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Lori Nix | “A Day in the Life,” Feature Shoot

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From Ellyn Kail’s article on Lori Nix for Feature Shoot:

For fine art photographer Lori Nix, the process of making a single photograph can take many months of work, day in and day out, building elaborate miniature fictional landscapes or urban ruins, often alongside her partner and longtime collaborator Kathleen Gerber. After constructing her intricate and uncanny dioramas, Nix starts in on bringing them to life with her camera. Her days are filled to the brim with emails, commercial assignments, and meticulously executed fine art endeavors, but she does what she loves.

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Will McBride | “Boarding School Boys,” Gayletter

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From Jeffrey From’s article for Gayletter:

“Salem Suite,” Will McBride’s ephemeral collection of photographs, is a snapshot of boyhood in motion. Taken in 1963, the photos follow the life of Mike, a boarding student at the Salem Castle School in Germany, as he’s swept up in the mercurial nature of adolescence—eating, exercising, and showering in a world on the cusp of manhood. In black-and-white photos, innocence and curiosity collide, torsos tenderly touching.

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Amy Touchette | “How To Assess/Edit Your Photographs,” tuts+

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From Amy Touchette’s article for tuts+:

Even though it’s easier than ever today to operate a camera and produce a picture, it’s no easier to recognize the most compelling images among your outtakes and make collective sense of them. In fact, the extensive output digital technology enables can make it even more difficult: while the haystack of digital files can grow to immense proportions, the number of needles (i.e. meaningful pictures) necessary to evoke a theme or narrative remains quite small.

However, being able to find the best pictures among a group of images and to understand what links them is one of the key skills that distinguishes photographers from people who take pictures.

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Eve Fowler

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Best known for her series of texts appropriating Gertrude Stein’s poetry, and her portraits of male hustlers in New York and Los Angeles in the 1990s, Eve Fowler (b. 1964) is a photographer, video, and performance artist whose work explores the lives and experiences of marginalized and suppressed sexual minorities; portraying the body as a site for political and social engagement.

Fowler shot her hustlers on the streets of the West Village in New York City and Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles between 1993 and 1998. The portraits explore queerness and social “otherness.” The untitled, intimate photographs lay bare ambiguities of identity, class, sexuality, and gender—all of which combine to lend the figure of the hustler a semi-dangerous allure, and the ambiguous attractions of the social outlaw. Stark and unencumbered by typical compositional elements or dramatic lighting, Fowler’s subjects demand direct consideration, forcing the viewer to confront in a single face both masculine vulnerability and intrepidity.

Fowler received her B.A. in journalism from Temple University in 1986, and her M.F.A. in photography from Yale University in 1992. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Art.

Jesse Burke | “The 10 Best New Photobooks,” American Photo

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Jesse Burke’s forthcoming monograph Wild & Precious was selected as one of the top ten photobooks for Fall 2015 in American Photo:

On a series of road trips with his young daughter Clover, Jesse Burke creates a photo travelog of naturalistic scenes and metaphysical musings, sort of a visual version of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” Inspired by familial imagery by the likes of Sally Mann and Emmet Gowin—with image titles derived from Johnny Cash songs—Burke’s pictures have a lyricism and grace that reflect the duo’s close relationship with each other and with nature, from bloody noses to dead carcasses to majestic seaside sunsets.

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Peter Berlin | “The O.G. of Sexy Selfies,” Next Magazine

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From Tommy Pisani’s article from Next Magazine:

A little rain last Thursday night didn’t stop the crowds from honoring one of the biggest names in gay art. “Wanted: Peter Berlin,” an exhibit of erotic self-portraits at ClampArt, opened September 10th, showcasing some of Berlin’s most titillating stills from over the decades.

Born Baron Armin Hagen von Hoyningen-Huene in 1942, Berlin moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and became an instant sex icon. “It would be so hard trying to pick up boys when they couldn’t even pronounce my name!,” Berlin said with a laugh. “I needed to submit to the American culture and that started by becoming Peter Berlin.”

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Peter Berlin | “Peter Berlin: ’70s Nostalgia” L’Oeil de la Photographie

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From the L’Oeil de la Photographie’s post concerning Peter Berlin’s exhibition at ClampArt:

It’s increasingly common for readers of L’Oeil to call our attention on photographers, collections, forgotten and lesser-known or even unknown images. That’s the case this week with Eric Smith from San Francisco. Here’s the email he sent us.

‘I am writing on the suggestion of Arthur Tress regarding the Photographer Peter Berlin. Arthur thought that you might be interested in Peter’s work. My name is Eric Smith. I live in San Francisco (as well as Peter Berlin).’

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“Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious”

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ClampArt is pleased to present “Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious”—an exhibition of work to coincide with the release of the monograph of the same title from Daylight Books (Hardcover, 9.25 x 13.25 inches, 128 pages, 134 color plates, $50). This is the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.

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Peter Berlin | “Art: Peter Berlin” Gayletter

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Peter Berlin’s exhibition “WANTED” is featured and reviewed in Gayletter’s “The Next Five Days:”

Last week I went to the opening of Peter Berlin’s latest exhibition at ClampArt ‘Wanted’ with my friend Chris, and we were impressed. It’s an exhibition of self portraits from the 1970s and early 1980s. Peter Berlin is based in San Francisco, was raised in Germany, and born in Poland in 1942 as Baron Armin Hagen von Hoyningen-Huene (that’s a long name). He established himself as an international sensation after creating some of the most identifiable male erotica of the time.

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Peter Berlin | “Peter Berlin at ClampArt,” Musée Magazine

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From the Musée Magazine post concerning Peter Berlin’s exhibition at ClampArt:

Berlin’s photographic project is arguably closer to performance art, in that the act of cruising in his elaborate getups was the ultimate point of his ambitious pursuits. The expertly composed and printed photographs, gorgeous art objects in and of themselves, are ultimately records of his sexually pointed happenings.

As he grew older, Peter Berlin’s public cruising became less frequent, and now younger generations seem less aware of his large contribution to gay history. But, in 2005 Jim Tushinski directed and co-produced That Man: Peter Berlin, which helped spawn a resurgence of interest in and appreciation for Berlin’s work. “WANTED: Peter Berlin,” the exhibition at ClampArt, is mounted with the motivation to further support that comeback.

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Wild & Precious

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October 15 – November 14, 2015

Artist’s Reception:
Thursday, October 15, 2015
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

ClampArt is pleased to present “Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious”—an exhibition of work to coincide with the release of the monograph of the same title from Daylight Books (Hardcover, 9.25 x 13.25 inches, 128 pages, 134 color plates, $50). This is the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.

“Wild & Precious” brings together landscapes, portraits, and still life imagery which Jesse Burke photographed during a series of road trips with his daughter Clover from 2010 to 2015 to explore the natural world. To encourage a connection with nature, Burke used these adventures as a tool to give Clover an education that he considers essential—one that develops an appreciation and respect for the planet’s wildlife and natural resources, the importance of conservation, and self-confidence.

Burke’s photographs reveal the tender love of a father for his daughter, and the series trace’s Clover’s growth from a curious little girl to a strong and confident preteen. Her occasional painful confrontations with nature (from a bloody nose to a fractured wrist) remind the viewer of her fragility. In some images Clover is the dominant presence, while in others she blends in with the landscape—a beautiful “wild child” becoming one with nature.

Comparing Burke’s work to photographs by Sally Mann, Emmet Gowin, and specifically Wynn Bullock, Karen Irvine (Curator and Associate Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago) writes that Bullock’s iconic image of his daughter, Lynne, Los Lobos (1956), “deliberately evokes the idea of the wild child” and that “arguably had less to do with portraiture than with symbolism.” Like Bullock, Burke photographs his daughter “to symbolize our fundamental human connection to the wild and to consider our inherently animal nature.”

Jesse Burke is on the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design where he received his MFA in photography in 2005. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad. His photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the North Carolina Museum of Art; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and three daughters—Clover Lee, Poppy Dee, and Honey Bee.