Yearly Archives: 2012

Amy Stein | “20 + 20 / The Photography Issue,” Installation Magazine

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From Installation Magazine:

West Coast meets East Coast with 40 Photographers from LA and NYC. “Installation Magazine” releases “20+20: The Photography Issue.” Since our previous issue “In (Blank) We Trust,” we have ate, slept, dreamt, and breathed photography. This issue embraces the unique vision of our 20 New York and 20 Los Angeles photographers by exploring how their environment directly influences their practice and how it may reveal a unified experience shared by both cities.

By asking each participating photographer the same set of intentionally open-ended questions, we are confronted with candid responses that expose their turn-ons, turn-offs, and their honest feelings about two iconic locations with sprawling photographic art and creative industries.

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Evžen Sobek, Life in Blue

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Evžen Sobek, Life in Blue
From Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg with essays by Jirí Siostrzonek, Deputy Leader of the FPF Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opavaa, and Jirí Pátek, Head of Photography and Curator at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic (Hardcover, 96 pp., 55 color illus., 11.75 x 11.75 inches). $50 + shipping. Signed.

Jesse Burke’s work is featured in a solo exhibition at the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts

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Jesse Burke’s work is featured in a solo exhibition at the Carol Schlosber

Jesse Burke’s work will be featured in a solo exhibition titled, “High Life,” at the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, January 7 – February 9, 2013:

“Montserrat College of Art presents a solo exhibition of Jesse Burke’s photographs in the Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery. Through lush colors and implied narrative, Burke photographs the natural world, the people, pets and objects who are a part of his life. Burke investigates human connectedness to nature, self and with each other.

Whether family members or friends, Burke explores the fragility and vulnerability of others, ultimately creating a decentralized self portrait of himself. By capturing physical, emotional or metaphorically hardships in a photograph Burke evokes empathy from the viewer. Prompting the audience to project compassion, understanding and triumph onto the subjects in his work.

For more information on the exhibition:
http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/schlosberg/

Browse Jesse Burke’s series, “Intertidal”
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Blog post by:
Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Stephen Wilkes | “Top 10 Photos of 2012,” Time Magazine

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From Kira Pollack’s pick of the top 10 photos of 2012 in Time Magazine:

The ten photographs we present here are the pictures that moved us most in 2012. They all deliver a strong emotional impact — whether they show a child mourning his father who was killed by a sniper in Syria (slide #3); a heartbreaking scene in a Gaza City morgue (slide #1); a haunting landscape of New Jersey coastline after Hurricane Sandy, a rollercoaster submerged under the tide (slide #2); or a rare glimpse of President Obama moments before he goes out on stage during a campaign rally (slide #9). We spoke to each of the photographers about their images, and their words provide the captions here.

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Jill Greenberg, End Times

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Jill Greenberg, End Times
From T.F. Editores & Interactiva/D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) with a foreword by Brian Paul Clamp and essays by Paul Wombell, Jo-Ann Conklin, and Bill Moyers (Hardcover, 120 pages, 12 x 9.5 inches). $45 + shipping. Signed.

Deep in a Dream: Sheep Meadow

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Michael Massaia never could relate to contrived portraiture but wanted to find a way to capture people on film and in print with the perfection of studio shots. His intention with this project was to capture people in what he considered to be perfect unassuming poses (poses that could never be posed). Massaia shot all of the images very close to the subjects while they were sunbathing or sleeping in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow (usually only a few feet away) and would simply wait for the moment when the subject appeared to completely surrender to their environment. Not having the luxury of communication with the subject, he was forced to be extremely patient in order to obtain the desired results.

In 2014, Massaia started working on a variation within this series, entitled “Deep in a Dream: Sheep Meadow-Vertical Abstracts”. He captures couples (in somewhat abstract positions) and then simply prints them vertically and backwards to give an appearance of otherworldly suspension. The vertical orientation also seems to aid in expressing the mindset of the subject.

Massaia makes by hand gold-toned silver gelatin prints for all of the images, where the surrounding grass is severely “burnt in” to isolate, thus giving the look of suspension to the subject. The majority of the images were created in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow, while a few were created in other small parks in the city.

Jesse Burke reacts to Instagram’s new terms on the Time Magazine blog

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Jesse Burke reacts to Instagram’s new terms on the Time Magazine blog

Jesse Burke writes: “I use my Instagram account as a visual journal or diary of sorts. I mostly post what my family and I do on a daily basis, which of course includes photos of my children. The new terms of service are not totally surprising knowing that they originated at Facebook. I have to admit it does seem like a game changer: a suicide note, as the blogosphere has deemed it. I am mostly concerned that I will have no control over where they would place or to whom they would license my images. Furthermore, my children’s faces. It’s sad that they are so focused on making money because it really has become quite a revolutionary in the social media platform. I’m not sure if I will ultimately quit, for now I am going to take a break and see how it plays out.”

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To see all of Jesse Burke’s work at ClampArt:
http://clampart.com/2012/02/jesse-burke/


Blog post by:
Julie Grahame, Associate Director

Jeannette Montgomery Barron | “Gorgelous Interview,” Gorgelous

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From the interview with Jeannette Montgomery Barron on Gorgelous:

Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta, Georgia and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York. She became known for her portraits of the New York art world in the 1980s, which were later published in “Jeannette Montgomery Barron” (Edition Bischofberger, Zurich, 1989). She is also the author of “Photographs and Poems,” a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham (Scalo, 1998), “Mirrors” (Holzwarth Editions, 2004), “Session with Keith Haring” and “My Mother’s Clothes” (Welcome Books, 2010). In Spring 2013 powerHouse Books will publish “SCENE,” a book of her portraits from the 1980’s.

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Paul Meleschnig

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Paul Meleschnig graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. He is known for the physicality of his photographs, in both subject matter and compositional structure, he pursues the everyday life of people he encounters. Meleschnig lives and works in New York.

Rachel Papo | “Homeschooled,” PDN

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From Photo District News:

Rachel Papo’s project about a group of families in the Catskills who are homeschooling their children was recently selected as one of Photolucida’s 2012 Critical Mass Top 50. Papo writes about the work: “As the criticism of the U.S. education system grows among parents, so does the appeal of homeschooling. Together with today’s increasingly fast-paced, connected culture, this choice seems an almost natural one for many families. Though still a controversial and heated topic, the number of homeschooled children in America is growing rapidly. For the past year and a half I have been photographing a small number of families living in the Catskills who practice homeschooling.”

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Henry Horenstein | “Honky-Tonk Hero,” The Paris Review

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From Eric Banks’ interview with Henry Horenstein in The Paris Review:

Horenstein captured the extremes of the country-western world over the years, from the Hee Haw familiars onstage at the Grand Ole Opry to old-time cult favorites like the Blue Sky Boys; from seventies country-pop meteors like Jeannie C. Riley to such bona-fide C&W stars as Conway Twitty and Porter Wagoner. But what makes “Honky Tonk” such a terrific document are the photographs Horenstein took of the places where the music was heard—legendary joints like Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville and long-gone venues like the Hillbilly Ranch in Boston—and the regulars inside.

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