Showing posts with label gallery talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gallery talk. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Female Directors In Plain Sight Features Amalie R. Rothschild; Gallery Talk June 8

 Via Guild Cinema Via Guild Cinema


FEMALE DIRECTORS IN PLAIN SIGHT shorts series - PAINTING THE TOWN: THE ILLUSIONISTIC MURALS OF RICHARD HAAS, IT HAPPENS TO US and POSSUM LIVING

Jun 4 thru 6

Tue to Thu 3:30, 8pm


DIRECTOR AMALIE ROTHSCHILD WILL BE IN PERSON FOR THE SCREENINGS PLUS CINEMATOGRAPHER NANCY SCHREIBER WILL BE PRESENT FOR ALL SHOWS EXCEPT THE FINAL THURSDAY 8PM SCREENING!

GALLERY TALK: The Fillmore East and My Unexpected Career in Rock Music PhotographyGALLERY TALK: The Fillmore East and My Unexpected Career in Rock Music Photography

Monroe Gallery of Photography, June 8, 4:30 PM


PAINTING THE TOWN: THE ILLUSIONISTIC MURALS OF RICHARD HAAS - Director Rothschild, along with cinematographer Nancy Schreiber, fashions her own exuberant film mural based on the life and very public work of the celebrated architectural muralist Richard Haas. Since 1974 his “trompe l'oeil” paintings have caused double takes from Munich to Phoenix. His artistry transforms cityscapes in ways that confound and delight. He is an artist with a mission–to make the urban environment visually pleasurable, and therefore more livable and humane.  [Dir. Amalie R. Rothschild - 1990 - 56m approx.]

IT HAPPENS TO US - Made in 1971 by an all-woman crew, women who are rich and poor, young and older, black and white, married and unmarried, tell dramatic stories about why and how they ended their pregnancies when abortion was still illegal.  [Dir. Amalie R. Rothschild - 1972 - 30m approx.]

POSSUM LIVING - Hailed by the New York Times when it premiered at MoMA’s New Directors series, director Schreiber went on to become one of America’s few successful women DPs – most recently with the hit TV series P-Valley– but she was never given another chance to direct a movie.  This short documentary tells the story of Dolly Freed, author of the 1970s cult classic Possum Living.  It shows how this father and daughter pair quit their job and school respectively to live out of their suburban home. As per the book's subtitle, it teaches how to "live well without a job and with (almost) no money."

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS - NANCY SCHREIBER, ASC and AMALIE R. ROTHSCHILD

Nancy Schreiber (ASC) is an award-winning director and  cinematographer based in both New York and Los Angeles. Schreiber has  directed four  dance films including RITES of PASSING and documentaries which included the award winning POSSUM LIVING and an hour long PBS film on women artists called FROM THE HEART.She was the fourth woman ever voted into membership into the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers. Schreiber has compiled over 130 credits, an eclectic list of narrative film and television credits as well as music videos, commercials and documentaries. Schreiber landed on Variety’s 10 cinematographers to watch before taking home the coveted Best Cinematography award at Sundance for the film NOVEMBER, with Courteney Cox. Schreiber has been nominated for an Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award nominations, was awarded the Women In Film Crystal /Kodak award, and in February 2017 was the first women honored with the ASC ( American Society of Cinematographers) President’s award . Schreiber is also a member of the the TV academy , Film Independent, International Documentary Association, Local 600. Women in Film,  and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 

Amalie R. Rothschild is one of the four founders of the successful and progressive 53-year-old distribution cooperative New Day Films. An award-winning filmmaker and photographer she is noted for her documentaries about social issues as revealed through the lives of people in the arts. Ms. Rothschild's keen eye has documented seminal events in history. She was the de facto photographer at the Fillmore East Theater in NYC and on staff at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and the author of Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir. Her films include the groundbreaking It Happens to Us made in 1971 with an all-woman crew and the first American film to argue that women should have the right to control their own bodies and end a pregnancy. Other films are Nana Mom and Me, Conversations with Willard van Dyke, and Woo Who? May Wilson. Her film  Painting the Town: The Illusionistic Murals of Richard Haas premiered at Sundance, was shown in the New Directors/New Films sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center and won the Best in Festival Emily Award at the American Film and Video Festival, as well as a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, among other honors. While based professionally in New York City, since 1983 she lives roughly half the year in Italy.


Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Save the date: Two Pioneering Women Photographers of The Photo League Gallery Talk April 21

 

TWO PIONEERING WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PHOTO LEAGUE



black and white portraits of photographer Sonia Handelman Meyer seated in her studio and Ida Wyman holding her cameras circa 1940s


Opening Gallery talk April 21 with managers of the photographer’s estates, Joe Meyer, son of Sonia Handelman Meyer, and Heather Garrison, granddaughter of Ida Wyman. The talk starts promptly at 5:30, seating is limited and RSVP is essential. Zoom registration here. The exhibition continues through June 18, 2023.

The Photo League was a collective of photographers active between 1936-1951 who believed their work could change poor social conditions and champion photography as an art form in the process. The Photo League thrived as one of the most progressive, dynamic and creative centers for photography in America, and was unusual in its time as many of the collective’s members were women.

In the 1940s when McCarthyism started gathering momentum in the US, suspicious authorities decided to clamp down on the Photo League’s confrontational and uncensored representations of urban American society. In 1948, it was declared a subversive organization and blacklisted. As the league’s secretary at the time, Sonia Handelman Meyer answered the office phone when requests for comment about the accusations poured in from the media. “It got to be too much,” she told The New York Times. “They were blacklisting people”.

Both photographer’s work went unrecognized for decades. In recent years, there has been a revived interest in the radical collective that contributed incomparably towards promoting early street photography as an art form.






Thursday, October 13, 2022

Alumnus Ed Kashi ’79, a photographer with National Geographic and VII Agency, will deliver the keynote address for the 2022 Alexia Fall Workshop October 20

 Via Newhouse School at Syracuse University

October 13, 2022

color photograph of Villagers celebrate the Ganapati Festival to honor the Lord Ganesh. Vadhav, India, 2007.


Alumnus Ed Kashi ’79, a photographer with National Geographic and VII Agency, will deliver the keynote address for the 2022 Alexia Fall Workshop. 

Kashi is a renowned photojournalist who uses photography, filmmaking and social media to explore geopolitical and social issues that define our times. He is also a dedicated educator and mentor to photographers around the world. Kashi lectures on visual storytelling, human rights and the world of media.

In support of his newly published book, “Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography,” Kashi will also present a gallery of his interdisciplinary work along with a book signing, immediately preceding the lecture.

6 – 7 p.m. Gallery opening and book signing

7:15 – 8:15 p.m. Lecture

Co-sponsored by Nikon, Center for Global Engagement, Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse University Humanities Center, and Light Work.


Photo: Villagers celebrate the Ganapati Festival to honor the Lord Ganesh. Vadhav, India, 2007.


Ed Kashi is represented by Monroe Gallery, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For any print sales, please contact info@monroegallery.com.


Contact

Ken Harper

kharpe01@syr.edu

502.263.3380

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Ed Kashi's Book "Abandoned Moments" Receives 2022 Prix de la Photographie Gold Medal

 

The “Prix de la Photographie, Paris” (P×3) promotes the appreciation of photography, discover emerging talent and introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris.

Gold in Book/Monograph


photo of cover of Ed Kashi book "Abandoned Moments"


If the decisive moment reflects reality in tune with the photographer’s intuition, flawlessly combining composition and timing, then the abandoned moment is the consequence of a fractional instant of surrender. This collection, made over a 40-year period by renowned photographer Ed Kashi, reveals imprecise glimpses of transitory events filled with frenetic energy - the chaos of everyday life. Embodying photography’s intrinsic power, they preserve moments that can never occur again in exactly the same time and space.


Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues of our times. A sensitive eye and intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work. A member of VII Photo Agency, Kashi is recognized for his complex imagery and compelling rendering of the human condition. In addition to producing 9 books, he is a pioneer and innovator of multimedia, whose award-winning work has been published and exhibited worldwide.

Ed Kashi: Abandoned Moments Gallery Talk

Awards

Awards Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant, American Photo, Applied Arts, Artivist Film Festival , Black Maria Film & Video Festival Jury's Stellar Award, Communication Arts Photography Annual, Days Japan Photojournalism Awards, Festival Photoreporter, Freddie Awards, International Photography Awards, Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, National Geographic Explorer's Grant, National Press Club Journalism Award, New York Photo Festival Awards, Open Society Institute Grant, Photo District News (PDN), Photocrati Fund, Pictures of the Year (POYi), Prix Pictet Commission, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2-year fellowship grant, UNICEF Photo of the Year, USA Book News National Best Books Award, Village Voice Best Photo Book, World Press Photo

Monday, March 14, 2022

Ed Kashi exhibition March 18 – April 24; Book signing and Gallery talk April 1

 

color photograph of Syrian children silhouetted against night sky in refugee camp in Jordan
Ed Kashi: Scenes of youth in a small refugee encampment in the desert of eastern Jordan after fleeing Syria, 2013



Santa Fe, NM -- Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to announce exclusive representation of Ed Kashi, a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times.

A new exhibit celebrates “Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography” (Kehrer Verlag, March 2022) his newest book; featuring photographs made over a 40-year period that reveal imprecise glimpses of transitory events filled with frenetic energy – the chaos of everyday life. 

On April 1, Ed Kashi will be in discussion in the Gallery and streaming on-line via Zoom. Event starts promptly at 5:30 pm (MT), RSVP and Zoom registration at 505.992.0800, www.monroegallery.com, or info@monroegallery.com

Kashi’s sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his intense and unsparing work. As a member of VII Photo Agency, Kashi has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition. Kashi continues to create compelling imagery and engage with the world in new ways.

“I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people’s minds. I’m driven by this fact; that the work of photojournalists and documentary photographers can have a positive impact on the world. The access people give to their lives is precious as well as imperative for this important work to get done. Their openness brings with it a tremendous sense of responsibility to tell the truth but to also honor their stories.” 

– Ed Kashi




Abandoned Moments Book Trailer from Ed Kashi on Vimeo.