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Amy Stein | Domesticated
From Photolucida, with essay by Alison Nordström (Softcover, 64 pages, 25 color illustrations, 8.5 x 10 inches). $24 + shipping.
Amy Touchette’s work is featured in Warsaw
Image: Copyright Amy Touchette, “Sutton Street,” 2005, Gelatin silver print.
Amy Touchette’s wonderful photo essay on The World Famous *BOB* was featured in a slidshow last week on March 31, 2015, at the Leica Gallery in Warsaw:
Leica Gallery
ul. Mysia 3, 3rd Floor
Sródmiescie, Warsaw
Poland
The World Famous *BOB* is a female burlesque dancer based in Brooklyn who is a central part of the neo burlesque movement that began in New York City in the 1990s. Raised on an isolated 115-acre farm in the California Valley, she renamed herself “Bob” after Robert Smith of The Cure when she was a teenager and was later crowned “The World Famous *BOB*”—now her legal name—by her drag mother, Jackie Beat, when she performed in her first Wigstock.
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Brian Paul Clamp, Director
Luke Smalley | “Retrospective Exercise,” The WOW Report
From Trey Speegle’s post on WorldOfWonder.net:
Luke Smalley’s “Retrospective” just opened Thursday at ClampArt in New York this last week, surveying the late photographer’s work. Many early images of Smalley’s were inspired by yearbooks and fitness manuals. After earning a degree, in sports medicine, Smalley became interested in fine art (while earning money from modeling and working as a personal trainer).
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Luke Smalley | “Retrospective,” Musée Magazine
From the post concerning Luke Smalley’s opening reception for Musée Magazine:
On Thursday, April 2 ClampArt gallery presented a retrospective exhibition of photographs by Luke Smalley (1955-2009). At the age of 53, Smalley passed away far too young, but he left behind three major bodies of work, in addition to four impressive monographs.
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Luke Smalley | “Top 10 Photo Events in NYC,” Feature Shoot
From Ellyn Kail’s story for Feature Shoot:
In this retrospective, ClampArt revisits the work of legendary photographer Luke Smalley, whose work centered around themes of nostalgia, adolescence, and masculinity. For much of the work on view, Smalley cast and directed high school athletes as they played staged, imaginary sports.
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Luke Smalley | “Retrospective,” Gayletter
From Mossy’s post for Gayletter:
I had this girlfriend once, I’m sure you know the type, you’d make plans with her and if something better came up she’d ditch you and take the better offer. Well, I’m not that kind of girl, BUT, I will say I was all set to write about Sebastiao Salgado’s opening this Thursday when I got a last minute email from ClampArt about a Luke Smalley retrospective and had to write about it instead (sorry Sebastiao).
I got so excited when the gallery forwarded three images, one from each body of work, I could barely write.
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Chuck Samuels | “5 Artists to Watch,” artnet News
From the article in artnet News:
Chuck Samuels is known for his provocative self-portraits that deal with feminism in an art historical context. His latest project, recently on display at ClampArt, investigates the tradition of the female nude. In this series, Samuels recreates a set of classical nude photographic portraits, making himself the subject instead of using a female subject. Inserting himself into the narrative of the female nude creates two noteworthy complications. One, it questions the notion of the male gaze. Two, it questions the tradition of objectifying women. In effect, Samuels’s work operates as a constructive critique of this historical narrative.
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Jill Greenberg | “Issue 68,” STH Magazine
Luke Smalley | “Back Cover,” STH Magazine
“Luke Smalley: Retrospective”
ClampArt is proud to present a retrospective exhibition of photographs by Luke Smalley (1955-2009).
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“Luke Smalley: Retrospective”
Jill Greenberg | “End Times,” The Photo Review
From the review of Jill Greenberg’s book in The Photo Review:
Controversy has always surrounded children in photographs, especially when they are presented in unconventional ways. In the early 1990s, Sally Mann received immense amounts of criticism for her intimate portraits of her children when she released her series “Immediate Family.” Over a decade later, and in what one would think is a more accepting world, Jill Greenberg’s series of crying children called “End Times” sparked an enormous amount of controversy after its debut in 2006.
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Brian Finke | “Nonfiction with Harry Allen,” WBAI-FM
From Harry Allen’s website:
Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist and Media Assassin, publishes the blog Media Assassin at harryallen.info. There he writes about race, politics, and culture, much as he does for “VIBE,” “The Source,” “The Village Voice,” and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.
On his WBAI-FM radio program “Nonfiction,” Allen interview artist Brian Finke about his project “U.S. Marshals.”
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Henry Horenstein’s film “Spoke”
Henry Horenstein’s film “Spoke” is a documentary on the Broken Spoke dance hall is Austin, Texas. It is now an official selection at four festivals:
Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, April 16-9, 2015
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, April 23-6, 2015
Austin Film Festival, October 29 – November 5, 2015
Alexandria Film Festival, November 6-8, 2015
The film has also been screened this winter/spring at the following venues:
University of California, San Diego, California
Yuma Arts Symposium, Arizona
Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia
Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina
AND the Broken Spoke, Austin, Texas!
More to come. . .
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Brian Paul Clamp, Director
Janet Delaney | “South of Market,” Juxtapoz Magazine
From Gwynned Vitello’s article and interview with Janet Delaney for Juxtapoz Magazine:
GV: What was your intention in embarking on what turned out to be a photographic essay?
JD: Before I started the MFA program at San Francisco Art Institute, I seriously considered getting a degree in city planning. When I decided to embark on an MFA, I made a specific choice to focus my artwork on the issues of city life. Making artwork that had a political base was being done by many of my contemporaries. I worked closely with Connie Hatch who now teaches at Cal Arts. Together, we received a National Endowment for the Arts survey grant to seed this project. In the early 1980s, the premise of documentary photography was being challenged. The idea of the outside observer was questioned. I definitely did not want to make photographs of bums in slums as I could have easily done on 6th Street. Rather, I wanted to draw attention to what was a vital, if overlooked, neighborhood whose voice was not being heard.
Luke Smalley | Sunday Drive
From Twin Palms (Hardcover, 8 x 11 inches, 30 Four-color plates, 48 pages) $125 + shipping.
Girls left behind. Guys making bad choices. In his third book, “Sunday Drive,” photographer Luke Smalley continues his journey for truth inside the lives of small-town youth. This poignant photo novella tells a story of consequence when innocence takes a wrong turn. Girls getting ready, girls getting anxious. Boys bored, wide-eyed, raw off the football field. Visiting hours: 1 to 8 p.m.
As in his past volumes, humor pervades: the boys’ plight is juxtaposed with Smalley’s amusement at the girls’ preoccupation about what to wear.
Luke Smalley| Exercise at Home
From Twin Palms Publishers (Hardcover, 48 pages, 30 Four color-plates, 8 x 12 inches). $60 + shipping. [SECOND PRINTING]
From Twin Palms Publishers (Hardcover, 48 pages, 30 Four color-plates, 8 x 12 inches). $250 + shipping. [FIRST PRINTING]
Luke Smalley | Gymnasium
From Twin Palms (Hardcover, 10 x 8 inches, 85 Gravure Plates, 96 Pages). $95 + shipping.
The teenage athletes in Luke Smalley’s pictures seem inhabitants of some time or place other than the northwestern Pennsylvania towns where the photographer recently found and photographed them. The sensuality of these young athletes seems familiar, their gaze immediate and direct, yet their otherworldly quality remains a product of the artist’s unique vision. No telephone or television seems possible in this not-quite-familiar landscape. For the past ten years the photographer has painstakingly coordinated the creation of these works, often making his own athletic equipment, props, and costumes.
Lindsay Morris | “A Safe Haven for Gender-Nonconforming Kids,” Vice Magazine
From Shanna Jones’ extensive article and interview with Lindsay Morris for Vice Magazine:
Lindsay Morris has dedicated the last eight years to photographing an American summer camp with a twist. A camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families, it provides a safe place for biological boys who feel more – or just as – comfortable in dresses and wigs than in Spiderman t-shirts and jeans.
Morris is both a photographer and board member of the camp, giving her a close insight to what goes down. There’s the same kind of stuff as regular camps, such as lake sports, kayaking, swimming and arts and crafts. But on the second and third evenings a talent and fashion show take place, where gender-creative children are allowed to be as flamboyant at they choose. Kind of like a drag show for kids.
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Chuck Samuels | “Famous Female Nudes,” Feature Shoot
From Ellyn Kail’s post concerning Chuck Samuels’s exhibition at ClampArt:
For “Before the Camera,” Montréal-based photographer Chuck Samuels confronts the objectification of the female body by casting himself as the heroine of history’s most recognizable nude portraits. For each, he surrendered himself entirely to the gaze of others—much like the original nudes would have— handing off the responsibility of directing and snapping the photos to various friends, most of whom were women.
For each of the twelve images, now on view at ClampArt, Samuels carefully reproduced the original photo, right down to the size and presentation of the prints themselves. The idea came about while the artist was an MFA student in the 1980s, during which time he read seminal feminist texts on the male gaze. He chose the original photos based on those that had ingrained themselves most deeply in his memory, and prior to reproducing them, he spent time researching the techniques used by each artist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these familiar images are in many cases those that have helped establish the ways in which we consume the female body; here, the male body looks precarious and out-of-place, even when every detail is executed meticulously.
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