MoMA New Photography 2010

Last nights opening of the New Photography 2010 exhibit proved to be quite wonderful.


Roe Ethridge, Old Fruit. 2010

"New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Ethridge takes his pictures in “editorial mode,” directly borrowing from commercial images already in circulation, including outtakes from his own illustrational magazine work. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations. Ross-Ho’s hand-drilled sheetrock panels lined up with found pictures and mural-scale images of studio residues renegotiate the various stages of the creative process. Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire. Infusing the seductive language of film and advertising with a touch of sly conceptualism, the artists included in New Photography 2010 explore the relationship between straight and constructed photograph, image and picture."


Elad Lassry, Untitled (Cheetah). 2008


Amanda Ross-Ho, Irreconcilable Indifferences. 2010


Alex Prager, Crowd #1 (Stan Douglas). 2010

Implied Sound

November 1894

Oh Youth,

Seems suiting to the last post..
From Black is the Day, Black is the Night


© Amy Elkins

Routines and Obsessions

"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."
- Robert Bly

I have quite a few of my own.... though documenting myself aging, traveling, moving and living throughout the years has to be the biggest one. At this point, it's as routine as brushing my teeth.

April 28, 2009 - January 04, 2010 - An excerpt of 252 days straight out 1701 snapped chronologically between January 27, 2006 and today, September 23, 2010.




August 13, 2010, new apartment

© Amy Elkins from Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Where's Al?

Allen Ruppersberg
Where's Al? 1972



Love language being incorporated into art. This piece is fantastic.

The Human Seasons

Poem for a Wednesday

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness--to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

-John Keats

Conditions

A new book by Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann has just been released by Meier und Mueller, a publishing house out of Berlin that specializes in producing contemporary fine-art photography books. Upon seeing it in person, I must say it's a pretty gorgeous book with a fantastic design. You can peep the book here, but you should buy it and browse through the pages in person.

Gale

The oldest known photograph of a tornado, taken on August 28, 1884.



If you were in NY last Thursday, especially in Brooklyn or Queens... perhaps you saw the whirlwind storm lash the streets.

No shortage..

Absolutely no shortage of things to see tonight. Here's a shortlist out of tons of openings below in order of streets. Enjoy.

LES

Paul Mpagi Sepuya "Portraits / Positions" at NP Contemporary Art Center
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm

Chelsea

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao "BQMB" at Julie Saul Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Danny Jauregui "There Goes the Neighborhood" at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8p

"50 Years at Pace" at The Pace Gallery
22 street: 545 W 22 street, 5:30-9pm

Cecilia Edefalk "Weeping Birch" at Gladstone Gallery
24 street: 515 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Arthur Seigel, Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, Inge Morath, Marie Cosindas, Marvin E. Newman, Pete Turner, Ruth Orkin, Saul Leiter "Beyond COLOR: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970" at Bruce Silverstein Gallery
24 street: 535 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Mark Beard "Bruce Sargeant and His Circle" at Clamp Art
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Adam Fuss "Home and the World" at Cheim & Read
25 street: 547 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Paul Strand "Paul Strand In Mexico" at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Complex Forms

Sol LeWitt: The Complex Form
September 15 – October 30, 2010
Opening reception Wednesday, September 15, 6-8


Complex Form #6, 1988, painted aluminum

For You

I had the opportunity to take a smaller residency (month long) at CCNY a few years back and had a great time there printing to my hearts content. If you are in NYC and in need of darkroom time.. apply!

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
2011 Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency Program

CCNY invites emerging photographers living in New York City to apply for the 2011 Darkroom Residency Program.

The CCNY Darkroom Residency offers local photographers much-needed workspace in New York City as well as access to the CCNY community and programs.

From Here to There

© Alec Soth, Sara, 2009

The Walker presents the first U.S. survey of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most compelling voices in contemporary photography, whose offbeat images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, the exhibition includes examples from Soth’s well-known series Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagara, a selection of rarely seen early black-and-white work, and a broad range of portraits. Also on view is the Minneapolis-based artist’s newest series, Broken Manual, exploring places of escape in and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life “off the grid.”

Working in a photographic tradition of road photography established by such figures as Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth captures stunning large-scale color images often using a cumbersome 8x10 field camera, with an eye toward finding overlooked beauty in the banal. His curiosity, penchant for research, and openness to serendipity in seeking out subjects have all become hallmarks of his working process. The wanderlust embodied in Soth’s work is an impulse to uncover his own versions of the narratives that comprise the American experience. His images offer insight into broader sociologies while forming an unexpected portrait of the country.

Silent Film for a Tuesday

Somewhere..

Sarah Vaughan on a Friday

The weekend's creeping up

Show openings for a Thursday

Tribble Mancenido: Hurry Up and Wait at Sasha Wolf Gallery
September 9 - October 23, 2010

Jessica Backhaus: I Wanted to See the World at Laurence Miller Gallery
September 9 – October 30, 2010

Lee Friedlander: Recent Western Landscape at Mary Boone Gallery
September 9 – October 23, 2010

Off in my mind..

10 Years out of a Death Row Sentence, 2010 from the series Black is the Day Black is the Night.



I have been working on this project now for over a year.. and am currently in the editing, organizing and sequencing phase for a book maquette. Good times.

Also in the midst of residency applications, prepping for the next season of a photo project I started last year, planning a WIP event, mapping out a S.West road trip and heading out to opening week in the gallery world. I add in yoga, coffee breaks and good food so I don't lose my mind.

Silent film for a Tuesday

Louis Martinetti, contortionist and gymnast, performing on flying ring. 1894

Stephen Frailey

from his Picture of the week series

Untitled Six

© Stephen Frailey