Erin Wallace, a student at the Art Institute of Atlanta, was working on a portrait project for school this weekend on Marietta St. Great to see someone out on the street, shooting with a 4×5 and real film!

ACP was fortunate to have a room at ARTHOUSE[09] up on the third floor. Click the image to take a look at the space, which included work by Lucinda Bunnen, Corinne Adams, Dorothy O’Connor and Anne Berry.

On Oct. 25th, The Contemporary hosted a fantastic panel discussion a few weeks ago on Art, Action & Awareness. Stuart Horodner moderated. The panel included Julian Cox, Suzanne Opton, and Laura Poitras. The Contemporary recorded the panel, and here it is, as an mp3.

[Art, Action, & Awareness Panel: mp3 download]

Peter Magubane has been one of Nelson Mandela’s personal photographers for over forty years. He photographed the struggle against apartheid, as well as Mandela’s release and subsequent years as a statesman. An exhibition of his photographs is currently on view at Spruill Gallery. Please have a look at this quick video/interview with Dr. Magubane.

Thanks to Hope Cohn and Sprull for facilitating this interview.

Gregory Heisler @ the High Museum, on Arnold Newman

Danny Lyon @ Woodruff Arts Center

Paul Shambroom @ the Contemporary

ACP 10 Opening Reception @ the Contemporary

ACP 10 Public Art photographed by Eric M. Joyner via Smugmug

ACP 10 Public Art Opening @ the Water Tower

ACP 10 My Atlanta

Nicole Akstein @ Opal Gallery

If you have pics from this past weekend that you’d like to share, please send them to info@acpinfo.org, or tag them with “acp10” on flickr. Thanks!

This past Saturday, we opened “My Atlanta”, our public push-pin exhibition, where anyone can come by the Piedmont Park Community Center and post their photo. The exhibition will be judged this week by Jerry Cullum - stay tuned to ACP Now! for news of the winners.

Here’s a quick slideshow of how things look, and here’s a link with hours of operation.

We were happy to have artrelish.com at the ACP 10 Auction to record a quick video. Thanks, artrelish! More ACP Videos…

Here are some quick pics from this past weekend @ ACP events and participating galleries. If you have pics of an event this weekend to share, please send them to info@acpinfo.org, or tag them as “acp10” on flickr. Thanks!

Here’s Andy Ditzler from Film Love introducing the first screening of the ACP 10 Film Series on Saturday night.

Tierney Gearon @ ACP 10 Auction

ACP 10 Auction

Zhang Dali @ Kiang Gallery

McCallum Tarry @ Kiang Gallery

Lisa Tuttle @ Sandler Hudson

Brook Reynolds @ Callanwolde

Here’s a peek at William Boling’s Artist Lecture about his work “You Ain’t Wrong” @ Hagedorn Foundation Gallery on Thursday night. If you have pics of an event this weekend to share, please send them to info@acpinfo.org, or tag them as “acp10” on flickr. Thanks! (This post will be updated.)

Here’s Sylvia Plachy’s opening @ Composition Gallery.

Here’s the opening of “TrypChick” @ Fine Line Gallery and a video over on ArtRelish.

Here’s a look at “Contemporary Southern Photographers” at APG last Friday night. If you’re taking pictures at an ACP event this fall, send a jpg to info@acpinfo.org so we can put it up here. If you’re on flickr, just tag your picture with “acp10“.

Thanks!

ACP’s teaming-up with Art Relish this fall to bring video content to ACP Now! that reflects the myriad of events that comprise ACP 10. This morning, ACP and Art Relish visited Emory’s Carlos Museum, which has an incredible collection of Warhol Polaroids on view through December.

Watch this space for a video interview with Margaret Shufeldt, curator at the Carlos Museum, in coming days. (And thanks to the tip from Monroe, Louisiana!)

ACP visited Lumère this morning to catch a preview of the Arnold Newman show that’s opening tomorrow. Newman’s elegant vintage, silver gelatin portraits reveal the beginnings of environmental portraiture, in the hands of a true master. The show, called “Images of Achievement”, opens at 6:30pm tmw (Friday), and Newman’s assistant, Gregory Heisler will be in attendance. Heisler, a well-known portrait photographer himself, will be giving a lecture at the High Museum on October 1st, in collaboration with ACP.

Here are two views from Hagedorn Foundation Gallery’s exhibition of William Boling’s project “You Ain’t Wrong”, a whimsical look at the surprising juxtapositions that can be found in online auction imagery. The show includes large prints of low-res digital images, small pairings printed on silk, and traditionally framed photographs. For more on the show, read Cinque Hicks’ review.

“As we make the sometimes ludicrous connections between dissimilar objects, You Ain’t Wrong reveals the strange leaps required to transform the intimate evidence of our living into so many exchangeable commodities.”

Update: William Boling will be giving an artist’s lecture about this work on Thursday, Sept 18th, at 7pm. See you there!

ACP 10 is starting, folks, so buckle your seatbelt! Here’s another opening on Friday night; Jody Fausett at Whitespace Gallery. We’re planning to have the online festival guide up by the end of the week, but put this on your calendar, in the meantime.

Update: Two quick views of Jody Fausett’s exhibition “Snake Eyes” at Whitespace Gallery from Friday evening.

Last week marked the opening of the High Museum’s incredible “Road to Freedom” exhibition of Civil Rights photographs, and ACP had the opportunity to interview a few of the included photographers.

There are two takes below, the first from Larry Fink, whose photograph of Coretta Scott King is featured, and the second, from Builder Levy, who has a couple of photographs in the exhibition, including one of the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike in 1968, following Martin Luther King’s assassination. Click to play, or use the download links.

“Both as a historical marker, and as an unbelievably beautifully crafted/curated thing, to work the pendulistic swing between asthetics and abject content, [this exhibit] has been beautifully crafted by Julian. Really, it’s a significant show. It’s totally moving… …it’s coming at a very fortuitous time for our country.” - Larry Fink

[Larry Fink Interview: mp3 download]

[Builder Levy Interview: mp3 download]