Society For Photographic Education National Conference

This year's conference is in Philadelphia. Students are volunteers are discounted.

See this form: Student Scholarship Opportunities for the 2010 Conference (PDF Form)

Also: www.spenational.org

Keynote Speaker: Kip Fulbeck
Featured Speakers: Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua
Featured Speaker: Dawoud Bey

Early Bird and Volunteer registration postmark deadline: January 22, 2010
Deadline for registration cancellation: January 29, 2010
Deadline for hotel registration at discounted rate: February 1, 2010
Late registration postmark deadline (register onsite after): February 1, 2010

Larry Sultan, California Photographer, Dies at 63

See the NY Times Article here

Paolo Ventura

The new Paolo Ventura show is up at Hasted, Hunt and Kraeutler.

December 10, 2009 - January 23, 2010

Jorg Colberg has a video of Paolo Ventura speaking about his work HERE.

HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER
537 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment

History of Photography, 1900-Today

If you haven't taken the History of Photography, it will be offered next semester!

Giant Camera Built by George R. Lawrence | c.1900

What:

History of Photography, 1900 - Today

Art History 383 Index: 68337

Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106 or permission of instructor: Andres Zervigon

When:

Spring 2010

MW4, 1:10-2:30

Where:

Zimmerli Multi-Purpose Room

College Avenue Campus

This course provides an in-depth survey of photography’s history from the turn of the last century to today. Our goal will be to tease out trends in the medium’s use across a number of overlapping fields including art, journalism, science, and vernacular practices such as family portraiture. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which photography often operates as a bridge linking these various fields. Why, for example, are photographs of America’s depression-era dustbowl both government documents and works of art? How is the development of digital photography both a new means of disseminating images over the internet and an aesthetic tool? Throughout the course we will propose answers to these questions by carefully analyzing widely recognized photographs and others that have rarely received attention.

The Black Snapper

Check Out The Black Snapper

The Black Snapper is an online magazine for talented photographers from all over the world:

The Black Snapper magazine website presents a new artist every day, in a dedicated slideshow comprising up to twenty images. Weekly selections are made by guest curators. A worldwide community of photography professionals and experts supports the project.

The Black Snapper is a showcase for photography talent from around the world. Our basic philosophy is to utilize the dynamism of the internet to facilitate the presentation and hopefully the discovery of talented photographers. One of the primary aims of this magazine website is to support the emancipation and promotion of photography from Africa, Asia and South America.The diversity of guest curators makes the selection process more objective; there will not be a single person whose individual taste and preferences dominate the content and guest editors are invited to discuss their motivation behind their selection. A list of guest curators is published on our archives page.

The Black Snapper aims to inspire photography professionals and photography enthusiasts worldwide and to be instrumental in the development of contemporary photography.

List of Graduate Schools

>New Jersey City University

>School of Visual Art

>Maryland

>Pratt Institute

Alex Bag Review

The video was very interesting because I like how the part when she talk about the years in college which I can really relate to her. She really expresses the feelings of an art student's struggle in a art college. The idea of work resemble the life of every art student. I think the way she talk about her life at SVA really resemble every student that goes to an art school. I like the way she reenact different typesof behaviors such as anxiety, boredom and ambivalence.

Edward Burtynsky at Hasted Hunt & Kraeutler

Edward Burtynsky's show "Oil" will be up until November 28th, 2009 at Hasted, Hunt & Kraeutler.

Here's a MAP

Here's a Video of the show at Corcoran from Vimeo


HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER
537 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment

Robert Frank at Pace/Macgill

Robert Frank
Pace/MacGill
32 East 57th Street, NYC

October 29 - December 5, 2009

Displaying old works and Contact Sheets containing those images. Worth the visit!

Xenia Nikolskaya

Be sure to check out this week's visiting artist and Fulbright Scholar from St. Petersburg, Russia. Xenia Nikolskaya

Wednesday, Nov. 4th in CSB 110/117 @ 6:30pm

Thought this Would Be Useful

I don't know if anyone has seen this website before, but Carbonmade is a free way to create a portfolio online in a very clean, professional way. Check it out, it's a good way to organize your work without having to create a website and have something to show.

New Works by Photography’s Old Masters

A look inside Robert Capa’s Mexican suitcase reveals groundbreaking photography from the Spanish Civil War that was long thought to be lost. View the slide show and related article from the New York Times here.

Kotama Bouabane

I wanted to post this when we were sharing photographers, but I couldn't find the link in my bookmarks. His series, Melting Words is clever and I think it is a wonderful use of letter ice cubes and a lot of the photographs are beautifully staged.

Check out his site here.

Jan Van Hollenben

I came across this photographer while searching staged photography. I found his work to be really hit or miss. There were certain series I really enjoyed while others were less impressive. Dreams of Flying is my favorite.

http://www.janvonholleben.com/index.php

Raul Montifar:Phillipines http://www.montifar.com/raul/index.html

Eolo Perfido: Italy http://www.eoloperfido.com/

Luther Cavalry: Canada  http://www.lutherphoto.com/HTML/gallery.html

Annie Leibovitz

The Pictures above are by the photographer Annie Leibovitz. She is one of my favorite photographers. She is mostly known for her portraits. From top to bottom: The rolling stones, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Keith Haring, Elizabeth II and Kirsten Dunst.

Martin Parr on Madonna's use of Sepia toned publicitiy image

Madonna has released an image of herself holding Mercy, the Malawian baby she hopes to adopt. It's in sepia. Why?

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda. Remember when the colour supplements used to run black-and-white pictures of famine and hardship? Some still do. They do that because they want to make it look more authentic. But it's a fabrication. You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

Read more on the Guardian UK website here.

http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/index.html

Barry Whittaker is pretty cool, he likes a dog and a desert

I chose this artist to share because he is one of the instructors teaching at the school I am going to study abroad in the fall.

Probably one of the most important things for an artist to have present in his work is humor. Barry Whittaker sums it up well in his statement found in the 'text' portion of his website. He also has a blog.

He uses color very sparingly in his photographs, making them feel very much like every-day images. They are calm while still causing us to feel anxious in certain situations. In the Atmospshere photos there is a sense loss and confusion: where am I? who am I? how did get here? where are we going? wait, am I alone? What are we doing? As for the Precious Monsters and Pets we are frightened of the creatures and concerned for their safety at the same time. With the last three series, Accumulation and Absense, Thrift, and Preservation, we feel greatly overwhelmed and interested in the objects found.

Diane Arbus' freak showesque photographs are a sight to see!

Guatemala

Summer Service Trips to Guatemala May 22-30 and August 22-30, 2009
Join this study tour and learn about sustainable agriculture, rural development and campesino/indigenous communities in Guatemala. We work with CONIC, a national indigenous and campesino social movement organization with over 120,000 members in over 300 communities Guatemala which fights for land, human, indigenous and women's rights, and promotes rural development and food sovereignty. Trip participants will: - set up computers for community members - participate in workshops with women's groups and children - live in campesino and indigenous communities - work on sustainable development projects
Cost: Approximately $1200 (including airfare, food, lodging, fees)
For an application or more information contact William Kramer at 732-589-8024 or wkramer@access4less.net
Organized by the Farmer Solidarity Project farmersfightback.wordpress.com

Ellen Stagg

Ellen Stagg has her own web show on IFC and I feel she's really interesting check it out here

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Husband and Wife duo. Amazing.

Cool underwater pictures, it'd be great to see how he does it...

http://www.scottrhea.com/underwater.htm

The Sartorialist

the sartorialist

corinne cuozzo

Photo-related Websites & Activities

I'd like to contribute a few image-related websites you may find engaging. Have Fun!

Rutgers University Photography Club:
I am the president of the Rutgers University Photography Club. Please comment or email me at trestini@eden.rutgers.edu if you are interested in being involved or contributing in some way. In no way must you come to every meeting-- you could simply tag along on photo trips or outings together if you so desire.

What do you guys do?
Take pictures, talk about photography, go to museums (both in NYC or on campus), and more!
I send out weekly facebook event invites and email reminders about art events on campus and photo club meetings.

Contact me, get on the mailing list and facebook group!
Email: trestini@eden.rutgers.edu
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2201418712&ref=ts

Lauren Felton (Vice President, left)
Sarah Knauff (Treasurer, right)
Portraits by Catherine Trestini

A Softer World
http://www.asofterworld.com/
One of my favorite webcomics is the project A Softer World. ASW is run by my favorite modern writer Joey Comeau and delightful photographer Emily Horne. It is updated three times a week. I have aspirations to combine writing and photography; you can think of A Softer World as a close muse of mine. A personal interpretation I'd like to mention is that this webcomic is non-traditional comic, meaning it is not here to make you laugh (although most of the time it will!) ASW combines humor and sadness in their comic, and often these emotions are displayed seperately, in individual strips. Perhaps ASW is important to me because I make a connection between sadness and humor, too. Emily's way of photographing and Joey's literary response combined art form of a comic engages me.

"A Softer World is a comic that was created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau so that people would recognize them as important artistic geniuses. Sometimes the "comic" is sad or harsh. It should be noted that this is in the tradition of George Simenon's 'romans durs' (or 'hard novels') and not in the lesser traditions of comics like Peanuts or anything else not French. Comeau is a French name. (Pronounced kuh-moe, by the way. Joey is very important, please say his name correctly. Emily is also very important but her name is easier to pronounce.)" (http://www.asofterworld.com/about.php)

External Links:
View the latest comic here: http://www.asofterworld.com/
View the archive of comics here: http://www.asofterworld.com/archive.php





Simon HogsBerg:
We're All Gonna Die -- 100 Meters of Existence
http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

Terri B was reminded of this project by photographer Simon HogsBerg during our latest critique discussion. Check out this 100 meter long photograph project here: http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html. Don't forget to also view his website for additional projects.

I found HogsBerg's project on Stumbleupon. Stumbleupon is an add to your browser (unsure what it is compatabile with aside from Firefox and Internet Explorer) that allows you to "stumble" upon websites that it thinks you may find interesting, depending on the categories you choose you'd like to see more of. You can stumble through specific websites, like photography pages such as Flickr.

View stumble-upon here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/. Feel free to look through my personal Stumbleupon "favorites" that are stored when you click the "I like it!" button on your Stumble! browser: http://butterbee.stumbleupon.com/



Post Secret:
I wanted to share the art project Post Secret with you as I was reminded of our class project on the Recession. In critique discussion I remember sharing that the recession affects me in a positive way often, surprisingly.

Taken from Wikipedia, PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.


Post Secret is updated weekly, every Sunday!

Links:

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostSecret

Happy Easter!

Snapped this 'bunny automobile' photograph in Lindenwold, New Jersey. Cute celebratory accessory!

Picturing the Recession

Submit your photos of how you see the recession here at the New York Times website. Also take a look at other people's photos.  

Gail Albert Halaban

This show just finished at the Robert Mann Gallery, but I still think it's worth checking out on the website. Out My Window


I fell in love when I ran into the photos and was even more in love after going to see it.

Also, she even created a blog that talks a little about the process and includes some stories of the people she included in the photos, etc. Blog Link

Lili Almog

http://www.lilialmog.com/
Andrea Meislin Gallery
The Other Half of the Sky
May 2 - June 13, 2009
opening and book signing
Saturday, May 2 4-6pm

This show is about working women in China. I can't copy her photos, but you can see them at http://www.lilialmog.com/TheOtherHalfOfTheSky/About.html.


Although this series isn't in the exhibit, I love her "Perfect Intimacy"...it's a photo project about nuns. She is interested in the spiritual world and lifestyle these women have dedicated themselves to. While exploring this world, she comes across other prominent issues, such as where and this lifestyle fits into the environment. Here are some of my favorites.

http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html

A friend of mine showed me this and I thought it was really really interesting.

A few of my favorites

Guatemala

Here's a preview of my trip in Guatemala. More at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/34882306@N08/