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First Wednesday Photography Salon Artists presenting: Luis Sanchez Saturno and Ray A. Valdez

December 1st, 2010, 6:30 meet the artists, 6:45-9 salon
photo-eye Gallery, 376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Contact: Anne Kelly
505.988.5152 x 121
anne@photoeye.com

First Wednesday's December Salon will be held on December 1st, 2010, with the opening reception starting at 6:30pm and the salon running from 6:45pm to 9pm. Photographers Luis Sanchez Saturno and Ray A. Valdez will be presenting work. Saturno will be discussing a series of photographs created with a photographic technique commonly known as "painting with light." Head producer of Zozobra, Valdez will discuss photographing Zozobra over the years, also displaying images from his photographic archive of the event dating back to the first burning of Zozobra in 1924.

Phantom City by Kim Bouvy

"Phantom City is a little mystery of a book. Subtitled "A Photo Novel," it is designed to mimic a small paperback novel and is divided into chapters with alternating pages of text and images, some with borders and captions, some full bleed, creating a lovely striped pattern along the book's outer page edges. The exterior masquerade is spoiled when lifted - the book's weight and rigidness give away its fine interior paper and lovely printing that capture the rich blacks and soft fog in Kim Bouvy's photographs, as well as the speckled half-tone of the newspaper images." — From the review by Sarah Bradley of Kim Bouvy's Phantom City

Purchase a copy of the book here.

The Dancing Night by Yasuwo Tsuji

"The Dancing Night is made up of a series of dour, grainy, black and white cityscapes that are all shot at night. A majority of the images feature a range of excruciatingly mundane subject matter such as weeds, trash, leaves and asphalt. These micro urban terrain shots use very low or completely ground level angles, as if the photographer is literally crawling through the underbrush and city streets. There is an overbearingly dark atmosphere to these photographs that makes them difficult to engage with." — From the review by John Mathews of Yasuwo Tsuji's The Dancing Night

Purchase a copy of the book here.

Decathlon Zines

We've just received five of the six yet published zines from Decathlon Books (we're waiting on stock for number 2 — Sleep Talking by Todd Jordan). Decathlon was started by Duncan Hamilton and Peter Sutherland to feature artists, designers and photographers they find interesting, and as the name implies, will ultimately publish ten zines in the series. So far, the books are fantastic. These are the kind of zines for grown-ups — perfect or staple bound, glossy covers and well laid out but produced on the cheap — the newsprint interiors are a reminder of the xeroxed zines that many of the artists featured in this series have made in the past.

Read the full blog post on all of the Decathlon zines here.

Rick Nahmias discusses Golden States of Grace on KSFR's Santa Fe Radio Cafe

Photographer Rick Nahmias was recently interviewed by Mary-Charlotte on KSFR's Santa Fe Radio Cafe about his book Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited. You can listen to the interview here. It's a thoughtful interview in which Nahmais talks about the origin of this project and its evolution, which changed in scope and focus as he explored his subject matter.

To read the full blog post click here.

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