joel barhamand

This weekend, I would like to lie down in a bed of flowers. 

Random, but awesome. I love a masterly smoke image. This one is brought to us by German photographer Maximilian Pablo Jänicke.

Zoom!

photo by Julia Baum

And he shall loveth all things photography.

Seriously, folks. This week we're starting off the gallery season with a bang. Shows are listed many places, but no one does it more cohesively than Peggy Roalf in the DART newsletter. Here's what she tells us about Thursday (and beyond):

"This month offers the best in contemporary photography, showcasing themes that continue to ripple to the top of a very full glass. Here are 100 or so shows in the not to be missed category, covering themes of identity, race, class, the consequences of war, environmental concerns, and new approaches to setup photography, to name just a few."

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Here are some of the picks. And make sure to click on the jump on the bottom-- this thing spans states and countries, so it's a loooong list.


NEW YORK: CHELSEA and DOWNTOWN

Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski: The Early Sequences: 1977-1982
Robert Mann Gallery
September 4 - October 18, 2008
Opening Reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Alexandra Sanguinetti: The Life that Came
Yossi Milo Gallery
September 4 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 6 - 8 pm

Julia Baum: A Rare Breed -- Portraits of Redheads
NY Studio Gallery
September 4 - 27, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 7 - 9 pm

Jonathan Calm: New Video and Photography
Caren Golden Fine Art
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Polixeni Papapetrou: Games of Consequence
Foley Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Paul Fusco: RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Danziger Projects
September 4 - October 4, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Meredyth Sparks: We Were Strangers For Too Long
Elizabeth Dee Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008

Jane Hammond: Photographs
Galerie Lelong
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Michael Thompson
Hasted Hunt Gallery
September 4 - October 25, 2008
Opening Reception: September 11, 6 - 8 pm

Amada Means: Glass + Light
Ricco Maresca
September 4 - 27, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar
Andrea Meislin Gallery
September 4 - October 18, 2008
Opening Reception and Book Signing: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague
Aperture Gallery
September 5 - October 30, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Shimon Attie: Racing Clocks Run Slow
Ka Hassan: Recent photographs
Jack Shainman Gallery
September 4 - October 20, 2008

The Figure Today featuring multimedia work by Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lynn Goldsmith, Saul Leiter, Chris Raecker, and Jeong Mee Yoon, among others
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
September 4 - September 27, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Kevin Cooley: At Light's Edge
Massimo Audiello Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 8 pm

Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive
Luhring Augustine
September 6 - October 4, 2008
Opening reception: September 5, 6 - 8 pm

Guido Castagnoli: Provincial Japan
Sasha Wolf Gallery
September 11 - November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Whetstone: Post-Pleistocene
Julie Saul Gallery
September 12 - October 25, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 6 - 8 pm

How I Spent My Summer Vacation, featuring work by Rachael Dunville, Sebastian Lemm, Christopher Rauschenberg, Roger Eberhard, Josh Quigley, Caleb Charland among others
Michael Mazzeo Gallery
September 12 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 6 - 8 pm

Vivan Sundaram: Trash
SEPIA International | The Alkazi Collection
September 17 - November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 17, 6 - 8 pm

Joshua Lutz: Meadowlands
Dave Anderson: Roadside Ghosts (Project Room)
ClampArt
September 18 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 18, 6 - 8 pm

Doug Aitken
303 Gallery
September 20 - November 1, 2008

Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center | Parsons the New School for Design
Through September 12, 2008


click on the link below to see MANY MORE!

Continuing with our theme of craftiness today, here are some of Erik Boker's product dissections.

From Boker's project statement:

"I am interested in the notions of art as commercial product, art as artifact, and the nature of the museum, and I continue to explore our understanding of their roles, and the inherent beauty, humor, and horror that lies within them."

Horror is Aquafresh's thorax, spread wide for all to see.

Ohhh, good morning, my friends. Clayton Cubitt turned me on to these ten camera hacks yesterday, and I've been fascinated since.


I've been feeling a little under the weather, so it seems apropos to post the Rebecca Hinden's red eye camera; this one actually encourages red eyes. I like it. It makes my current look all the rage.



you can do it with a disposable camera.


(here's the process. this in itself seems like a work of art to me.)




If you want to go for the big guns....

Most Exciting. Gallery Press Release. Ever.

I think this is how Star Wars fans must feel when Mr. Lucas announces another prequel. Or not, since those have been known to suck. But this-- this will not. OK, I'll kill the suspense: Alessandra Sanguinetti is showing a continuation of her amazing series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams, entitled The Life That Came.

Full Press Release:

Alessandra Sanguinetti
The Life that Came
September 4-October 18, 2008
Artist's Reception
Friday, September 12, 6:00-8:00 pm

Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce The Life that Came, an exhibition of color photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti. The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 4 and close on Saturday, October 18, with a reception for the artist on Friday, September 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This will be the artist's third exhibition at the gallery.

The Life that Came is the continuation of The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams, an ongoing series of photographs following the lives of the young cousins Guillermina and Belinda as they grow up on their family's farm outside Buenos Aires. Cultivating an intimate relationship with the pair, Ms. Sanguinetti has collaborated with the girls since 1999, capturing images inspired by the expectations, fantasies, and fears that accompany the psychological and physical transition from childhood to adulthood.

This sequel to the gallery's exhibition of the series in 2004 carries the project forward to a new period in the lives of Guille and Belinda as they enter the adult world they once imagined. The fantastical tableaux of personal dreams and lively imagination of the early images give way to more meditative moments as the two cousins shape their own realities, encounter the fragility of changing relationships, and confront early motherhood.

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York City in 1968 and currently lives and works in both Buenos Aires and New York City. Her work has been exhibited extensively abroad, including a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, and is part of several collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the International Center of Photography, New York. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award.

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Here are some of the new images. They're all grown up. Amazing.



Time Flies, 2005


Ray of Light, 2005

Hello, roosters! If Avedon's your man, then this fine Monday morning The New Yorker has a treat for you:

"This week's issue features a portfolio of entertainers from 'Richard Avedon Performance,' a new collection of rarely seen work by Richard Avedon due out in October. Avedon had an enduring relationship with performers: he was portrayed by one--Fred Astaire--in the 1957 movie 'Funny Face,' and throughout his career they remained among his favorite subjects."

charming:

Whoa, PhotoShelter's now in the print-selling business. For a limited time only*, a select group of images are available in archival print editions. Seems like nice use of resources for an agency with so much incredible artwork.

I think I shall start with these eight. And then I will buy some more.


*cue car salesman voice


Julie Kuceris

Holy discovery!

Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in the collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.

From an essay by Eric Sandweiss:

"For thirty years, Charles Cushman documented a dying landscape in living color.

Packing his car with camera, lenses, and film, his tripod, his notebooks and--often as not--his first wife, Jean (who was not, to judge from the expression on her face in Cushman's occasional carside portraits, always a happy traveling companion), this extraordinary amateur photographer pursued a life on the road, and in the streets, of mid-twentieth-century America. Whatever its effect upon his marriage, Cushman's peripatetic compulsion did result in a remarkable gift to future historians, photography lovers, and students of Americana.

For here, framed through the lens of his Contax IIA camera, saturated in almost embarrassingly vivid colors, springs to life a world that we had long since resigned ourselves to viewing only in shades of gray. The America that we thought we knew, whether through the self-conscious artistic starkness of the images of Berenice Abbott and Walker Evans or through the polished middle-brow poses of Look and Life, is revealed as being but the shadow of a world no less full and tangible than our own. In Cushman's work the past becomes, for an instant, impossibly present."

A mere five selects:


Hydrant Party, Hagerstown, Maryland, July 1940



Emmet Flynn as old Leather face in the Movie "ARIZONA" on the set, April 1940



Elephants' jockeys mount. Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey circus, August 29, 1943



New Ford in Niles Canyon, February 1958



Pumpkin farm at Verdi Road and California Hwy 1, September 1968


See so, so much more, here.

Which came first?

1. A photo

I visited David Black's site last night and was greeted with a truly spectacular sight: Daft Punk. In helmets and leather.



With smoke....



of many colors.



Turns out the shoot was for this:




And, of course, there's an anecdote. And it's funny.

From our photographer:

"I used color smoke bombs and made the mistake of leaving them in my carry-on bag when catching a flight at LAX. I ended up getting arrested and the bomb squad came to the airport. No joke, it was one of the scariest experiences of my life.

Best!

David"


Yowser! Stop Smiling, indeed. I hope that was on the way back from the shoot.

kaboom.

The talk this morning about family blogs made me remember Nicholas Nixon's Brown Sisters-- a series of thirty-one portraits of his wife and her sisters that he's made since 1975.

The women are always shot with a view camera, and appear in the same order:
Heather, Mimi, Bebe, and Laurie.

I think they're rather melancholy. But still beautiful.

Here are some of my favorites:

A sweet, sweet treat for us today, my pretties. Emily Nathan, who shoots lustrous, gorgeous lifestyle and travel work commercially, sent over some scans of a personal project she's getting underway. And the project is Fairy Tales, which I think pretty much nails the zeitgeist on its darling little head.

Nathan was kind enough to share quick web scans with us, which is awfully generous-- I can understand when people want to wait until a project (or one's files) are complete. These here are straig