photo-eye First Wednesday Salon, December 2, 2009

Be sure to catch the next photo-eye First Wednesday Salon on December 2, 2009 with the opening reception starting at 6:30 pm and the salon running from 7pm to 9pm. In December, we are pleased to welcome photographers Julie Dean, David Ondrik, and Jock McDonald. For more information contact Melanie McWhorter at 505.988.5152 x 112 or melanie@photoeye.com or we'll see you in the photo-eye Gallery on First Wednesday!

Images shown clockwise from left to right: Julie Dean, David Ondrik, Jock McDonald.

Book Signing for Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson's Walking Thunder

Where: photo-eye Bookstore, 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
When: Opening Reception, Thursday, December 10th, 2009 from 5-7 pm
Contact: Melanie McWhorter
Phone: 505.988.5152 x 112
Email: melanie@photoeye.com

photo-eye Bookstore is pleased to host a book signing for Walking Thunder - In the Footsteps of the African Elephant on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 from 5 to 7 pm at photo-eye Bookstore, 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM. The photographers, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, will both be present to sign books.

photo-eye Now Has Embedded Trailers

Watch the trailers for Beautiful Losers, Thin, Debbie Caffery: The Photographer's Series, and Tierney Gearon's The Mother Project. More trailers coming soon!

View the Trailer for Beautiful Losers here:

This week in photo-eye Magazine:

IN THE REVIEWS:
"This little book has got me all riled up. It purports to be about nothing-things that do not happen, entry zero in an imagined sequence, no captions or dates, and a text that, translated into English from Italian, has only the barest hints of meaning. "This is a diary," the text claims, "made of commas, full stops and white spaces between the words." — from George Slade's review of Fabio Barile's Diary No. 0


"Spending time with Duane Michals recent book, 50, was essentially re-experiencing much of my own photographic life, having come of photographic age with his Somnambulistic period. His fascination with dreams, dreamlike states and dream-walking precedes our current interest with making connections to memories." — from Douglas Stockdale's review of Duane Michael's 50

"Iris Editions Ltd., the collaborative effort of NYC-based Kristopher Graves and London-based Sergio Fernández, has released the first of what is likely to be a remarkable series of luxury edition large-format books. At a scale of about 16x20 in (41x51 cm) and beautifully bound in black cloth with her name embossed on the cover, Laura McPhee's Guardians of Solitude is easily one of largest and certainly among the most lavish photo books I have ever encountered."— from Shane Lavalette's review of Laura McPhee's Guardians of Solitude

"Summer Nights, Walking Photographs by Robert Adams. Published by Aperture/Yale University Art Gallery, 2009.In the past few years some of Robert Adams's seminal and hard to find (or very expensive) early books have been reprinted. The latest effort is an expanded version of Summer Nights, now re-titled, Summer Nights, Walking. The new book is beautifully printed and designed with subtle understatement to match that of Adams's style."— from Richard Gordon's review of Robert Adam's Summer Nights, Walking.

IN THE BLOG:
Renee Jacobs Interview with Charis Wilson
Ed Burtynsky on Ted.com

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Bestselling Books at photo-eye for the week ending 2009.11.28

1. Michael Clinton: American Portraits (1 week on bestseller list)
2. Todd Hido: A Road Divided - SIGNED (4)
3. Jake Mendel: Short Track - SIGNED (1)
4. Terri Weifenbach: Another Summer - SIGNED (1)
5. Michael Kenna: Venezia - Limited Edition (4)
6. Rosa Olivares: Exit 35 (1)
7. Robert Frank: Portfolio (1)
8. Noriko Takazawa: Sensation (2)
9. Graciela Iturbide (2)
10. Mona Kuhn: Native - SIGNED (6)

View previous weeks' bestsellers.

Wind by Jungjin Lee
"Wind captures the ethereal quality of the element in a series of landscapes dominated by windswept expanses and atmospherically foreboding cloud formations - panoramas that reveal an adventurous spirit, yet resist casual entry."

Portfolio, a selection of early work by Robert Frank.
"When Robert Frank immigrated to New York from Zurich in 1947, having apprenticed with commercial photographers in his hometown, the aspiring young photographer brought along his portfolio to help him secure employment."

Oil by Edward Burtynsky
"Edward Burtynsky's Oil collects a decades' worth of photographing the world's largest oil fields, refineries, freeway interchanges and automobile plants, in an attempt to comprehend the scale of production attending this most politicized of resources."

Father Photographer by Henry Frank.
"Robert Frank's father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. Album makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank's photographs, including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes."

In Almost Every Picture # 8: Oolong
"In almost every picture #8 continues this well-established series of found photography books. Its subject is one of the earliest successful photo blogs, a site documenting the story of Oolong, a Japanese rabbit whose unusually flat head made it ideal for balancing objects."

Darwin's Camera by Phillip Prodger.
"The book describes how Darwin struggled to get the pictures he needed, scouring the galleries, bookshops, and photographic studios of London, looking for pictures to satisfy his demand for expressive imagery. He finally settled on one the giants of photographic history, the eccentric art photographer Oscar Rejlander, to make his pictures."

Hong Kong: Surface Unseen II
Photographs by Photographer's Showcase artist Peter Steinhauer
Opening reception December 3rd, 6-8:30pm
Exhibition is on display through December 16th

Plum Blossoms International Ltd
Hong Kong __________________________________ Trace of Archive and Memory
Featuring photographs by Photographer's Showcase artist Kyohei Abe
Opening reception December 5th from 6 to 9pm
Exhibition is on display through December 23rd

The Butcher's Daughter Contemporary Art Gallery
Ferndale, Michigan __________________________________ Ordinary Lives
Photographs by Photographer's Showcase artist Rania Matar
Reception and book signing December 4th 5:30-8:00 pm
Exhibition is on display through December 16th

Gallery Kayafas
Boston, Massachusetts

Susan Meiselas Lecture and Portfolio Review

Portfolio Review: Sunday, December 6, 10am-4pm at the Santa Fe Art Institute
Lecture: Monday, December 7,6pm at Tipton Hall (College of Santa Fe)

Join award-winning documentary photographer, Susan Meiselas on Sunday for a portfolio review at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and again on Monday for a Lecture at Tipton Hall.

To view Susan Meiselas' books click here.

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