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Champion Studio

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Walter Kundzicz’s Champion Studio is known for male physique photographs mostly from the late 1950s to early 1960s. Branching out from the muscle beefcake photography made popular by Bruce of Los Angeles and others, Champion Studio, on the cusp of the sexual revolution, took young models out of the studio and posed them in new everyday settings.

TEDx Talk with Adrain Chesser

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TEDx Talk with Adrain Chesser
Image: Adrain Chesser, “Back of the Truck,” 2006-2012

Adrain Chesser is a self-taught photographer whose first critical success came with “I have something to tell you,” a personal exploration of what it meant to disclose a life-altering diagnosis of AIDS. Adrain gave a fantastic and very emotional TEDx talk in Vienna back in May, and now you can see it online!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzQL4UDQhgY

In the very forthcoming and highly personal video, Chesser talks about the relationship between “I have something to tell you” and a later project called “The Return.” Collaborating with Native American ritualist Timothy White Eagle, Chesser followed a loosely-banded American nomadic group, using photography to create a mythic portrait of people living sustainably—outside of a system that Chesser feels irrevocably tied to because of his illness.

Browse Adrain Chesser’s series “The Return” at ClampArt

Blog post by:
Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Jesse Burke’s work included in exhibition at the PCNW

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Jesse Burke’s work included in exhibition at the PCNW
Image: Copyright Jesse Burke, “Time Out,” 2013, Digital C-print.

Jesse Burke is one of twelve artists selected to participate in “Documentary: 19th Annual Photography Exhibition” (August 1 – 29, 2014) at the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) in Seattle.

This annual exhibition is one of the most anticipated shows in our gallery program. This year the theme is documentary and is juried by Whitney C. Johnson, the Director of Photography at “The New Yorker.” A wide range of visually rich images were selected shared from artists across the world. There were 1639 images submitted with 264 photographers in the running. PCNW kindly thanks our Award Sponsors: Blurb Inc. and Glazer’s Camera.

Photographic Center Northwest
900 Twelfth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 720-7222
For more information on the exhibition

See Jesse Burke’s new series “Wild & Precious”
Browse all of Jesse Burke’s work at ClampArt


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Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Henry Horenstein’s solo show opens at Endicott College

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Henry Horenstein’s solo show opens at Endicott College
Image: Copyright Henry Horenstein, “Ponderosa,” Near Pikeville, Kentucky, 1974, Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet).

Photographs from Henry Horenstein’s series “Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music” will be on view at Endicott College’s Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts through October 17th, 2014.

Honky Tonk is a collection of photographs taken between 1968 and 2010 that document the changing world of country music and its fans. Shot in bars, music ranches and famous venues like Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Horenstein not only shows us the performers on stage, but also the dedication and love the fans have for the performers and the music. Horenstein began this project at a time when he saw the world of country music changing and wanted to capture it as it was before it turned into the big-business that it is today.

Endicott College
Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts
Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery
376 Hale Street
Beverly, MA 01915

Monday, August 18, 2014 – Friday, October 17, 2014

Reception, presentation, and book signing:
Thursday, September 18, 2014
5.00 – 8.30 p.m.

For more information on the exhibition:
http://www.endicott.edu/News/2014/8-7Honkeytonk.aspx

See Horenstein’s series “Honky Tonk”
Browse all of Horenstein’s work at ClampArt

Blog post by:
Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Henry Horenstein | “Happiness is a Pink Gun,” The Morning News

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From Alice Bolin’s article for The Morning News:

Like Parton is fond of saying, “I may look fake, but I’m very real where it counts.” It’s a paradoxical way to conduct a career with integrity: by being real about being fake, being honest about what you do to get by and get ahead. Jewly Hight of NPR reported that before the release of Blue Smoke, Parton told “a pack of bluegrass journalists,” “You can’t make a livin’ doing bluegrass … You don’t want to give it up, but you know you’ve got to expand in order to really make a living at it. … For me, I’ve always been in the music business.”

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

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)

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Berenice Abbott was an American artist best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City from the 1930s.

Abbott traveled to Europe in 1921, spending two years studying sculpture in Paris and Berlin. She first became involved with photography in 1923, when Man Ray hired her as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse. Man Ray was impressed by her darkroom work and allowed Abbott to use his studio to shoot her own photographs. In 1925, Man Ray introduced Abbott to Eugène Atget’s photographs. She became very interested in Atget’s images, and managed to persuade him to sit for a portrait in 1927. Atget died shortly thereafter, but Abbott was able to acquire an archive of his negatives, which she promoted for decades before selling the lot to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1968.

In 1929, Abbott visited New York City, apparently to find an American publisher for Atget’s photographs. But, upon seeing the city again, she realized its great photographic potential. Accordingly, Abbott went back to Paris, closed her studio, and returned to New York that fall, producing her most iconic work throughout the 1930s.

Manjari Sharma | “In the Kingdom of Snapshots,” Deccan Chronicle

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From Anisha Dhiman’s article for Deccan Chronicle:

Staying in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and her two-year-old daughter, two of Manjari’s projects—Darshan, “an ongoing series consisting of photographically recreated, classical images of Hindu gods and goddesses that are pivotal to mythological stories in Hinduism”, and The Shower Series, which she calls “weird yet amazing”—have been generating quite a lot of interest. “[The Shower Series] project has been amazing and awkward from the beginning to the end. It started in 2009, when I invited some friends over to take a shower in my apartment and that’s when I would take their photographs. The premise is scandalous, but the pictures are not; there is nothing sleazy about them. Some of the people whom I have shot are my friends, while others knew about my work and wrote to me asking whether they can take a shower in my apartment,” laughs Manjari.

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Browse all of Manjari Sharma’s work at ClampArt

Manjari Sharma’s work displayed as part of The Fence 2014

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Manjari Sharma’s work displayed as part of The Fence 2014
Image: Manjari Sharma, “Maa Kali,” 2013

Work from “Darshan,” a series of photographs by Manjari Sharma depicting Hindu gods and goddesses is being displayed as a part of Photoville’s project, The Fence.

Now in its third year, The Fence is a 1,000-foot-long outdoor photographic installation that draws 1.5 million visitors annually while on view in New York City at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

This year—in partnership with Photo District News (PDN), Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Flash Forward Festival, and Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP)–The Fence will showcase the work of more than 40 talented photographers from around world across 3 cities (Atlanta, Boston, and Brooklyn) from May through October 2014.

Printed on photographic mesh, The Fence is a growing photographic installation which aims to expand to a new city each year.

See more information on Manjari Sharma and The Fence

View Manjari Sharma’s series, “Darshan”
Browse all of Manjari Sharma’s work at ClampArt

Blog post by:
Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Rachel Hulin | “Flying Henry,” Design You Trust

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From Anton Liberant’s post for Design You Trust:

Rachel Hulin is a photographer, author, and photo editor. Her popular “Flying Henry” series was recently shown in her first New York solo show and is also a children’s book of the same name, released by powerHouse Books in 2013.

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View Rachel Hulin’s “The Flying Series”
Browse all of Rachel Hulin’s work at ClampArt

Hip Hop Honeys

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Over the course of three years, photographer Brian Finke went behind the scenes on hip-hop video shoots for such artists as Jay-Z, Busta’ Rhymes, and Kanye West. But, he was not focused on the celebrities—instead his interest was in the professional models who act in supporting roles in the music videos. Hours on set can be long and oftentimes boring. Moments of high-octane action can be followed by long periods of just waiting around. What Finke enjoys most about the photographs is the range of emotions he was able to capture—from excitement to boredom and focus to flirtation. Finke employed his signature, hyper-saturated aesthetic to document video models in their everyday work “uniforms”—often focusing on the imaginative hair, make-up, and styling that give the videos their distinction.

The artist successfully established working relationships with the models he photographed, often consulting with them when choosing the best takes from each shoot. He comments: “As a documentary photographer first and foremost, I was there to observe and photograph the scene taking place. These are people doing their job, from my perspective.”