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PDN Pulse: Review Santa Fe Recap & Interview with Jason Florio

posted on June 15, 2009 at 11:50 AM MT, by Bob

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."

Maarten Schilt – Looking at the US. 1957 – 1986 by Wendy Watriss and Frederick C. Baldwin

Ferit Kuyas – Brian Finke's Flight Attendants

Darren Ching – James and the Other Apes by James Mollison with text by Jane Goodall

Debra Klomp Ching – Steve Pyke's: Post Partum and Post Mortem from the Nazraeli's picture books series

Carlan Tapp – Robert Frank's, The Americans

Laura Wzorek Pressley - Pitch Blackness by Hank Willis Thomas

Read the full article including the interview with photographer Jason Florio.

Related Categories: Books,Interviews,Debbie Fleming Caffery,Exhibitions,Events

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Large-Scale Kenyan Women Project by JR

posted on February 16, 2009 at 1:16 PM MT, by Bob

Social photographer and installation artist JR and his team have previously worked in Brazil, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Sudan. Like his previous projects, this new piece is designed to draw attention to the plight of women in impoverished areas, and specifically in this region of Kenya. JR has a history of installing photographs on the sides of buildings, walls, and even abandoned trailer trucks; however, this project takes the idea of public installation one step further, residing on the tops of structures: often the homes of their subject, and even an active train. The exhibition is on such as scale that it is "designed to be visible from Google Earth satellites as well as the elevated train tracks that pass by the village twice a day."

Lens Culture Blog and JR's website 28millimetres has more information about this, previous and future installations.

Related Categories: Exhibitions

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William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton

posted on November 12, 2008 at 5:28 PM MT, by Daniel Espeset

As a follow up to Rixon's post from yesterday, I thought I would point out that Eggleston's own work with video is finally going to become available on DVD. In 1974 Eggleston shot the 77-minute Stranded in Canton using a Sony PortaPak -- here are a couple excerpts (presumably these were not taken from the "newly restored" version soon to be released):

Until now Stranded in Canton has been largely unavailable outside the occasional festival or institutional screening, which is why there's been a lot of excitement around Twin Palms forthcoming Stranded in Canton book / DVD (to be released in January). The book includes 40 enlargements from the newly restored footage and an appreciative essay by director Gus Van Sant. The DVD contains the original film, plus more than thirty minutes of bonus footage and an interview with Eggleston from the 2005 Toronto Film Festival.

If you happen to be in New York then make sure to catch Stranded in Canton at the Whitney, screening as part of the exhibition William Eggleston: Democratic Camera - Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, up through January 25th, 2009.

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Book Dummies Exhibition at ICP

posted on October 16, 2008 at 12:40 PM MT, by Daniel Espeset

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.

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