Table of Contents BLOG: Interviews: Carla van de Puttelaar Melanie's Picks: Charlotte Dumas' Repose Gallery & Photographer's Showcase Update: Photolucida's Critical Mass BOOKS: photo-eye Auctions Limited Editions: Steven Klein's Stag Film Book Reviews: Drinking the Kool-Aid, The Second Pass and Beautiful Losers DVD Book of the Week: Michael Schmelling's Atlanta WORKSHOP: Two Publishing Workshops with Sylvia Plachy and Melanie McWhorter

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Melanie's Pick: Charlotte Dumas' Repose

"The animal portraiture is a popular genre in contemporary photography. Many of the photographers who chose to photograph animals (and people in general) attempt to anthropomorphize the animal kingdom applying our emotions and expressions to these beings. This type of portraiture creates an empathetic relationship with the subject of the portrait. Artists like James Mollison in James and Other Apes and Nick Brandt in On This Earth and A Shadow Falls (and the deluxe book sharing both titles), have successfully translated this field of photography into the book format. Charlotte Dumas' previous book Heart-Shaped Hole first introduced me to her two-year project on the stray dogs of Palermo, Italy."

Read Melanie McWhorter's full blog post here.

Purchase a copy of the book here.

An Interview with Carla van de Puttelaar

"I made many portraits, first as a painter and later as a photographer. I still make them. I always had an interest in faces and bodies. I made portraits mainly at school. Between the lessons I portrayed many schoolmates. Later I started to follow courses to draw nude models. That's how it started and then when I began photographing using a technical camera, the skin became very important to me. I also saw that the skin generally became less and less visible in photography, certainly in magazines and television, which alarmed me, as this is one of the most vital parts of our body, showing so many emotions, such as blushing and goose bumps, and it gives the viewer the feeling that there is so much going on under the surface." — Carla van de Puttelaar in an interview with Anne Kelly

Read Anne Kelly's full interview with van de Puttelaar on photo-eye Blog.

Purchase a copy of the photo-eye Editions Cranach Series by van de Puttelaar here.

photo-eye is pleased to announce Galateas by Carla van de Puttelaar at the photo-eye Gallery.

Gallery and Photographer's Showcase Artist Update: Photolucida's Critical Mass

Photolucida has just announced the Critical Mass Top 50 and photo-eye is thrilled to report that three of our photo-eye Gallery artists and five of our Photographer's Showcase artists are among the group. Congratulations to Tom Chambers, Jamey Stillings, Mitch Dobrowner, Thomas Alleman, Rania Matar, Justine Reyes, Jeff Rich and Tim Simmons for making this prestigious list.

Read the full post on photo-eye Blog.

Beautiful Losers DVD

"Punk, no wave, surfing, skateboarding, graffiti, taggers and trashers, hip hop, advertising, TV, print to digital media, indie film and music, fetish, fashion, sex, drugs, and the general smash-up of urban life create a rich stew of influences and responses. Artistic fluency in this situation requires a working inter-media familiarity with constantly evolving and constantly expanding visual language systems and their role in the corporate takeover of social reality. At the same time, to survive, one must learn from "the street," the patchwork present and history that is there for reference and quotation, the present moment that is richly inter-reactive and ever new, constantly now, fleeting, transitory, contingent: history in the making and making contemporary art." — From Alex Sweetman's review of the DVD Beautiful Losers

Purchase a copy of the DVD, here.

Drinking the Kool-Aid by Ed Templeton

"Welcome, Ed Templeton, to my convening of visions. Thanks for sharing yours. Especially in Drinking the Kool-Aid, a thoughtfully designed, unusually crafted, and very attractively priced artist's book. Istanbul (where Kool-Aid gained objecthood) must be a previously untapped Shangri-La for labor-intensive printing projects. To borrow some skateboarding images, it has pages that escape the pipe, that fly out like tails and wings (and the spiked hair of the cover portrait, itself part of a folded-over Doppelgänger). Love the contact-sheet-like semi-belly-band, with its Kerouac/Ginsberg unpunctuated text howling that 'the vapors of flames leave scars on the walls of the church.'" — From the review by George Slade of Ed Templeton's Drinking the Kool-Aid

Purchase a copy of the book, here.

The Second Pass by Ed Templeton

"The Second Pass celebrates transience. In it, the floating, car-borne, Templetonian camera-eye presents a contiguous sequence of images, flowing across the pages like the "line of material;" he explains that he created the design by laying prints next to each other on his floor and shooting them in situ. I marvel at the book's stream of consciousness; it incorporates images from 15 years of travel for purposes, he notes in an afterword, only incidentally photographic. The choices he's made, aligning individual images of only passing interest, transform lead into, if not gold, a conglomerate that is far more than the sum of its parts." — From the review by George Slade of Ed Templeton's The Second Pass

Purchase a copy of the book, here.

December Publishing Workshops in New Orleans

Sequencing a Photo Essay, with Sylvia Plachy
This is an intensive editing class for those who want to use photographs to tell a story, be it a personal journey or professional assignment leading to a photo essay for a book, magazine, or publication.

Drawing on over thirty years experience, Sylvia will guide you to examine your personal voice, clarify what type of project you want to pursue, and learn how to best create and sequence your own photo essay. A photograph can stand alone and be rich in meaning, but when you string a number of images together, like lines in a poem or phrases in music - in an essay, show, and especially a book - the pictures become much more than the sum of their parts. Read more

Melanie McWhorter: A Beginner's Workshop on Photobook Publishing
This two-day workshop covers the evolution of a photography book from its inception as an idea to a finished product.

Intended for photographers with little or no experience in publishing, A Beginner's Workshop on Photobook Publishing is an interactive, dynamic workshop that enables participants to fine tune their ideas and become familiar with design, layout and essential publishing processes. When completed, participants will be able to make decisions about publishing their work and envision all of the steps involved in producing their project from start to finish. Read more

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