Photo credit: Andri Pol (top), Martin Schoeller (above)

Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2011 enters its 3nd week with four great ACP programs, plus a diversity of exhibitions and events at participating venues. Our ACP Special Exhibition showcasing Swiss photographers at Alliance Française d’Atlanta opens on Tuesday, with a reception and curator’s talk from Hélène Joye-Cagnard. Wednesday brings “To be Published, or Self-published?”, a talk by Mary Virginia Swanson as part of the ACP Knowledge Series at Portfolio Center. Mary’s presentation will also feature local artist & publisher Bill Boling and photographer Laura Noel. NY-based photographer Martin Schoeller speaks at SCAD-Atlanta on Thursday night; doors open at 6:30. And if you missed the ACP Public Art screening of Monica Cook’s “Volley” at FLUX 2011 this weekend, you’ll have another chance to catch it on Saturday night, at Atlantic Station!

Please find more detailed information in the ACP 2011 Festival Guide, the downloadable PDF, and in the printed guide available at participating venues and locations around the city.

This Week With ACP: Oct. 3rd

Mon: Reception for Decatur Digital Photography Meetup
Mon: Ilia Varcev on view at Arnold Art Gallery
Mon: Terry Check on view at Ferst Center for the Arts
Mon: SHOTS 11 on view at Showcase School of Photography

Tue: ACP Special Exhibition, Reception and Curator’s Talk
Tue: Marina Abramović on view at SCAD-Atlanta
Tue: Gretchen Hupfel on view at MOCA-GA
Tue: Jim DiVitale on view at Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur

Wed: ACP Knowledge Series Presents: Mary Virginia Swanson

Thur: ACP Lecture Series Presents: Martin Schoeller at SCAD-Atlanta
Thur: Reception for 15th Annual Open Juried Exhibition in Roswell
Thur: #iPhoneography on view at Gallery 1
Thur: Gallery walk with Myrtie Cope and Douglas Powell
Thur: Corinne Adams reception at Pace Academy
Thur: Reception for AJC photographers at Jill Celeste Gallery
Thur: Lecture from Gail Cameron about LIFE at Rhodes Hall
Thur: Taiwan Sublime on view in Douglasville

Fri: The Art of iPhoneography reception and book signing at Matre Gallery
Fri: Reception for Kaleidoscope from Sistagraphy at Beignet Connection
Fri: Reception for Atlanta Friends Meeting Photography Exhibit
Fri: Photomix on view at Kudzu Art Zone
Fri: Reception for Six Southern Viewpoints at Art House Gallery
Fri: Reception for 9th Annual Juried Competition at Arts Clayton Gallery
Fri: Reception for Perry Julien at Aurora Coffee
Fri: Land Era People on view at Georgia Perimeter
Fri: Reception for Druid Hills High School at Fernbank
Fri: Frank Hunter on view at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Sat: ACP Public Art: Monica Cook’s Volley at Atlantic Station
Sat: Artist’s talk from Tom Zarrilli at Callanwolde
Sat: Reception for David Foster at The Little Wine Shop
Sat: Tableau Vivant at Dorothy O’Connor’s studio
Sat: Barry Blackwell on view at Automated Darkroom
Sat: Reception at PB&J for NINE – the Picture Show
Sat: Art Walk featuring Todd Suttles in Blue Ridge

Sun: Reception for John Enslow at Red Wall Studio and Gallery

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Atlanta photographer Charlie McCullers has two exhibitions during ACP 2011, one at the Atlanta Ballet, where McCullers is lead photographer, and the other in Buckhead, at BEE, which is on view this Saturday. We talked with Charlie about his work for the ballet last week, and we hope you enjoy the preview of his show.

We only have a handful of Festival Guides left at the office, which means that 15,000 of them are circulating around town! As always, when creating a document of this size, errors crop-up, and we wanted you to be aware of them. We’ll update this post over time, as well.

Page 55, the Gil Smith event and exhibition has been cancelled.
Page 61, the photo-credit for the Atlanta Friends Meeting Exhibition should be Meredith Reynolds
Page 62, the credit for the logo for Sistagraphy’s exhibition should be Sistagraphy
Page 71, the photo-credit should be Joni Sternbach
Page 72, the opening date for Messages from the Wilderness has changed.
Page 73, the photo-credit should be Chip Simone
Page 79, the screening of Monica Cook’s “Volley” in Grant Park will take place from 6:30-8:30pm.
Page 83, BEE is in Buckhead, not West End
Page 123, the photo-credit should be Corinne Adams

If you’re interested in FLUX 2011 on Friday night (and really, why wouldn’t you be?) here’s word from former ACP board president Louis Corrigan about what you can expect:

“Please join us for FLUX 2011, a night of art + experimentation, this Friday, September 30th, from 8pm to midnight in Castleberry Hill. I recommend that you arrive early. Like last year, part of Walker Street will be closed to traffic. There will also be moving closures of Peters Street throughout the night to accommodate parades and dancers.

The evening begins at 8pm with a bicycle lantern parade led by the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons. gloATL’s hour-long migratory piece “Livers” launches immediately thereafter at 8:30 from the Peters St. bridge (second performance at 10:30.)

There are another 30+ projects to see during the main part of the night, including wonderful projection pieces, some of which are interactive. There’s puppetry, light and sound installations, roving theatre, dance, a beatboxing contest, street preaching, and other multimedia projects throughout the neighborhood. Between the food trucks and local bars and restaurants, you should find plenty of places to grab food and drinks.

All projects will end by midnight so that everyone can join us outside the Elliott Street Pub for spectacular molten iron throw fireworks. Practitioners of this ancient Chinese art say it’s easy to do as long as you don’t mind dying. Thankfully, the fire department is next to the pub.

This year’s 34 projects involve 224 artists, which speaks to the ambitious, collaborative nature of these projects. We also have a broad constituency of Atlanta artists, including current faculty and either current students or recent grads from GSU, SCAD, Georgia Tech and Kennesaw St.

Several artists this year present innovative projections dealing with something like post-apocalyptic visions of nature: Eric Corriel (NY), Kim Anno (CA), and Jeff Demetriou/Fake Love (Atlanta/NY).

Other artists consider the animal aspects of human nature. SCAD grad Monica Cook, one of my personal favorite artists, returns from NYC and her Guggenheim/YouTube Play video award triumph with her first interactive stop motion animation, a work that explores the uninhibited behavior of primates. This bold project is supported by Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

“Livers” will present gloATL as you’ve never seen them before, revealing the animal qualities of migration as also deeply human. This may be the first time that art inspired by Guy Debord ended up on all-fours and literally on the pavement (“Under the paving stones, the beach”).

FLUX’s dance card is particularly appealing, with Zoetic Dance returning from last year’s amazing performance to animate the point at Castleberry Point and with wonderful aerial dance by D’Air behind Marcia Wood Gallery.

Craig Drennen, hot off a glowing Artforum review, promises an “Awful” performance as he continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens in a piece that would make Courtney Love turn over in her grave — if she weren’t still alive.

Nancy Floyd, one of the few contemporary artists featured in this year’s major historical survey Heroines at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, offers a raw personal examination of time rapidly passing in a video projection that compresses the last 29 years of her life.

FLUX also features a number of promising young Atlanta artists. Jane Garver, recent recipient of a Leap Year award from MINT, returns to Castleberry with a multi-part sound exploration of Atlanta that will be installed at points along Walker Street. I’m also looking forward to being surprised by interactive, roaming works by Dodekapus and The Collective Project, two exciting young collectives.

And that’s just a taste. For more on the featured artists and recommendations for getting to or parking at FLUX 2011, please check out our website: http://www.fluxprojects.org/flux/index.html. Hope to see you all there. And please tell your friends. FLUX 2011 is totally free.

Louis Corrigan

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This Week With ACP: Sept. 26th

Mon: Fleur Toujours! on view at Anna Lee’s in Roswell

Tue: Reception for Emily Harris at Carroll St. Cafe

Thur: ACP Lecture Series: Emmet Gowin at the High Museum
Thur: Christina Price Washington at {Poem88}
Thur: Old National Celebrates Photography

Fri: ACP Public Art at FLUX 2011
Fri: FLUX 2011 in Castleberry Hill
Fri: Southern Fried Photographers at Big House Gallery
Fri: APA Atlanta at Chris Stanford Studio
Fri: Reception for The Painted Photograph

Sat: ACP Portfolio Walk and Reception at Georgia Tech Hotel
Sat: ACP My Atlanta at Piedmont Park
Sat: Reception for Ryan Flynn at Young Blood Gallery
Sat: Reception for Janalee Sullivan at Nouvelle
Sat: Airport 2011 on view at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport
Sat: 7th Annual Atlanta Artist Center Reception at Buckhead Library
Sat: Reception for Meg Dryer at 5 Continents
Sat: Reception for Women in Focus at Digital Arts Studio
Sat: Reception for Black and White at Relapse Theater
Sat: P’s and Q’s at the East Lake Farmer’s Market
Sat: Gallery 4463 Celebrates Photography
Sat: Brett Abbott Selects at MOCA GA
Sat: Atlanta Photographic Society Salon on view at UUCA
Sat: Decatur Digital Photography Meetup Exhibit
Sat: Southeastern Photographic Society’s Really Big Show
Sat: Moments in Time at Vargas and Harbin Studio Gallery
Sat: North Georgia Camera Club Council Shootout
Sat: Charlie McCullers on view at BEE
Sat: Reception for Barry Goldwater at The Gallery at Serenbe

Sun: Reception for A Photographic Celebration at Defoor Centre Gallery
Sun: Atlanta Friends Meeting Photography Exhibit

Be sure to subscribe to our email list to receive This Week With ACP, our Monday email that covers everything that’s happening in the festival that week. That said, as you prepare for the weekend, be sure to keep these events and exhibitions in mind!

Thurs: Free Fall Release Party at Fall Line Press
Thurs: Photography Today on view at Hudgens Center
Fri: ACP Photography Auction Gala Fundraiser at King Plow [tickets available at door]
Fri: Anna Skillman Selects reception at APG Gallery
Fri: Myrtie Cope and Douglas Powell reception at Tula Art Center
Fri: On Edge: Beyond Editorial reception at Brookhaven Art Gallery
Sat: Reception for The New Photograph at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery
Sat: Reception for Ryan Nabulsi at {POEM88}
Sat: Through the Lens at Wendermere Lodge
Sat: Photography as Propaganda opening reception at Lumière

Here’s a preview of work from five attendees of the ACP 2011 Portfolio Review. The Portfolio Walk & Reception is open to the public, and is a great chance to meet new artists and photographers, and talk with them about their work!

Jeremy Chandler – Ghillie Suit 3 (Flowers), 2011

Santiago Vanegas – Antarctica #3988

Hazel Berger – Boston Dogwood

Elizabeth Johnston – Chicken Feet

Alan Chimacoff

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It was a busy weekend of events and exhibitions around town. Here’s a quick look at a few things we saw; for more info & background on each photo, please click through.

Another ACP Video Preview, this one, of Ryan Flynn’s “No Posers” exhibition at Young Blood Gallery, which opens Oct. 1st.

And if you haven’t already, check out the last preview, too!
Dorothy O’Connor’s “Tornado”

Thanks again to artrelish for video production!

Tom Zarrilli’s photography exhibition at Callanwolde was featured on PBA’s “City Cafe” this morning. Zarrilli’s exhibition has an opening reception on Friday, from 7-9pm. Have a listen here.

“Thomas Struth
October 29, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Organized by the High Museum of Art, this installation will feature works from three distinct projects, including Struth’s “Museum Photographs” series, in which he focused on museum visitors’ interactions with artwork, his “Paradise” series, which depicts the inner depths of jungles around the world, and his most recent work documenting the structural intricacies of techno-industrial spaces that takes the viewer deep into normally inaccessible scientific territory. The 5-piece installation will include works from the High’s collection and on loan from Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein.

Quartet: Photographs by Ralph Gibson
November 12, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Organized by the High Museum of Art, with gifts from the Kuniansky family, this installation of photographs from the museum’s collection will feature works by photographer Ralph Gibson that survey his prolific career, presenting both iconic and lesser known work together within the thematic context of their original creation. Twelve suites of photographs gathered together will reconstitute the conceptual kernels around which his series have been structured and will demonstrate the coherence of Gibson’s distinct approach to the world over the course of more than fifty years.”

We’ve just released a Google Map for ACP 2011 that’s viewable on your smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer! If you want a real treat, you can download this kml file and open it in Google Earth for 3D zoomable fun.

Each placemark reveals details about the events and exhibitions, and depending where you view the map, the ACP programs are marked with a different color placemark. (Yellow on Google Maps, blue, in Google Earth.)

(Thanks to our developers at tehcompany for the heavy lifting in turning our Festival Guide into longitude/latitude coordinates and xml!)

A reminder that a quick-and-easy way to access the ACP 2011 Festival Guide is as a downloadable pdf.

© John Mariana

Roswell Photographic Society’s Best of North Fulton went on display on Monday, and will be up for an entire year at the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce. On Wednesday, Perry Julien’s It Doesn’t Need Sound will be on view at Aurora Coffee in Little 5 Points, with a reception planned for October 7th.

© Laura Noel

On Thursday, Laura Noel’s Subject Matters will be opening at Spruill Gallery. Larry Winslett’s exhibition of photographs of Stone Mountain will be on view at the park starting Thursday. And Friday is the opening of the upstart photo-festival in Pike County, the fantastically rural Slow Exposures which will be having exhibitions, juror’s talks, an artist’s lecture from Sylvia Plachy, and an exhibition at A Novel Experience from David Simonton.

© Xiuwen Cu

Friday night brings a reception at KIANG PROJECTS for Xiuwen Cui’s latest exhibition, Existential Emptiness. Jerry Siegel will be opening his exhibition of photographs of Geraldine on Friday as well at Barbara Archer Gallery. And Tom Zarrilli’s photographs of local yard sale sellers will be on view at Callanwolde.

© Michael M. Koehler

On the Westside, Michael M. Koehler will be opening at Get This! Gallery, and in Buckhead, there are three openings at Mason Murer; Liesa Cole and Tony Rodio, Women in Focus will launch an exhibition curated by Brett Abbott, and Abstraction Medium from Marcia Vaitsman, Margaret Hiden and Rachel Speed.

We couldn’t be happier about collaborating with artrelish this fall to create a few video previews highlighting participating artists and venues that make up this year’s photo festival. Our first preview, of Dorothy O’Connor’s annual tableau vivant is viewable below.

ACP 2011 Preview: Dorothy O’Connor from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

While ACP traditionally starts at the end of September, there are many exhibitions and events that are already underway, plus a whole lot of action happening this weekend! Here are a few weekend tips:

© Marcia Vaitsman

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is showing 15×15, their 15th Anniversary Acquisitions Exhibition through December 3rd. Marcia Vaitsman’s “Study of Strange Things” opens at Solomon Projects on Thursday. And Hagedorn Foundation Gallery’s “The New Photograph” goes on view the same day, with a reception later this month.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Jackson Fine Art

Friday evening brings Sally Mann’s Proud Flesh to Jackson Fine Art, and ACP Board Member Stephanie Dowda has curated a wide-ranging group show at Emily Amy Gallery called “Echoes of the Sublime” which opens on Friday as well.

© Richard Ediger

The Ediger’s ” Left of Reality” will be on view in Dahlonega at Montaluce Winery and Le Vigne Restaurant starting this Friday, and The Shot Atlanta has an all-day Open House over on Metropolitan Parkway on Saturday, Sep. 10th.

© Dave Anderson

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery opens with Dave Anderson’s photographs of the Lower Ninth Ward (and a book signing) on Saturday evening, while simultaneously launching Outlands: Land Over Time, a group show exploring farms, land, and the built environment.

© Ryan Nabulsi

Ryan Nabulsi’s exhibition “Photo Secession” at {Poem88} will be on view starting on Saturday, and if you’re a photographer in Marietta, get in touch with fellow photographers via Cobb Photo Society.

With the publishing of the online ACP 2011 Festival Guide today, we want to note which exhibitions are already currently on view.

© Santiago Vanegas

A collection of Carl Van Vechten’s photographs is currently on view at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. Santiago Vanegas’ photographs of Antartica are on view this year at the Transportation Mall at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

© Stefani Byrd

Chip Simone’s Resonant Image debuted at the High Museum of Art this Spring, and will be on-view during ACP. Stefani Byrd & Wes Eastin have a multimedia exhibition of photography and video at The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia.

© Robert Matre

Golf photographer and gallery owner Robert Matre has a show of his golf photography through October 9th in Gainesville at Quinlan Visual Arts Center. Art Station in Stone Mountain is hosting a portfolio show from graduating seniors at Gwinnett Technical College through Oct. 29th. And Atlanta-based artist Micah Stansell has a multi-channel video installation as a winner of MOCA GA’s Working Artist Project through Dec. 3rd.

© Anne Berry

Anne Berry’s photographs of animals are on view at Dakota Blue in Grant Park through the end of October. If you’re in Cabbagetown, check out the Carrol St. Cafe, currently showing Emily Harris’ photographs of Louisiana swamps. And Hazel Berger’s exhibition of Georgia’s State Parks is on view at REI Perimeter through Dec. 3rd. Also, the Gallery at Serenbe is featuring the photographs of Barry Goldwater through Oct. 29th.

Here’s some exciting news from Mary Stanley Studio, announcing a new project space, and “Ones to Watch”, which will be part of the ACP 2011 Photography Auction Gala on Friday, Sept. 23rd.

I am pleased to announce the opening of my new Project Space in downtown Atlanta. Please join me for the exhibition Preview 2011 ACP Ones To Watch opening next Thursday, September 8th at Gallery 2 at Marquis Two Tower located downtown at 235 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303 from 6:00 – 8:30pm.

Independent curator and ACP Advisor, Mary Stanley, presents a selection of ten of the hottest emerging and established photography talents. These artists are highly collectible, nationally and internationally recognized, and set a high bar for innovation and quality. The ten works in the Preview exhibition will be auctioned for the benefit of the 13th Annual Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival on Friday September 23, 2011. Sealed silent bids will be accepted until September 22 at 6pm.

Featured artists:
Holly Andres – Portland, OR
Kendrick Brinson – Atlanta, GA
Eric Defino – Los Angeles, CA
Sion Fullana – Brooklyn, NY
Steve Giovinco – New York, NY
Brendan Kingsley – Savannah, GA
Thomas Petillo – Nashville, TN
Christopher Rauschenberg – Portland, OR
Hrvoje Slovenc – Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Small – Brooklyn, NY

About our new location:
Mary Stanley Studio—Project Space is downtown in Gallery 2 at Marquis Two Tower on 235 Peachtree Center Avenue. The space is on the ground floor, adjacent to the Marriott Marquis Hotel (in the site formerly occupied by MODA – Museum of Design Atlanta).
Gallery Hours: Thursday & Friday from 12 noon – 6pm & by appointment.
Valet parking is available at the Marriott Marquis Hotel for $10.

Also for the environmentally efficient, it is VERY convenient to the Peachtree Center Marta Station. You can walk via the skywalk to the gallery without even going outdoors.