Richard Misrach’s “On the Beach” will be on view through August 23rd. Check out the High’s site for more information about the exhibition.

If you’re planning a visit, the High has loosened their restrictions on photography in their galleries, and will allow cell-phone pictures of the exhibition. And please bear with the audio on this, you may need to turn-up your speakers at the start. Thanks!

Richard Misrach at the High Museum from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

ACP Site Tour from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Yesterday, ACP spoke with France Dorman, art teacher at Pace Academy about their annual photography competition. The competition is between 23 schools, and this year’s judge is Chip Simone. There’s a public reception for the show on Sunday, April 5, at 5pm, in the visual arts building. Have a look!

Pace Academy Photography Competition 2009 from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Here’s last year’s festival, in Review. You might have already seen it on Facebook!

ACP 10 Highlights from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Danny Clinch gave a fanastic lecture as part of the ACP 10 Lecture Series at SCAD last week, and the kind folks at Art Relish put together this quick interview for ACP. Thanks, guys! Thanks, Danny!

Danny Clinch @ SCAD from Art Relish on Vimeo.

The video may be unembeddable, but click the pic below to take a look at the lecture Gregory Heisler gave on Arnold Newman at the High Museum on Oct. 1st.

Here’s an mp3 of the audio, if you’d like to listen.

Please check out this great new video from CNN that highlights the ACP 10 Public Art project “Within Our Gates“, currently on view at Auburn & Irwin in the Old Fourth Ward. [Direct link]

via artrelish.com

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.

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This video, shown on Friday night at the ACP Auction, is a quick highlight reel of ACP’s Programs, with a specific eye on this year’s festival, ACP 10.

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

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.

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 from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Please see the press release for more information.

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!