This month offers the best in contemporary photography, showcasing themes that continue to ripple to the top of a very full glass. Here are 100 or so shows in the not to be missed category, covering themes of identity, race, class, the consequences of war, environmental concerns, and new approaches to setup photography, to name just a few. For new collectors, there are several benefit auctions that offer an excellent way to start a collection. As usual, please check links for details.

Left to right: Rachel Dunville, The Brad, courtesy of the artist; Rivka Shifman Katvan, Untitled #20, 2007, courtesy of Gallery 138; Jan Von Holleben, Cowboy, courtesy of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art.

NEW YORK: CHELSEA and DOWNTOWN
Allan Tannenbaum: John & Yoko and New York in the 70s
Steven Kasher Gallery
October 4, 2007 - November 3, 2007
Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie Annual Award Exhibition
Julia Fullerton-Batten and Matthew Pillsbury
Phillips de Pury & Company
October 10 - 19, 2007
Opening reception, October 10, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Jill Greenberg: Bears!
ClampArt
October 11 - November 10, 2007
Opening reception: October 11, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Heimo Schmidt: Myths
Point of View
October 15 - November 15, 2007
Opening reception: October 15, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Luis Gonzalez Palma: Jerarquias de Intimidad, La Anunciacion
Robert Mann Gallery
October 18 - November 24, 2007
Opening reception: October 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Randy West: Bird Rabbit Snake
Andre Kertesz: The Polaroids
Silverstein Photography
October 18 - November 24, 2007

William Wylie: Carrara
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
October 18 - November 24, 2007
Opening reception: October 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Portraits
Luhring Augustine
October 20- November 17, 2007

New work by Kristin Lucas
Postmasters Gallery
October 20- December 22, 2007

Milton Rogovin: Buffalo
Danziger Projects
October 20 - November 24, 2007

Garry Winogrand
Deborah Bell Photographs
Through October 20, 2007

Ketaki Sheth: Bombay Mix
Sepia International/The Alkazi Collection
Through October 20, 2007

Yolanda del Amo: Archipelago
Hudson Franklin Gallery
Through October 20, 2007

Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park
Yossi Milo Gallery
Through October 20, 2007

Rachael Dunville: Springtown
Peer Gallery
Through October 20, 2007

Carlos & Jason Sanchez: New Photographs
Caren Golden Fine Art
October 25 - December 1, 2007
Opening reception: Thursday, October 25, 6 - 8 PM

Rivka Shifman Katvan: Coney Island Baby
Gallery 138
Through October 26, 2007
Collier Schorr: There I Was
303 Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Psychic Interitance: Glen Fogell, Ryan McCartney, Andrew Rogers
Thomas Erben Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Shirana Shahbazi
The Swiss Institute
Through October 27, 2007

Julia Groning
Galerie Poller
Through October 27, 2007

Edward Mapplethorpe
Foley Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Clayton Patterson: The Lower East Side
Kinz, TIllou + Feigen
Through October 27, 2007
Jan Van Holleben
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
Through October 27, 2007

Lisette Model: Portfolio of 12 Photographs
Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation
Gerald Slota: Found
Hasted Hunt Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Laura Letinsky: Say It Isn't So
Yancey Richardson Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Burk Uzzle: Just add Water - America in Color
Lawrence Miller Gallery
Through October 27, 2007
Lisette Model and Her Successors
Including work by Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Bruce Cratsley, Lynn Davis, Elaine Elllman, Larry Fink, Peter Huar, Raymond Jacobs, Ruth Kaplan, Leon Levinstein, Eva Rubinstein, Rosalind Solomon, and Bruce Weber
Aperture Gallery
Through November 1, 2007

Andreas Feininger: New York
Alan Klotz Gallery
Through November 3, 2007

Bert Stern: Photographs from Portfolio No 49, published in Stern Magazine
Staley-Wise Gallery
Through November 3, 2007

Richard Kalvar
Leica Gallery
Through November 3, 2007

Cig Harvey: You Look at Me Like an Emergency
Robin Rice Gallery
Through November 4, 2007

Chris Marker: Staring Back
Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea and SoHo
Through November 3, 2007
Chris Marker film screenings
October 4, 11 and 18, at 7:00 pm, in the Chelsea location

Paul McDonough: New York City 1968 - 1972
Sasha Wolf Gallery
Through November 10, 2007
NEW YORK: MIDTOWN and UPTOWN
25 Years: Celebrating the Anniversary of
The Howard Greenberg Gallery
Through October 20, 2007

Lars Tunbjork: Office
Cohen Amador Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Laurie Simmons: Color Coordinated Interiors, 1983
Skarstedt Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac
Museum of the City of New York
Through October 28, 2007

Konrad Cramer (1888-1963): Photographs
Zabriskie Gallery
Through November 3, 2007

Christian Cravo: Waters of Hope
Throckmorton Fine Art
Through November 10, 2007

Alex Ten Napel: Water-Portraits
Cook Fine Art
Through November 21, 2006

Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
Edwynn Houk Gallery
Through November 21, 2007

Fazal Sheikh: Portraits
Pace/MacGill Gallery
Through November 24, 2007

Simon Norfolk: I Met a Traveller From an Antique Land
Bonnie Benrubi Gallery
Through November 24, 2007

Danny Lyon: Montage, Film and Still Photography
Whitney Museum of American Art
Through December 2, 2007

Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Guggenheim Museum
Through January 9, 2008

New Photography 2007: Tanyth Berkeley, Scott McFarland, Berni Searle
The Museum of Modern Art
Through January 1, 2008

Four exhibitions on the subject of war:
This is War: Robert Capa
Gerda Taro
Photography and Print Culture During the Spanish Civil War
Francec Torres: Dark is the Room Where We Sleep
International Center of Photography
Through January 6, 2007

Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
Japan Society
Through January 13, 2008

Zhang Huan: Altered States
Photography, sculpture, and painting
Asia Society
Through January 20, 2008

Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan
The New Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through March 23, 2008

NEW YORK: BROOKLYN
Seconds of My Life by Jamel Shabazz
Black in White America by Leonard Freed
powerHouse Arena
October 6 - November 11, 2007

Michael Philip Manheim: New Butoh Photographs
Safe-T Gallery
Through October 27, 2007
NEW YORK: STATEN ISLAND
Tim Hetherington: No Condition is Permanent, Liberia 2003 - 2007
The Alice Austen House Museum
Through December 31, 2007

KATONAH, NY
Prabir Purkayastha: Ladakh, the Spiritual Journey
Candace Dwan Gallery
Through October 31, 2007

BEACON, NY
Ron Haviv: The Children of Darfur
Fovea Editions Beacon Gallery
Through November 4, 2007
Panel Discussion on Darfur: October 20, 4:00 pm

WOODSTOCK, NY
Galerie BMG
October 12 - November 19, 2007
Opening reception: October 13, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Jonathan Hollingsworth: What We Think Now
and
Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004, curated by PixelPress based
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Through October 21, 2007

2007 Annual Benefit Auction
Saturday, October 6, 2007

ROCHESTER, NY
Lucha Libre! Masked Mexican Wrestlers
George Eastman House
Through January 27, 2008

SYRACUSE, NY
Binh Danh: One Week's Dead
Light Work Gallery
Through October 23, 2007

AMHERST, MA
Abelardo Morell: A Room With a Views
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Through January 20, 2008
October 11, 7:30 pm: "Shadow of the House;" -- film screening and artist talk

Left to right: Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Woman in Sun Dress, 2003, courtesy of the Williams College Museum of Art; Joel Meyerowitz, The Screen, 1987/1989, courtesy of The Photographic Resource Center, Boston University; Dawoud Bey, Kevin, courtesy of the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
Addison Gallery of American Art
Through November 23, 2007
BOSTON, MA
2007 Benefit Auction Preview Exhibition
Photographic Resource Center
Through October 21
Live Auction: October 27, 2007

Dawoud Bey: Pictures 1975 - 2007
Howard Yezerski Gallery
November 2 - December 18, 2007

Didier Massard
Robert Klein Gallery
Through November 23, 2007

TURNER FALLS, MA
Michael Yamashita: The Great Wall of China / The Silk Road
Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography
Through December 16, 2007
WINCHESTER, MA
13^th Annual Juried Show, selected by Brian Clamp of ClampArt, New York
Featuring work by Nicholas Fedak II, Shen Wei, Amy Stein and David Wolf
Griffin Museum of Photography
Through October 28, 2007

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
Critical Encounters: Collecting Contemporary Photography
Featuring work by Annie Liebovitz, Justine Kurland, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Billingham, among others
Williams College Museum of Art
Through December 16, 2007

PHILADELPHIA, PA
Tina Barney: World Stage
Gallery 339
Through October 27, 2007

Particulars of Place: Photo portfolios by contemporary photographers
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Through November 4, 2007

ATLANTA, GA
Herb Ritts: Celebrity
Fay Gold Gallery
October 10 - November 9, 2007

Chris Verene: Galesburg 2005 - 2007
Marcia Wood Gallery
October 18 - November 24, 2007

Sam Taylor-Wood
and
David Hilliard
Jackson Fine Art
Through October 27, 2007

Ninth Annual Atlanta Celebrates Photography Fair
Venues throughout Atlanta
Through October 31, 2007

Harry Callahan: Eleanor
High Museum of Art
Through December 9, 2007

COLUMBIA, SC
Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection
Columbia Museum of Art,
Through January 6, 2008

COLUMBUS, OH
William Wegman: Funney/Strange
Wexner Center for the Arts
Through December 30, 2007

CHICAGO, IL
Loaded Landscapes
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Closing Reception and gallery talk: October 4, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Jan Theun van Rees: One Wall Away: Chicago's Hidden Spaces
and
Beate Gutschow: LS/S
Museum of Contemporary Photography
October 25, 2007 - January 12, 2008

Zana Briski: Brothel
Stephen Daiter Contemporary
Through October 27, 2007

Terry Evans: Steel
Catherine Edelman Gallery
Through November 3, 2007
Nancy Rexroth: Iowa
Weinstein Gallery
Through November 10, 2007

Richard Misrach: On the Beach
The Art Insitute of Chicago
Through November 25, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS, MN
PhotoBravo 2007: Preview Exhibition and Benefit Auction
Forty images by contemporary photographers including Mona Kuhn, Alec Soth and many others
Minneapolis Center for Photography
October 13 - November 2
Silent and live auction
Saturday, November 3, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
DALLAS, TX
David Graham and Michael O'Brien
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery

Through November 24, 2007
Halloween Portrait Day: October 31, 2007
FORT WORTH, TX
With New Eyes: Exploration and the American West
Amon Carter Museum
Through February 3, 2008

SAN ANTONIO, TX
Doug Fogelson at the International Center
FOTOseptiembre
Through November 2, 2007
BOULDER, CO
Weather Report: Art and Climate Change
Curated by Lucy Lippard
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Through December 21, 2007

LOS ANGELES, CA
Kwaku Alston
Farmani Gallery
October 2 - 30, 200
Opening Reception: October 6, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Left to right: Kobi Israel, Serial Landscapes 1, courtesy of David Gallery; Ruud Van Empel, Untitled #1, 2002, from "Picturing Eden," courtesy of The George Eastman House; Simon Norfolk, Tibetan refugees living in the McLeod Ganj districto of Dharamsala in the Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas, courtesy of Gallery Luisotti.

Kobi Israel
David Gallery
October 20 - November 17, 2007

David Levinthal: New Work
Stephen Cohen Gallery
Through October 20, 2007

Saul Leiter: Early Color
M+B Gallery

October 27 - December 8, 2007
Opening reception: October 27, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Glenn Ligon

Regan Projects
October 27 - December 8, 2007
Opening reception: October 27, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure
Museum of Contemporary Art/Grand Avenue
Through January 7, 2008

SANTA MONICA, CA
Richard Ehrlich: Vancouver Island
Craig Krull Gallery
Through October 13, 2007
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: The Eyes in His Eyes
Rose Gallery
Through October 31, 2007

Simon Norfolk
Gallery Luisotti
Through November 3, 2007

SAN DIEGO, CA
Picturing Eden
Organized by George Eastman House, the exhibition features work by more than 30 artists, including including Michael Kenna, Sally Mann, Han Nguyen, and Doug and Mike Starn.
Museum of Photographic Arts
Through January 13, 2008

LA JOLLA, CA
Lillian Bassman
Joseph Bellows Gallery
October 20 - December 29, 2007
Opening reception: October 20, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Kota Ezawa / Alan Rath / Nam June Paik
Haines Gallery
October 11 - November 8, 2007

Mona Kuhn: Evidence
Scott Nichols Gallery
October 18, December 1, 2007

Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers / An American Self-Portrait
Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Through October 20, 2007

Jeff Wall
SF MoMA
October 27, 2007 - January 27, 2008

Something Was There: Early Work by Diane Arbus
Fraenkel Gallery
Through October 27, 2007

Tenth Anniversary Show
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
November 1, 2007 - January 5, 2008

Jim Goldberg: The New Europeans
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Through November 10, 2007

There is Always a Machine Between Us and
Matthias Geiger: Ties
The 2007 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography Exhibit
SF Camerawork
Through November 17, 2007
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries
Robert Koch Gallery
Through November 24, 2007

Chim: The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
The de Young Museum
Through February 24, 2008

SEATTLE/TACOMA, WA
An-My Le: Small Wars
Henry Art Gallery
Through November 4, 2007

Veiled Northwest: Photographs by Mary Randlett
Tacoma Art Museum
Through January 27, 2008

TORONTO, ON
Robert Burley: The Places of Glenn Gould
Stephen Bulger Gallery
Through October 27, 2007