A quick reminder of tonight’s ACP Film Series Double-Feature at the Plaza Theater, featuring two photo-documentaries about Alec Soth and Gregory Crewdson. This is the first time Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters has been screened in Atlanta, and we’re lucky to see the film before it opens in New York! Plus, the film’s director, Ben Shapiro, will be in attendance.

Today, sign-ups are open for the fourth annual ACP Photobook Fair on Saturday, October 20th. If you’ve self-published or indie-published your own photobook, we’d love to have you participate by signing-up for a free table at the Photobook Fair. Each year, the Photobook Fair is one of the best Saturday mornings of the Festival, and we’d love to see you there! (Check out this video from last year.)

Atlanta Celebrates Photography Photobook Fair 2011 from ArtRelish.com on Vimeo.

While we’re at it, here are the remaining events for this week; we hope to see you out and about!

Wed: ACP Film Series – Alec Soth & Gregory Crewdson Double Feature
Wed: Corinne Adams at Wing & A Prayer Studio
Wed: This is a Picture… at Fall Line Press at APG

Thurs: Artist’s talk for “Room in My Head” at SCAD-Atlanta
Thurs: Opening reception for Eliot Dudik at GSU
Thurs: Opening reception for Rawiya at GSU
Thurs: Opening reception for Gittel Price at Art Coop
Thurs: Opening reception for “Affrilachia in Words and Images”
Thurs: Artist’s talk from John Paul Caponigro at Creative Circus

Fri: ACP Collaboration with Arnika Dawkins Gallery – Panel Discussion
Fri: Opening reception for SlowExposures Ten Year Retrospective
Fri: Closing reception for Corinne Adams
Fri: Opening reception for SHOTS 12 at Showcase School of Photography
Fri: Photomix at Kudzu Art Zone
Fri: Celebrating Fernbank Museum at Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Fri: Opening reception for Arts Clayton 10th Annual Photography Show
Fri: Opening reception for Eye to the World at Southwest Art Center
Fri: Atlanta Photography Group: The Airport Show
Fri: Opening reception for Re-Placing Atlanta
Fri: Opening reception for 16th Annual Open Juried Exhibition: RPS

Sat: My Atlanta Exhibition at Piedmont Park Community Center
Sat: Opening reception for 8th AAC Photography Exhibit
Sat: Panel discussion for “Affrilachia in Words and Images”
Sat: Bill Boley at the Episcopal Church of the Atonement
Sat: Opening reception for Street Art at Worthmore Jewelers
Sat: Opening reception for Women in Focus / Multiplicity
Sat: FLUX NIGHT 2012
Sat: Opening reception for Exploring the Shadows

Sun: Opening reception for Sistagraphy at Atlanta-Fulton Public Library
Sun: Opening reception for “A Photographic Celebration” at Atlanta Artists Center<

ACP Advanced Photobook-Making Workshop, July 21st, with Laurie Shock
Sign-up and FAQ

What is this?
An opportunity to meet one-on-one with book design and publishing expert Laurie Shock of Shock Design Books. Laurie will help you take your unfinished Photobook project and turn it into a masterpiece.

To Qualify:
You must have your book conceptualized, have an understanding of who your target audience might be, have a strong edit, and be ready to finalize your edit or determine the best layout and design for your book, decide on the best paper to use, printing method, and distribution options based on your budget. Laurie will have lots of samples for you to evaluate during your session.

When and Where?
Saturday July 21, 2012
10am – 2:40pm
This event will take place at the Showcase School of Photography
1135 Sheridan Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30324

How do I sign-up for a 20-minute workshop session?
Signing-up is a three-step process. Before signing-up, make sure that you are available to attend a session anytime between 10am and 2:40pm.

Sessions are allotted on a first-come first-served basis. This means if you are the last to register, you will receive the remaining session time – whatever that may be. This also means early registrants will have the greatest freedom of choice for their session time.

1. Complete the sign-up form.
2. Click the Buy Now button below to pay $60 for your session.
3. You will be contacted by ACP to select the time of your session.

I’ve signed up, what should I bring to my session?
Different people have different ways of working. Feel free to bring your laptop with your work-in-progress, a dummy or mock-up of your book, photographic prints, samples of other books or ideas you want to incorporate. Sketches, notes, anything that you are using that is important to the process.

Who is Laurie Shock?
Laurie Shock, president of Shock Design Books, is a designer and art director specializing in book design and publishing. She has designed and produced over two hundred books, including Isaac Asimov’s Library of the Universe series and A Century of Women, the companion book to the Turner Broadcasting series. Among her clients are The Centers for Disease Control, The Carter Center, Shepherd Center, the American Cancer Society, Longstreet Press, Peachtree Publishers, and Fall Line Press. Her books have been published internationally, including a children’s cancer memoir published in Japan. Three of her books have won international book awards. Laurie is currently finishing her book How to Publish Your Own Photography Book which will be available September 2012.

Note: ACP will be holding a Photobook Fair during the October 2012 ACP Festival. We hope to be able to showcase YOUR finished photo book at this event, so sign up for Laurie’s workshop today!

If you missed out on the ACP 2011 Photobook Fair, here’s a look back, featuring interviews with exhibitors Kate Jordahl, Gerald Straw, Bryan Meltz, and Larissa Leclair of the Indie Photobook Library.

We’re happy to announce a new workshop on May 7th dedicated to publishing your own photo book. As preparation for our third-annual Photo Book Fair in October, Laurie Shock will teach a workshop on how to create your own photographic book. Visualizing your photographs in book form is a unique challenge, and Laurie will help guide you through the process from beginning to end. You’ll come away from the workshop with an actual path to creating your book, and once you’ve created yours, you’ll be ready to participate in ACP’s Photo Book Fair in the fall!

Today’s technology makes it easier than ever to produce a photo book, and that book can serve many different purposes. Now you can easily publish your photographs to use as a professional portfolio, to sell on the retail market, to tell a story and document a cause, to promote your business, or to give as a gift for someone special.

This workshop will briefly discuss traditional book publishing and compare that in detail to POD (print-on-demand) companies such as Blurb, Asukabook, and VioVio. What questions should you ask before you begin? How do POD companies differ? What steps should you take first? How should you edit and design your photo book? You’ll learn all of that here and leave with a solid roadmap for publishing your photo book.

Thank you to our friends at The Showcase School of Photography for partnering with us on this great workshop.

Learn More about the Photo Book Workshop and Sign-up Today!

Have you produced your own self-published photo book? We’re having our 2nd annual Photo Book Fair at the Piedmont Park Community Center on October 23rd, and you’re invited. If you have your own book to sell, or a book of your work from a small-press or university press, we’d love to include you in the event.

If you’ve thought about putting together a book of your own work, you can upload your images and prepare your own self-published book with myphotopipe.com who will be on hand on the 23rd to talk about their photo book offerings.

For more information, please see the Photo Book Fair listing in the Festival Guide, and sign-up to take part!

And here’s a look at last year’s Photo Book Fair:

ACP 11 My Atlanta Photo Book Fair (Inaugural Event) from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.