Table of Contents GALLERY: photo-eye Gallery at photo la New Photographer's Showcase: Smith Eliot BOOKS: Featured Best Books of 2010: See You Soon and Sketches photo-eye Auctions Book Reviews: From Here to There, The Pond and Desire for Magic Book of the Week: Repose WORKSHOPS: Santa Fe Photographic Workshops: Winter/Spring 2011 Schedule

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photo-eye Gallery at photo la, January 14th - 17th, 2011!

Please stop by our booth (B-205) to see a preview of our next photo-eye Editions publication, the newest Julie Blackmon images and other great work. Anne Kelly, Rixon Reed and Vicki Bohannon will be manning the booth.

photo-eye will be showing work by gallery artists Nick Brandt, Julie Blackmon, Tom Chambers, Jamey Stillings, Carla van de Puttelaar and a photographer we selected from photo-eye's online gallery Photographer's Showcase, Colette Campbell-Jones. We will also be showing the first few publications from photo-eye Editions, including Habitat Machines by David Trautrimas, Suo Sarumawashi by Hiroshi Watanabe and Cranach Series by Carla van de Puttelaar.

We hope you'll join us to celebrate the 20th year of this prestigious international art exposition. photo la is being held at the Santa Monica Civic Center located at 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA. The fair dates are January 14th-17th with an opening reception on January 13th from 6-9 pm. Opening night tickets are $80 and benefit the Wallis Annenburg Photography Department at LACMA. Check out the photo la website for the full schedule of events and lectures.

For more information on photo-eye at photo la, read our blog post or contact Anne Kelly at anne@photoeye.com.

Over the next few weeks on the photo-eye blog we'll be spending some time taking a closer look at a number of the Best Books titles. Keep checking back in with us there as we will be offering features and special commentary on a number of great books, many of which are new to us! If there's any book you'd like to see a little more information about, let us know and we'll do what we can to try to explore it with you!

Smith Eliot's portfolio The Secrets We Keep

"The images in this series are performative in nature, and are made in the fashion of such childhood collusion. We bring our costumes and props, and we carve out a time and a space where our antics and imaginations can chart their own course. What unfolds during any shoot, is an intuitive sort of exploration that surfaces our wants and anxieties about culturally imposed roles, unequal power relations, and our relationship to passing youth and sexual desirability. " — Smith Eliot

Smith Eliot
Twigs

Gelatin-Silver Print
10x10" Image
20x16" Mat
1/10
$650

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

From Here to There by Alec Soth

"Few photographers can say the first retrospective monograph of their work was published at the ripe old age of 41. And even fewer can say this all happened less than a decade after emerging on the international photography scene. But then again, in the last decade only a handful of photographers have been as influential to the medium as Alec Soth has been..." — from the review by Antone Dolezal of Alec Soth's From Here to There

The Pond by John Gossage

"You probably know that a vixen is a female fox. But did you know that a group of foxes is known as a "skulk?" And that while an encounter with a single fox is a good omen, meeting up with a skulk has ill portents? Ah, the things you can find when you Google "fox as symbol."

John Gossage reminds me of a fox. There's a trickster in his mien, talented in camouflage and cunning in his ability to maneuver and effect subtle change." — from the review by George Slade of John Gossage's The Pond

Desire for Magic by Patrick Nagatani

"Patrick Nagatani's newest book, Desire for Magic, is a monster publication covering 30 years of the artist's career. It is a beautiful book, bound in red cloth with a transparent vinyl dust jacket. The embossment on the jacket - title, artist's name, and a circle on the front and back covers - creates a lavish presentation, and you haven't even opened it yet." — from the review by David Ondrik of Patrick Nagatani's Desire for Magic

A Word from Santa Fe Photographic Workshops:

Winter Light, Points of View, Portraits and Human Experience

The days may be short and dark, but The Workshops Winter/Spring 2011 program is long on experience and rich with the light of inspiration.

Find the thread that runs through your photography and further refine your Point of View with Sylvia Plachy, a former Village Voice staff photographer and regular contributor to the New Yorker. Enter the world of landscapes lit by magical Winter Light with Kodak Photo Icon and contemporary master Marc Muench as your guide. Expand your skills and gain insights into non-traditional ways to design Environmental Portraits with the legendary David Michael Kennedy. Turn your goals for a photographic project into an action-oriented plan with award-winning photographer Doug Menuez's The Human Experience.

Winter/Spring 2011 workshops begin in February and continue through late May; the Workshops can also arrange one-on-one sessions and mentorships. View workshop details on the website or call (505) 983-1400 x11.

For more information about the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops click here.

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