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Five photographers have been shortlisted in this
year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, run by the National Portrait
Gallery. They are Jasper Clarke, David Knight, Dona Schwartz, Jooney Woodward
and Jill Wooster. The exhibition will run at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 November 2011 - 12 February 2012. For more info visit www.npg.co.uk.
Jasper Clarke, Wen 2011
Jooney Woodward, Harriet and Gentleman Jack.
Jill Wooster, Of Lili
©Munyaradzi Mazarire
Putting Gallery Delta Harare, Zimbabwe on the map. Well worth a visit if you are interested in traditional Zimbabwean (African) art.
David Maisel:
History's Shadow
TateShots is an excellent series of short videos, produced by the Tate, with a focus on modern and contemporary art.
Book launch: In the Shadow Of Things by Léonie Hampton
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 18.30 - 22.30pm @ 22
Micawber Street, London, N1 7TS
About the book: For over a decade, Léonie's mother Bron found
it impossible to empty the packing boxes which had filled her new home since
the collapse of her first marriage. The boxes, along with stuffed plastic bags
and accumulated artefacts from her former life, were a constant, physical reminder
to her family of Bron's long-running battle with OCD and depression. In 2007, a
deal was struck: Léonie would help Bron empty the house on the condition that
she be allowed to document that process. For the book launch event, Léonie and
her mother Bron will transform an abandoned warehouse creating an installation
of objects that they found and sorted during the making of the book. There will
also be a screening of a slideshow of the work, originally made for Foam Museum
Amsterdam.
"Présences"
by Floriane deLassee
now showing at Galerie Philippe Chaume in Paris, 8 April 2011 to 4th June 2011
Visit the artist's website and Vimeo to see more.
Robert Gumpert ~ Locked and Found: Inside San Francisco's Jails
HOST Exhibition
7th April - 7 May 2011
Picturing the Penitentiary: A Panel Discussion
13 April 2011, 19:00
Robert Gumpert
Ed Clark
Erwin James
Foto8 Summer Show 2011
Photographic Exhibition, Award and Print Fair open to all photographers
8 July - 12 August 2011
HOST Gallery
Entries now being accepted for the 2011 Summer Show!
Details here and here: ss11_callforentries-2.pdf
With Orr, Timo Klos let the exposure time extend for as long as the moment lasted. The result is paradoxical; the longer he wants to keep a moment, the more information is lost. Too beautiful!
See full series here:
"Dinner, 1 hour" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
"Sexy Sex, 20 minutes" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
"Sleeping, 9 hours" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
Artist's statement: The series was created during what may have been the last 10 days with my girlfriend. I took my photo camera in order to capture our last time together and I exposed every moment as long as it lasted. Her name "Orr" means "Light". |
Continuing with the subject of Gender and Identity - take a look at this series of work by South African photographer Zanele Muholi. Zanele Muholi's work represents the black female body in a frank yet intimate way that challenges the history of the portrayal of black women's bodies in documentary photography. Notable work =
Vinyl record grooves shot under an electron
microscope taken by Chris Supranowitz who is a researcher based at the
Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. Here is a shot of a number of record grooves (the
dark bits are the top of the grooves, i.e. the uncut vinyl):
The grooves magnified 500x - the little bumps are dust on the record:
And here's a single groove even closer still,
magnified 1000 times:
(via Pete Brook)
Celebrating with some of my photo students after their year end show - and a jolly fine show it was!
left to right
Back: Justin, Woiciek, Martin, Rosanna, Konrad, Dale, Natalie
Mid: Lou (with baby), Charlotte, Selina, Madeleine, Caroline
Front: Viviene, Harsha, Jana, Me
and FDA Yr 1 preparing for their mid year exhibition at Islington Library:
The World
Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards are coming to Somerset House, London! Further info here
Viewing in Private: International Contemporary Art Fair Exclusively Online for one week only:
January 22-30, 2011
Registration required.
Susan Hiller at Tate Britain from 1st February 2011 - 15th May 2011
and
Susan Hiller: An Ongoing Investigation at Timothy Taylor Gallery
from 3rd February 2011 to 5th March 2011
The Shpilman Institute for
Photography invites scholars and independent researchers worldwide to submit
their applications for research on photography and on philosophy and
photography. Grants for individual and group research range from US$5,000 -
US$15,000. Deadlines for submissions = 1 March 2011. All details on
guidelines, themes, application process etc and be found on their website here and here.
From their website: "The
Shpilman Institute for Photography (The SIP) is a research institute whose
mission is to initiate and support innovative research and artistic production
that advance the understanding of photography and related media. Through its
grant programs, The SIP commissions and sponsors individual and group
research projects that inquire into photography's multiple meanings, functions
and significance. Placing an emphasis on philosophical inquiry, we support
scholarly papers and publications in print and online, conferences, symposia, and
other dissemination events. Art production and collaboration with museums and
other cultural spaces are also within the core activities of the SIP."
End of
Year Thoughts
"At the end of 2010 a few trends have become much clearer:
1. Books that use photographs are in a moment of
renaissance, the awaited pushback against the digital-ephemeral and a new
embrace of paper (reminiscent of painting's expansion as photography took
center stage). Made with digital tools, these books, usually from small
publishers, take risks that transcend the tired monographs with photographs
centered and celebrated on white pages.
2. The digital - iPad, Web, cellphone, etc. - are still
being utilized as exceedingly rudimentary display devices, showing a haphazard
mix of image/text/sound that is often less than the sum of its parts. There is
little sense of authenticity, of risk-taking, of graphics, of layout, of
typography, of playing with scale and texture. Instead, the slide-show with
sound has become the overused default - and it is hardly an advance over what
was done decades before.
The word "magazine" comes from the
Arabic/Hebrew word "mahsan," meaning warehouse, and it is as if we
have returned to a pre-magazine era in which we are once again presenting a
warehouse of media with little filtering or thought given to effective
presentation.
3. Photography of news continues to evolve into a
photography better done by amateurs than professionals, given that there are
many more amateurs with cameras walking around at all times. The stylized
imagery by professionals repeating the stereotypical news cliches is not
helpful as a way of promoting understanding. The province of the professional
in a journalistic context is very much the long-term essay, and many are
working both in the old-fashioned and very necessary role of witness and others
are trying to re-invent it to add complexity, nuance, and engage the reader in
different ways. What is needed more than ever are thoughtful editors/curators
who can help make sense of the visual overload.
4. We are entering a post-photographic age in the
transformative sense - one in which photography has to significantly evolve in
order to be useful. We are beginning to witness this transformation in a
broader way, as many worldwide both interrogate and discard photography's set
of older strategies while utilizing other media synergies to amplify the
photograph's communicative potentials.
No photograph is automatically credible anymore beyond a
local context, and this is both a challenge and wake-up call. Many
photographers (broadly defined) now seem to be stimulated by the new potentials
of the photograph and the discussion is finally beginning to evolve beyond the
repetitive and plaintive "end of photojournalism" to a sense of
multiple new beginnings in an increasingly open-source world. The next step
will have to be a more vigorous search for meaning, as well as for
collaboration".
Text by Fred Richten
Leni Riefenstahl's The Last of the Nuba.
Published in 1973, this book documents the 15 years she spent in Sudan which helped rehabilitate her artist status.
Continue reading Leni Riefenstahl's The Last of the Nuba.
