The 5th Annual Weston Photography Scholarship Fine Print Auction
The 5th Annual Weston Photography Scholarship Fine Print Auction in up for Preview, at www.westonscholarship.org
You can also see this year’s stunning winning photographs.
Preview now and online bidding starts September 5-12, 2008. The Fine Print Auction will be held at the Carmel Art Association, Sept 13, 2008 at 7PM located on Dolores ST. between 5th and 6th Ave. Carmel CA.
Hope you get a chance to see some of the amazing images we have up for auction. Roman Loranc, Robert Weingarten, Kim Weston, Ryuijie, Huntington Witherill, Chip Hooper, Graham Nash (not posted yet) and many more. Take a look.
100% of the proceeds go to the Weston Photography Scholarship Fund! Hope you can participate!
Gina & Kim Weston
Weston Photography
251 RT.1
Carmel Ca 93923
831-624-8111
www.kimweston.com
Aug 22, 2008
Abstract: Multiple exposures - Snapshots
An increasing critical interest in vernacular photography and the snapshot has led to exhibitions and books in the last decade. The exhibition The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978 at the National Gallery of Art came from the collection of Robert E. Jackson and the Accidental Mysteries touring exhibition came from the collection of John and Teenuh Foster (www.accidentalmysteries.com). Other exhibitions such as Close to Home: An American Album at the Getty Center (October 12, 2004 - January 16, 2005) highlight how the photographic snapshot is being accepted as an integral part of socio-cultural history.
This exhibition includes examples of multiple exposures kindly provided from a number of private collections. Some of these are intentional whilst others are accidents of camera malfunction or failing to wind on the film. Some show elements of two frames whilst others are superimposed. In most examples the camera has been kept on the same axis for both images but in some cases landscape and portrait formats are merged to create confusingly powerful visual memories of soldiers blended with indigenous peoples. At times it can be uncertain if the result was planned in advance or a strange alignment of stars.
This is part of a number of exhibitions on Multiple Exposures that will be shown on Luminous-Lint and as always we welcome additional examples. Thanks to John Foster, Norman Kulkin, Nigel Maister and the private collectors who have provided examples for this exhibition.
Further reading:
Ford, Colin, and Karl Steinorth (Editors), 1988, You Press the Button, We Do the Rest: The Birth of Snapshot Photography (London: D. Nishen, 1988)
Greenough, Sarah & Waggoner, Diane, 2007, The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978, (Washington: National Gallery of Art in association with Princeton University Press) [ISBN: 978-0-691-13368-3]
Johnson, Robert Flynn (Editor); & Boyd, William (Introduction), 2004, Anonymous. Enigmatic images from unknown photographers, (New York: Thames & Hudson) [Hardback] [ISBN: 0500542929]
Skrein, Christian R. (editor, Essay); Aletti, Vince (Essay); & Aigner, Carl (Essay), 2004, Snapshots: The Eye of the Century, (Hatje Cantz Publishers) [Hardcover] [ISBN: 3775713964]
The photographs included the book Invasion 68: Prague were taken by a photographer who wished, for obvious reasons, to remain anonymous when tanks from the Warsaw pact invaded Prague. It was only later that the identity of the photographer, Josef Koudelka, was revealed and he has continued to be one of the leading documentary photographers of our age. It is a bitter irony that at the same time as this book is being released Russian tanks are again in action in Georgia. Journalists and photojournalists have died during this invasion including the Georgian photographer Alexander Klimchuk who was head of the Georgian photo agency Caucasus Images. The work of Koudelka provides a strong visual testimony to military oppression.
Press release from Aperture
On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the invasion of Prague, Aperture Gallery presents Invasion 68: Prague, an exhibition and catalog of Josef Koudelka’s remarkable work made during that one week. In 1968, Koudelka was a young photographer chronicling the theater, and the lives of gypsies, but he had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political freedom in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment. These powerful photographs anonymously reached Magnum Photos in New York and earned the Robert Capa award.
This exhibition, coproduced with Magnum Photos, will feature large-scale prints of this work, many of the images have never been seen before, with compelling texts by Czech historians. Both images and texts are taken from Koudelka’s latest stunning Aperture monograph of the same name, which includes 250 photographs chosen by the artist from his archive. Coinciding with the show at Aperture Gallery, Pace/Mac Gill Gallery jointly presents an exhibition opening the same day of Koudelka’s most iconic vintage and recent prints.
Josef Koudelka (born in Moravia, Czech Republic, 1938) is the recipient of the Prix Nadar, Grand Prix National de la Photographie, Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson, and Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. Major exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 2007, Aperture published his bestselling self-titled monograph. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
WHEN AND WHERE:
Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 4, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on View:
Friday, September 5, 2008–Thursday, October 30, 2008
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(between 10th and 11th Avenue)
New York, NY
(212) 505-5555
For interest I just did a check on the most recent newsletters that have been sent out from Luminous-Lint to see if you are finding them useful. For the last 14,651 Luminous-Lint newsletters sent out only 18 people opted out - this is great news and thanks for all your interest and support. Thanks also to everybody providing information and making corrections from around the world - we have many surprises in the exhibitions that are currently being prepared. Alan
Aug 16, 2008
Larry Wiese: An Evolving Retrospective
"It is said that the true artist is one who sees what others do not and then make it visible. Larry Wiese understands what it means to be an artist. He lives it, and it is evident in his photographs. So much of photography these days is repetitious and unoriginal, even codified--what is acceptable subject material, how it is supposed to look. And then you come across the photography of Larry Wiese - powerfully seen yet quiet. His images whisper rather than shout. And in each photograph one has the haunting feeling that you are on the edge of hearing a great cosmic secret, of seeing a mystery unfold. He sees what others do not, but it is even more than that. What sets Larry's work apart and makes him a true artist is not what he sees but how he sees. He gives us new eyes. And this is the highest form of artistry."
Brooks Jensen, Editor
LensWork Publishing
Thanks to Larry Wiese for his help with this online exhibition.
"It was a surreal assembly of painted and costumed dancers swaying in front of a fire that sent clouds of embers and sparks across the desert floor. The sound of dancer’s leg rattles and chorused voices were alternately swallowed and amplified by the gathering winds. It was a contest between men and the elements, something I have witnessed often since coming to the Sahel." (Robert Gardner The Impulse to Preserve, Peabody Press. 2006)
Bob Gardner is a distinguished filmmaker, anthropologist and photographer and was Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from its foundation in 1957 for over 40 years. His films including Dead Birds, Rivers of Sand and Forest of Bliss are classics within their genre. Thanks to Bob for kindly providing this exhibition.
Knight of the Camera: The Photographs of Sir Benjamin Stone M.P.
From 20th September - 31st October 2008 an exhibition of the photographs of Sir Benjamin Stone M.P. will be held in Centenary Square, Birmingham, UK. Though not a household name now he certainly was in the later 19th and early 20th centuries in Great Britain where he was "playfully dubbed ‘Sir Kodak’, ‘Sir Snapshot’ and ‘The Knight of the Camera’." - a point made by Peter James who curated this exhibition.
‘…Benjamin Stone is a national institution. Photography has been with him, as has been well said, not a hobby but a passion…’
The Strand Magazine, 1910.
A passionate amateur photographer he recorded his travels, notable visitors to the House of Commons and established the National Record Association to photograph the buildings, everyday life, manners and customs of Great Britain. The tradition of recording folk customs and traditions has been continued in the UK by Doc Rowe and Homer Sykes.
With thanks to Peter James, Curator of Photography, Birmingham Central Library, UK for kindly curating this exhibition.
Multiple exposures on calotypes and salt prints - Request for examples
Recently I've sent out emails requesting details on the first examples of multiple exposures on calotypes and salt prints for an online exhibition that is in preparation for the Luminous-Lint website. I'd be most interested in hearing from anybody with examples in their collections or knowledge of early examples. Alan alan@luminous-lint.com
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