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
Image: Copyright Pacifico Silano, “Kiss,” 2012, Chromogenic print, 30 x 40 inches. Artist Pacifico Silano is taking over the School of Visual Arts MFA Photo/Video Instagram account, shaking things up from March 23-29, 2015. Follow Pacifico Silano @pacifico_photo and the SVA MFA Photo/Video program @mfaphotovideo. Pacifico writes: Hey there, @pacifico_photo
Image: Mariette Pathy Allen, from the series “TransCuba.” Mariette Pathy Allen will be in conversation with Zackary Drucker and Allen Frame at Baxter Street (the Camera Club of New York) on Monday, March 23rd, 2015. Drucker and Pathy Allen will discuss their new work, including Drucker’s participation as an actor
Image: Jill Greenberg, “Earth,” 2005, Archival pigment print. ClampArt is pleased to announce that Jill Greenberg’s “End Times” series made the recent American Photo timeline of what mattered most in photography over the past 25 years. From American Photo: For our special 25th anniversary issue, we look at photographs from
Image: Adrian Chesser, “Sage Field,” Lone Pine Ridge, Idaho, 2006-2012. Adrain Chesser’s first monograph, The Return, has been listed on three end-of-year lists as a notable photography book! PDN, FlakPhoto, and Photo-Eye have all named The Return as one of the best photo books released this year. Chesser was praised
Image: Christopher Churchill, “Hudderite Classroom,” 2005, Gelatin silver print. ClampArt is pleased to announce that photographs by Christopher Churchill are now available. You can view images from his series “American Faith” here: http://clampart.com/2014/03/christopher-churchill-b-1977/. Churchill writes: I started this project just out of curiosity about religion. I felt both frustrated and
Image: Pipo Nguyen-duy, “Circle,” 2012, Archival pigment print. ClampArt is pleased to announce that photographs from Guggenheim Fellow Pipo Nguyen-duy are now available. You can view twenty images from the series here: http://clampart.com/2014/10/pipo-nguyen-duy/. Pipo Nguyen-duy’s series East of Eden originally shared a perspective with John Steinbeck’s novel of the same
Image: Henry Horenstein, “Loretta Lynn,” 1975. Henry Horenstein will give a lecture at The Annenberg Space for Photography as part of their Iris Nights Lecture Series, focusing on his series Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music and other experiences from his career. Country music is both an important subject and
Amy Stein and Jill Greenberg are both included in the Humble Arts Foundation’s online exhibition, “New Cats in Art Photography”
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
Brian Finke is on press in South Korea overseeing the production of his fourth monograph, “US Marshals,” from powerHouse Books (Hardcover, 128 pages, 10.25 x 10.25 inches, ISBN: 978-1-57687-711-1, $35 + shipping). The publication of this book coincides with Finke’s fifth solo exhibition at ClampArt from November 20 – December
Image: James Bidgood, “Pan,” late 1960s, Digital C-print. James Bidgood’s image “Pan” is on display as part of a group show at the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum at the University of Southern California. The exhibition, titled “The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History,” investigates the centrality of
Arriving in New York as a very young photographer in the late 1970s, Jeannette Montgomery Barron experienced the art scene of the city as both an insider and an outsider. The Collezione Maramotti created a fantastic video walk-through of Barron’s exhibition, on view through July 31, 2014, complete with a
As part of the San Francisco Art Institute’s Summer Symposium, “Face It: Photography, Ethics, and Identity in the Age of the Selfie,” Aziz + Cucher will be panelists on Saturday, June 21st, during Session 1. The discussion will be “Building Reality: Technology and the Uncanny.” Summer at SFAI kicks off
A new documentary on legendary photographer Henry Horenstein is now available. Produced as part of The Photographers Series by Anthropy Arts, the film follows Horenstein around the world as he continues his quest to preserve vanishing cultures and groups through photographs. Renowned curators and colleagues, including celebrated photographer Nan Goldin,
If you missed Jen Davis’ fantastic talk for the MPS Digital Photography Department’s i3 Lecture series at the School of Visual Arts, you can now see it online! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_Q8IPo_xI#t=435 For the past eleven years, photographer Jen Davis has been working on an extended self portrait series that explores notions of
In a step to become more environmentally friendly, the city of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has voted to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on city property by the fall of 2014. Americans use 50 billion plastic water bottles per year, according to the anti-plastic bottle campaign, Ban
At 12.30 pm on Tuesday, April 1st, 2014, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will host artist Manjari Sharma, who will speak about her work. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Alfond Auditorium Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523 617-267-9300 http://www.mfa.org/ The lecture series
The ten portraits on the right, shared with us by artist Nancy Burson, are the images that make up her piece, Businessman (10 Businessmen from Goldman Sachs), 1982. While the finished piece is certainly interesting in itself, it is fun to see the different expressions of each businessman before becoming
Artist Jesse Burke is taking over The New Yorker photo department’s Instagram account for one week! Follow Jesse Burke @jesse_burke and The New Yorker @newyorkerphoto. Jesse writes: This is @jesse_burke. Follow along with me and my daughters this week as we travel around New England getting in touch with the natural