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Ready to roll? check out these competitions…

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, Maine, New England, ONLINE AWESOME, Other on May 31, 2012 by voxphotographs

Jim Nickelson has posted his selection of Calls for Entries on his blog 56×56. Here’s the link:


http://56×56.com/for-photographers/calls-for-entries-june-2012/

If you haven’t signed up to receive his blog postings automatically, you should. I’ve received terrific feedback from Maine’s fine art photographers on competitions, shows and exhibits they discovered in these listings. Make a commitment to enter at least one competition or show each quarter. Get ready to roll. It will make a difference, trust me.

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Get out…!

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, Maine, New England, NYC, Other on March 6, 2012 by voxphotographs

March is the no-man’s land between winter and spring in northern New England and a great reason to put down the remote, shove back the computer chair and head out the door to photography shows and exhibits. If you do, you’ll find your artistic or aesthetic blood will begin to thaw along with the longer days and you’ll be all the better for it.

NEEDS YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION:

The Myths:  Artists’ Reception: Thursday March 8, 4-6. (Panel to include Susan Danly, Senior Curator, Portland Musem of Art.)

Review: Maine Sunday Telegram, March 11, 2012 – click here to read it!

Hours: Tues – Fri 11-4, Sat 11-5, Univ. Southern Maine Gallery/Gorham. Curated by Heather Frederick. Last day: April 4

Amy Wilton•Abigail Wellman•Rose Marasco•Cig Harvey•Jesseca Ferguson•Bev Conway•Sharon Arnold

Not a Child©Amy Wilton. All Rights Reserved

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5 Guys’ Eyes on Portland – Saturday, March 10, 6:30 – 9:30, Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St., Portland Clay Atkinson•Greg Burns•Jim Casey•George Hixon•Harold McWilliams.

THROUGH MARCH:

Portraits: Mat Thorne & Sally Dennison. Hours: Thurs – Sun 12-5, Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. Curated by Bruce Brown. Last day: April 1.

Review: Maine Sunday Telegram, March 11 – click here to read it.

Pattie©Sally Dennison. All Rights Reserved.

Making Faces: Photographic Portraits of Actors and Artists. Hours: Daily, Tues – Sun, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Last day: April 8.

LONGER:

Tanja Alexia Hollander – Are You Really My Friend? Hours: Daily, Tues – Sun, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Last day: April 8.

Flash Forward. Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Last day: May 4.

SOON:

John Goodman. Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, University of Maine Museum of Art. Opens: April 6 through June 9.

Father’s Day, Coney Island, 2006©John Goodman, Silver gelatin print
Courtesy of Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston

NOT HERE, BUT NOW:

Modernist Photography: 1910-1950. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through April 1

Zoe Strauss: Ten Years. Philadelphia Museum of Art, through April 22. Link to slideshow.

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage. Smithsonian American Art Museum, through May 20.

Silver, Salt and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through August 19. Blog Posting on this exhibit: VoxPhotographs March 13 – click here to read it.

A New Vision: Modernist Photography. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, through May 13.

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See you out and about!

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Expand your horizons…

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, MAINE RESOURCES I LOVE..., Other on February 27, 2012 by voxphotographs

Check out Jim’s blog posting including some real quality places to submit your work. Do yourself a favor: enter at least six competitions this year and kick open a few doors.

http://56×56.com/for-photographers/calls-for-entries-march-2012-2/

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Heading to…Rochester?

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, Other, Photography Books, REVIEWS on May 2, 2011 by voxphotographs

  In the unlikely event you are heading to or beyond Rochester, NY before June 13, you will want to stop at the George Eastman House.

Their exhibit “Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War” is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War showing rare photographs of the era – faces and places. A review in the current Black and White magazine states: “Of particular interest is the way the exhibition explores how photography was utilized to not only document the war’s campaigns, but to also serve the propaganda agendas of both North and South.”

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As well, George Eastman House has just published a new book: Steichen in Color. If you love autochromes, this is for you. I think autochromes are my favorite color process and the review of this book, also in Black and White magazine says “Many of these [autochromes] feature friends and family, and the soft-focus, delicately tonal images are possessed of stunning warmth and intimacy. Steichen himself remarked about them, ‘I have no medium that can give me colour of such wonderful luminosity as the Autochrome plate.’” Sigh. Can’t wait to see this book – will have to ask my obsessive photobook buyer friend to get one and then borrow it. Although at $25, it’s a steal, so I’ll buy it myself and lend it to him!

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Armchair First Friday…

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, ONLINE AWESOME, Other on March 5, 2010 by voxphotographs

Include San Francisco on your itinerary for the next First Friday Art Walk scheduled for whatever town in Maine you are living in.

Paul Caponigro, Yosemite Valley, California, 1972 • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Scott Nichols Gallery’s OUR NATIONAL PARKS exhibit is a stunner – and I can’t even begin to think how great these images  must look on the gallery walls. Putting the exhibit online for the rest of us poor winterbound eastcoasters is such a gift, so take advantage of this largesse and take a look. A long one.

William Henry Jackson, Mt. Harvard, Sawatch Range, View South On Arkansas River, Colorado, Circa 1872 • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Approx. 50 photographs from William Henry Jackson and Carl E. Watkins to Ansel Adams and our own Paul Caponigro are on view. The exhibit is up to see through March 27.

Michael Rauner, Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park, California, 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

And if you are actually going to SF in person and can see this exhibit before it closes on March 27, don’t tell me. I don’t think I could take it.

Rondal Partridge, Pave It And Paint It Green, Yosemite, mid 1960′s • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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I always get warm and fuzzy feeling when I visit the Smithsonian – finally our tax dollars at work in a way that I can appreciate. Love the free admission to OUR history and culture and arts.

And here’s a show to see: FRAMING THE WEST – The Survey Photographs of Timothy O’Sullivan.

O’Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer. Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho.[United States], 1874.1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen.
Notes: Original negative number: 92.
Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.
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O’Sullivan was a young war photographer, working with Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner throughout the tragic Civil War, but in 1867 joined the team charged with surveying the fortieth parallel led by Clarence King (did you catch this amazing book about King? “Passing Strange – A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line” by Martha A. Sandweiss? You really, really don’t want to miss this one…) Then in 1871 he joined another team that set out to survey the one hundredth meridian. In 1873 O’Sullivan led his own expedition to document the cliff-dwellers and pueblos. We can never truly understand how amazing these expeditions of exploration and documentation were. But there are plenty of books out there to read and try and comprehend the  magnitude of it all.

SLIDSHOW: SMITHSONIAN/Timothy O’Sullivan – see it here!

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All of Lincoln’s faces…

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, Exhibits/Shows, Other on January 12, 2009 by voxphotographs

I lucked out getting to Washington DC a couple of weeks ago. I read in today’s paper about the Obama family visiting the Lincoln Memorial last evening and could remember pretty acutely the large emotions I felt standing there myself so recently. How could you not feel such a deep sense of irony and awe? To see President-Elect Obama standing at the feet of Abe Lincoln may have been more than my tear ducts could stand. And I’m a Canadian for heaven’s sake!

The day before I visited the Lincoln Memorial I had spent time at the National Portrait Gallery studying the photographs of Lincoln in their “One Life – The Mask of Lincoln” exhibit. What a privilege to stand and study the Alexander Gardner albumen silver print taken in 1865 – the one from the cracked plate. (Gardner twisted the plate as he removed it from the camera – and it broke into two pieces. He made this one image and threw the plate away.) It is rarely on display and in fact will be replaced by a facsimile on February 17 in order to preserve it. A once-in-a-lifetime viewing for me, I think. I love surprises like that!

1865 – Gardner

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The photograph that made me practically jump when I walked up to it is another Gardner, this one taken earlier in 1863. I’m not kidding when I say I thought I was looking into the eyes of the great man himself. Even with this tiny reproduction, you can sense it.

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The third image that stood out for me was Matthew Brady’s salt paper print taken in 1860. A gorgeous and singular portrait and one I spent a long time looking at.

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I didn’t know this exhibition was up until I got to the Gallery. But… the good news for you is that it is up until July 5, 2009. If you are anywhere near Washington, go and see it. I never cease to marvel that all our national museums are free – the best kind of use of my tax dollars.

When you’ve spent time observing these rare and lovely images, take a walk: up the Mall to the feet of the great leader himself.

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Meeting Michael Katakis…

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, Exhibits/Shows, Other, REVIEWS on January 6, 2009 by voxphotographs

On view until 2/1/09 at the fabulous National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC is an exhibit called Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs. I saw it a couple of weeks en route to a warmer place than Maine!

My favorite portrait was Michael Katakis‘ image of Maya Lin in 1988 – one of the most uncontrived and lovely portraits I’ve seen a long time. It shows the designer of the Vietnam War memorial in Washington DC (completed in 1982) casually seated in what looks like her studio, and her black cat has reached out to place a paw on her shoulder.

maya_lin© Michael Katakis, National Portrait Museum, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Michael Katakis in memory of his father, George E. Katakis. All rights reserved.

Mr. Katakis photographed the Vietnam War memorial extensively and this one page essay about an encounter he had there gives great insight into the man and is supported by two of the photographs on his website (below).

If you think you’ve seen enough pictures of visitors to the Vietnam War memorial, you haven’t until you viewed a small sampling of Katakis’ images on his site, or buy the book if you can find it, published in 1988 by Crown Publishers and titled The Vietnam War Memorial.

Take some time to get to know Katakis’ work via his website. You can’t go wrong spending a few minutes with an expert photographer who gets right to the soul of his subjects.

JUST RELEASED: Michael Katakis had a new book published this week, Jan. 5, 2009. Traveller – Observations from an American in Exile includes an introduction by Michael Palin.

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Why Cleveland? Sam Taylor-Wood.

Posted in EXHIBITS/SHOWS, Other on March 11, 2008 by voxphotographs

I wish I were on my way to Cleveland. Well, maybe I’d wait until those two feet of snow they just got melt away. After all, Sam Taylor-Woods exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art is up until May 11.

I’m not as educated about contemporary photographers as I should be and I’m working to remedy that, but I just read about this unique artist this morning in The Week (3/14/08). This is the unique vision I’m always thinking and talking about.

http://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibition_details.php?ex_id=39

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The above image is from her series “Bram Stoker’s Chair” and reflects her interest in “depicting psychological states”. The subject is herself and she posed with wires that have been digitally removed from the final image.

“…haunting, balletic images…profoundly affecting exhibition”-Cleveland Scene

Another series which I would give anything to see is “a time-lapse video of a bowl of nectarines rapidly molding, rotting and falling apart”.

And again, another series of portraits of famous male actors crying on cue.

Love this original mind. Need to spend more time online learning about her.

If anyone reading this is heading to Cleveland, call me.

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