Guggenheim Examines New Developments in Contemporary Photography with Photo-Poetics: An Anthology / Dates: November 20, 2015–March 23, 2016

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, an exhibition documenting recent developments in contemporary photography and consisting of photographs, videos, and slide installations by ten international artists. With more than 70 works by Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag, and Sara VanDerBeek, the exhibition runs from November 20, 2015–March 23, 2016, and presents a focused study into the nature, traditions, and magic of photography in the context of the rapid digital transformation of the medium.

Organized by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, with Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Photo-Poetics: An Anthology offers an opportunity to define the concerns of a new generation of photographic artists and contextualize their work within the history of art and visual culture. These artists mainly pursue a studio-based approach to still-life photography that centers on the representation of objects, often printed matter such as books, magazines, and record covers. The result is often an image imbued with poetic and evocative personal significance that resonates with larger cultural and historical meanings.

The artists in the exhibition attempt to rematerialize the photograph through meticulous printing, using film and other disappearing photo technologies. Drawing on the legacies of Conceptualism and invested in exploring the processes and techniques of photography, they are also deeply interested in how photographic images circulate. Theirs is a sort of “photo poetics,” an art that self-consciously investigates the laws of photography and the nature of photographic representation, reproduction, and the photographic object. The works in the exhibition, rich with detail, reward close and prolonged regard; they ask for a mode of looking that is closer to reading than the cursory scanning fostered by the clicking and swiping functionalities of smartphones and social media. Both the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are conceived as anthologies, as independent vehicles to introduce each artist’s important and unique practice.

This exhibition is supported in part by Affirmation Arts Fund and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
The Leadership Committee for Photo-Poetics: An Anthology is gratefully acknowledged for its support, with special thanks to Erica Gervais and Ted Pappendick and Chair Rona Citrin as well as to Angelo K H Chan and Frederick Wertheim, Manuel de Santaren, Toby Devan Lewis, Ann and Mel Schaffer, Patty and Howard Silverstein, Cristina von Bargen, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Ann Cook and Charley Moss, Susan and Arthur Fleischer, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Lauren and Scott Pinkus, and Barbara Toll.
Additional funding is also provided by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Photography Committee.
To coincide with the exhibition, the Guggenheim will host a series of panel discussions featuring the participating artists. Moderated by Jennifer Blessing, these conversations will address the issues raised by the exhibition. Each discussion will be preceded by short talks from the featured artists. Details about the public programs presented in conjunction with Photo-Poetics: An Anthology will be posted on guggenheim.org/calendar.

Museum Hours: Sun–Wed, 10 am–5:45 pm; Fri, 10 am–5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am–7:45 pm; closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish.
 For general information, call 212 423 3500 or visit the museum online at: guggenheim.org

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York

Location: Tower Levels 2, 4, and 5
Dates: November 20, 2015–March 23, 2016

 

The Depression Era Project @ Atelier Bouwmeester/ Discussion with philosopher, art historian, writer and activist Lieven De Cauter 26/03 Register on time

The Atelier Bouwmeester hosts The Depression Era Project, a satellite expo of ‘No Country For Young Men, Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis’ in BOZAR, an exhibition that brings together work by leading contemporary Greek artists whose work addresses the impact of the economic crisis on their country.

The Depression Era Project inhabits the urban and social landscapes of the crisis. It begins as a collective experiment, picturing the Greek city and its outer regions, the private lives of outcasts, the collapse of public systems and snapshots of the everyday, in order to understand the social, economic and historical transformation currently taking place in Greece. It seeks to do so with as clear a gaze as possible. It understands that entropy, disaster, uncertainty and insolvency are also states of mind, ushering us to an era where the notion of progress, the idea of growth and the reflex of looking forward to a future are no longer dominant modes of perceiving and creating in the world.

The Depression Era Project brings together 33 artists, photographers, writers, curators, designers and researchers. It seeks to stand outside the media montage and white noise of current public discourse by creating its own mosaic of images and texts. Its goal is the eventual creation of an artistic archive of the crisis and through it, a new digital and physical Commons, an ‘anti-screen’ and ‘sidewalk museum’ that would return its mosaic of gazes back to their places of origin.

Pavlos Fysakis, Pasqua Vorgia and Panos Kokkinias, all members of the collective, will present the project, followed by a discussion with philosopher, art historian, writer and activist Lieven De Cauter.

Atelier Bouwmeester
 Ravensteingalerij 54 - 59, 1000 Brussel, 26 March 2014 at 19:00

Please register at bouwmeester@vlaanderen.be, mentioning ‘small talk – 26/03’

"No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis", BOZAR, 26.03.-03.08.2014

“The Depression Era Project”, Atelier Bouwmeester, 26.03.-16.05.2014 (opening night: 25.03.2014)
 

"No country for young men" Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis @ Bozar Centre of Fine Arts / Brussels

Pavlos Fysakis Photography

This exhibition brings together work by 30 leading contemporary Greek artists whose work addresses the impact of the economic crisis on their country. Their work transcends the everyday coverage of political and economic developments and offers an insightful look at what is going on in Greece today. The focus, however, is not only restricted to the negative effects: the exhibition also looks at the opportunities the crisis offers for a reinvention of the country.


Participating artists: Loukia Alavanou / Manolis Anastasakos & Alexandros Vasmoulakis / Bill Balaskas / Depression Era / Eirene Efstathiou / Stelios Faitakis / Marina Gioti / Alexandros Georgiou / Philippe Grammaticopoulos / Guerrilla Optimists / Michalis G. Kallimopoulos / Dionisis Kavallieratos / Panos Kokkinias / Alkis Konstantinidis / Zissis Kotionis / Marinos Koutsomichalis, Afroditi Psarra & Maria Varela / Nicolas Kozakis & Raoul Vaneigem / Nikos Navridis / Angelos Papadimitriou / Maria Papadimitriou / Antonis Pittas / Poka-Yio / Stefania Strouza / Lina Theodorou / Panos Tsagaris / Kostas Tsolis / Dimitris Tsoumplekas / Chrisa Valsamaki / Kostis Velonis / Eirini Vourloumis / Zafos Xagoraris / Yorgos Zois

Curator: Katerina Gregos

BOZAR and the Atelier Bouwmeester are also welcoming a satellite project by Depression Era, a collective of photographers, artists, researchers, writers, architects, journalists and curators formed in 2012, recording the Greek crisis through images and texts. The Depression Era project exhibition takes place at the Atelier Bouwmeester, just across the street from BOZAR in 54-59 Galerie Ravenstein, and will be the first international presentation of the collective outside Greece.
More about Depression Era

Opening of the Exhibition :
Wednesday 25.03.2014 - 10:00 - 18:00
until  Sunday 03.08.2014

BOZAR CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS
Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 507 82 00

www.lizzyphotoblog.blogspot.gr


 

Photography Exhibition in Istanbul "20 Dollars 20 Kilos" /Opening: 4 March, Tuesday 19:00

20 Dollars 20 Kilos
5 March – 30 March 2014

Opening: 4 March, Tuesday 19:00

The ethnic Greek community in Istanbul had largely consisted of Turkish and Greek citizens up until 1964. Although their citizenship hardly mattered for them, the Turkish state used it as political leverage during the Cyprus dispute. The twelve thousand or so Greeks who had built a life and acquired property in Istanbul were soon expelled from the country as a result of black propaganda campaigns launched by the media under the false pretense of the Cyprus dispute. Their bank accounts were frozen, properties seized, private schools closed...

While thousands of Istanbul Greeks—who, by and large, had never been to Greece in their entire lives—were being deported, they were only allowed to take 20 kilos of baggage and 20 dollars with them. The exiles were accompanied by their spouses, children, partners, and loved ones. Fifty thousand exiles, who were accused of being too Greek in Turkey and too Turkish in Greece, would soon abandon their home and citizenship, never to return.
The project 20 Dollars 20 Kilos coordinated by Salih Erturan and curated by Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, focuses on this forced deportation. Extensive interviews with the victims and/or their family members were conducted in Athens, Imbros and Istanbul. In addition to the oral history activities, documents, archive scans and various printed and visual materials pertaining to the period will be exhibited to explore and to open up a debate on concepts such as separation, abandonment, defenselessness and stigmatization for the 50th anniversary of this incident.

Project Coordination and Management: BABİL Institute (www.babilder.org)
Strategic Partner: Ecumenical Federation of Constantinopolitans (IREF)
Project Supporters: Open Society Foundation, AB Sivil Düşün, Anadolu Kültür
Project Consultant: Rıdvan Akar

Tütün Deposu Lüleci Hendek Cad. No:12 Tophane 34425 İstanbul depo@depoistanbul.net +902122923956 www.depoistanbul.net

Photography Exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron- August 19, 2013–January 5, 2014 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the greatest portraitists in the history of photography, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) blended an unorthodox technique, a deeply spiritual sensibility, and a Pre- Raphaelite–inflected aesthetic to create a gallery of vivid portraits and a mirror of the Victorian soul. This will be the first New York City museum exhibition devoted to Cameron's work in nearly a generation, and the first ever at the Met. The showing of thirty-five works is drawn entirely from the Metropolitan's rich collection, including major works from the Rubel Collection acquired in 1997 and the Gilman Collection acquired in 2005.

When she received her first camera in December 1863 as a gift from her daughter and son-in-law, Cameron was forty-eight, a mother of six, and a deeply religious, well-read, somewhat eccentric friend of many notable Victorian artists, poets, and thinkers. "From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour," she wrote, "and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour." Condemned by some contemporaries for sloppy craftsmanship, she purposely avoided the perfect resolution and minute detail that glass negatives permitted, opting instead for carefully directed light, soft focus, and long exposures that allowed the sitters' slight movement to register in her pictures, instilling them with an uncommon sense of breath and life.

The exhibition will feature masterpieces from each of Cameron's three major bodies of work: portraits of men "great thro' genius," including painter G. F. Watts, poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, scientist Sir John Herschel, and philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle; women "great thro' love," including relatives, neighbors, and household staff, often titled as literary, historical, or biblical subjects; and staged groupings such as her illustrations for Tennyson's Idylls of the King or her Annunciation in the style of Perugino.

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Julia Margaret Cameron           
August 19, 2013–January 5, 2014 / Gallery 852

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At War with the Obvious Photographs by William Eggleston February 26–July 28, 2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York

William Eggleston (American, born Memphis, Tennessee, 1939). Untitled (Louisiana), 1980, printed 1999. Dye-transfer print. 11 7/8 x 17 13/16 in. (30.2 x 45.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Elizabeth S. and Robert J. Fisher Gift, 2012 (2012.302). © Eggleston Artistic Trust

William Eggleston (American, born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. Now, fifty years later, he is its most prolific and influential exemplar. Through a profound appreciation of the American vernacular (especially near his home in the Mississippi Delta) and confidence in the dye transfer printmaking process to reveal the region's characteristic qualities of light and saturated chromatics, Eggleston almost single-handedly validated color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. This exhibition celebrates the artist's iconic photographs of commonplace subjects that have become touchstones for generations of artists, musicians, and filmmakers from Nan Goldin to David Byrne, the Coen Brothers, and David Lynch.

The exhibition is made possible in part by Renée Belfer

February 26–July 28, 2013

Visiting Hours :
Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.*
Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.*
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.*
Closed Monday (except Met Holiday Mondays), Thanksgiving Day, and December 25


The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028-0198
Phone: 212-535-7710

Email: web.site@metmuseum.org

More information in the site of the museum www.metmuseum.org

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Photography Exhibition of Nikos Economopoulos in Fotografevi / April 18 – May 10

The exhibition opening of worldwide famous photographer, Magnum Photos member Nikos Economopoulos is on April 18 2013, in Fotografevi. The exhibition is composed of the photos he took in miscellaneous countries from the beginning of 1990 until today. There are black&white vintage photos Economopoulos took mainly in Turkey, Balkans and Caucasus along with the colored ones he recently took on various lands of the world.

Same day, Economopoulos, who had exhibitions and whose books are published in many countries, photos have been and still being published on the prestigious magazines and papers around the world, will be signing all his books released from Fotografevi Publishing.

Published his work titled “In The Balkans” on 2007, Fotografevi has published the third book of FotoCep series this February that is composed of approximately 100 of his photos.

Exhibition of NIKOS ECONOMOPOULOS in Fotografevi
April 18 – May 10,2013

Şehit Muhtar Bey Caddesi No: 22 Kat: 2 Talimhane - Taksim / Beyoğlu, 34437 İstanbul

 

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Photo competition ‘Discover the power of wind energy’ until 5th May 2013

Wind energy is more than a technology. It captures the imagination, inspires, fascinates and captivates. We each have a wind energy story to tell – so why don’t you share yours with us?
Do you have a story to tell about wind energy – and are you creative with your camera? Then take a wind energy photo and write a text explaining what wind energy means to you.
Now you are ready to enter EWEA’s 2013 photo competition for Global Wind Day, and you might win a €1,000 Amazon voucher!
Whether it’s why you chose that particular shot, or why you think wind energy is the future, or that you simply think wind turbines are attractive, or maybe you work in the sector and want to tell us how you got there, the possibilities are endless. Explain why you chose that exact moment, motif and technical equipment, or tell us what your views on wind energy and your relationship to it are or send us a story, a short piece of literature, even a poem or a song.
Submit your photo and story now

Practical information
Dates: Competition opens 4 February and closes 5 May 2013 at 20:00 CET
Fee: There is no entry fee
Prize: €1,000 Amazon voucher for the global winner, €250 Amazon voucher for regional winners
Up to three submissions are accepted from everyone over 18 worldwide
Winners of the competition will receive Amazon vouchers as well as their photographs featured in renewable energy publication ‘Recharge’ and EWEA’s magazine, Wind Directions. In addition, the winning selection will be put on display in the European Parliament in Brussels as well as our social media platforms and website.

Find out more about the competition here

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Art Brussels 31st contemporary art fair from April 18-21, 2013

'Art fairs continue to be an important component of the art world, bridging commerce and creativity and providing an important locus for the showcasing of art, networking, discursive activities, possibilities for artists to gain an income, and collectors and institutions to build their collections. At a time when, despite the economic crisis, art fairs continue to proliferate and competition is intense, it is extremely challenging for me to be able to work on developing a distinct artistic identity and positioning for Art Brussels, and a timely moment to think about the renewal of the fair given both its strengthened position and increased quality over the years, and the increasing international interest in the city’s art scene, which is becoming a focal point for artists and galleries alike, Belgian as well as international.'

  Katerina Gregos


Art Brussels 31st contemporary art fair from April 18-21, 2013 at the Brussels Expo located at Place de Belgique, 1 BE-1020 Brussels.

2013 marks the 31st edition of Art Brussels. This year, the international selection committee selected 182 contemporary art galleries from all over the world with more than 2000 artists, international well-known names as well as promising young talents. It is the perfect occasion to celebrate Art Brussels’ key position on the international art market.

Location
Brussels Expo
Place de Belgique
1 BE-1020 Brussels

Dates: 18-21 April 2013
Opening: 17 April 2013 (by invitation only)

Hours:
Thursday, April 18 from noon to 7pm

Friday, April 19 from noon to 7pm
Saturday, April 20 from noon to 7pm

Sunday, April 21 from noon to 7pm


For more information visit ART BRUSSELS

Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome Photography Exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery - March 6 - April 20, 2013

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome, the next exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition consists of 53 vintage color photographs included in Ghirri’s seminal 1978 publication and exhibition of the same title. This is the first time these important works will be exhibited in the United States. It is also the first one-person Luigi Ghirri exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery.

In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book, Kodachrome, an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Ghirri presents his surroundings in the book in tightly cropped images, making photographs of photographs and recording the Italian landscape through its advertisements, postcards, potted plants, walls, windows, and people. His work is deadpan, reflecting a dry wit, and continuously engages with the subject of reality and of landscape as a snapshot of our interaction with the world.

‘The daily encounter with reality, the fictions, the surrogates, the ambiguous, poetic or alienating aspects, all seem to preclude any way out of the labyrinth, the walls of which are ever more illusory… to the point at which we might merge with them… The meaning that I am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things, and life.’ Luigi Ghirri

Born in 1942, Luigi Ghirri spent his working life in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, where he produced one of the most open and layered bodies of work in the history of photography. Although he exhibited extensively during his lifetime, and was at the height of his powers when he died in 1992, it has only been after his untimely death that his true achievement has begun to be appreciated.

In 2008, the Aperture Foundation published the first book on Ghirri in the United States, and in 2010, Thomas Demand organized the acclaimed exhibition La Carte d’Après Nature around Ghirri’s photographs. His work was featured in the 2011 Venice Biennale, and last year the exhibition Luigi Ghirri – Project Prints was held at the Castello di Rivoli, in Turin. The largest exhibition of Ghirri’s oeuvre opens in April 2013 at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. Ghirri’s photographs will also be included in this summer’s Venice Biennale.

Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome will be on view from March 6th through April 20th, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. at 526 West 22nd Street, New York.

For more information, please contact Jacqueline Tran at (212) 243-0200 or email jacqueline@matthewmarks.com.


Matthew Marks Gallery

Concours de photos “Quand le loup n'est pas là...” par le français INSTITUT DE THESSALONIQUE

“Quand le loup n'est pas là...” - Contes, histoires et légendes –

Qu'y a-t-il derrière le combat entre le héros et le méchant ? Que se passe-t-il quand le loup n'est pas là ? Qu'est-ce qui est représentatif d'un conte aujourd'hui ? Quel souvenir gardons-nous des contes de notre enfance ? Nous avons grandi avec eux, à vous de les illustrer.

A l’occasion de la Semaine de la francophonie, l’Institut Français de Thessalonique et le Centre photographique de Thessalonique proposent un concours photos sur le thème des contes.

Ce concours est ouvert à tous les photographes amateurs, quel que soit leur âge ou lieu de résidence. Chaque participant peut envoyer de 1 à 3 photos en noir et blanc ou en couleur.

Il existe deux modalités différentes du concours : Une version papier et une version numérique.

Version papier :

Les photos doivent être imprimées en format A3 et envoyées à l'Institut français (à l'adresse ci-dessous) avant le 4 mars. Les 50 meilleures photos feront l'objet d'une exposition en salle Allatini à l'Institut français de Thessalonique du 11 au 30 mars et les 3 meilleures photos seront récompensées.


Version numérique :

Les photos doivent être postées dans l’évènement Faceboook “Quand le loup n'est pas là...” – Contes et légendes – sur la page Facebook de l'Institut français de Thessalonique - Officiel.
Les 5 photos qui auront le plus de mention « j'aime » d'ici le 4 mars à 16h (heure grecque) seront présentées en diaporama sur le site de l'Institut Français de Thessalonique.

Chaque participant est libre de concourir à la version numérique ou imprimée ou aux deux versions.

Tout participant souhaitant présenter son travail imprimé pour l’exposition à l'Institut Français de Thessalonique devra au préalable remplir la fiche d'inscription en cliquant sur ce lien http://www.ift.gr/pdf/FORMULAIRE_DE_PARTICIPATION_AU_CONCOURS_PHOTOS.doc
et la renvoyer avant le 1er mars à lysiane.pons@hotmail.fr
Nous comptons sur votre participation !

Institut Français de Thessalonique
Service de Coopération Educative
Concours photo "Contes"
2A, Leoforos Stratou
54640 THESSALONIKI

 

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Anders Petersen 5-day workshop at Fotografiska in Stockholm 29/05-02/06/13

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP 2013 - REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Join Anders Petersen for a challenging and inspiring 5-day workshop at Fotografiska, May 29 - June 2, 2013. It will be five intense days of doing, feeling and talking about photography. Each afternoon you will get a photo assignments that you complete before the next morning when the discussions and critique take place. You are expected to work hard, and to challenge yourself and your photographic method, under the guidance of Anders Petersen. This is not a technical workshop. The workshop is in English.

SUBJECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
This workshop is about approaching photography from a subjective viewpoint where the images you take not only tell stories about someone else or somewhere else, but also say something about the photographer. But it is also very much about being bold and finding your own photographic voice (and eye) – working alone but besides and in dialogue with other participants and with Anders Petersen.

The workshop starts each morning at 10:00 am and ends at 4.30 pm. Portfolio reviews and one-on-one feedback sessions are mixed with presentations and critique of participants' photo assignments, as well as discussions on photography – all under the guidance by Anders Petersen. But your day does not finish at 4.30 pm - towards to end of each day Anders hands out a photo assignment and you will have until next morning to complete it.

REQUIREMENTS
The workshop is limited to 15 photographers. This class is for photographers of all levels. Attendees should bring their portfolio to the class for review. Prints only, no slides. Computer print-outs are fine.

Please note! For the daily photo assignments you will need a DIGITAL camera. The assignments are to be presented digitally, since there will not be time to process and print your photos.

Anders Petersen’s workshop is held at the Academy at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden. All participants will share a small lounge where you can have coffee and tea and hang out with your fellow workshop participants as well as the participants form other workshops next door.
The price includes the workshop fee, lunch Wednesday until Sunday, and afternoon snacks.
You are expected to bring all necessary equipment (bring your laptop too, if you have one). You are also expected to make your own travel arrangements and find accommodation in Stockholm.

For more information clic here