photo-eye's First Wednesday Salon with guest photographer Adam Bartos TONIGHT August 5th

Please join us tonight, August 5th, for the First Wednesday Salon with acclaimed photographer Adam Bartos. Bartos will be presenting new prints from large-format negatives shot in Europe, Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico in the early 1980s. The event starts Wednesday, August 5th at 6:30pm in photo-eye Gallery, 376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe with an opening reception followed by the salon itself, which runs 7:00 to 8:00pm. Bartos will be signing copies of his recent publication Yard Sale Photographs immediately following the presentation.

Adam Bartos is a New York City based photographer whose work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and others. Bartos is often noted for his books, International Territory: The United Nations 1945-1995, (Verso, 1995) Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), Boulevard (Steidl/Dangin 2006) and Yard Sale Photographs (Damiani 2009).

Reserve your signed copy of Yard Sale Photographs if you can not attend the event in Santa Fe, NM.

Email Melanie McWhorter for more info on the exhibition.

This week's photo-eye Staff selection from the photo-eye Galleries was selected by Online Gallery Coordinator Sarah Bradley. Sarah has selected Mark Surloff's Pelican from Surloff's second portfolio on Florida.

"The walk will be about "seeing". I'll look for strangely beautiful, expressive shapes and textures of nature or half completed works of man; maybe it's their relationship to one another along with the shadows created. When such discoveries are made, they will be savored, but only after a photo has been made."—Mark Surloff

Contact Anne Kelly, photo-eye Gallery Associate Director, for further information on Surloff's work. Visit photo-eye online Galleries.

Bestselling Books at photo-eye for the week ending August 1, 2009

1. Guy Tillim: Roma, Citta Di Mezzo - SIGNED (3 weeks on bestseller list)
2. Martin Parr: Playas (2)
3. Nick Brandt: A Shadow Falls - SIGNED (6)
4. Joni Sternbach: Surfland - SIGNED (2)
5. Debbie Fleming Caffery: The Spirit and the Flesh - SIGNED (6)
6. Danielle Mericle: Seneca Ghosts - SIGNED (3)
7. Daido Moriyama: Record No. 11 (3)
8. Anders Petersen: Sète # 08 (2)
9. Jo Whaley: The Theater of Insects - SIGNED (10)
10. Anders Petersen & Jh Engstrom: From Back Home (5)

View previous week's bestsellers.

This week's 365 Book a Day featured items are

Surfland Photographs by Joni Sternbach
"Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique little changed since it's invention in the 1850s."

Lisa Kereszi's Fun and Games
"The work in Lisa Kereszi's new monograph, titled after the name of a Jersey Shore arcade and the Ancient Roman wrestling phrase, "It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye," documents the artist's self-described obsession with what is hidden behind the facades of strip clubs..."

2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die with photographs by Peter van Agtmael
"As an embedded photographer, van Agtmael follows the great sweep of the war with his camera—from graphic casualties, medical evacuations, and the aftermath of suicide bombings to moving portraits of young soldiers and their families recuperating, mourning, and surviving the harrowing consequences of war."

The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
"The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski, written in the form of a book-length interview (which the artist likens to a 'psychoanalysis' or 'confession') with the art historian Catherine Grenier, is Boltanski's oral autobiography."

Disorient, a work by Fiona Tan
"Fiona Tan has developed the project Disorient, which consists of three different works: Disorient, Rise and Fall, Provenance. Her audio-visual installation refers to Venice's pivotal position in the history of geostrategy in the time before the discovery of new routes to Asia diluted the city's power."

Raymond Meeks' handmade artist book middle air
"The pages of the book are 'french fold' and hand sewn by esteemed book artist, Rory Sparks. It is my wish that our collaboration of craftsmanship and art, will result in a series of books that are both beautiful to view & hold, conveying quality and great care while extending support to a vital community of book artisans."

Public Photographic Spaces. Propaganda Exhibitions from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55.
"Photography, and the political ideology of designing exhibitions This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man"

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