The End of the Line

I'm discontinuing this blog. Like material can be found at PhotoEphemera.

Alec Soth in The New York Times

In today's New York Times you can find a full page article on Alec Soth. It's tied to a show of new work that opens at Atlanta's High Museum next week. Here it is online. There are more and larger photos in the paper.

David Goldblatt this Thursday

Just a reminder:

Thursday, July 16, 7 PM
David Goldblatt and Richard Flood in Conversation

In conjunction with the exhibition "Intersections Intersected: The
Photography of David Goldblatt," photographer David Goldblatt will discuss
his forty-year body of work documenting South Africa with the New Museum
Chief Curator Richard Flood. More here.

The exhibit will run July 15 - October 11, 2009

New Museum
235 Bowery, New York
$6 Members, $8 General Public

Ralph Gibson, Taschen, Nudes

Taschen is at it again:

Ralph Gibson
Nude
Hardcover in a clamshell box
XL-format: 13 x 17.3 inches, 306 pages
US$500

A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deus ex Machina, master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his recent work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

Limited to 1,200 numbered copies, each signed by the artist. Also available in two exclusive Art Editions, each limited to 100 copies, including one of two signed photographic prints.
More Information

David Goldblatt Talk

Thursday, July 16, 7 PM
David Goldblatt and Richard Flood in Conversation

In conjunction with the exhibition "Intersections Intersected: The
Photography of David Goldblatt," photographer David Goldblatt will discuss
his forty-year body of work documenting South Africa with the New Museum
Chief Curator Richard Flood. More here.

The exhibit will run July 15 - October 11, 2009

New Museum
235 Bowery, New York
$6 Members, $8 General Public

Miniature Chris Killip Prints for Sale

In April, the Isle of Man Postal Authority issued a set of 8 stamps with photographs of mills and millers on them. The photographs were taken by Chris Killip as part of the group of images that became his book, The Isle of Man: A Book About the Manx. According to Jeff Ladd at 5B4, only two of the eight images were reproduced in the book.

You can find the stamps here.

The limited edition album made by Killip to celebrate their release, here.

And Ladd's review of the limited edition and all current things Killip, here.

William Eggleston on NPR

On the NPR website, there is a nice interview/tour with William Eggleston. He is walking the correspondent through the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibit of his work, talking about the photographs. You can find it here. The piece is just over 3 minutes and if you hit the full screen button, it actually maintains the resolution.

Oh, and by the way, they don't mean anything, they're just pictures.

Adam Bartos at Glenn Horowitz

Adam Bartos
Yard Sale
Reception and book signing
Saturday, June 20th, from 6 to 8p.m.

Photos from Yard Sale will be on exhibition during the reception and, beginning June 26th, as part of an exhibition at The Drawing Room.

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
87 Newtown Lane
East Hampton, NY 11937
P: 631.324.5511
www.ghbookseller.com

Book Sale This Weekend at Taschen, NYC, Hollywood & Beverly Hills

Books for Sale at 5B4

The 5B4 website is hosting a garage sale to raise operating capital. You can find common, unusual, rare and signed books at reasonable prices here. Happy hunting.

Chris Payne at the Architectural League

Cremation Urns, Oregon by Chris Payne

Thursday, June 25, 6:30 p.m.Chris Payne
Chris Payne
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, A Photographer's Journey
Lecture
The Architectural League
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue

RSVP at rsvp@archleague.org.
Admission is free.
Information at info@archleague.org or 212.753.1722 x13.

From the League: For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States. Yet in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these massive buildings neglected and abandoned. Photographer Chris Payne will discuss and show images from his six-year research and book project, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (MIT Press, forthcoming September 2009), which explores the architecture, decay, and presence in the American landscape of state mental hospitals.

June Events & Book Signing

Friday, June 5, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Lynn Saville: Night/Shift
Book signing
ICP Museum Store
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
212.857.9725

From the publisher: Lynn Saville photographs New York during the time of transition from daylight to night, the fleeting moments when natural light gives way to streetlight, moonlight, window light, and advertisement and surveillance lighting. Subdued tones and shadows reveal a geometry hidden beneath the visual distractions of daylight. Saville has sought out places that seem questionable—deserted factories, back alleys, the shadowy infrastructure of urban highways and bridges that suggest the city’s exoskeleton.



Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 6:30 pm
Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights
Artist's Talk and Book Signing
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

From the publisher: In his first monograph, All the Days and Nights, Doug DuBois turns the camera on his own family, both before and after his father's near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother's subsequent breakdown. The unblinking eye of DuBois's camera captures the nuances of his family's intensely personal struggles and relationships.




Wednesday, June 10, 07:00PM - 08:30 pm
Anthony Goicolea Fictions
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway (at the corner of 12th Street)

From the publisher: Anthony Goicolea's third book is an amalgam of photographs and drawings. Though the artist no longer uses himself as a model, he continues to use the motifs of his earlier work. All male, and under thirty, Goicolea's subjects seem to have left their public schoolboy roots behind, and matriculated in an environment which is otherworldly, replete with codes and rituals unfamiliar to the viewer.



Thursday, June 11, 2009, 6:30 pm
Dan Winters, Periodical Photographs
Talk, Book Signing, and Reception
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
(212) 505-5555

From the publisher: Periodical Photographs, the long-awaited first monograph from top editorial photographer Dan Winters, provides an overview of his assignment work as a contributor to some of America’s most prestigious magazines, including New York, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine. With an emphasis on his iconic portraiture, this volume considers the body of work of a top photographer whose unique sensibility is both adaptable and instantly recognizable. Winters is responsible for the definitive portraits of some of Hollywood's most photographed A-listers (Gwyneth Paltrow, Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio) and music superstars (Bono, Eminem, Willie Nelson). His voracious passion for the quirky and the creative also draws him to visual artists, scientists, architects, and everyday, extraordinary Americans.



Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 6:30 pm
Lyle Rexer, Abstraction in Photography
Lecture and Book Signing
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
(212) 505-5555

From the publisher: 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. In addition to Rexer’s engagingly written and richly illustrated history, this volume includes a selection of primary texts from key practitioners and critics, such as Edward Steichen, László Moholy-Nagy, and James Welling.



Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8:00–11:00 pm
Some Like It Hot Summer Party
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

From Aperture: The evening's festivities will include cocktails and live music by the trendy emerging band, The Willowz and a raffle of choice items, including a commissioned portrait by Matthew Pillsbury, a deluxe Raymond Weil watch, a one-year Art Circle membership with Aperture Foundation, a selection of recent Aperture publications, a Chelsea gallery romp with curator, writer, collector, and New School photography professor John A. Bennett, and concert tickets for the Dave Matthews Band.

Tickets are limited and are available at the following price points:
$200 dual ticket (admission for two, plus limited-edition print by Thomas Allen)
$150 single ticket (admission for one, plus limited-edition print by Thomas Allen)
$50 single ticket (admission for one)
Raffle tickets: $10

THOMAS ALLEN (b. 1963)
Beachcomber, 2009
Created exclusively for Aperture’s first Some Like It Hot summer party
Digital C-print
Image size: 8 x 10 in.
Paper size: 8 x 10 in.
Edition: 250 and 2 artist’s proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Richard Mosse

Al Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq 2009 from Breach

Toyota Hilux, Mosul, Iraq 2009 from Nomads

I recently discovered the work of Richard Mosse, an Irish photojournalist who has spent some very productive time in Iraq of late. You can find his work here. Be sure to check out the portfolios labeled "Breach" and "Nomads." His vision is remarkably sharp.

Bill Jay Dead at 68

Bill Jay by Burke Uzzle, 2002

Did the death of Bill Jay get reported at all in the USA? I read a lot of newspapers and troll quite a few websites and I'm only discovering this now. Here you'll find an obit.

And here you'll find his writing and portraits of photographer.

Sebastiao Salgado

In Sunday's New York Times, May 31, 2009, is a nearly full-page article on Sebastiao Salgado's Genesis project. You can find it online here.