in 2006, ACP commissioned local artist Matt Haffner to create a public art installation for ACP 8. The project was curated by Joey Orr, and this video was filmed/edited by Chris Downs. We wanted to make sure it was viewable here on the site, and available to all.

Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson was in Atlanta over the weekend for the opening of his “Time of Change” exhibition at Jackson Fine Art. ACP was able to spend a few minutes with Mr. Davidson before his artist’s talk, and we were able to record an audio interview.

Bruce’s artist’s talk was exceptional. There were many SCAD students in attendance, and everyone seem to come away with a renewed sense of both Mr. Davidson and his life’s work.

Here’s a series of video excerpts from the artist’s talk.

Bruce Davidson @ Jackson Fine Art, 05.10.08

Here’s the audio interview, below. Warning: Turn down your volume. Press the pink play button or download the mp3 here. It’s about 22 minutes long, and there’s a bit of overlap with the video above. For true fans of Mr. Davidson’s work, here you go.

More Interviews and Videos on ACP Now!

Sheila Pree Bright’s exhibition “Young Americans” (detailed here) opened this weekend at the High Museum. On Friday, there was a media walkthrough, where Julian Cox (Head Curator of Photography) and Sheila spoke about the work.

Here’s a quick video. The exhibit runs through August 10th. For more information, see the High’s site.

Sheila Pree Bright’s “Young Americans” at the High Museum

We’d be interested in hearing what you think about the recent videos we’ve posted here on ACP Now! Feel free to leave a comment to let us know or mail info@acpinfo.org.

Abby Banks “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now” at Get This! Gallery

Photographer Abby Banks has an exhibition of photographs called “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now” at Get This! Gallery in Castleberry. ACP visited Abby and gallery owner Lloyd Benjamin the afternoon of her show’s opening. The photographs in the show were selected from Abby’s cross-country journey photographing punk houses nationwide. Some of these photos were published last October in her first book, “Punk House”.

“If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now” is up through June 21st.

Get This! Gallery has been a participating venue in Atlanta Celebrate’s Photography’s monthlong festival, and we’re looking forward to including them again this year. Thanks again to Abby and Lloyd.

More videos on ACP Now!

ACP Announces 2008 Public Art with McCallum/Tarry

For Immediate Release

[April 28, 2008]
Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry have been commissioned by Atlanta Celebrates Photography to create an original, temporary work of public art for ACP’s 10th festival in October, 2008. McCallum/Tarry’s career has developed around site-specific work, often utilizing photographic media to highlight political and racial issues in America.

McCallum/Tarry plan to create a work on the site of the water tower at the corner of Auburn and Irwin in the Old Fourth Ward. They plan to install video images and sounds recorded in Atlanta during the Civil Rights movement inside the tower, with an additional wrap-around scrim displaying full-length photographs on the outside.

The objective of this public artwork is to weave a multidimensional visual experience for the viewer that touches on current politics, such as the drought, while integrating the history of the impassioned social protest movement that unfolded from the Old Fourth Ward, across the US, and throughout the world.

By bringing together sound, video, and photographic imagery at this strategic site, bordering both the King district and the Beltline, McCallum/Tarry hope to create a public art project that will resonate beyond the site, leading citizens from all over to interact with, and learn from this work of art.

This McCallum/Tarry ACP Public Art project is curated by Lisa Kurzner.

For more information, or if you would like to get involved with this project, please contact:
Atlanta Celebrates Photography
info@acpinfo.org
404.634.8664

For a video introduction to the project, please see: ACP Now!

Atlanta Celebrates Photography: acpinfo.org

McCallum/Tarry: mccallumtarry.com

Magnum photographer and large-format portraitist Alec Soth drove down from Minneapolis to Atlanta for the ACP Lecture Series at the High Museum. We were fortunate that Alec was willing to have a quick chat before his presentation, and doubly fortunate our friends from SCAD (and photoawesome.com) were willing to shoot, edit, add a soundtrack, credits, and upload for us! Thanks, all.

ACP is excited about continuing to shoot more interviews (with our SCAD friends) and ACP-oriented videos for this blog, so stay tuned!