Yearly Archives: 2012

Nancy Burson’s work is featured in the new edition of EXIT

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Nancy Burson’s work is featured in the new edition of EXIT

Two of Nancy Burson’s iconic diptychs are in included in EXIT (Issue #48), which is titled “Artificial Beauty.” In her essay “Someday We’ll All Be Cyborgs,” which is included in the magazine, Rosa Olivares writes:

“The pursuit of beauty meets with the desire for eternal youth at the doors of operating rooms in clinics and hospitals. That atavistic idea of beating time, of preventing our bodies, our faces, from coming undone, losing smoothness, shine and beauty, seems increasingly tangible. Nevertheless, they inadvertently become what we do not believe, what we do not want to be, because the evrlasting problem is time, its passage, and the impossibility of reliving it, of stopping it, of controlling it.”

See all of Nancy Burson’s work at ClampArt


Blog post by:
Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Henry Horenstein | “Heavyweights for the Holidays,” The New York Times

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From Dwight Garner’s article in The New York Times:

This year’s best reissued coffee table book, for a certain kind of coffee table, anyway, is surely ‘HONKY TONK: PORTRAITS OF COUNTRY MUSIC’ (W. W. Norton & Company, $50), by Henry Horenstein. Mr. Horenstein was a young Massachusetts photographer who found himself drawn to country music in general, and the Grand Ole Opry in particular, in the 1970s. His black-and-white photographs of musicians like Roy Acuff, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Mother Maybelle Carter and Tammy Wynette and George Jones have a stark soulfulness reminiscent of Robert Frank’s work in ‘The Americans.’

This book, first published in 2003, has been updated with the photographer’s more recent work. ‘A lot of people assume that country music is a Southern thing,’ Mr. Horenstein says in his foreword. ‘It isn’t; it’s everywhere.’

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Browse Henry Horenstein’s series, “Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music”

Photograph by Manjari Sharma on the cover of Forbes India

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Photograph by Manjari Sharma on the cover of Forbes India

Forbes India Magazine has a collectors edition flagship issue of 350 pages every year. This year their focus was a comprehensive list of the 100 Richest Indians. I was invited by Anjan Das, Art Director of Forbes, for a really thrilling collaboration. Right this moment India is enthusiastically celebrating Diwali—the festival of lights. It’s a festival where the primary Goddess worshipped and celebrated is Maa Laxmi. Anjan saw the image of Maa Laxmi from my series ‘Darshan’ and found it to be a perfect fit for the face of the issue. Knowing his highly skilled production value on the paper and six-color printing complete with gold foiling, Anjan Das really took the finished product to the next level. You can read about our story on my blog here, and this cover also made it to the most popular on Coverjunkie this month.

For more information on the series:
http://clampart.com/2012/11/darshan/

See all of Manjari Sharma’s work at ClampArt


Blog post by:
Manjari Sharma, Artist

Life in Blue

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January 10 – February 16, 2013

Artist’s reception:
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

ClampArt is pleased to present “Evžen Sobek: Life in Blue.” The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s monograph of the same title from Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg (Hardcover, 96 pp., 55 color illus., 11.75 x 11.75 inches, $60).

Since 2007, photographer Evžen Sobek has been documenting life on the banks of the Nové Mlýny reservoirs in the southern region of the Czech Republic. In this strange, man-made, recreational setting, an unorthodox community of tents and campers has grown over the years—a place where citizens vacation annually decade after decade. Sobek’s subjects were formerly nomadic caravanners—travelers who vacationed in their campers—who now have forfeited their freedom and liberty of movement to settle down in their once-mobile homes in Southern Moravia. Sobek’s eye is for the unusual and occasionally disquieting. Many of the photographs feel as though they picture mysteriously enigmatic and bizarre rites or ceremonies—the deeper meaning of which the viewer is wholly unaware.

Evžen Sobek was born in the city of Brno in 1967. Sobek attended the University of Technology in Brno and trained as a technical draughtsman before transferring to the Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University at Opava. Currently working as a freelance photographer and a photography instructor, the focus of Sobek’s work has been documentary imagery. He garnered early acclaim for his series depicting the life of Premonstratensian monks in Zeliv (a village in the Czech Republic), and another focusing on the day-to-day life of Roma (also called Gypsies) living in his hometown. “Life in Blue” was awarded an Honorable Mention by the 2010 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards. Sobek’s work is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the School of Visual Arts, Osaka; and the Museum of Applied Arts, Prague. He is founder of the Brno Photography School and the Fotoframe competition.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Czech Center New York.

A color image of a boy in swim trunks in a body of water throwing up a blue ball.

Brian Finke | “reFramed: In conversation with Brian Finke,” Los Angeles Times

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From Barbara Davidson’s interview with Brian Finke:

Q: How did you get started in photography?

A: Been making pictures forever. It started back in the day with high school photo classes, with the idealistic motivations of social awareness and from reading about the amazing life and work of photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. While my projects are still documentary in approach, I’m much more interested in making a social comment about my own culture.

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Browse all of Brian Finke’s work at ClampArt