Photographer and photo educator Arthur Meyerson's latest book, titled "The Journey," is an autobiography told through art -- and the stories behind the work. The book brings together selected personal projects and commissioned work from Meyerson's archive. Many of the images included have never before been published. There is also an interview with Meyerson by noted curator Anne Wilkes Tucker covering both his photography … Read the full Story >>
"I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in," said photographer Ernst Haas, who died 30 years ago, in September, 1986. All this week we have been paying tribute to Haas, whose color work revolutionized photography and whose teaching influenced a generation of artists. Throughout the past summer photographer Eric Meola collected reminiscences of many of … Read the full Story >>
This week Street Tests takes a look at the new Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD prime lens--one of two fast prime lenses that the company recently introduced. With a little inspiration from Van Morrison's lyrics, I spent some time going back to the future with a very basic, but extremely sharp wide-angle lens. Read the full Story >>
Among the great artists of mid-century America, Helen Frankenthaler is now receiving a share of recognition long overdue. Currently featured in MoMAs Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, and in a solo show at Gagosian, Paris, two sides of the artist’s formidable output are further explored in exhibitions opening this weekend at The Clark Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As in Nature: Helen … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, June 27 SVA MFA Art Practice presents: Roberta Smith, 12:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, 335 West 16th Street, 501HNY, NY Info Tibetan Book of the Dead Club, discussion, 7 pm. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info Thursday, June 29-Monday, July 3 The Declaration of Independence | Handwritten by … Read the full Story >>
When is a giraffe not a giraffe? The legendary photographer Pete Turner was a master of color who could turn everyday reality into vivid, abstract art. In 1964, explained The New York Times recently, Turner photographed a lone giraffe galloping across the empty plain in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. The resulting transparency was overexposed, but he saved it by rephotographing it and using … Read the full Story >>
He shot 101 covers of Life magazine. He made Richard Nixon and Marilyn Monroe jump for art's sake. He was a close friend of Albert Einstein. And he was wrongfully convicted of killing his father. Photographer Philippe Halsman's extraordinary life and work are the focus of an exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris -- a show that underscores his importance in 20th-century … Read the full Story >>
Jim Hughes, editor of Camera Arts magazine and author of "Shadow and Substance: The Life and Work of an American Photographer," the definitive biography of W. Eugene Smith, died late last month at his home in Camden, Maine. He was 81. PPD learned of his death through Hughes's longtime friend David Lyman, founder of the Maine Photographic Workshop. "Jim knew a little bit about … Read the full Story >>
Photo historian and curator Gail Buckland notes that in ancient Greece the finest artists celebrated the best athletes. For the past 168 years, she adds, that job has gone to photographers. Buckland's new exhibition "Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present," opens at the Brooklyn Museum on July 15, and it promises to add a twist to the concept of sports … Read the full Story >>
From Broken Manual, by Alec Soth, left: 2008_08zl0031, 2008; right: 2008_08zl0238, 2008, opening Thursday at Sean Kelly Gallery Wednesday, February 1 Opening reception, 7-10 pm: Anti-Oxidant | Promantic, featuring new video curated by Jason Leblond and Gina Medina; limited engagement, through February 5. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Hidra, new work by Hirosuke … Read the full Story >>
What is the process of creativity? Where does it come from, and how does it evolve? Recently, photographer and PPD contributor Eric Meola raised those questions in an interview with photographer and educator John Paul Caponigro, whose work will soon be featured along with his father's in a major new exhibition at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke VA, "Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro: … Read the full Story >>
One of the remarkable things about sending a 3,000-pound machine around a half mile of road at 200 miles an hour is that after you survive one lap, you're expected to complete 499 more. But NASCAR drivers have secret weapons--their pit crews. Greenville, South Carolina-based photographer Will Crooks recently photographed a pit crew training center for a feature in Road & Track magazine. Working … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs / Special Events Friday, May 8-Tuesday, May 19 NYCxDESIGN. Hundreds of events, talks and hangs at venues throughout NYC. Events. Talks. Saturday, May 9-Sunday, May 10 Hacking Feminism, 10:30 am-10 pm. The New School, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. Information. Saturday, May 9-Tuesday, May 12 BFA Film and Video and BFA Animation present the Dusty Film & … Read the full Story >>
Starting Wednesday, February 16th, through the 28th: Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission. View related screenings. Wednesday, February 16, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Warhol Soup. Armand Bartos Gallery, 25 East 23rd Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, February 16, 8:00-10:00 pm: Andrea Meislin presents … Read the full Story >>
"If I'm in a productive groove I try to intensify the flow. If I'm in a rut, producing the same kinds of work with no significant variation on a theme, I try something different, disrupting my process productively," says photographer John Paul Caponigro. It was the arrival of an e-book by Caponigro, called "Process," that prompted photographer and Pro Photo Daily contributor Eric Meola … Read the full Story >>
What is the process that leads to creativity? "Art arises out of a life lived--it's an extension of ourselves, our creative process grows and changes as we do," says photographer John Paul Caponigro. Recently, photographer and PPD contributor Eric Meola engaged with Caponigro in what Meola calls "a dialog between two photographers about the things that shape our minds which lead to creativity." We … Read the full Story >>
