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Tuesday Events: Earth Day Edition
I had a little breakdown a few weeks ago when I realized I needed to work on my photography book collection. I’ve since received quite a few boxe...
I had a little breakdown a few weeks ago when I realized I needed to work on my photography book collection. I’ve since received quite a few boxes from Amazon, and am doing much better. I am currently enthralled with Jonas Bendiksen’s book Satellites. Some of these images really have to be seen to be believed; the images from Spaceship Crash Zones (where detritus from the Soviet Space Program goes to die) in isolated villages north of Kazakhstan are just incredible.
Is there a spaceship recycling program?
no, this is not from a Dreamworks sound stage.
photos by Jonas Bendiksen
In any case, there’s an event about photo book collecting at Aperture tonight that is applicable for nuts like me:
Introduction to Collecting Photography Books
Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
Join the publisher of Aperture’s book program, Lesley Martin, and art book dealer Harper Levine
of Harper’s Books, and Daile Kaplan, V.P., Director of photographs,
Swann Galleries Inc. among others, for a conversation on what makes
particular books valuable, and thoughts to consider in building a book
collection.
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And, in at powerHouse Arena, check out the Earth Day-tastic reception for Christopher Lamarca’s new book Forest Defenders: The
Confrontational American Landscape. I have always loved this work, and am psyched to see it realized in book-form.
The reception for Lamarca’s work coincides with the exhibition Shifting Landscapes, which is a doozy of a show, featuring work
by Lamarca, Joshua Lutz, Olaf Otto Becker, Edward
Burtynsky, David Maisel, and Simon Norfolk.
photo by Simon Norfolk
Reception: April 22, 6-9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: April 10-May 11, 2008
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street at Water Street
Brooklyn, NY
The show addresses important environmental issues such as global warming, destruction of
America’s old growth forests, waste, pollution, and the environmental
effects of war on the landscape, Shifting Landscapes offers an
opportunity to consider what nature and its magnitude evoke in us–some
marvel, some destroy, some defend.
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