A livestream video from artrelish of this weekend’s artist/curator conversation with Mark Steinmetz and Julian Cox at Jackson Fine Art’s project space on the West side. Throw your headphones on to catch all the audio.

“I’m someone who comes from the outside, who expresses an interest in the lives of the students there, who apparently reciprocate my interest. I’m kind of the interested stranger who comes to your school for two weeks, who seems to be genuinely interested, who perhaps you can, in your writing, tell things that you probably wouldn’t want to say to the teacher whose classroom you sit in every day.”

-Dawoud Bey, from an interview with Rebecca Dimling Cochran on artscriticatl.com

Thursday, at Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Auditorium, 5pm.

May the Light Affect from Proper Medium on Vimeo.

Date: July 14, 2010
Time: 7:30PM
Location: The Plaza Theater – 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast, 30306
Cost: FREE

From Amy Miller, Executive Director of ACP:

“Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum. Julian will be leaving next month to become the Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Chief Curator for the de Young Museum. This is a great move for Julian and it is well-deserved.

In addition to all he has done to benefit the museum in advancing its place among the nation’s institutions that exhibit photography, Julian has been a tremendous advocate and friend to ACP – and to the photography community as a whole. Through his efforts over the last five years, we have been able to experience palpable growth among our photography community. Not just physical growth – which has occurred – but a growing together as well. We now work together in unprecedented ways to support our common goals.

Thanks to Julian, ACP has enjoyed building a closer relationship with the museum and our programming has strengthened as a result. We do not take lightly how our photo-sphere has evolved under such leadership. The High Museum should not take this lightly either as they embark on their search for a new curator.

Let us all join together to thank Julian for all he has done. The task is in the hands of the Atlanta photo community to maintain this momentum, and ACP will lead the charge! It is a sad day for Atlanta whenever someone of such talent moves on, but we must not be disheartened. Let us look forward – Julian is leaving our photography community in much better shape than he found it and for that we are deeply and gratefully inspired.

Bob Kolbrener has an opening for Picturing the West at Lumiere on Wednesday, July 14th, at 5:30pm. Also on view is Peter Sekaer … In Context

ACP 11 Public Art participating artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier has an opening for Mapping the Present Just Went By at Madison-Morgan Cultural Center on Friday, July 16th at 5pm.

“”MAPPING THE PRESENT JUST WENT BY is about being in long ago Madison and Madison today and capturing memories that linger with elders. It is about the African continuum, which is simultaneously located in the present, past, and future, and re-imagining place as it transforms. People live, people die, land is transferred from one generation to the next, or sold to strangers. Frederick Douglass said, ‘We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.’ My work makes new memories from the voices, dreams, and imaginings of the community.”

Sheila Pree Bright has an opening reception for Girls, Grillz and Guns at Sandler Hudson Gallery on Tuesday, July 13th, at 7pm. There will be an artist’s talk on Saturday, July 17th at 2pm. The exhibition opening will also be a book signing for Deborah Willis’ “Posing Beauty”.

Jackson Fine Art is hosting this signing and discussion with Athens-based photographer Mark Steinmetz about his latest book with Nazraeli Press “Greater Atlanta” on Saturday, July 17th.

More info on jenniferschwartzgallery.com

© Terry Check, “Mom, Tell Me Why”

Focusing on Racial Inequality

Terry Check, a local photographer, looks at racism in America. His work, “Looking Backwards/Moving Forward”, together with other artists, is featured at the National Black Arts Festival at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Central Library, Art Gallery at One Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GA 30303. Meet Terry at the Opening Reception on Thursday, July 8, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Terry writes, “In the 1960’s John Griffin wrote “Black Like Me” not a great book, never made the top 10 list, but it changed my life forever. I am white, not black. As a child, I grew up in a mildly racist family in a mildly racist community. How can people dislike, resent and in some cases, hate black people? It’s wrong. All people of any color, need to look back and realize that racial inequality has no place in our world. We must move forward … working toward equality without seeking restitution for yesterday. Some will move forward. Others will not be able to put yesterday in perspective. “Looking Backwards/Moving Forward” is a retrospective of a black family remembering racial discrimination of yesterday and today. Some are open-mined, engaged in understanding, self-reliant with expectations, and becoming role models to all. Others will never move forward, and continue to live in yesterday again and again.”

Raised in Utica, NY and of Polish decent, Terry has photographed people and places for the past forty years. Beginning at an early age and advancing to PR photographer at MVCC, he exhibited his work “Collegiate Profiles” at a local gallery. While at Case Western Reserve University, he did commercial photography for a local studio. After graduation, he worked as an environmental engineer and continued pursing his photography … people less their facades.

Wherever people gather or their memoirs linger behind, Terry strives to capture the moment transcending time and place. His work searches for the individual’s meaning of life on earth and thereafter. Noticing what others don’t … reaching without consequences to expand his photography.

Contact
Terry Check
terry@terrycheck.com
20 Waterfront Square
Dawsonville, GA 30534
404-915-1910

Unreal stop-motion animation, a jpg at a time, from BLU.

If you’re planning an event to be part of the ACP Photo Festival this fall, you must submit your listing before Tuesday, July 6th, at 11:59 PM. List Your Event Today!

It’s time for Photolink Round-up, our weekly smattering of photo-rich stories, posts and links from across the online spectrum!

PDN takes a look at Portfolio Reviews, profiling ACP’s upcoming Portfolio Review on October 16th. Submit your own work for the ACP Portfolio Review today!

“This year’s review takes place on Saturday, October 16th at Grady High School in Atlanta where 16 reviewers and 52 artists will convene. Applications are currently being accepted online up until July 12. Program manager Michael David Murphy says ACP has a jury that reviews applications and that artists are chosen based on the development of their work and how the review would be a beneficial experience. “We’re not looking for a specific genre of photography,” he says.”

Alec Soth declined to sell his photograph (Peter’s Housebout, Winona, Minnesota) to market a book, so the book cover designer went ahead and copied his photo.

In other words, this:

© Alec Soth

Became this:

On the lighter side, blogger Blake Andrews gets the hat-tip for pointing out this exhaustive page of photographic references that have aired on The Simpsons.

Writing on foto8, Vish Vishvanath takes a look at the new Magnum Archive at Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

“I chose Robert Capa and Philip Jones Griffiths. Now, these are perfect, fibre-based, archival prints with the photographers’ stamp on them, presumably the same prints as offered by Magnum for sale to collectors. Until I opened Capa’s portfolio I confess that his photographs had never inspired me in the same way that he, as a person, had. Capa’s never-give-up, swashbuckling style held the promise of a great future in photography to me, but his images never seemed to live up to the man. At the Harry Ransom Center, sat looking at this wonderous portfolio I realised the truth. I thought I knew his pictures better than I did, and this “greatest hits collection” of exquisite 20×16 photographs finally flicked the On switch in my head. There’s not much else that can match seeing pictures like this.”

© Anthony Maddolini, via foto8.

More Magnum, a new interview with Bruce Davidson.

ACP 10 Portfolio Reviewer Joerg Colberg takes a look at artist statements:

“You might still wonder why I’m trying to make you explain your photography, and that’s one of the most common and pernicious misconceptions about artist statements: A good statement does not explain the work. It’s art after all, and there’s no need to explain anything. Explaining would be the other extreme: Instead of leaving everything possible, you’d restrict your work to allowing only one explanation. A good statement lies right in the middle somewhere – and that’s part of the reason why it’s so important to write one.

And here’s photo-inspired streetart from Paris, via photojojo.