“Mark Steinmetz completes his powerful and moving trilogy, “South”, with Greater Atlanta. Photographing in Atlanta and its outlying regions, Steinmetz provides his testimony on contemporary American civilization. Combining portraits and landscapes, he weaves a symbolic and lyrical investigation that subtly questions notions of progress. He further develops motifs – on the automobile, on the telephone – that were first introduced in South Central, and catalogues car culture, fast food, convenience stores, and suburban sprawl. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, Greater Atlanta is printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies. Mark Steinmetz is a Guggenheim Fellow. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.”
“Composition Gallery was selected Best New Gallery in Atlanta in 2006, and has since developed a reputation for showcasing compelling and important photography from the region’s and the nation’s top emerging photographic artists. Composition has also hosted the work of nationally and internationally renowned photographers including Sylvia Plachy, Kael Alford, Al Rockoff, and Kristen Ashburn. The gallery will celebrate its Fourth Anniversary by presenting the work of four emerging photographers: Brittany Binler, Camilo Cruz, Rebecca Finley, and Tom Meiss. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 23rd from 7 to 10pm, and the exhibit will continue through Sunday March 7th.”
Arts Clayton has two shows opening on Wednesday, January 20th, “Odyssey 2010″ & “Digital Artifacts”.
Jackson Fine Art has an opening on Friday night, January 22nd, with work from Lynn Geesaman and Jack Spencer.
Lumiere has an opening on Friday, January 22nd with an exhibition from Robert Weingarten, “The Road Less Traveled,” which is in tandem with an exhibition of Mr. Weingarten’s work at the High Museum, “The Portrait Unbound“.
“Its signature event will be “Flux,” the one-night arts festival in Castleberry Hill District held in October and formerly known as Le Flash. In fact, it was Corrigan’s experience at Le Flash’s 2008 debut that led him to found Flux Projects.
Enchanted by the energy and the crowds, Corrigan saw in Le Flash the potential to inspire artists and to help his home town see itself as the dynamic arts community he feels it already is.“Atlanta has the highest percentage of its residents in arts-based employment of any major city,” he observes. “The art scene needs to be visible to itself and the rest of Atlanta.”
Corrigan put up $90,000 to underwrite Le Flash’s sophomore incarnation in 2009 and started the non-profit to give the event ongoing stability. He has plans to grow Flux, which he took over from founders Cathy Byrd and Stuart Keeler, into a city-wide event.”
Atlanta’s gloATL performs “pour” at the 2009 Le Flash. Photo: Adam Davila
From the new issue of The Atlantan, where Atlantans were asked for ideas for the new Mayor, Kasim Reed.
Susan Bridges, Whitespace Gallery
“I recently went to Toronto to attend Nuit Blanche, an all-night art show. People stood in line at 3 a.m. to get into venues held in vacant buildings, grocery stores, and on tops of buildings. Everything was free and the entire city was into it. This “art show” draws about 1 million people into the streets. Atlanta has so many open spaces and so many amazing artists who want and need to have a more active and supportive community. How can we make our great city a cultural center as well? Through education and public art.”
Stephanie Dowda & John Paul Floyd, on their current exhibition at Youngblood Gallery, .
“It’s really what photography is all about. Capturing time, freezing an image forever, proving the existence of someone or proof of an event. Photography is about capturing life. We strive to capture a moment or feeling and we are interested in how the feeling can be carried in a photograph throughout time.
If you’re not following what documentarian Errol Morris has been writing on the nytimes blog “Opinionator“, you’re missing some of the most intriguing, controversial, exploratory contemporary writing about photography.
His latest posts, about a photograph of a Mickey Mouse doll on a war-torn street in Lebanon, including an at-length interview with the photographer Ben Curtis, have been particularly revealing. Have a look!
Question: What is the difference among these three photographs?
I invite the Times readership to respond. Is it photojournalism, propaganda or art, and why? My own answer is below.
Answer: There is no difference. The photographs are the same. (Although the three captions are different.)
Thanks to Felicia Feaster, the December issue of The Atlantan (with Jiha Moon’s painting on the cover) highlighted Atlanta’s local arts environment, featuring artists, photographers, collectors, gallerists, and organizations.
A quick playlist of notable mentions from the December issue:
* Photographer Drexina Nelson’s book “Hollywood Noir”
* Artist Gregor Turk’s pictogram plates
* Hagedorn Foundation gallerist Brenda Massie, who’s “transformed HFG into a go-to spot for brainy, blue-chip photography.”
* Spelman College Museum of Fine Art curator Andrea Barnwell Brownlee
* “LeFlash has been that wild card, a one-night-only celebration of light inspired by the annual international art-light show La Nuit Blanche.”
* Photographer Jerry Siegel, who “ventures into territory imprinted by Southern lensmen like William Eggleston and Christenberry.
* Dancer Lauri Stallings of gloATL, featured performers at LeFlash
* Susan Bridges of whitespace, a “gracious, wickedly funny Southern woman who could talk a nun into a game of blackjack”.
* Photographer Neda Abghari’s “Night of Music and Photography” at Studioplex
* Photos from the opening night of Tierney Gearon and Todd Murphy at Jackson Fine Art, on view through Sat. January 16th.
* Photos from the opening night o “Click, Click” at Kai Lin Art, featuring Richie Arpino, Robert Brown, and Patrick Heagney.
It’s incredible that still photography’s digital-SLR revolution is now yielding a significant transition for moving pictures. This six-minute documentary about a man and his dog was made by Eliot Rausch with a consumer level Canon 7D.
If you like entering your work in contests, you’ll want to check-out the DVA Photo Calendar, a subscribeable Google Calendar run on the DVAFOTO blog by Matt Lutton and M. Scott Brauer. Here’s hoping they stay on top of it and keep it rolling!
To subscribe, just click the “+ Google Calendar” button at the bottom right corner of the calendar.
Established in 1998, Atlanta Celebrates Photography supports Atlanta's emergence as an international center for photography. Through an annual October festival and year-round programs, ACP seeks to nurture and support photographers, educate and engage collectors, promote diverse photography venues, and enrich Atlanta's cultural scene. Through these efforts, we facilitate Atlanta's emergence as a world-class cultural city.
