Table of Contents Gallery: Photographer's Showcase: New Work by Rania Matar Blog: A Closer Look: The Mushroom Collection A Closer Look: God Jul och got Nytt År Books: photo-eye Auctions Book Reviews: Bifröst and Oceanomania Limited Editions: Al Campo Book of the Week: Ryan McGinley's You & I Events: Salon: Toba Tucker & Michael Levin Santa Fe Photographic Workshops: SFPW Spring Schedule

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Rania Matar's portfolio La Femme-Enfant

"'La Femme-Enfant' (the Woman-Child) are portraits of young teens and pre-teens, investigating how they interact with the camera. The only instruction I give the girls is not to smile and I allow them to fall into their poses as they wish. My aim is to portray the girl when allowed to pose herself as she wishes in front of the camera. I try to capture alternatively the angst, the self-confidence or lack thereof, the body language, the sense of selfhood and the developing sense of sexuality and womanhood girls that age experience." — Rania Matar

View La Femme-Enfant.

We are also happy to debut a new edit of Rania Matar's A Girl and Her Room portfolio, which is soon to be published in a book from Umbrage Editions. See the portfolio here. Preorder a copy of the book A Girl and Her Room here.

Read more about Rania Matar's La Femme-Enfant on photo-eye Blog.

Rania Matar
Karla 12, Milton MA

Pigmented Print
30x40" Image
34x44" Mat
1/10
$2000

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

First Wednesday's February Salon will be held on February 1st, 2012 at photo-eye Gallery. Photographer Toba Tucker will show and discuss her recent landscapes made in the West and Southwest and will also touch on her portrait work, which she has been making for several decades. photo-eye Gallery artist Michael Levin, whose work is currently being exhibited, will join us via Skype to reveal a little more about his work. Levin's talk will be the first virtual presentation at a photo-eye First Wednesday Salon!

A Closer Look — The Mushroom Collection

"The Mushroom Collection is an exhibition catalogue of Jason Fulford's work on exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art through April 8th. Entitled New Pictures 5: Jason Fulford the Mushroom Collection, it is the first museum exhibition of the project that was initially inspired by a gift of a flea market envelope containing 80 or so images of mushrooms, carefully annotated by an obvious collector of fungi. Using these images as a starting point, Fulford made a number of images that riff on elements of the found images, the resulting combination of which became the celebrated book The Mushroom Collector." — from Sarah Bradley's post on photo-eye Blog.

Read the full post here.

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A Closer Look — God Jul och got Nytt År önskar Gerry och Ann

"God Jul och got Nytt År önskar Gerry och Ann is a collection of images taken by (Gerry) Johansson and later made into Christmas cards from the years 1978 - 2011. The photographs — taken in the photographer's hometown of Höganäs, Sweden — are subtle, quite depictions of holiday decorations and lights on empty streets. Often cast in a heavy fog or taken at night, these images rarely (if at all) give the viewer any sense of holiday jubilation — they simply depict the reality of the dreary Swedish weather and worn out decorations." — from Antone Dolezal's post on photo-eye Blog

Read the full post here.

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Bifröst by Espen R. Krukhaug

"In Norse Mythology the word Bifröst is used to describe a burning rainbow bridge that spans between earth and the realm of the gods. In his recent monograph, Espen Krukhaug uses the term Bifröst and a series of photographs in an effort to describe what it's like to suffer from insomnia. In the preface he writes, 'I can imagine a good night's sleep, but it always seems just out of reach, as if I'm walking across an endless bridge, never reaching the other side.'" —Daniel W. Coburn from the review of Bifröst by Espen R. Krukhaug

Read the rest of the review of Bifröst on photo-eye Magazine

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Oceanomania by Mark Dion

"[Mark] Dion's latest project, Oceanomania took him to the Nouveau Musée National and the Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium of Monaco where he explored the grand halls and backrooms of these storied maritime collections. Past works that convey his long-standing interest in representations of nature and concern for its degradation were inserted into existing displays. The creation of a gigantic curiosity cabinet was a more regimented and often jarring re-framing of collected objects." — Karen Jenkins from the review of Oceanomania by Mark Dion

Read the rest of the review of Oceanomania on photo-eye Magazine

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Setting Sights on Spring

Ah, Spring. Fresh starts and renewed focus. So why not give shape to your photographic vision, and learn to package yourself and your work in a professional manner, in Aline Smithson's "The Big Picture," March 7-10. Hone your editing eye, and achieve tightly conceived sequences of your work, in "Photographic Editing and Sequencing" with Michelle Dunn Marsh, March 7-10. Or spot the first "Robin" of Spring and learn to create evocative and meaningful portraits in "Lighting Dramatic Portraits" with David Robin, March 21-24.

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