The
Atlanta Photography Group has the following exhibits and events coming up:

Current – Feb 18 – The Airport Show Gallery Exhibition
Feb 15 – 7:30PM – Monthly “Speaking of Photography” discussion
Feb 18 – 6:30PM-8PM – The Airport Show Silent Auction Fund Raiser (flyer attached)

All events are held at the APG Gallery – Tula Art Center – 75 Bennett Street, NW, Space B-1, Atlanta, GA, 30309 404-605-0605

Question Bridge: Black Males – Project Trailer from Question Bridge on Vimeo.

“Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative transmedia art project that facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds; and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.”

From Debbie Michaud’s article in Creative Loafing:

“Directed by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Atlanta-based artist and producer Kamal Sinclair, Question Bridge was filmed across America, including Oakland, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, over the last four years. Beginning Jan. 27, the Chastain Arts Center will host a video installation to exhibit the work. “

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Fall Line Press is opening a bookstore on Saturday, featuring photobooks from small and independent publishers. Swing by and see what’s happening at Fall Line!

Fall Line Press
5-8PM, January 21st
Bookstore Launch Party
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 112
falllinepress.com, phone (404) 885-1080

Join us from 5-8PM, to kick off the Fall Line Bookstore! For the launch party, we will be featuring books from four independent publishing companies of photobooks. Publisher Bill Boling intends to make Fall Line a resource and a community for artists. We hope you come by and see what we’re all about!

(Michael David Murphy, Program Manager of ACP, is also Editor of Fall Line Press.)

“Carr’s photographs and videos confront desire and sexuality as undercurrents in mother-child relations. There are many debates about the emergence of sexuality, but most agree that it is connected at some point with both the early satisfaction of drives (nourishment, elimination) and the infant’s relations with the primary caregiver.”

- Review: Photos and videos in Benita Carr’s “Morning Sun,” at Whitespace, shines light on complexities of motherhood

This final exhibition in the trilogy illustrates photographers’ keen observation of streets, walls, windows and billboards to send messages using words and symbols. Other images, more in the tradition of “street photography”, are included for perspective on an artist’s work. Including the photography of: Wolf Suschitzky, Aaron Siskind, Peter Sekaer, Arnold Newman, Thomas Neff, John Gutmann, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Jules Aaron. It features the newly discovered work of Vivian Maier. She will also be the topic of discussion for a gallery talk at 11 AM January 21st.

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Thanks to Murphy Townsend for sending-in snaps of Julian Cox giving his juror’s lecture at APG this past weekend!

Drove(s)
Curated by Michael Ross
January 12-February 11, 2012
Opening Reception: January 11, 6-9p.m.
The Southeastern Railway Museum, Duluth, GA

The Southeastern Railway Museum is pleased to present Drove(s), an art exhibition that takes a look at the culture of automobiles, our dependence on them, and their environmental impact.

The culture of automobiles starts with America’s early love affair and the freedom that was promised. The ever-changing design and demands for improved technology in cars led to a relationship of disposability and a desire for the new. These desires and demands throughout the 20th century led to an over abundance of automobiles and a serious impact on the environment.

The automobile and the freedom it promised led to the construction and expansion of our urban centers. Unchecked suburban sprawl now stretches for many miles around every American city with the car being the only possible means of navigating these mazes. Public transportation has become meaningless in an environment designed and built with the automobile in mind. What was once freedom has now become massive traffic jams and a daily mind-numbing drudgery of commuting along parking-lot-highways.

Can this dependence on the automobile and fossil fuels be sustained? How do we change our environments to become more pedestrian and mass-transit friendly while maintaining the freedom of mobility to which we have grown accustomed?

This restored train depot that once sheltered passengers waiting for their train, now functions as an exhibition space, a space that we have driven in our cars to be here to see art. The depot itself is as much a part of the exhibit as the art hanging on its walls.

Artists in the exhibition:
Tim Barnwell
Andrew Bush
Bill Daniel
Veronica de Jesus
Brian Dettmer
John Duckworth
Peter Essick
Walker Evans
John Gutmann
Brian Holcombe
Lauren Hughes
Michael Koehler
Joey Kotting
Christopher McNulty
Rondal Partridge
Ben Roosevelt
Brian St. Cyr
Chip Simone
Mark Steinmetz
Christian Tedeschi
Bruce Wrighton

Image: Brian Holcombe, Kudzu Camino
2006 – 2011
18 x 20 inches
Giclee print
Edition of 6 + 2 artist proofs
Courtesy of the artist and Saltworks Gallery

January 13 – February 18, 2012 – Opening reception: Friday, January 13 | 7 PM – 10 PM

Morning Sun is an evolution in Benita Carr’s work that explores the mother/child relationship and the meaning of self within the domestic social structure of home and family. Constructed as narrative tableaus, the photographs depict women and their children in scenes that evoke emotions of desire, doubt and anxiety.

Carr’s photographs and videos are informed by the ways in which womanhood and motherhood have been seen, understood and lived across time, especially their representation in art, religion, advertising and family pictures. These themes coupled with the style and symbolism of Mid-Victorian images of interiors and feminine subjects inspire her body of work. Moving into video and sound challenges the form of traditional portraiture and allows other layers of meaning and complexity to surface.

photo © Benita Carr, Untitled 1, Digital C-print, 30 x 40 inches

Friday, December 9, 2011
8:00 pm at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
$5 ($3 with ACAC membership)

535 Means Street NW
Atlanta, GA, 30318
404.688.1970

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