Photographer Helen Levitt dies at 95
richard gordon said: In 1966 I began to look at and buy photo books. The first two I bought were A Dialogue With Solitude...
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Former Santa Fe resident and PDN Photo Editor Amber Terranova gives her wrap up of Review Santa Fe and and interview with one of Center's 100 Jason Florio.
I've just returned from sunny Santa Fe after an exciting weekend of reviewing portfolios and meeting with photographers from all over the world.Photo-Eye kicked off the event on Thursday night by setting up a delicious New Mexican buffet dinner for all of the photographers, reviewers and people in the Santa Fe community. The outdoor area was packed with photographers and reviewers mingling, while others perused the bookstore and Debbie Fleming Caffery's striking new exhibition(that opened the same night in the gallery).
While in the bookstore I asked some folks to share with us their favorite book of the moment. Here's what some said:
Norman Mauskopf – Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard. Norman says he likes it so much because, "Evans has a big postcard collection and so do I."
'Kenyans celebrated Senator Barack Obama's election victory at his family homestead near Kisumu, in western Kenya' photo: Evelyn Hockstein for The New York Times, from "The World Reacts"
Only a handful of times in our lives can we say, with certainty, that history is being profoundly shaped before our watching eyes. The election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States is undoubtedly one of these moments. The world has watched the election and its results with rapt attention, not least of all the international community that adds the prefix "photo" to everything it touches. As such, here are some interesting takes, celebrations and comments from around the photo-blogosphere:
posted on October 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM MT,
by Rixon Reed
The 6th annual Lucie Awards were presented last night at New York's Lincoln Center. This event is often quoted as the "Oscars of photography" and has grown into an impressive, prestigious awards program recognizing excellence in various photography genres, from sports to editorial to the fine-arts.
The following are the awards of particular interest to the fine-art and book community from this year's event.
PHOTOGRAPHY CURATOR/EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR
Terence Pepper + Vanity Fair Editor David Friend for Vanity Fair Portraits 1913-2008| National Portrait Gallery, London
Other nominees:
Melissa Harris for Josef Koudelka - Invasion 68 : Prague | Aperture Gallery, NYC
Brian Wallis and Cynthia Young for Cornell Capa : Concerned Photographer | International Center of Photography, New York
Virginia Heckert for Bernd and Hilla Becher : Basic Forms | Getty Center, Los Angeles
Jeff L. Rosenheim for Lee Friedlander : A Ramble in Olmsted Parks | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Victor Sira curates what should be a fascinating show at ICP:
Book dummies is an exhibition that gives insight into the process of making a photo book. It reveals the many layers of the process, and gives a step-by-step view of the approach used by each of the photographers whose book dummies make up the exhibition.
I have a personal affinity for exhibitions that deal with the working process, and am especially excited (for obvious reasons) by news of this one. With dummies from Morten Andersen, Stephanie Cardon, Yuichi Hibi, Leigh Ledare, Esther Levine and Pax Paloscia, it should prove fascinating — not least of all for any photographer interested in producing a book of their own. The show runs October 25th - December 27th, 2008 at the ICP Education Gallery. The opening reception is on Friday, October 24, from 6:00-8:00pm.
This has been all over the photo-blogosphere the last few days, but in case you haven't heard about it yet make sure to take a look. It's a pretty extraordinary event, especially considering that I understand it was organized in an incredibly short period of time. It should surprise no one that the vast majority of people in the contemporary photography world have this particular political leaning:
Art for Obama is an online auction of photographs to benefit the Obama campaign. The whole thing was put together by photographers Ahndraya Parlato, Elizabeth Moy, Gregory Halpern, Whitney Hubbs and Dru Donovan. It's slated to run for 1 week and bidding begins October 1st, so get ready — the list of artists who've donated work is pretty spectacular:
Nubar Alexanian
Uta Barth
Nina Berman
Walead Beshty
Ellen Brooks
Elinor Carucci
Eileen Cowin
Doug Dubois
Jason Evans
Wendy Ewald
Larry Fink
Harrell Fletcher
Tierney Gearon
Jim Goldberg
Frank Golke
Emmet Gowin
Katy Grannan
Sharon Harper
Todd Hido
Jeff Jacobson
Eirik Johnson
Ron Jude
Lisa Kereszi
Michael Light
David Maisel
Susan Meiselas
Richard Misrach
Cathy Opie
Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison
Laura McPhee
Carter Mull
Laurel Nakadate
Mike Slack
Alec Soth
Larry Sultan
Peter Sutherland
Hank Willis Thomas
Catherine Wagner
Jim Welling
Mark Wyse
For more information, images and to begin the difficult process of deciding what to bid on, visit artforobama.net.
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