Thursday, April 30, 6-8 pm
Opening reception and book signing
Sites of Impact: Meteorite Craters Around the World by Stan Gaz
ClampArt Gallery, 521-531 West 25th St., Ground Floor
646-230-0020
From Princeton Architectural Press: The eightyfive b&w photographs collected in Sites of Impact transcend the purely documentary. In addition to photographs of the craters and their surrounding landscapes, Gaz includes photographs of actual meteorites and of his own carefully crafted sculptures that recreate their often dynamic form and mimic their specific mineral content. Advance copies of the book are presently available only at the gallery.
Also at Clamp Art on April 30, 6-8 pm
Opening reception and book signing
Aids In Odessa by Andrea Diefenbach
From Hatje Cantz: In the spring of 2006, the German photographer Andrea Diefenbach (b. 1974) spent time with several HIV-positive Ukranian women and men as they went about their daily routines in the harbor city of Odessa. Ukraine has been among those countries most severely affected by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Recently Ukraine set an unhappy record for the highest rate of new infections in Europe.
Friday, May 1, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Book signing
Not in Fashion by Mark Borthwick
ICP Museum Store, 1133 Ave of the Americas at 43rd Street
212-857-9725
From Rizzoli: This book showcases over 200 images from Borthwick’s best fashion editorials, celebrity portraits, and advertising work, as well as excerpts from his personal journals. The journal pages, consisting of Polaroids, sketches, and notes on shoots, reveal the workings of a photographer’s mind.
(Friday nights at ICP feature a DJ and complimentary wine and admission to the museum from 5:00 to 8:00 pm is by donation. You can also order signed books by calling 212-857-9725.)
Saturday, May 2, 6-8 pm
Opening reception and book signing
The Other Half of the Sky by Lili Almog
Andrea Meislin Gallery, 26 West 26th St., Suite 214
212-627-2552
From powerHouse: Over the past two years, Lili Almog has photographed minority women in the countryside, small cities, and villages of China. In her second monograph, The Other Half of the Sky, Almog examines these women at a time when the demands of rapid growth and a sweeping desire for modernity is encroaching upon the traditions and values that have sustained their cultures as intact microcosms in the larger picture of China for centuries.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 6:30 pm
Lecture
Melanie Bonajo
Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th St.
212-505-5555
From Aperture: Photographer Melanie Bonajo will discuss how she works as an artist, performing and exhibiting her photographs in art institutions around the world. A solo show of her work will be on view at PPOW, New York, in May 2009. In addition to numerous exhibition catalogues, I Have a Room, a retrospective book of her work, was released in September 2008 (Capricious Publishing).
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion
Contemporary Portraiture with Doug DuBois and Richard Renaldi
Affordable Art Fair, 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1512
212-255-2003
Admission: $20
From Aperture: Doug DuBois (All the Days and Nights, Aperture, 2009) and Richard Renaldi (Figure and Ground, Aperture, 2006; Fall River Boys, Charles Lane Press, 2009), will speak about their respective bodies of work and how they fit into the broader context of portraiture in contemporary photography.
May 8, 2009
Conversation with Ron Haviv, Franco Pagetti, Alberto Cairo and Christiane Amanpour
Doors open at 7 pm, Program begins at 8 pm
401 Projects, 401 West St.,
between Charles and West 10th St.s
Please RSVP by April 30 to com.was@icrc.org or 202-587-4618
This conversation with Haviv, Pagetti (both VII Photographers), Cairo (International Committee of the Red Cross-Afghanistan) and Amanpour (CNN Chief International Correspondent) is in conjunction with an exhibit opening at 401 called Our World At War. The show features "the work of world renowned war photographers" James Nachtwey, Christopher Morris, Franco Pagetti, Ron Haviv, and Antonin Kratochvil.
Cairo, by the way, had a book published of his experiences in Kabul. It was issued in Italy (2003) and then reprinted in French (2007). The photos are by Sebastiao Salgado and though I've not seen the book and don't know how many there are, the cover photo is nice.
Thursday, May 14 - Sunday, May 17
The New York Photo Festival
Lots of stuff going on
Friday, May 15, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Book signing
Tim Walker Pictures by Tim Walker
ICP Museum Store, 1133 Ave of the Americas at 43rd Street
212-857-9725
From Te Neues: This book offers us a glimpse into the artistic process used by fashion photographer Tim Walker. Featuring sketches, contact-sheets, collages and Polaroids, this comprehensive overview of his work brings us deep inside his glamorous world of adventure. The over-sized format showcases some of the most imaginative and exuberant art being produced today.
Saturday, May 16, 1:00 pm
Book signing
Female Bodybuilders by Martin Schoeller
The Randall Scott Gallery, 111 Front St., Dumbo, Brooklyn
212-796-2190
Saturday, May 16, 7:00-10:00 pm
Opening reception and book signing
Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography by Lyle Rexer
Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th St.,
212-505-5555
From Aperture: From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Artist's Talk and Book Signing
Sawdust Mountain by Eirik Johnson
Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th St.,
212-505-5555
From Aperture: A culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Sawdust Mountain records a region affected by historic economic complexities and, by extension, one aspect of our fraught relationship with the environment in the twenty-first century.
Friday, May 29, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Book signing
Yard Sale Photographs by Adam Bartos
ICP Museum Store, 1133 Ave of the Americas at 43rd Street
212-857-9725
From Damiani: In turning his lens to the random constellations formed by rummaging and perusing, Bartos has struck gold with his still lifes of "chance meetings," the bizarre conjunctions of objects that occur at yard sales. Photographing at close range from an elevated vantage point, Bartos allows the viewer to connect the dots, supplying only the raw combinations of materials for our story-making.
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