Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography



The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography
January 19, 2014 – May 17, 2014
Organized by NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale as part of its Foto Fort Lauderdale initiative and curated by Peter Boswell.

Via NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale will present an exhibition featuring the imagery of renowned photographer Bob Adelman. Adelman’s unique vantage point at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement led him to produce some of that era’s most iconic images. The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography, presented by AutoNation, will be on view at NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale from January 19 – May 17, 2014. Featuring 100 black-and-white and color photographs, the exhibition will provide a context in which viewers can revisit these years of struggle and consider how and why certain images have become emblematic of the era.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum will present a series of special programs and events.
Between 1963 and 1968, Bob Adelman was a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and other civil rights organizations. His work granted him unique access to the movement’s most important events and figures, and he forged close ties with such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr. , Malcolm X, John Lewis, and James Baldwin. His work was featured in major publications of the civil rights period.
Events documented in the exhibition include: the Freedom Rides; the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations during which demonstrators were hosed and attacked by police dogs; the 1963 March on Washington, which culminated in Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech; voter registration drives; the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery March; and Martin Luther King,Jr funeral. A number of the photographs on view in the exhibition have never before been published.
Adelman has photographed cover stories for many magazines including Esquire, Time, Life, New York, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and Paris Match, and has photographed or written more than a dozen books and produced many others, including King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Abrams, 2004). Adelman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant, and several Art Directors Club Awards. His photographs have been exhibited the Smithsonian, the American Federation of Arts, and other institutions, and are included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He currently lives in Miami Beach.
The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography is presented by AutoNation. Additional support provided by the Community Foundation of Broward; Simkins Hollis Law Group, PC, in loving memory of Dr. Anna Atkins Simkins; the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee, Inc.; W Fort Lauderdale and Media Partner CBS4.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Symposium: With Their Own Eyes: Photographers Witness the March on Washington




Via Library of Congress
Library of Congress Holds Symposium on Jan. 13

With Their Own Eyes: Photographers Witness the March on Washington

A Library of Congress symposium on Jan. 13 will bring together photographers who took pictures at the March on Washington more than 50 years ago.

"With Their Own Eyes: Photographers Witness the March on Washington" is being held in conjunction with the Library’s exhibition "A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington," which is on view through March 1.

The symposium will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13, in the Whittall Pavilion on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are needed.

Photographers featured in the exhibition, along with relatives of photographers no longer alive, will take part in the program. The participants include Bob Adelman; Theresa Lynn Carter, the daughter of Roosevelt Carter; Brigitte Freed, the widow of Leonard Freed; and David Johnson. They will share their accounts of the day and discuss how the march changed their lives. Keith Jenkins will moderate the discussion.

The program will begin with a welcome from Kim Phan, president of the Friends of the Law Library of Congress, which is co-sponsoring the symposium with the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division. The event is made possible through generous donations from Roberta I. Shaffer; the Leica Store in Washington, D.C. and the Friends of the Law Library. Speakers at the Symposium
  • Bob Adelman is a photographer known for his images of the Civil Rights Movement. His interest in social and political events of the day drew him to the sit-ins staged by young students across the American South. In the early 1960s, he volunteered to photograph demonstrations for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He was close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr. and U.S. Rep. John Lewis. Adelman continues to be involved with civil rights issues and the human condition.
  • Theresa Lynn Carter is the daughter of Roosevelt Carter (1926-1981), who traveled to Washington with a church group from Columbus, Ohio. He brought along his camera to capture a personal view of the day. He focused on the thousands of faces along the March route from every walk of life, including the many celebrities.
  • Brigitte Freed is the widow of Leonard Freed (1929-2006) and was his darkroom assistant. The couple was based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, until a photograph taken by Leonard Freed of a black American soldier guarding the Berlin Wall compelled him to return home to the United States to document the civil rights struggle in 1963. Freed’s photographs from 1963 to 1965 were published in the now-classic book "Black in White America."
  • David Johnson is a professional photographer who credits Ansel Adams as his major influence. Johnson documented black life and culture in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. He attended the March on Washington as a delegate from the Bay Area NAACP and covered the event for a local newspaper.
  • Keith Jenkins, director of photography at the National Geographic Society, is a former supervising senior producer for multimedia at National Public Radio. Prior to working at NPR, Jenkins was the first director of photography at AOL. He spent 13 years at the Washington Post in various positions, from staff photographer to photography editor for the Washington Post Magazine and Washingtonpost.com. Earlier, Jenkins worked as a staff photographer for the Boston Globe.
After the symposium, tours of the exhibition will be offered. "A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington" which opened on Aug. 28, 2013 and closes on March 1, 2014, consists of 40 iconic black-and-white images that mark what Martin Luther King, Jr., called "the greatest demonstration for freedom in the nation’s history." The photographs, part of the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division collections, convey the immediacy of being at the march and the excitement of those who were there. A video-screen display in the exhibition features another 75 images.

The Prints and Photographs Division includes more than 15 million photographs, drawings and prints form the 15th century to the present day. International in scope, these visual collections represent a uniquely rich array of human experience, knowledge, creativity and achievement, touching on almost every realm of endeavor: science, art, invention, government and political struggle, and the recording of history. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/rr/print/.

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

The Right to Photograph & Record in Public: Panel Discussion in Florida





The Right to Photograph & Record in Public

 National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Sponsored by Broward County ACLU & SDX Foundation of Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)

Saturday, January 25, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (EST)
Plantation, FL

Register here.


An expert panel discussion regarding First Amendment rights:
What are the rights of citizens & the press to photograph and record in public?

Can police seize and view those images or order them to be deleted?

What is some of the most recent caselaw regarding these issues?

How can we foster a better understanding of our respective rights & responsibilities in order to have a greater respect for the roles that everyone plays in newsgathering and free speech?


Moderator:
Mickey H. Osterreicher, General Counsel, National Press Photographers Association

Panelists:                                                                
Marc Rohr, Prof. of Constitutional Law at Nova University Law School
Ron Gunzberger, General Counsel, Broward Sheriff’s Office
Carlos Miller, Journalist/Blogger/Activist and founder of Photography is Not a Crime
Radley Balko, Journalist, author and editor at The Washington Post  

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A NEW YEAR



As the final hours of 2013 elapse, we pause to remember two great friends that passed away in 2013: Bill Eppridge and John Dominis, along with so many other truly great photographers.

We are grateful that our lives have  made it possible to know, or to have known, so many great photographers personally in our careers, and their humanistic photography and kind hearts have informed us in both our personal and professional lives.

2013 has once again affirmed our steadfast belief in the power of a photograph.  To all of the photographers out there, past and present, we honor your commitment and service to humanity.

We are so very thankful to all who have visited the gallery and our booths at art fairs this year (we'll be in booth #302 at photo la 2014 January 16 - 19).

In a small way, this our "thank you" for 2013. We wish you the very best in 2014.

--Sidney and Michelle Monroe


Related: 2013 in Pictures, and more

Monday, December 30, 2013

JOHN DOMINIS: 1921 - 2013



John Dominis via johndominis.us
 
 
 
It is with great sadness that we  have learned that LIFE photographer, John Dominis, passed away Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 after a long illness. Obituaries and tributes below.

 John Dominis was born June 27, 1921 in Los Angeles and attended the University of Southern California, where he majored in cinematography. However, he credits a teacher, C. A. Bach, from Fremont High that offered a three-year course in photography for his skills. Remembers Dominis, "He'd give assignments, ball you out, make you reshoot." Eight of the photographers that Bach trained later got staff jobs with LIFE magazine. From 1943 to 1947 Dominis served as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force photographic department. After three years as a free-lance photographer, he became a member of the LIFE staff in 1950.

 A consummate photojournalist, Dominis covered the Korean War for LIFE, and recorded the beginning of what became the Vietnam War. He photographed the firing of General Douglas MacArthur, and he covered John F. Kennedy’s emotional “I am a Berliner” speech. Dominis traveled the world constantly, and in 1966 he made two long trips to Africa to photograph the “big cats”: leopards, cheetahs, and lions for a remarkable series of picture essays in LIFE which later became the basis for a book. This project resulted in several awards for Dominis, including Magazine Photographer of the Year (1966).

Dominis also covered five Olympics, the Woodstock Festival, and represented both TIME and LIFE during President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China. Many of the editors and photo-chiefs at LIFE considered Dominis to be the best all-around photographer on staff. After LIFE ceased regular publication, Dominis worked as photo editor for People and Sports Illustrated. Returning to freelance photography, Dominis shot the photographs for five Italian cookbooks, on location with Giuliano Bugialli, food writer and teacher.

“LIFE magazine was a great success. If a man hadn't seen a picture of a native in New Guinea, well, we brought him a picture of a native of New Guinea. We went into the homes of princes and Presidents and showed the public how they lived. The great thing about working with LIFE," says Dominis, "was that I was given all the support and money and time, whatever was required, to do almost any kind of work I wanted to do, anywhere in the world. It was like having a grant, a Guggenheim grant, but permanently."

In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the release of The Great Escape. Intrigued by his dramatic backstory and his off-screen exploits — McQueen was a reformed delinquent who got his thrills racing cars and motorcycles — LIFE sent photographer John Dominis to California to hang out with the 33-year-old actor and see what he could get. Three weeks and more than 40 rolls of film later, Dominis had captured some astonishingly intimate and iconic images, photos impossible to imagine in today's restricted-access celebrity world.

Trailing Steve McQueen was Dominis' first Hollywood gig. "I liked the movies, but I didn't know who the stars were; I was not a movie buff," Dominis, now in his nineties, told LIFE.com. But he got the assignment because he and McQueen shared one vital passion point. "When I was living in Hong Kong I had a sports car and I raced it," Dominis says. "And I knew that Steve McQueen had a racing car. I rented one anticipating that we might do something with them. He was in a motorcycle race out in the desert, so I went out there in my car and met him, and I say, 'You wanna try my car?'" Later the two of them would zip around Los Angeles, including Sunset Boulevard (pictured). "We went pretty fast — I mean, as fast as you can safely go without getting arrested — and we'd ride and then stop and trade cars. He liked that, and I knew he liked it. I guess that was the first thing that softened him."

From early morning until late at night, Dominis followed McQueen through his action-packed days — camping with his buddies, racing his various vehicles, playing with his family, tooling around Hollywood. Even back then, Dominis says, he had to be mindful that his constant presence did not become irritating. "Movie stars, they weren't used to giving up a lot of time — in fact they didn't like to give up hardly ANY time," he says. "But I sort of relaxed in the beginning and didn't bother them every time they turned around, and they began to get used to me being there. If they were doing something, they would definitely just not notice me anymore."










  New York Times: John Dominis, a Star Life Magazine Photographer, Dies at 92


  L'Oeil de la Photographie: The death of John Dominis

  NPR: The Incredible Versatility Of Photographer John Dominis

  LA Times: John Dominis, one of the great Life photographers was 92

  TIME: John Dominis, Longtime LIFE Photographer, Dies at 92


  International Center for Photography: John Dominis: 1921 - 2013

  PDN Obituary: John Dominis, Prolific LIFE Photographer, 92


  F-Stoppers: Celebrating the life of LIFE photographer John Dominis

  Santa Fe New Mexican: John Dominis, longtime photographer for 'Life', dies at 92

  Washington Post: John Dominis, Life magazine photographer, dies at 92

  Photographer Spotlight: John Dominis

  LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN DOMINIS' PHOTOGRAPHS OF WOODSTOCK

  The LIFE Photographers exhibition

  John Dominis Exhibition



 
 


2013 Year in Pictures and the..."Best of " Everything Photographic 2013


Love them? Hate them? The lists have begun: everyone's photography "Best of" lists for 2013.  (Updated Jan. 1, 2014)


TIME LightBox: In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2013


Magnum Photos Blog: 2013 The Year in Review

The Guardian: Photographer of the year: Goran Tomasevic

Guardian picture editors' favourite photos of 2013

Stella Kramer: 2013 in Photography: First the Bad 
                        2013 in Photography: Now for the Good

Year in Photos 2013 by Pete Souza

Time Light Box: All the 2013 Photojournalismlinks posts

New York Daily News: Best of 2013: A look back at the top New York Daily News photos of the year

The Observer's 20 photographs of the year

dna's best pictures of 2013

LA Times: The Year in Pictures | 2013

Aljazeera: In Pictures: 2013 in review 

CBS: 2013 The Year in Pictures

Huffington Post:  The 52 Most Breathtaking Photos From Around The World This Year    
Boston.com: Top Big Pictures in 2013

Pulitzer Center: 2013: A Year in Photos

New Yorker Photo Booth: The Year in Photojournalism

The New York Times: 2013: The Year in Pictures

Telegraph: World news pictures of the year 2013: part 1
                  World news pictures of the year 2013: part 2
                  World news pictures of the year 2013: part 3

The Guardian: The best photographs of 2013 – in pictures

The Paris News: 2013 in Pictures

ABC News: 2013 Year in Pictures

BBC: Year in pictures 2013

CNET: 2013: The year in pictures

BBC: The UK year in pictures 2013

CNN: 2013: The year in pictures

The Independent: In pictures: 2013 - The year in review

NY Daily News: Photos of the year 2013: Top 30 most striking news images from across the globe

The Week: 2013 The Year in Pictures

The Columbian: 2013 Year in Pictures

The Guardian: The best photography of 2013: Sean O'Hagan's choice

Politico: The 18 Best Washington Photos of 2013

The Guardian: 2013: the media year in pictures

The Daily Beast: 2013 The Year in Photos

Associated Press: AP's Top 10 photos of 2013

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013

NBC News: The Year in Pictures: 2013

New Yorker Photo Booth: Thirteen Incredible Outtakes from 2013

The Guardian: Best portraits of 2013 – in pictures

WIRED: The Most Amazing Images NASA Took of Earth From Space This Year

Chicago Tribune/Shooting From The Hip: my best photos of 2013...iPhone edition

The Photoblographer: The Year in Photography Culture: Remembering Seven of the Best Moments

BBC: Press Association photographers' best shots of 2013

The Guardian: 2013: The year in pictures

The Denver Post: Photos of the Year 2013

Desert Sun Photo Staff’s Best of 2013

The Guardian: Wildlife and nature photography award-winning images of 2013 – in pictures

GIZMODO: The 100 Most Astonishing Images of 2013

Fast Company: The 16 Best Photo Essays Of 2013

TIME: David Guttenfelder is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year

Times of Malta: Signs of the Times during 2013

Greenpeace: Greenpeace Photo of 2013

Huffington Post: 2013's Most Striking Fine Art Photography

Video: Reuters Pictures of the Year 2013

The Washington Post: The 18 best political pictures of 2013

TIME LightBox: Photos of the Year That Almost Got Away: Behind and Beyond 365

Boston.com The Big Picture: 2013 Year in Pictures: Part I
                                                2013 Year in Pictures: Part 2
                                                2013 Year in Pictures: Part III

The BagNews Top 10 News Photos of 2013

The Denver Post: Photos: Best of Getty Images 2013

The best Boston Globe photos of 2013

TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2013

TIME’s Best Portraits of 2013

All of TIME's The Year in Pictures 2013

The Atlantic: 2013: The Year in Photos, January - April
                                The Year in Photos May - August
                                The Year in Photos, September - December

Doublemesh: The 40 Most Powerful Photos Of 2013

National Geographic: Travel 365: Best of 2013

Discovery Channel: Best Ocean Animal Photos of 2013

The Inertia: Monster Gallery: The 100 Best Surf Photos of 2013

Vanity Fair’s Year in Photographs, 2013

Wall Street Journal: Photos of the Year 2013
(You can also Share Your Top Photos from 2013 With #WSJbestphoto)

TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of 2013

TIME LightBox: The Most Surprising Photos of 2013

TIME LightBox: 2013: The Year in 365 Pictures

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013

Reuter's: Best photos of the year 2013 (with the photographers offering a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.)

ANSA presents top photos of 2013

Mashable: 100 Most Powerful Moments of 2013 in Photos

Milwaukee Business Journal: Best photos of 2013

2013 Year in Review: The year's most-viewed photo galleries on MassLive.com

The Brian Lehrer Show: Best of 2013: The Year's Best Pictures (That Are Sitting On Your Phone)

ESPN: Best photography of 2013

USA TODAY Sports' pictures of the year

Mashable: 50 Stunning Sports Photos From 2013

Forbes: The Most Science Fictional News Stories Of 2013 In Pictures

Vulture: 2013’s Best Entertainment Photography

LA Weekly: Best LA Concerts of 2013 in Photos

Salon: The most incredible nature photography of 2013                       

Pitchfork:  Year in Music Photos 2013

LA Times: The best political photos of 2013

The Post Game: Best Action Sports Photos From Red Bull In 2013

2013 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award Winners

The Telegraph: Royal Navy photographer of the year 2013


Books:

photo-eye: The Best Photo Books of 2013

Elizabeth Avedon: BOOKS 2013: My Top Ten and More

Conscientious:  My favourite photobooks in 2013

Telegraph: Inspirational photography books for 2014

photo-eye: photo-eye's Top-10 Bestsellers of 2013

LensCulture: 2013 Photobooks of the Year

New York Times' Sixth Floor: The Top 10 Photo Books of 2013

Photo District News: Best Photo Books of 2013: Part 1
                                  Best Photo Books of 2013: Part 2
                                  Best Photo Books of 2013: Part 3

Mother Jones' Photographers Picks the Best Photobooks of 2013

1000 Words Photography: Top photobooks of 2013

Slate: Eight Amazing Photo Books From 2013 You May Have Missed

Raw File: Holiday Gift Guide: A Photo Book for Everyone on Your List

The Guardian: The best independent photobooks of 2013

The Telegraph: Inspirational photography books for 2014

The Telegraph: Black and White Photography books of the year

The Guardian: Photography books of the year – review

Oh Top Book! Best Overlooked Photobooks of 2013

The Telegraph: Ten photography fanatics share their favourite books of the year

British Journal of Photography: The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick

British Journal of Photography editor Simon Bainbridge's 10 favourite photobooks of the year

The Telegraph: Best photography books of the year

TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2013

Washington Post:  5 best photography books of 2013

Photo.net: Best Photography Books of 2013

The Telegraph: Alec Soth: My Top Ten Photo Books of 2013


Other categories:

Gizmag: The best cameras of 2013

BBC: Your pictures of the year

Digital Trends: Best photography product of 2013: Sony Alpha A7

New Yorker Photo Booth: The Weirdest Photo Research of 2013

Bag News Notes: The BagNews Best Posts of 2013

Gallerist: The Year in, and Beyond, the Galleries

PhotoShelter  54 Reasons to Love Photography in 2013

Tech 2: Gadgets of the Year: Best camera-centric smartphones of 2013

Ideas Tap: Our Favorite photography articles from 2013

PhotoShelter: Photo Projects That Made For A Better 2013

CNN: Best smartphone travel photos announced

The Guardian: Selfies of 2013 – the best, worst and most revealing

The Onion: Top Photojournalism Of 2013

TIME LightBox: Report from 2013 Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair

The Phoblographer’s Top Ten Stories of 2013

Imaging Resource:  Top 13 for 2013: the best cameras, lenses and technologies of the year

LA Times: Photography Christmas gift ideas 2013

Popular Photography:  2013 Camera of the Year: Sony a7R

Holiday Gift Guide 2013: The Phoblographer’s Editor’s Choice List




Wednesday, December 18, 2013

“LIFE magazine was a great success..."





“LIFE magazine was a great success. If a man hadn't seen a picture of a native in New Guinea, well, we brought him a picture of a native of New Guinea. We went into the homes of princes and Presidents and showed the public how they lived. The great thing about working with LIFE was that I was given all the support and money and time, whatever was required, to do almost any kind of work I wanted to do, anywhere in the world. It was like having a grant, a Guggenheim grant, but permanently." --John Dominis


The LIFE Photographers continues through Januray 26, 2014

Related:    “I had no idea what else was available, but I knew Life had to have it.” 

                  Bob Gomel got closer than he wanted to JFK’s funeral

Friday, December 13, 2013

To Do in Santa Fe: Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain


Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), Head of a Monk. Black chalk and grey wash, c. 1635–1655. Courtesy the British Museum


 Our View: Goya exhibition a coup for state
 Via The Santa Fe New Mexican

New Mexico’s state museums manage, despite tight budgets and many demands, to continually engage their audience.

That’s true for homegrown exhibits such as Cowboys Real and Imagined, now at the New Mexico History Museum, or New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más, at the Museum of International Folk Art, or Here Now and Always, at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Then there are those inviting traveling exhibits. Who can forget the exquisite, hand-lettered exhibit featuring the St. John’s Bible, treasures from the court of Czar Nicholas or Gee’s Bends quilts, all of which have spent time in New Mexico?

Joining those stellar exhibitions starting Saturday is an exhibit featuring Spanish works — Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
New Mexico is fortunate indeed to be the only location in the United States to exhibit this collection of drawings and prints — created at the British Museum and seen in Spain and Australia. Its chief attraction, naturally, is the opportunity to see work by the master Francisco de Goya. An Australian reviewer wrote, “Renaissance To Goya is stunning, packing that unique graphic punch across themes of religion, daily life, myth and — in the case of Goya — social commentary and insanity.” Museum director Mary Kershaw is to be congratulated for bringing the exhibition to Santa Fe. It’s an opportunity not just to see great works on paper, but to revisit what had been a settled question in art and discover new answers.
 
For whatever reason, the Spanish were not considered to excel at drawing in comparison with Flemish and Italian masters. This exhibition, gathering a range of drawings and prints from all across Spain from 1662 until the death of Goya in 1828, shows masters at work, presenting a rich body of pieces that encompasses religion and changing Spanish society. Many of these works haven’t been displayed — the British Museum is so rich in collections that exhibition curator Mark McDonald pulled these from the vaults. The previous view by some, that Spanish artists excelled more in color and painting, but not drawing, can be set aside.
 
In The Independent newspaper, reviewer Michael Glover had an interesting reaction, writing: “We go through it dutifully, glazed cabinet by glazed cabinet … And then, at a certain point, something marvellous happens. The year is 1762. The Tiepolos, father Giambattista and his two sons Domenico and Lorenzo, have just arrived in Madrid from Venice. The sheer brilliance of their etchings takes Spain by storm. … Then, alongside the brilliance of the Tiepolos, come other great practitioners — it all seems to happen in the last third of the show, after we have almost been lulled asleep — Ribera, Zurbaran and, greatest of all, selections from various suites of etchings by Goya, who is so wild and untrammelled and no-holds-barred emotionally that it is sometimes quite difficult to look without wincing.”
 
Until March, New Mexicans and other visitors (we trust both the city and the state are promoting the exhibition to travelers) will have the chance to gaze upon a Goya, and wince for themselves.
For New Mexicans, to see work made in Spain is particularly relevant. By 1662, when the exhibit opens, the settlers who had left Spain for Mexico and then traveled north to what is now New Mexico, had begun to put down roots in this new land. These great works are made by the contemporaries of the colonists; the beginnings of our own Spanish Colonial art tradition are linked to those artists of the mother country. This exhibition, in other words, will show New Mexicans more about their own origins, making it an even more essential offering. It is not to be missed.

Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain
December 14, 2013 – March 9, 2014
New Mexico Museum of Art
More information and contact

 

Saturday, December 7, 2013

MARK SHAW: DIOR GLAMOUR



Dior Glamour: 1952-1962



A collection of the lavish and iconic gowns of Christian Dior, from the 1950s and ’60s, captured by the legendary photographer Mark Shaw. Iconic photographer Mark Shaw documented the ultra-exclusive Parisian fashion world, focusing on Paris’s long-standing top couturier Christian Dior. Shaw’s photographs—some of the first fashion photographs ever shot in color—capture the most stunning and extraordinary fashion of the era. This lavish volume embodies the glamour of that time, from rare moments of Christian Dior during fittings to editorial-style photographs of models, socialites, and actresses posing in Dior’s ballgowns, day suits, and haute couture collections. Shaw’s photojournalistic style changed fashion photography forever: his approach was to photograph wide, giving the subject a sense of context, creating an environment as exquisitely transformative as the subject and garment. With an eye for intimacy and opulence, this book features more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs, many never published before, having only recently been found in a secret vault by his estate. Dior Glamour: 1952–1962 captures the drama and elegance of the period’s style and will be treasured by lovers of photography, fashion, style, history, and cultured living.


The Telegraph "Best Photography Books of 2013": "Dior: Glamour, 1952-62 shows off Mark Shaw’s photographs from the iconic fashion house, including some of the first fashion shots in colour."

Friday, December 6, 2013

A Mushroom Cloud and the Twin Towers: the role of images in contemporary consciousness

 

Via CCA

Sunday, December 8, 2pm
LIVING ROOM
$5 Dollar Suggested Donation


 
How do images become placeholders for historic moments? What happens in the brain when images are no longer pictures, but rather icons loaded with emotion or politics? How is meaning-making changing as our world is increasingly flooded with images? This multi-media discussion event features short presentations by a panel of artists, journalists, and visual critics followed by a lively conversation about the ways that images (or the lack thereof) shape perception. Panelists include Nina Elder, Claudia X. Valdes, Dr. Khristaan Villela and others.


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