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.
“Of course nowadays color’s takeover of photography is just about complete. Perhaps only those who work in b/w can make their way to b/w’s deeper poetry and secrets. Maybe it’s time for b/w photographers, like those weary elves in the end of that other trilogy, to trudge off the stage and head to some other distant shore.”
Help-Portrait is a global campaign for photographers to spend a day giving their time and expertise to people in need. “Founded by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a community of photographers, coming together across the world, to use their photography skills to give back to their local community.”
There were multiple locations for the event in Atlanta, which took place on Sunday, 12/12. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video.
To keep-up with the project and get involved here in Atlanta, check-out the “Help Portrait Atlanta” group on flickr.
“Final stats for the 6 participating locations in Help Portrait Atlanta:
337 portraits taken
683 individual people were photographed
157 Atlanta-Metro volunteers participated”
“The resulting body of work is a collection of approximately 50,000 negatives. The images present accidental landscapes disguised as portraits, as scene after scene of children and adults personifies the dilapidated surroundings. These stark black-and-white and rich sepia-toned photos are imbued with a quality that transcends time, capturing an era that feels much further away than the late ’70s and early ’80s. Much like Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl photos or Walker Evans’ Great Depression imagery, Catledge’s photographs embody the suffering and celebrations of a poor, undereducated white haven on the brink of disappearance.”
Photographer and filmmaker Ryan Lobo has a great Ted Talk that was released today.
“Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi’s underappreciated firefighters.”
Photographer and educator Larry Sultan was a guest lecturer for ACP in 2005 as part of our Lecture Series. We’re sad to see that Mr. Sultan passed away yesterday. Here’s his obituary in the New York Times.
For more than a decade beginning in the early 1980s, Mr. Sultan, who became a professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, worked on a project about his mother and his father, who had been forced into early retirement. Using stills from home movies along with lush, colored-saturated pictures he took of his parents, the resulting book, “Pictures From Home,” was a deeply personal document but one that continued Mr. Sultan’s lifelong mission of exploring photography’s fictions.
ACP announces a request for proposals for 2010 Public Art. There’s no entry fee, a $12,000 budget, and proposals are due on January 15th, 2010. Download ACP 12 Public Art RFP: (.doc / .pdf)
“As one component of our month-long, city-wide celebration of photography each October, ACP produces a Public Art Project. ACP’s acclaimed program of public art has featured temporary projects in a variety of diverse locations throughout Atlanta. The program is significant in its ability to reach beyond the audience of traditional art venues and expand the way its audience considers and perceives photography and “lens-based” media. We are looking for project ideas that take advantage of public art’s ability to reach new audiences. It is also important that audiences understand that they are experiencing public art. “
ACP 11 participating venue Opal Gallery has an opening this Thursday night (7-9pm) with work from Oraien Catledge. There’ll be an artist talk on Saturday at noon, as well.
“Opal Gallery is pleased to present ORAIEN CATLEDGE: Cabbagetown portraits by Atlanta-based photographer Oraien Catledge. For over twenty-five years, Oraien Catledge used his camera to document and celebrate the people of Cabbagetown–Atlanta’s own historic mill village. This exhibition represents an intimate survey of Catledge’s friends and acquaintances and reveals a deep affection for this unique community. Catledge’s direct approach to photography recalls the work of Walker Evans by finding a balance between documentary and artistic impulse. Each image is a trove of hundreds of discrete photographic facts of a familiar landscape and the people who created it, and by all accounts reaffirms his position as an important contributer to the history of American photography.
Oraien Catledge was born in Tutwiler, Mississippi in 1928. He was self-taught as a photographer and came to his vocation near the end of his career with the American Foundation for the Blind. His photographs can be found nationally and internationally in private and public collections including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Ga., and Hartsfield International Airport. He lives in Decatur with his wife Sue.”
If you haven’t already, please take a minute and fill out the ACP 11 Survey. Your feedback helps us hone our programming; we thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions — your enthusiasm and participation has been fantastic during this year’s festival!
“Composition Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking submissions from dynamic photographic artists nationwide for its fourth anniversary exhibition. 3 to 6 images from each of the 4 photographers chosen will be on exhibition at the gallery from Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 through Sunday, March 7th, 2010.”
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.
