Kalia Brooks is a New York-based curator and writer. Brooks received a MA from California College of the Arts and is currently writing a book on a documentary project in Philadelphia, PA.

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Memories Adrift: Selections from the Poolside and On The Beach series by Marita Gootee

Wilson Art Center, Ohio Northern University
11/01 - 11/30/07

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Border Country

Border Country
by Melanie Friend

Opens Thursday 15th November 2007
Exhibition runs to 11 January 2008

Belfast Exposed Photography is privileged to present Border Country by Melanie Friend, an installation of medium-format photographs and voiced testimonies of asylum seekers and migrants in detention in the UK. A publication of the work, with essays by Mark Durden, Alex Hall and Melanie Friend will also be launched at the opening event.

BELFAST EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHY
23 Donegall Street | Belfast | BT1 2FF | Northern Ireland
www.belfastexposed.org | info@belfastexposed.org
t. +44 028 9023 0965 | f. +44 028 9031 4343

Border Country is supported by Belfast Exposed Photography, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Arts Council of England (ACE), the Research Fund of the School of Humanities, University of Sussex, Fotonet, the University of Southampton, Spectrum in Hove and Metro Imaging in London. The book is co-published by Belfast Exposed Photography and the Winchester Gallery.

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Dan Eldon: The Journey is the Destination

Photo Journalist Dan Eldon's Work Finds Permanent Home at New York Gallery: Murdered Photographer's Works Pay Homage To His Beloved Africa

Almost 15 years after he was murdered while on assignment as a photojournalist in Somalia, the artistic legacy of Dan Eldon finally has a permanent home - at the Candela/Decker Gallery in New York City's Soho.

The exhibition will open with a launch party Saturday October 27th at 6pm, and then remain on display daily (except Mondays).

Gallery owners Lisa Candela and David Decker say they hope the gallery will bring Dan's incredible work to the attention of the general public: "It's a final destination for his work for the first time."

The Creative Visions Foundation was launched by Dan Eldon's family and friends to support creative activists like Dan, people who use media and the arts to inform inspire and empower - creating awareness of social, humanitarian and environmental issues and catalyze positive change.

The foundation is headed by Dan's mother Kathy Eldon, a journalist, media consultant, author and a television and film producer. She is currently working on several documentary and movie projects with Creative Visions Productions, a division of the Creative Visions Foundation.

"I know Dan would be thrilled that his photographs will have a permanent home in such a wonderful new gallery," says Kathy.

The Candela/Decker Gallery and Studio
31 Crosby Street (between Grand and Broome)
212 343 1717

In death as in life, Dan Eldon continues to touch the heart and ignite the imagination. Killed at 22, while working as a photo-journalist in famine-stricken Somalia, Dan continually and actively sought positive change for those most in need. His powerful images, relentless activism and profound concern for others would leave a lasting legacy. One of his favorite Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes reads, "[T]o leave the world a bit better…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded." That was what Dan believed and that was how he led his life.

Half British, half American, Dan considered himself fully African. Born in England, in 1970, to a British father and an American mother, he spent the first seven years of his life in London, before his family decided to expand their horizons and move to Nairobi, a place of seemingly limitless horizons.

Dan's mother, Kathy, was a journalist and from an early age he accompanied her on assignments. Her work often included taking her own pictures. Soon, he too was photographing what he saw, which began to turn up in Kenyan newspapers. His first photo credit was at age 13.

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Turning Homeward

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AD | AGENCY

The Photographic Resource Center-a non-profit gallery, education, and resource center-is pleased to present the exciting group exhibition, AD | AGENCY (November 9, 2007 - January 27, 2008). This timely exhibition features photo-based work that mimics or addresses the language of advertising and product photography as well as work that mines or alters catalogues, print ads, products, stores, or literally the consumer process itself.

Addressing a spectrum of consumerism issues, the work investigates the life of and power behind the objects, signs, and symbols that are marketed to us and the cycle of consumption-from branding to purchase and beyond. AD | AGENCY artists are not necessarily completely critical of consumer culture. Instead, they take an active role by borrowing its trappings-the look, language, method, and sometimes even marketing avenues-in an effort to initiate an aesthetic and intellectual dialogue about this cycle of consumption of which we are all a part.

International, national, and regional artists include Kate Bingaman-Burt, Dean Kessmann, Jonathan Lewis, Michael Mittelman, Matt Siber, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Penelope Umbrico as well as the work of Diana Shearwood in our storefront windows. Please note that Montserrat College of Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition, Cornucopia: Documentation of Plenty (November 9, 2007 - February 2, 2008), which includes Ulrich, and we are working to cross-promote these shows. The PRC's opening reception will be Thursday, November 8, 5:30-7:30pm. The PRC is also working with The Ad Club and college advertising departments to cross-promote the exhibition and organize a panel on January 17, 2008, 6pm. Titled Finding the New Creative: Convergences in Fine Art and Commercial Photography, it will explore the shifting and dissolving boundary between fine art and commercial photography, as commercial clients strive for a unique "vision" to associate with their products.

An example of a featured series includes Kate Bingaman-Burt's "Obsessive Consumption," a self-created brand, company, website, and artistic endeavor. Under this umbrella, Burt photographed her purchases for two years. On display in the PRC gallery will be selections from this Herculean effort, which includes some of her favorite purchase photos from 2002-2004 paired with a photograph of the same object incorporated into her life and home in 2007. Another artist, Matt Siber, creates diptychs in his "The Untitled Project." The left side of the diptych includes a photograph of an ad-laden urban environment with all of the advertising, logos, and text removed; in the adjoining white panel, the removed text is placed in the approximate area from whence it came. In another series, "Compare to..," Siber sought out various generic products that mimic brand name products in overlook look, from fronts to phrasing, to even the shape of the bottle. These Pop Art-style images with candy-like colors underscore idea and power of branding and play off of the palette as well as the look of product photography.

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International Discoveries

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William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005

Guinea Church, near Moundville, Alabama, 1964, by William Christenberry (b. 1936), 35mm photograph, courtesy of Aperture Foundation

Southern Landscape Photography by William Christenberry On View at the Gibbes December 21, 2007 - March 16, 2008

Ranging from his Brownie photographs of the early 1960s to his later work with a large-format camera, "William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961 - 2005" is a survey of this artist's poetic documentation of southern vernacular architecture, signage and landscape that captures moments of quiet beauty in a sometimes rustic terrain. The exhibition "William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961 - 2005" will be on view in the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art from December 21, 2007 through March 16, 2008.

Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has photographed the American South, focusing his attention on his hometown, Hale County, Alabama. Christenberry has returned to Hale County every year to record its slowly changing landscape and structures. He has recorded many buildings and sites repeatedly, capturing progressive stages of their physical decrepitude. A subtle palette, poetic simplicity and classical compositions give Christenberry's photographs of southern landscapes including kudzu, churches, gravesites and vernacular architecture a compelling power. Straddling the past and present, Christenberry's art evokes the form and power of the passage of time.

Coupling never-before-seen photographs, both old and new, with images that are now iconic, William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961 - 2005 comprises fifty photographic works and one sculpture, and, in turn, conveys the breadth of Christenberry's unprecedented project and singular photographic vision. The unorthodox mix of media, shown side by side, invites the viewer to grasp the full scope and complexity of Christenberry's very personal investigation of both his own heritage and that of the American South.

Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publication entitled William Christenberry by Elizabeth Broun, Walter Hopps, Andy Grundberg and Howard N. Fox.

Along with such masters as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, William Christenberry (b. 1936) is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of color photography. He is world renowned for his photography, sculpture, drawings and paintings that pay tribute to his roots in rural Alabama. Christenberry has been a professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. since 1968. His work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art in New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the Gibbes Museum of Art opened its doors to the public in 1905. Located in Charleston's historic district, the Gibbes houses a premier collection of over 10,000 works, principally American with a Charleston or Southern connection and presents 12-15 special exhibitions annually. In addition, the museum offers an extensive complement of public programming and educational outreach initiatives. As the aesthetic heart of the Lowcountry, the Gibbes serves the community by stimulating creative expression, increasing economic vitality through tourism, and improving the region's superb quality of life.

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André Kertész - First and Last

On November 3rd, 2007 the Southeast Museum of Photography opens its inaugural season of exhibitions in a new landmark building in Daytona Beach, Florida. The inaugural season features exhibitions by some of the world's most renowned photographers, including a unique look at the work of master, André Kertész.

André Kertész - First and Last brings together the rarely-seen early work from his native Hungary - the famed “Hungarian contacts” with a comprehensive survey of late, great Polaroid work, produced near the end of his life. This exhibition, drawn mostly from the archives of the Kertész Foundation, will be the first comprehensive presentation of many of the late Polaroids, and coincides with the release of a new monograph, André Kertész-The Polaroids, by W.W. Norton & Company.

André Kertész: First & Last is organized by the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Estate of André Kertész, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation; in cooperation with Higher Pictures Inc., Stephen Bulger Gallery, Silverstein Photography and Stephen Daiter Gallery. Curated by Robert Gurbo and Kevin Miller.

Emotionally and physically exhausted after the loss of Elizabeth, his wife and lifelong companion, André Kertész was admittedly a broken man who had lost his direction. His remarkable recovery began when he was inspired by a small glass bust and he embraced the new Polaroid SX-70. In poignant, beautiful, and sometimes haunting photographs, we witness the artist's late life rebirth as Kertész dipped into his reserves one last time, tapping new people, ideas, and tools to generate a whole new body of work. In the process he transformed from a sad old man waiting to die into one who could not wait for the next click of his camera.

Taken in his apartment, just north of New York City's Washington Square, many of the photographs were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. His fertile mind at work, Kertész arranged personal objects into striking still lifes set against city backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographer's eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.

Exhibition Program - December 1, 2007
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Museum Open House
7:00 pm
Presentation: The Life and Art of André Kertész
Robert Gurbo, Curator, Estate of André Kertész

André Kertész's innovative photographic career began in his native Hungary in 1912. His early works reveal an innate ability to construct lyrical images infused with wit and insight. He is revered for his images in which everyday events are transformed into poetic visions. In 1925 he moved to Paris, where his approach to the medium helped to define the look and the role of photojournalism and contemporary art in Europe. Kertész left Paris in 1936 for New York but failed to secure a position as a photojournalist and slipped into obscurity. He continued to build on his extraordinary body of work in New York, but it wasn't until the mid-1970's that Kertész was fully recognized as a seminal figure in the history of photography. His career spanned seventy-three years-from a glass plate camera to the Polaroid SX-70. André Kertész is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential photographers of the twentieth century.

Kertész worked intuitively capturing the poetry of modern urban life with its quiet, often overlooked incidents and odd, comic and bizarre juxtapositions. Combining this seemingly artless spontaneity with a sophisticated understanding of composition; Kertész created a purely photographic idiom that celebrates direct observation of the everyday. "You don't see" the things you photograph, he explained, "you feel them."

Kertész's first major museum exhibition took place at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1946. His first major retrospective was held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in 2005. Even now, Kertész is still nothing like as well-regarded in the USA as he should be, with some American histories of photography hardly giving a mention to a photographer who ranks among the handful of the finest of the Twentieth Century. When he died in 1985 at the age of 91, he left behind a body of work hailed worldwide by collectors, curators, historians, and a vast, appreciative public and with over twenty books published in his name.

The Southeast Museum of Photography is a service of Daytona Beach College and is located in the new Mori Hosseini Center (Building 1200) on the college's Daytona campus, three miles east of I-95. Admission is free. Visitor parking is available. For detailed exhibition and program information visit www.smponline.org or call the museum recorded information hotline at 386.506.4475.

Southeast Museum of Photography
Daytona Beach College
1200 West International Speedway Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

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Steve McMurry: The Path to Buddha - A Tibetan Journey

On November 3rd, 2007 National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry's stunning new exhibition The Path to Buddha receives its premier display as part of the inaugural season of exhibitions at the new Southeast Museum of Photography.

Steve McCurry is renowned for his evocative and beautiful portraiture and penetrating documentary photography. Driven by an innate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world, he has become one of the leading figures in photography today. His stories of human experience cross boundaries of language and culture to capture the inner spirit of his subjects and the essence of human struggle.

McCurry has produced numerous memorable images and has been featured frequently in the National Geographic Magazine. Breathtaking images like the famous “Afghan Girl,” have become modern day icons.

The Path to Buddha is an intimate and uplifting insight into the unique and dignified culture of Tibet. With this new exhibition McCurry takes us on a Himalayan journey, revealing the sheer beauty of Tibet while examining the Buddhist religion and capturing the life of Buddhist monks. Capturing brief encounters, without artificial lighting or staged settings, he delves into the world of his proud and dignified subjects. Over the course of many years and multiple visits, McCurry traveled to Tibet and northern India, home of the Dalai Lama and the government in exile, compiling this timeless visual diary.

“…these precious windows into the Tibetan world through which these brave and beautiful human beings reach out to us by being their open-hearted selves. Path to Buddha it is a path to Buddha through a great heart- the great heart a people develops from centuries of hard-fought spiritual development and maintains under the terrible duress of colonial occupation.” Robert Thurman-The Path to Buddha.

"What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling." Steve McCurry.

The Path to Buddha premieres at the Southeast Museum of Photography and was produced with the cooperation and assistance of Magnum Photos, New York and Steve McCurry.

MUSEUM LECTURE SERIES - January 23, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
"Buddhist Art and Culture in Tibet: An Academic and Historical Perspective"

About Steve McCurry

Born in Philadelphia, Steve McCurry studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania State University. He worked at a newspaper for two years before leaving for India to freelance as a photographer. It was in India that McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. If you wait, he realized, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.

McCurry’s career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes; images that would be published around the world as some of the first to show that conflict. For more than 20 years he has covered areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, Beirut, Cambodia, Yemen, the Philippines and the Gulf War. He continues to cover Afghanistan, focusing on the human consequences of conflict and war. Steve McCurry became a full member of the prestigious Magnum Photo Agency in 1986.

"Most of my images are grounded in people, and I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that I guess you'll call the human condition." Steve McCurry.

McCurry’s books include The Imperial Way (1985), Monsoon (1988), Portraits (1999), South Southeast (2000), Sanctuary (2002), The Path to Buddha: A Tibetan Pilgrimage (2003), Steve McCurry (2005), and Looking East (2006). McCurry's work has been featured in every major magazine in the world and frequently appears in National Geographic magazine, with recent articles on Tibet, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and the temples of Angkor Wat, Cambodia.

Steve McCurry has won numerous awards and honors including the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, the National Press Photographers Association “Magazine Photographer of the Year” and in 1985 he was awarded four first place awards by the World Press Photo Competition. In 1986 and 1992 he was awarded “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad” by the Overseas Press Club. In 1992, he won a further three first place awards from the World Press Photo, received the “Award of Excellence” from the National Press Photographers Association and was named “Photographer of the Year” by American Photo. McCurry lives in New York.

The Southeast Museum of Photography is a service of Daytona Beach College and is located in the new Mori Hosseini Center (Building 1200) on the college's Daytona campus, three miles east of I-95. Admission is free. Visitor parking is available. For detailed exhibition and program information visit www.smponline.org or call the museum recorded information hotline at 386.506.4475.

Southeast Museum of Photography
Daytona Beach College
1200 West International Speedway Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

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Abbas Kiarostami: Photographs and Film

On November 3rd, 2007 the Southeast Museum of Photography opens its inaugural season of exhibitions in a new landmark building in Daytona Beach, Florida. The inaugural season features exhibitions by some of the world's most renowned photographers, including the work of film-maker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami.

“Contemplating the cloudy sky and the massive trunk of a tree under a magical light is difficult when one is alone. Not being able to feel the pleasure of seeing a magnificent landscape with someone else is a form of torture. That is why I started taking photographs. I wanted somehow to eternalize those moments of passion and pain.” Abbas Kiarostami

Though Abbas Kiarostami is renowned for his award-winning films, and has been largely responsible for the high profile of Iranian cinema in the past decade; alongside filmmaking, he has sustained a remarkable practice of still photography for nearly thirty years.

EXHIBITION PROGRAM
January 9, 2008 - 7:00 PM
“Iran in Regional and International Context”
Dr. Asbed Kutchikain, Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida State University (FSU) and Talinn Grigor, Professor, Department of Art History, FSU

THE FILMS OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

FREE WEDNESDAY FILM SCREENINGS - 7:00 pm
Nov 7 - Close-Up (Nema-yeNazdik), 1990
Nov 14 - Life and Nothing More (Zendegi edame darad), 1992
Nov 28 - Through the Olive Trees (Zir-ederakthan-ezeytoun), 1994
Dec 5 - Taste of Cherry (Tam’e Guilass), 1997
Jan 16 - The Wind Will Carry Us (Baadmara khahad bord), 1999
Jan 30 - ABC Africa, 2001

Abbas Kiarostami started taking photographs in 1978 during excursions into the countryside around Tehran. At first, Kiarostami didn't intend to take photos, let alone exhibit them. "When I went into nature, the beauty and sublimity of what I encountered was too unbearable to leave alone," says Kiarostami. "I bought a camera and started taking pictures. I always stored the pictures in a box, not intending to show them publicly. But 10 to 15 years ago, I decided to exhibit them." Since then he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and produced four main photographic series: Roads (1978-2003), Snow (1978-2003), Trees and Crows (2006) and Rain (2006-2007) and four video projections: Sleepers (2001), Ten Minutes Older (2003), Summer Afternoon (2006), and Rug (2006).

In his photography, Kiarostami sets out to distill a scene down to its simplest, lyrical essence. He has said that he regards photography as a purer medium than film, since it is relieved of the burden of narrative or entertainment. In Snow, his gorgeous black-and-white photographs explore the single motif of trees in snow and on the patterns formed by the shadows of trees in the stark white surface of snow. The result is harsh, graphic, abstract and sublime. Each image is suggestive of an emotional state, recalling the way clouds functioned for Alfred Steiglitz in his Equivalents series of the 1920s. The shadows and snowdrifts contribute to the breakdown of a sense of scale and perspective. An atmosphere of solitude and meditation is evoked. The images become the equivalent of emotional states and the trees almost human, echoing the saying of the Islamic mystic Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (born 1165 - died 1240): 'the tree is the sister of man'.

"For many years," Kiarostami writes in an essay about his photos, "I would escape from the city, and indeed feel much better. Observing was a sedative for me." In interviews, he marks his evolution away from the more personal and political statements he made in the years that coincided with the revolution -- the films Report and Case No. 1, Case No. 2 -- as being of a piece with his discovery of landscape photography.

Roads and Trees includes photos of trees and winding roads cutting dream-like through the rugged Iranian countryside. Another series of photographs focuses on images glimpsed through the rain-spotted windshield of a car, transforming passing trees and other vehicles into abstract ghosts. In the documentary Roads of Kiarostami (2005), he notes that roads serve as a metaphor both in Persian poetry and in Japanese haiku, where they signify life itself. In the series Trees and Crows, crows walk amongst imposing, sometimes severely cropped tree trunks in elegant palace grounds - the only disturbing element in a perfectly serene and linear order. The very long lifespan of crows, in the eyes of Kiarostami, makes them the silent witnesses to the turbulent history of modern Iran. This exhibition is presented with the assistance of the Iranian Art Foundation, New York and the Iran American Society.

The Southeast Museum of Photography is a service of Daytona Beach College and is located in the new Mori Hosseini Center (Building 1200) on the college's Daytona campus, three miles east of I-95. Admission is free. Visitor parking is available. For detailed exhibition and program information visit www.smponline.org or call the museum recorded information hotline at 386.506.4475.

Southeast Museum of Photography
Daytona Beach College
1200 West International Speedway Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

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iBrow

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art presents: iBrow

Nov 8 -Dec 1, 2007
Reception Thursday Nov 8, 7-9pm
(In conjunction with Downtown Art Walk)

Curator's Statement:
During the course of that part of my career making up my recent sojourn in Los Angeles I have curated, been in, spoken at (or street projected) over fifty exhibits and events. The gamut of works I have been exposed to within the confines of the "art and technology" or "digital" art world has been phenomenal in its breadth as well as its depth. The varied landscape of styles, types of media, aesthetic forms and content therein is seemingly infinite in scope for any individual, as the works and the ideas behind them are produced more quickly than one person could ever hope to experience, let alone understand.

That said, the common strata of "high" and "low" culture which have, for a century now, been mixing and separating, embracing or snarling at each other have made me keenly aware of the prejudice and general "sour vibe" (if you will allow me) the differentiation often brings into this particular scene. Conversely, being that "information wants to be free" the electronic forum also is an ideal place for people to bring an appreciative (and hybrid) sense to these differences, and indeed they do. This may elicit thoughts of the strata "mid-brow," an idea that popped up some decades ago, indicating a kind of lukewarm mediocrity that is a product of being somewhere between both high brow and low brow.

But, let me propose "no brow." From the vantage of the big picture the definitions high, low or mid seem of little consequence as to why the work is made and how it functions in the world in terms of staking out its value to our culture. They just define different ways of learning, communicating and developing techniques for an extremely varied expression. I like to think of it as different ways of knowing. Overlap or lack thereof is inevitable and hardly merits any hubris driven attitudes or war-like discussions.

This international exhibit represents that mix of expression and I hope exemplifies how "no brow" functions quite readily in a group exhibit in the digital realm (now I can call it iBrow). PhDs, self-taught artists, cartoon surrealists, political bombasters and formalistic experimenters "play together nicely," and taken in as a whole we can begin to learn new things as we make connections pondering them together.

Rex Bruce
October 2007

The Artists:

Carol Ashley (digital children's illustration, fantasy and cartoon influence, explores human nature)
Andrew Au (drawing/digital hybrid, composite imaging, symbolic political commentary)
Zachary Culbreth (formal experimentation, dynamic multilayered images)
Nicole Fournier (digital photography, social narrative, formalistic, exploration of pattern/form)
Martin Gantman (conceptual, appropriated images, fabricated social narratives)
Dan Irvine (composite photographs, process driven, political, empathic)
Peter Jackson (ultra-wide stitched images, infrared landscape photography, uncanny beauty in L.A.)
Kathryn Jacobi (paint/composite imaging hybrid)
Andy Lomas (industry animator, 3D algorithmic images, video animations, stereoscopes)
Benjamin Lee Martin (sculpture, web interactive, networked art)
Eva Mayer (digital composite imaging, virtual dream worlds)
Brad Moore (digital photography, beauty in the banal, So. Cal. landscapes, personal narrative)
Mary Neubauer (data driven sculpture/video, process oriented, socio-anthropological commentary)
Miwa Nishimura (digital imaging, personal/woman's narrative)
Joji Okazaki (digital painting-Japenese cartoon/religious icon influence)
Devon Paulson (realtime audio installation, digital prints)
Joshua Rowan (computer drawing, tattoo art influence, political, satirical)
Michael Salerno (formalistic paint/digital hybrid)
Nathan Selikoff (algorithmic, mathematically driven, abstract geometric)
Christine Tamblyn (interactive multi-media, feminist theory influence)
Tiffany Trenda (performance video, explores the body and technology)
Anneliese Varaldiev (video images based on classical painting/cinema)

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David Tinapple and Adri Wichert

David Tinapple and Adri Wichert
An exhibition of photography reconstructed.

November 2nd - December 15th, 2007

Front Room Gallery is proud to present the work of David Tinapple (Carrboro, NC) and Adri Wichert (Cleveland, OH). Using photography as a catalyst, these artists' works result in dialogues surrounding the idea of an image's capacity to capture information. Photography essentially becomes a tool within their construction and translation of information.

In an approach similar to David Hockney, Adri Wichert creates 3-dimensional sculptures of characters and settings. Wichert's final pieces are a composite of hundreds of detailed snapshots that result in a whimsical, illustrative scene recalling a Nickelodeon aesthetic, contrasted by subject matter of more disconcerting candor. Wichert relays frank and sometimes upsetting stories of her childhood, which present both suspicion of tall tails and an uncanny truthfulness.

While Adri's work compiles still images to create sculptures, David Tinapple extracts from images to compress them into a single composite. Using computer software he has written, he extracts faces from syndicated television programming and layers them to represent an average face for each channel. He also creates near life-sized prints of Pittsburgh engineers with a scanning process involving one hundred photos of each subject from a camera on a track. The resulting image is stitched together with a custom software much like a Quicktime VR; a "Body Scan." - Front Room Gallery

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Westbeth Artists Annual Holiday Show: Part 1 (Arlene Gottfried)

Arlene Gottfried, Vivian at Riis, n.d.

Westbeth Artists Annual Holiday Show: Part 1
November 3 - November 25
Drawing, photography, sculpture
OPENING RECEPTION: November 3 from 5 – 8 pm

This popular exhibit of work by both young and mature artists from Westbeth, the artists residence and studios in the historic far West Village, attracts a dedicated following. The work shown spans all contemporary and classic interpretations of the fields listed.

Gallery Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 1 – 6 pm

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Natura

"Natura," an exhibition of photographs by Alida Fish, Paul Lange, Jeannie Pearce and Stuart Rome will be shown at the Nina Freudenheim Gallery in Buffalo, New York, opening on Saturday, December 1, from 6 to 8 pm.

The photographers all graduated from the School of Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology in the 1970s and have since all had successful careers involving photography.

The show was curated by their former professor, John Pfahl, who taught at RIT from 1968 to 1986. The show continues at 140 North Street, Buffalo, New York, until January 15. For further information, call the gallery at 716-882-5777.

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Susan Harbage Page: Postcards From Home

Susan Harbage Page's new exhibition at the Sumter Gallery of Art in Sumter, South Carolina, includes some new "Postcards from Home" photographs as well as two brand new video pieces. www.susanharbagepage.com

Sumter Gallery of Art
200 Hasel Street
in Sumter County’s Cultural Center,
adjacent to Patriot Hall.
Sumter, SC 29150

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Kim Ellen Kauffman: National Affinity

The SCA welcomes Kim Ellen Kauffman’s stunning over-sized photographs of botanical specimens to the Bertha Krueger Reid Exhibition Hall. Using digital artistry, Kauffman creates photographic works of art that showcase the natural world.

Kim Kauffman earned her BA from Michigan State University and is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers as well as the Society of Photographic Editors. Her work is in public collections at the Kresge Art Museum (East Lansing, MI), McNeese State University (Lake Charles, LA), and North Ottawa Community Hospital (Grand Haven, MI), among others.

In 2007, Kauffman received 2^nd Place, National All-Media honors at the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts show, and in 2004 took 2^nd Place in the National juried photography exhibition at The Pen & Brush in New York, NY.

For more information about Kim Ellen Kauffman and to see more of her work, visit her website at www.kimkauffmanphotography.com

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Rachel Hawthorn: Dirty Little Secrets

Rachel Hawthorn has two works, the first from her series Family Photographs (see left); and the second, "I Want To Tell You What," in the exhibition entitled "Dirty Little Secrets."

October 4th -27th
Opening Reception October 5th

Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy St NE
Minneapolis MN 55413
612.378.8888

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Signs of Life

Photo: "Persistence of Memory," from the Sub-version Series, by Sylvia de Swaan, photo courtesy of the gallery

Cazenovia, N.Y. - The Cazenovia College Art Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs titled "Signs of Life," from Sept. 6 through 27, with an artist's lecture and reception on Sept. 6, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Gallery. The exhibition, lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

Gallery hours from Sept. 6, 2007 through May 17, 2008 are Mondays through Thursdays, 1-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Fridays, 1-4 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, 2-6 p.m., when classes are in session.

Featured artists are:
Bob Gates
Cara Fuller
John Mannion
Sylvia de Swaan
William Earle Williams

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New Orleans Artists at Lord & Taylor, New York

Lord & Taylor announces Kaleidoscope Katrina, an exhibit of commissioned works by 12 New Orleans artists in its flagship's Fifth Avenue windows, September 20th through October 8th.

The exhibit, in support of the rebuilding of the New Orleans arts community, include Sidonie Villere, Jonathan Ferrara, Jeffrey Pitt, Dawn Dedeaux, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Raine Bedsole, Doyle Gerjejansen, Sally Heller, Jeremy Jernegan, George Dunbar, Margaret Evangeline and Jose Maria Cundin.

To celebrate the occasion, Lord & Taylor will host a reception in their honor, Tuesday, September 25th. The Eleventh floor of the store will be converted into the Kaleidoscope Katrina Gallery, where works by the New Orleans artists will be exhibited. The showcased works, as well as those displayed in the store's windows, will be available for purchase, all proceeds going to the featured artists. Lord & Taylor will also make a donation to the SweetArt Katrina Fund. The Fund, established by New Orleans' Contemporary Arts Center, supports artists who suffered losses from Hurricane Katrina. A benefit event in New York, hosted by honorary chairpersons Alexa Georges and Sarah Bacon in 2006, raised nearly $100,000 to create the fund.

Guests will enjoy hors d'ouvre by renowned chef Donald Link, owner of New Orleans' famed restaurants, Herbissaint and Cochon, who is coming to New York for Kaleidoscope Katrina. Lord & Taylor is also flying three legendary New Orleans musicians to entertain its guests. Master pianist Amasa Miller will lead the trio. Joining him are guitarist, vocalist and composer, Detroit Brooks,as well as the celebrated trombonist, Craig Klein, The Harry Connick, Jr. sideman.

Lord & Taylor has created a buzz in the fashion and retail industries with the launch this Fall of a branding campaign, the result of the dramatic repositioning of the 181-year old store spearheaded by Jane Elfers, Lord & Taylor's President and Chief Executive Officer. "It is very exciting to have these talented artists in our Fifth Avenue windows at this special time and we are pleased to have the opportunity to promote support for the New Orleans art community among New Yorkers," says Elfers.

Lord & Taylor is committed to bring exciting exhibits to Fifth Avenue. Past exhibits have included sculptures by Chakaia Booker and Manolo Valdes and the paintings of Red Grooms, Thiery Despont, Richard Estes, Larry Rivers as well as Mainland China's Gu Gan, Guo Jin, LiuKuo-sung and Yang Yangping, among others. Lord & Taylor has also showcased the photographs of Gdeon Lewin and Roberto Dutesco, as well as the drawings of Michael Arthur, D. A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking short film, Daybreak Express, shown alongside Andrew Garn's historical photographs from the New York Transit Museum. In recent years, Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue exhibits have benefited such art institutions as El Museo del Barrio and The Julliard School in New York, as well as the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

About Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor is an upscale specialty department store with 47 stores in nine states and the District of Columbia. Lord & Taylor has built a reputation for attentive customer service and high-quality merchandise focused on apparel and accessories. Founded in 1826, Lord & Taylor's is America's oldest department store and one of America's premier retailers.

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Phil Borges: Women Empowered

Teke Foliwa, 42, was crowned “Queen Mother” of Have, Ghana. Her first act was to form sixteen women’s groups for microcredit loans, agriculture production, and education reform. Eventually the men became impressed with the progress being made by the women and asked for their own groups. “This has moved us forward toward becoming a true community.”

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: 49 Geary Street
2nd Floor, Suite 225
San Francisco, CA
415-391-6300

Women Empowered is a collection of thirty portraits and personal stories about women in developing countries who have broken through the barriers of convention and oppression to improve their own well-being and the well-being of their communities.

The photographs and stories shed light on gender issues worldwide. Their struggles and triumphs speak to the universal themes of courage, empowerment and human rights.

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13^th Annual Griffin Juried Exhibition

By re-photographing select parts of old daguerreotype or tintype images and creating new negatives as positive Kodalith transparencies, Nicholas Fedak II gives new life and meaning to historical fragments. Fedak’s unique technique created the ethereal image “Dissolving Dream Girl, 2007”, winner of this year’s $1000 Arthur Griffin Legacy Award. Fedek’s image joins fifty others as part of the 13th annual Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition, on display August 23 - October 28, 2007. Tom Atwood's work will also be on exhibit.

Approximately 400 photographers from around the country submitted more than 2000 images that ranged from dramatic and timeless black and white to striking color and digital photography. Brian Clamp of Clamp Art in New York City served as juror.

Shen Wei, a fine art photographer currently based in New York City, received the $500 Griffin Award for his photograph, “Almost Naked”. Honorable mentions were given to Dylan Chatain of Brooklyn, NY, Charis Isis of Kingston, NY, Paula Lerner of Belmont, MA, Monika Merva of Brooklyn, NY, Gregory Scott of Bloomington, IN, Bradley Dean Wollman of Pearl River, NY along with Frank Siteman of Winchester, MA in collaboration with Charles Goss of Roslindale, MA.