Palm Springs Photo Festival

Call for Submissions - Staged: The Constructed Photograph

Call for Submissions


Staged: The Constructed Photograph


(Swainsboro, GA) – Gallery RFD seeks submissions for its upcoming exhibition titled Staged: The Constructed Photograph.

Countless photographers discuss the concept of taking a picture vs. making a picture and arguments can be made for either one. Can the constructed image tell us something the found image cannot? Does a photograph that was captured in the heat of a moment comment more closely on society that an image that was thoughtfully composed to have the same effect? Gallery RFD seeks submissions of photographic works that have been created, arranged, and composed from the ground up in attempt to convey their own truths.


Submission deadline: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 4 p.m. (EST)

Juror: TBA


Exhibition runs: June 13, 2009 – July 4, 2009

Opening Reception: June 13, 2009, 5-8 p.m.


Further details and prospectus available on the Gallery RFD website: www.galleryrfd.org, or email galleryrfd@gmail.com


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Timothy Bryan Ghiloni
Andrea Laborde
Co-Directors, Gallery RFD
www.galleryrfd.org

Jackie Brenner Exhibition at The Darkroom Opening Feb 7

The New Orleans Darkroom is delighted to present Friday Night at The Palace, the newest exhibition of acclaimed photographer Jackie Brenner.

In this exhibition, Brenner focuses on Friday night visits to the Sport Palace, a pool hall founded in 1958. Although this game is played in a hall that is dark, dingy, at times dangerous, and permeated by the stale odor of liquor and cigarettes, something magical happens as the player, stick in hand, approaches the large expanse of felt, the balls neatly in the rack awaiting the crash of the cue ball and its resulting chaos. The dignity, beauty and eloquence is astounding.


Friday Night at The Palace will be on exhibit February 7th through March 3rd, 2009. The opening reception will be held Saturday, February 7th from 6 to 8 pm at The Darkroom Gallery, 1927 Sophie Wright Place, New Orleans.


Biography: A fine art documentary photographer, Jackie Brenner studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries, including the Leica gallery in New York, is held in numerous private collections, and is included in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Houston's Museum of Fine Art.
She is the author of the seminal book Friday Night Grind, a haunting collection of photographs of dancers, bartenders, and bouncers presenting the underbelly of a Bourbon Street strip club.

The Darkroom Gallery is a New Orleans-based photography gallery that features the work of emerging contemporary photographers.

Seeking Photos of Buckwheat Zydeco

Alligator is hunting for GREAT shots of Buckwheat Zydeco that are relatively recent (say the last five years). We've signed Buckwheat and are looking for shots for packaging. If your members have something for us to see, they should send lo-res jpg files to Kevin@allig.com.

We are on a very tight time frame, so now is the time! Of course we use nothing without negotiating and paying (thus, lo-res files to reassure your people that we can't use without paying).

Thanks for any and all help

Best
Bruce

Bruce Iglauer
President, Alligator Records
Box 60234
Chicago, IL 60660 USA
(773) 973-7736 ext. 221
boss@allig.com

Shots Call for Entries: WATER

SHOTS no. 103
Spring Issue 2009

Theme: Water

An established independent photography journal in its 22nd year of publication, Shots Magazine reaches an international audience of photographers, collectors, galleries, museums, educators and other fine art photography enthusiasts. Don't miss this chance to have your work seen!

Send up to 12 images (prints or files on a CD) for consideration.


All submittals must be received by February 2, 2009

* CLICK HERE FOR GUIDELINES *

Renee Allie Featured on Filmwasters.com

Renee Allie has a portfolio of work featured on this month's guest galleries at Filmwasters.com.

Charles H. Traub and Douglas Baz Presentation Jan 29 at THNOC

“Two for the Road”
An illustrated presentation by photographers Charles H. Traub and Douglas Baz
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cajun Document, 1974
Wednesday, January 29, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited; for reservations call (504) 523-4662 or e-mail wrc@hnoc.org.

For six months in 1974, New Yorkers Charles H. Traub and Douglas Baz lived in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where they amassed more than 2,000 photographs of the local community and surrounding countryside. Their collective work depicts the people, culture, and landscapes of Louisiana’s Cajun community. Join the photographers for an illustrated lecture recounting their experiences.

Artist's Perspective: Photography Panel Discussion LASM

LOUISIANA ARTS & SCIENCE MUSEUM

Baton Rouge LA

Artist's Perspective: Photography Panel Discussion
Sunday, February 1, 2:15 PM

John H. Lawrence, director of museum programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection, will moderate this lively discussion about the use of new photographic mediums, the choice to continue traditional photographic processes, and photography as an art form today. Panelists include photographers : William Greiner, A. J. Meek, Victoria Ryan, David Humphreys, and Jim Zeitz. 

This event is held in conjunction with A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close / Poems by Bob Holman. 

Free and open to the public. 

Louisiana Art & Science Museum

100 South River Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70802

www.lasm.org

First Sunday sponsored by Citadel Broadcasting.

Shirin Neshat Talk, Jan 30th

Secretary of the Arts

I received the following petition request from Sara Henderson at

Marlborough Gallery. Thanks for your support.

William Greiner
PHOTOGRAPHS
225-803-0185
fotoart1@cox.net
www.williamgreiner.com
www.fotoarttoo.blogspot.com 

Dear Artist-

Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to

appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had

Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never

created such a position. We in the arts need this and the country

needs the arts--now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this

important petition and then pass it on to your friends and colleagues.

http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

Best,

Sara Henderson

-- 

Marlborough

40 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019

marlboroughgallery.com

"Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle" Film Screening Feb 4th

On Wednesday, Feb. 4th, the LHC Documentary Series resumes with the 2009 LEH Documentary Film of the Year, Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle. Directors Tika Laudun and Charles E. Richard will be on hand to discuss the film and answer questions.

This remarkable film has earned national acclaim from audiences and critics. It also has drawn national attention to Louisiana’s unique place in the history of documentary film. It received the 2008 Best Historical Documentary Award from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and will be featured in “Documentary Fortnight,” the annual exhibition of notable documentary films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Louisiana Story offers a self-reflective study of the medium of documentary film, both as artistic expression and as a tool for humanities scholarship. Laudun and Richard have created a valuable piece of film criticism and scholarship – delivered in the very medium that it critiques.

The LHC is located at 938 Lafayette Street, on the corner of O’Keefe in the CBD. Doors open at 7pm and there will be a short reception following the film. Admission is $5 and reservations can be made with Brian Boyles at 504.620.2632 or boyles@leh.org.

Mardi Gras 360 Degrees Workshop Deadline Approaching

Hey y'all just wanted to give you a heads up....the deadline for registration for the Mardi Gras 360 Degrees workshop is January 28th. You can register on our website. For further information you can call me at 701-0961 (504, of course.)

Thanks for your support,

Andy Levin

PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE MEETING

I would like to extend an invitation to all members who are interested in the Programming Committee to attend a meeting Tuesday, January 20, 7:00 p.m. at the NOPA Gallery, 1111 St. Mary St.

The Programming Committee is responsible for developing
exhibitions, educational events, public forums, and exchange
programs with other similar institutions.

We will organize ourselves in advance of the DESIRE exhibit; volunteers will be needed for various tasks. We will also get an update on the April/May show and begin preparing for the June/July exhibit.

We need to work on various things we will be doing during 2009, two of which are FILM NIGHTS and SIX SHOOTERS (a moderated panel discussion). We would like to do these on a quarterly basis and we will form subcommittees to handle the details. Ideas for other Programming initiatives are welcome and encouraged.

If you are unable to attend and want your ideas to be heard please email me @ thomnola@yahoo.com. I will present them for you.

Remember, your voice is the voice of the Photo Alliance so come and be heard. We have a lot to do and it doesn’t get done without you! Look forward to seeing you there. There will be pizza; BYOB.

Thom Bennett
VP of Programming

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Trees I Have Known

CALL FOR ENTRIES
Trees I Have Known

March 14 – May 3, 2009

Exhibition at the Lawrence Percolator www.lcava.org



Trees I Have Known will feature artwork and ephemera made by and collected by a diverse group of artists, thinkers, and neighbors whose work, narratives, and meditations reflect upon the tree as subject, metaphor or inspiration.

Inquiries and directions considered for the exhibition may include
Family Tree, Rope Swing, Tree Stump, Climbing Tree, Tree House, Tunnel Tree, Carved Seeds, Pits or Pods, Chainsaw Art, Unknown Specimens, Cataloged Specimens, Invented Specimens, Research, Lumberyard, Wooden Nickel Collection, Arboretum, Sap, Espalier, Germination, Totem Pole, Landmark, Hermits


Acceptable Media/Work
2-D and 3-D works will be considered for the exhibition. If selected, work must be delivered ready to hang or install. Please note that the Percolator is a 600 square foot space with eight foot ceilings.

The idea for this Percolator exhibition was borne from a discussion with the curator of Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture. The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas will be showing Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture concurrently.


Trees I Have Known Calendar

Saturday February 7, 2009 submit work via email (deadline) treesihaveknown@gmail.com

Monday February 16, 2009 notification of selection

Friday March 6, 2009 work must arrive ready to hang

Saturday March 14, 2009 exhibition opens

Submissions will be accepted via email

Submit digital images (jpg or png) of up to three different works to treesihaveknown@gmail.com with brief description (including size, date, medium) and price of work (if for sale) with contact information, including name, mailing address, gallery representation (if applicable), email, website url, and telephone.

Please limit each image sizes to 1mb; with file name: lastname_firstname_001.jpg


See attached PDF for complete details and visit www.lcava.org for updates


John Reeves & the Percolator
treesihaveknown@gmail.com for exhibit related correspondence

distribute freely

Prospect 1 closing jazz funeral and panel discussion

Lynda Frese Exhibition in Donaldsonville

Historic New Orleans Lecture

"The Legacy of J. D. Edwards: Photographs of 20th Century New Orleans"
A lecture by John H. Lawrence
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Closer Look: The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858–1861
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
6:30 p.m. • Counting House, 533 Royal Street
Seating is limited; call (504) 523-4662 or e-mail wrc@hnoc.org for reservations.
The photographs of J. D. Edwards, currently on display at The Historic New Orleans Collection, represent the earliest known paper photographs of New Orleans. Edwards’s New Orleans photographs (1858–1861) capture the physical and architectural character of the city on the eve of the Civil War. These cityscapes provide a point of departure and reference for many of the 20th century’s urban-inspired photographers. In the final lecture presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Closer Look, curator John H. Lawrence will discuss pictures of New Orleans made by several photographers, suggesting both affinities and differences between Edwards’s work and their own, and the changing nature of how a city is perceived and photographed. Among the featured photographers are Charles L. Franck, Morgan Whitney, Arnold Genthe, and Clarence John Laughlin.

Debbie Fleming Caffery Workshop

Fraction Magazine: The PhotoNOLA Issue

Check out the new issue of Fraction Magazine, which features the work of five photographers discovered at the PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review by reviewer David Bram, plus his review of the weekend's proceedings here. And while your there take a peek at the juried group exhibition, The Dress Show, which was curated by another PN3 reviewer, Melanie McWhorter.

Review of "Cajun Document 1974"

In their new exhibit, "Cajun Document 1974" at the Historic New
Orleans Collection, photographers Charles Traub and Douglas Baz
masterfully capture the bell-bottomed glory of mid-Seventies Acadiana
with a powerful group of 30 black and white square-format photographs.
The content of the images is landscapes, portraits, and downright
quirky moments. The style is a deceptively simple black & white
that, while appearing "classic" in many outward pictorial qualities,
never fails to surprise with taut compositions and an exceptional
choice of subjects.

Consider "Boucherie II"; a large morbid pig's head in sharp focus is
held hand-puppet style by a man who may be either the butcher in
question or simply one enlisted to pose as mime. Or "Mardi Gras
Masker At Rest" where it takes a second look to determine the
carnival mask sitting atop a horse's rump is actually a face mask
tilted back on top of a reveler's head who lies back upon his horse.
These images are at once playful, surreal, macabre and ordinary.
Traub and Baz manage to reveal the strangeness of Cajun country by
just showing it to us without contrivance or artifice. The numerous
portraits in the show are all fine examples of this occasionally
surreal vibe. "Bride And Groom" in lesser hands would have been
cropped in close to the newly married couple, instead we see the
liberally "monied" pair (the Cajun tradition of pinning currency to
the white tux and bridal gown) standing under a large expanse of
mildewed plywood soffit outside their reception hall. In "Jockey
With Crop and Tack" a rural black teen in riding helmet stands before
a mixed-race gathering of horse bettors leaving us to ponder the
vagaries of segregation and integration in post-Civil Rights Louisiana.
The choice of subjects in the series is also noteworthy. As one who
has photographed the world of Zydeco music extensively I can only
envy the perfection of "Clifton Chenier" in his prime, shining vocal
mic firmly attached to his piano accordion, gold teeth gleaming.
"Accordion Player" is none other than the master of Cajun funk,
Nathan Abshire (a notoriously difficult-to-photograph musician)
laughing for the camera...in a sombrero! Traub and Baz were there
with film when it mattered and we are all the richer for it.
The prints appear to be slighly warm-tone digital giclees but they
display a luscious range of silvery grays, lovely film grain, and
tonal integrity. "Towboat Model" is a fine example of dreamlike
scale manipulation (a small tugboat model appears massive against
textures of lapping waves and backlit clouds) achieved through
perfect exposure and development.

Traub and Baz forego any singular authorship of these images as none
display either artist's name. Mr. Traub recalls: "It's hard to tell
who photographed what. Our styles melded together. It was a shared
undertaking. There was no real plan--just the desire to see,
experience, talk, engage, and photograph." It's hard to resist such
sincerity and the work fairly sings with their passion and
engagement. The exhibit will be up at the Williams Research Center,
410 Chartres Street, until February 20th.

Rick Olivier

Brad Edelman & Michael Fedor @ Crescent City Brewhouse

A two person exhibition featuring Brad Edelman's abstract photography with recent works on paper by Michael Fedor will open at the Crescent City Brewhouse tonight. The show is on both floors, opening reception is on second floor from 5-7 this evening.

Exhibition Opens Thursday, Jan 8th
Crescent City Brewhouse
527 Decatur St.
5-7pm, reception on the 2nd floor

Photos from the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gala

Lee Henderson's photographs of the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gala at NOMA during PhotoNOLA are up and available for order. There are a few days left where you can take advantage of the 2 for 1 pricing. Lee is one of our up and coming event photographers and graciously donated her time and considerable effort for our event; please help support one of our own. Follow the Pictage link http://pictage.com/579711  (Cut and paste in browser if not active)

DESIRE Deadline: Monday Jan 5

"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it." - Aristotle

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is seeking work that explores the nature of DESIRE to be exhibited during February and March, 2009 at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery.

Desire is an eager wish to possess or enjoy. Its objects range from the pious to the sensuous to the mundane. Desire is, by its nature, unsustainable. Desire is fleeting, but images last forever. This exhibit encourages photographers to interpret, question or celebrate the myriad aspects of desire.

Juror:
Mayumi Lake

Deadline for submissions: Midnight, Monday, January 5, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, January 12, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5, 2009, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: Saturday, February 5 - Saturday, March 21

Photographers are encouraged to enter up to 5 images. Please follow the link below to submit online and to view the submission guidelines. Details here.

Mardi Gras 360 Worskshop Update

Hey y'all hope you had a great holiday and New Year and have recovered from PHOTONOLA, I just can't say enough about the great job that Mark, Jen, Bryce, Thom, Lori and the others did on that. The Bruce Davidson presentation was fantastic, and the work shown at the portfolio review was inspirational. Congratulations on taking a huge step in making the area a top photography center.

I just wanted to give you an update on the workshop, which is starting to fill up. I hope that some of you take advantage of the opportunity and join us. Debbie Fleming Caffery is a great teacher and hasn't done a workshop in Louisiana for a long time, this is a great chance to work with her and have all that Carnival stuff to shoot. So if you are serious about working with her, her petit class is starting to fill up........we are in the Alliance Francais, great venue, and it will be a lot of fun. The site is still http://www.100eyes.org.

Thanks for your support.

Andy