Today Avantika informed me that Susan Krause is helping to curate a show in Mexico. The work has to be sculptural and fit in a pocket (Avantika suggested small crumpled photos for example.) If interested you are supposed to email skrause@scad.edu or sjarvis@scad.edu ASAP. Peace.
hey folks.
My dad made it through his bypass surgery today.
The hardest parts over but we’re still not out of the woods.
Thanks for all the good vibes.
I hope you all have a great summer break!
Art House is sending out 300 disposable cameras to people all over the country. There are 27 exposures per camera, which leaves up to 8100 pictures to plaster our gallery walls with. Entry is open to anyone. $12.00 entry fee covers shipping the disposable camera to you and back to us and developing and hanging of the photos. There will be a grand prize and a bunch of smaller prizes for random categories! www.amillionlittlepictures.com
“‘They wait for me to let my guard down, like predators,’ said Bilal, an Iraqi artist who has holed himself up in a Chicago gallery for a month with a paintball gun that people can shoot at him over the Internet, at http://www.crudeoils.us, 24 hours a day.”
So we’ve all mastered photography, artmaking, video production, editing, web design, broadcast, webcast, castnets, castanets, etc. You get the picture.
In an effort to increase awareness of PhotoAwesome.com, I’ve created a sign that anyone can print out and hold up in a photo. Sounds stupid, right? Yeah, I did this like 5 years ago, and it works remarkably well. The people in the photo almost always want to see themselves online. So if you’d like to participate, take some photos of random people with the sign this summer and send it in to be posted.
There’s a page devoted to this now which can be accessed from the menu bar at the top of the page under “Love”. All the info for submissions is on that page.
This is the article on plagiarism/appropriation that I mentioned yesterday, by Jonathan Lethem for Harper’s magazine. harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387
“The Brooklyn-bred novelist (“Motherless Brooklyn,” “Fortress of Solitude”) is fascinated by what he calls ‘the mysteries of authorship — the idea that things arise in culture that don’t quite belong to anyone.’”
Go to breeze.scad.edu/p20982449/ to view the recording of Jim Langford’s Beltline presentation at Solomon Projects. This was a very successful online event, and an interesting talk about greenspace in Atlanta. The talk begins about 5:30 into the archive. You can scrub through by dragging the pointer at bottom left, as shown below.
“Lecture:Instant Gratification: Polaroid Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe
Thursday, May 17, 7 p.m.
Hill Auditorium
Free with museum admission and free for members
Sylvia Wolf, Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will examine the work of celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe - from iconic portraits of artists and celebrities to never before seen or published works.”
We’ll be working with Solomon Projects today to webcast the lecture of James Langford, state director of the Trust for Public Land in Georgia. These are the people putting together the Beltline, among many other important conservation projects.
Sign on to http://breeze.scad.edu/langford/ at noon today to watch the webcast.
What’s that? You want to lecture at the Society for Photographic Education conference in Denver in 2008? Or, you want to just go to Denver in March next year? Deadline for a lecture proposal is June 1st, so get on it!
Please join us for APG’s next Speaking of Photography.
What does the Emerging Visions exhibition tell us about photographic education today and the future of photography? Join Chip Simone, Susan Todd-Raque, and special guest Elizabeth Turk, juror of Emerging Visions, as we discuss the outstanding student photography exhibit currently on display at APG’s gallery.
Wednesday, May 16th at 7:30PM at the APG Gallery.
Elizabeth would really like us to be there and support and it will also be interesting to hear what other people have to say about our work.
There is a cool site called callsforentry.org where you can upload and store digital images to apply for various calls for entry. Seems like a convenient way to apply to a lot of things and save some dinero on postage.
May 11th - Opening from 7pm to 10pm with photography from Robin Davis and Clint Brownlee, paintings from Dan Willis and Herb Creecy, new work from Christina Lihan and Barbara Rehg, and sculpture by Basil Watson and Chad Awalt. Also, Joachim Kersten “Digitalis Purpurea”.
I just got an e-mail from Mason Murer about this opening.
I will definitely be going.
Hey Everybody,
There is a woman who needs a wedding photographer for a June wedding at Tybee Island (near Savannah, I believe). I can’t do it since I won’t be in town, but here is her email address if anyone else is interested: Cyndi_Clonch@HMIS.org.
Attention: Issues in Contemporary Photography Class
I have made the card to give to Julian Cox. It is in the inkjet room so please sign it today (thursday) as soon as possible so Steve can take it at the end of the day. Thanks.
I would like to invite you tonight to the opening of Dennis Oppenheim New York artist) and Wangechi Mutu (South African Artist). The openings are at 6pm at the 1600 Gallery (Dennis) and ACA (Wangechi).
Also, at 3pm Dennis Oppenheim is giving a lecture at the Hub.
LeeAnn Foster, Director of Marketing and PR for Atlanta Celebrates Photography, asked that I post the link to the ACP Opportunities for Artists page. Pardon the redundancy if you have already seen it on the ACP web site. Cheers.
Join Scott Kelby - the world’s foremost Photoshop expert, #1 award-winning computer and technology book author, and editor-in-chief of Photoshop User, Darkroom, and Layers magazines - as he teaches you how to use Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop CS2/CS3 to simplify and maximize your digital photography workflow. Scott will be presenting the Photoshop Lightroom Seminar Tour in Atlanta, GA on Friday, June 1, 2007 at the Cobb Galleria Center.
The seminar is only $79 for NAPP members and $99 for non-members. Plus, you’ll get a comprehensive workbook so you can spend the day learning instead of taking notes, an invaluable shortcut cheat-sheet, a “goodies” disc, and recent copies of Photoshop User and Darkroom magazines.
To register, click here: https://www.photoshopseminars.com/register.html (Walker, please, can you put this as a link?)
Danny Lyon
High school student Taylor Washington arrested
Atlanta, GA 1963
Hey,
If you are joining us at the High tomorrow to see the Civil Rights photographs:
1) Research Civil Rights in Atlanta.
2) Some of the images we will see may be by Danny Lyon, who was an SNCC staff photographer, Bruce Davidson, Ivan Massar, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Ernest Withers, Morton Broffman, Constantine Manos, and several others.
The site where Douglas is working is on Flynn Street off 14th Street (next to Masterpiece lighting).
It’s past a giant, new Mosque.
I will be there by 11:30.
When I last talked to him, Douglas was buying paint at Home Depot, so I recommend wearing clothes that might get paint or dirt on them.
Bring video and still cameras.
Someone may want to bring a medium format camera.
And film.
(as is everyone else in the world, but whatever.)
I sent some photos to the “We’re all photographers now!” show in Switzerland. They wrote me back…
“Your images were shown in the Musee de l’Elysee’s exhibit “We are all photographers now!” in the last few days. Enclosed you will find some installation views of your images that show them in the wall.”
iEl lizardo! was also shown. Thank you random algorithm!
Note person sitting on bench! That means I now have an INTERNATIONAL audience! Pretty sweet, eh? And all it took was a few clicks to submit. It’s free.
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My dad made it through his bypass surgery today.
The hardest p
