At the last count, Thursday, September 4^th brings with it more than 40 opening receptions for photography exhibitions, with another 40 or so to follow later this month. Set-up portraiture, with close collaboration between photographer and subject, continues to interest both established and emerging artists. From the realism of Alessandra Sanguinetti, at Yossi Milo, to the artifice of Polixeni Papapetrou, at Michael Foley, to the mesmerizing style of Mary Ellen Mark's Prom Series, at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum, the genre offers an amazing range of approaches.

War, politics, fashion, life's beguiling banalities, the exotic, the unknown, the erotic, and the landscape all are represented, in images by Susan Meiselas, Farah Nosh, Michael Thompson, Catherine Opie, Lalla Essaydi, Jeffrey Silverthorne, and Joel Sternfeld. On an even more serious note, Josef Koudelka's Invasion 68 Prague, at Aperture Gallery, offers chilling perspective on events currently unfolding in the Russian Federation. Please check websites for details.

Mary Ellen Mark. Left: Robyn Frazier and Kelcon Curry, Charlottesville High School Prom, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2008. Center: Mallori Ann Wu and Matthew Wasson, Fontbonne Hall Prom, 2007. Right: Marielle Evangelista and Jameelia Ricks, Ithaca High School Prom, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.

NEW YORK: CHELSEA and DOWNTOWN
Time Line: Sheila Metzner
Visual Arts Museum
September 3 - October 4, 2008
Opening Reception: September 3, 6 - 8 pm
Lecture by Sheila Metzner: September 16, 7 pm
For more information: www.sva.edu/events or 212.592.2010.

Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski: The Early Sequences: 1977-1982
Robert Mann Gallery
September 4 - October 18, 2008
Opening Reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Alexandra Sanguinetti: The Life that Came
Yossi Milo Gallery
September 4 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 6 - 8 pm

Julia Baum: A Rare Breed -- Portraits of Redheads
NY Studio Gallery
September 4 - 27, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 7 - 9 pm

Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar
Andrea Meislin Gallery
September 4 - October 18, 2008
Opening Reception and Book Signing: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Jonathan Calm: New Video and Photography
Caren Golden Fine Art
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Polixeni Papapetrou: Games of Consequence
Foley Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Paul Fusco: RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Danziger Projects
September 4 - October 4, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Meredyth Sparks: We Were Strangers For Too Long
Elizabeth Dee Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008

Jane Hammond: Photographs
Galerie Lelong
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Michael Thompson
Hasted Hunt Gallery
September 4 - October 25, 2008
Opening Reception: September 11, 6 - 8 pm

Amada Means: Glass + Light
Ricco Maresca
September 4 - 27, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague
Aperture Gallery
September 5 - October 30, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Shimon Attie: Racing Clocks Run Slow
Ka Hassan: Recent photographs
Jack Shainman Gallery
September 4 - October 20, 2008

The Figure Today featuring multimedia work by Gerald Forster, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lynn Goldsmith, Saul Leiter, Chris Raecker, and Jeong Mee Yoon, among others
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
September 4 - September 27, 2008

Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Kevin Cooley: At Light's Edge
Massimo Audiello Gallery
September 4 – October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 – 8 pm

Masao Yamamoto: Kawa - Flow
Yancey Richardson Gallery
September 5 - October 18, 2008

Joel Sternfeld. Left: February 28, 2007. The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts. Right: April 19, 200. The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.

Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive
Luhring Augustine
September 6 - October 4, 2008
Opening reception: September 5, 6 - 8 pm

Guido Castagnoli: Provincial Japan
Sasha Wolf Gallery
September 11 - November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Whetstone: Post-Pleistocene
Julie Saul Gallery
September 12 - October 25, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 6 - 8 pm

How I Spent My Summer Vacation, featuring work by Rachael Dunville, Sebastian Lemm, Christopher Rauschenberg, Roger Eberhard, Josh Quigley, Caleb Charland among others
Michael Mazzeo Gallery
September 12 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 12, 6 - 8 pm

Vivan Sundaram: Trash
SEPIA International | The Alkazi Colleciton
September 17 - November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 17, 6 - 8 pm

Ron Hamad: Photographs
Robin Rice Gallery
September 17 - October 26, 2008
Opening reception: September 17, 5:30 - 8:30 pm

Joshua Lutz: Meadowlands
Dave Anderson: Roadside Ghosts (Project Room)
ClampArt
September 18 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 18, 6 - 8 pm

Robert Richfield: A Pivotal Perspective
Alan Klotz Gallery
September 18 – October 25, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: September 18, 6 – 8 pm

Doug Aitken
303 Gallery
September 20 - November 1, 2008

Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center | Parsons the New School for Design
Through September 12, 2008

NEW YORK: MIDTOWN and UPTOWN
Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague
Pace/MacGill Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Josef Albers: The Aim of Art is Living Creations
Hermes Gallery, 691 Madison Avenue, 4th floor
September 4 - September 26, 2008

MoMA New Photography 2008, featuring work by Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
September 10 - January 5, 2008

Florian Bohm: Wait for Walk
Cohen Amador Gallery
September 10 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 10, 6 - 8 pm

Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front
Edwynn Houk Gallery
September 11 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 6 - 8pm

Making it Real: Photomontage Before Photoshop
Keith de Lellis Gallery
September 11 - November 1, 2008

Bruce Wrighton: Through an Open Window
Lawrence Miller Gallery
September 11 - October 25, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 5 - 8 pm

Eye, Mind Spirit: The Enduring Legacy of Minor White
The Howard Greenberg Gallery
September 12 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 6 - 8 pm

Wayne F. Miller
Higher Pictures
September 18 - November 8, 2008
Opening reception: September 18, 6 - 8pm

Graciela Iturbide: Celebration
Throckmorton Fine Art
September 18 - November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 18, 6 - 8 pm

Susan Meiselas: In History
Cornell Capa: Concerned Photographer
America and the Tintype
International Center of Photography
September 19 - January 4, 2008
Artist talk: September 20, 2 pm. Click here for information and tickets.

Catherine Opie. Left: Joanne, Betsy & Olivia, Bayside, New York, 1998; right: Christmas West Adams, 2004 Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer
Guggenheim Museum
September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009

Four Summer, featuring work by Pamela Hanson, Peter C. Jones, Jeffrey Milstein, and Lindey Smith
Bonnie Benrubi Gallery
Through September 20, 2008

Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925 - 1940
Museum of the City of New York
October 3, 2007 - February 22, 2008
October 18, 1 pm: Gallery tour led by curator Donald Albrecht on the cross-cultural exchanges in architecture, cuisine, film, design, fashion, and the performing arts between Paris and New York. For more information: www.mcny.org/public_programs/ or 212.534.1672, ext. 3395.

NEW YORK: BROOKLYN, BRONX and STATEN ISLAND
Mark Edward Harris: Inside Iran | Inside North Korea
Farmani Gallery
September 4 - 28, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Cornelia Hediger: Doppelgänger
Klompching Gallery
September 10 - October 31, 2008
Opening reception: September 10, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver, curated by John T. Hill and Sven Martson
Bond Street Gallery
September 10 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 10, 6 - 9 pm

Street Art, Street Life
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
September 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Opening reception: September 14, 12 - 5 pm

Ed Kashi: Curse of the Black Gold | Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
powerHouse Arena
Through September 28, 2008

Burt Glinn: Havana, The Revolutionary Moment
Umbrage Gallery
September 10 - October 31, 20078
Opening reception: September 10, 6 - 8 pm

1968: Magnum in New York
The Alice Austin House Museum
September 13 - December 31, 2008
Opening party: September 13, 1 - 5 pm

Sarah Beddington: Crossing
Dumbo Arts Center
September 13 - November 16, 2008
Opening reception: September 13, 2008, 6 - 9 pm

Blake Little: The Company of Men
Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art
September 18 -- November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 18, 6 - 8 pm

Gilbert & George
The Brooklyn Museum
October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009

ITHACA, NY
Mary Ellen Mark: The Prom Series
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
September 5 - October 26, 2008
Opening reception: September 5, 5 - 7 pm
Artist's talk, September 4, 5:15 pm

WOODSTOCK, NY
Pamela Fingerhut: Female Taxonomy
Galerie BMG
September 12 - October 20, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, September 13, 5 - 7 pm

BOSTON, MA
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Robert Klein Gallery
September 12 - November 15, 2008

Lalla Essaydi: Images from Les Femmes du Maroc
Howard Yezerski Gallery
Please check website for details about the new gallery space

WINCHESTER, MA
Anna Tomczak: Sanctuary
Pelle Cass: Pins
Karen Davis: The McCann Family
Griffin Museum of Photography
September 11 - November 2, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 6:30 pm

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
Beyond the Familiar: Photography and Constructions of Community
Williams College Museum of Art
September 20, 2008 - March 8, 2009
Gallery talk with curator John Stomberg: September 25, 4 pm

PROVIDENCE, RI
RISD and Photography, featuring work by Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Linda Connor, Sally Gall, Emmit Gowin, Francesca Woodman, Henry Horenstein, Deborah Bright, Joe Deal, and Steve Smith
RISD Museum
Through October 26, 2008

PHILADELPHIA, PA
Masao Yamamoto: Solo Exhibition
Foreclosed: group show featuring work by Alejandra Laviada, Gillian Pears, Hirsch Perlman, Tommy Reynolds, Melanie Schiff and Ryan Widger
The Print Center
September 10 - November 26, 2008
Opening Reception: September 10, 5:30 - 7:30pm

David Graham: Almost Paradise
Paul Cava: Heart of the Matter
Gallery 339
September 19 - November 8, 2008
Opening Reception: September 26, 2008

Particulars of Place featuring photo portfolios by Paul Strand, Paul Caponigro, James Fee, John Divola, Laurie Brown, and Alen MacWeeney.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Through December 9, 2007

Julia Fullerton-Batten. Left: Bedroom. Center: Cupboard. Right: Mirror. Courtesy of the artist and Randall Scott Gallery.

WASHINGTON, DC
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Randall Scott Gallery
Septembef 13 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 13, 6 - 9 pm

William Christenberry
Hemphill Fine Arts
September 13 - October 25, 2008
Opening reception: September 13, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Lucian Perkins: They Came From Beyond the Beltway - Tourists at the National Mall
Carroll Square Gallery
September 5 - November 21, 2008
Opening reception: September 5, 6 - 8 pm

ATLANTA, GA
Jody Fausett: Snake Eyes
Whitespace
September 5 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 5, 7 - 10 pm

CHICAGO, ILL
Joel-Peter Witkin: Poetic Realislm
Catherine Edelman Gallery
September 5 - November 1, 2008
Opening reception: September 7, 5 - 8 pm

Alec Soth: Dog Days, Bogota
Stephen Daiter Contemporary
September 5 - October 25, 2008
Opening reception: Please check with the gallery

Of National Interest: Photographs from the collection
The Art Institute of Chicago
September 13, 2008 - January 11, 2009

AUSTIN, TX
Sean Perry: Fairgrounds
Stephen L. Clark Gallery
September 6 - October 8, 2008
Opening reception: September 6, 6 - 9 pm

DALLAS, TX
Jeffrey Silverthorne
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
September 6 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 6, 5 -8 pm

Fall Gallery Walk & Art Appraisal Workshop
Dallas Art Dealers Association
September 13, 2008: 10 am - 8 pm

TUCSON, AZ
The Figure Illuminated: Flor Garduno, Alvin Booth and Ralph Gibson
Etherton Gallery
September 13 - November 15, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: September 13th, 7 pm - 10 pm

LOS ANGELES, CA
Witness: Casualties of War featuring work by Suzanne Opton, Carolyn Cole, Farah Nosh and Nina Berman
Stephen Cohen Gallery
September 11 - October 25, 2008

Nick Veasey. Left: Single Doll. Center: Basque. Right: Bat. Courtesy of the artist and David Gallery.

Nick Veasey: X-Ray
David Gallery
September 6 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 6, 5 - 8 pm

Jehad NGA: My Shadow, My Opponent
M+B Gallery
September 13 - October 18, 2008
Opening reception: September 13, 7 - 9 pm

SANTA MONICA, CA
Sex In the City featuring work by three young Korean photographers
Sarah Lee Artworks & Projects
September 13 -- October 25, 2008
Opening reception: 6 -- 8 pm

SAN DIEGO, CA
Nancy Newhall: A Literacy of Images
Museum of Photographic Arts
September 20, 2008 - January 25, 2009

LA JOLLA, CA
Robb Johnson: Night Photographs
Joseph Bellows Gallery
September 5 - November 8, 2008
Opening reception: September 5, 5 - 8 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Aaron Hobson: Cinemascapes
DRKRM Gallery
September 13 - October 26, 2008
Opening reception: September 13, 7 - 10 pm

David Maisel: Library of Dust
Zhan Wang: Gold Mountain
Haines Gallery
September 4 - October 4, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Jock McDonald: The Perspective Show | Straight Lines in around World
Gallery 291 Gallery 291
September 4 - October 28, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

In the Garden - Photographs by Joel Leivick
Scott Nichols Gallery
September 4 - October 25, 2008
Opening reception October 18, 1 - 5 pm

Garry Winogrand: The Sixties
Fraenkel Gallery
September 11 - November 1, 2008

Joel Meyerowitz
Robert Koch Gallery
September 4 - November 1, 2008

Matthias Hoch: New Works
Joseph Park: Leave It on the Dance Floor
Rena Brandsten Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

SEATTLE/TACOMA, WA
5X5, featuring work by Derek Ferrington, Thomas Krueger, Claire Putney, Gay Waldman and John Wilmot
ArtsWest Gallery
August 24 - September 21, 2008
Opening reception: September 11, 6 - 7:30 pm

Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations
Francesca Berrini: Mapquest
G. Gibson Gallery
September 4 - October 11, 2008
Opening reception and book signing for Julie Blackmon: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

PORTLAND, OR
Diane Cook and Len Jenshel
Blue Sky Gallery
September 4 - 30, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6 - 8 pm

Mark Steinmetz: South
Hartman Fine Art
September 3 -- 27, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 5:30 - 8:30 pm

Hunting, at Stephen Bulger Gallery. Left: Benoit Aquin, La cabane, Quebec, 2002. Right: Neapole Pembroke, Untitled, ca 1880. Copyright the photographers and courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery.

TORONTO, ON
Hunting, featuring work by Benoit Aquin, Tina Clark, Richard Harrington, Vid Ingelevics, Terence Koh, Les Krims, and William Notman
Stephen Bulger Gallery
September 27 - October 26, 2008

VANCOUVER, BC
Rosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines
Presentation House Gallery
September 20 - November 2, 2008

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