Join the Meyer family for a remembrance of Sonia Handelman Meyer, October 30, 2022 2–4 p.m. Remembrance at 2:30 p.m.
Gorelick Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Central Campus, North Classroom Building
1320 Sam Ryburn Walkway, Charlotte, NC
Exhibit: The Photo Archives of Sonia Handelman Meyer
RSVP with number of guests by October 19 to Joe Meyer
Ron Sherman, Atlanta Skyline, 1990
Arts Atlanta launched a new series, “My Atlanta,” which turns the spotlight on photographers who use their images and supporting text to illustrate how living in Atlanta has inspired their careers and lives. Here, they spotlight the work and words of Ron Sherman.
I fell in love with Atlanta for many reasons. The beauty and vitality of the city was apparent even before I moved here in 1971. Once I did, its growth gave me unlimited possibilities to document the region. With new buildings, expanded parks, various festivals, attractions and celebrations, there was never a lack of self-assigned subjects to shoot or, importantly, paid assignments.
When my wife and I began thinking about a move, we considered many locations across the country, settling on Atlanta, which seemed to hold many possibilities as a city on the move — growing, hustling, reinventing itself.
Doors opened as my career grew here. I worked for national magazines, including Time, Life, Newsweek and Business Week. In a very different time in American life, I was able to get close access to Jimmy Carter during his presidential campaign, Hank Aaron as he watched his history-making 715th home run fly over Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium’s outfield fence and Coretta Scott King surrounded by civil- and human-rights leaders at Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances.
Jay Blakesberg’s first solo museum show opens this coming weekend, October 16, 2022, at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ.
“This first solo museum retrospective of Jay Blakesberg’s photography will take over four galleries at the Morris Museum, New Jersey’s only Smithsonian Affiliate. Jay’s photographic journey began in Clark, New Jersey in 1978, just 25 miles away from the Morris Museum. Borrowing his father’s Pentax Camera, Jay began photographing the bands he loved and the friends in his orbit. In his basement darkroom, he pumped out 8×10’s to thumbtack to his bedroom wall and share with friends, with the only goal to create his own personal memorabilia. Without knowing it then, these earliest photographs would become the foundation for Jay’s extensive archive.
Join us for a special public opening event on October 16. This event, free with Museum Admission, will feature a 60-minute slideshow presentation by Jay Blakesberg, a walking tour of the exhibit and a book signing for his new release “RetroBlakesberg: Volume One, The Film Archives” – which was curated by his daughter Ricki Blakesberg.”
The exhibition runs from October 14, 2022 to February 5, 2023. Tickets here.
Check out Jay’s new book: RetroBlakesberg – Volume One: The Film Archives a 312 page hard cover coffee table book presenting a vast collection of Jay Blakesberg’s iconic images shot on film spanning four decades.
“From 15 January through 12 February 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals, and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria. Formally titled the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, FESTAC 77 drew on the Négritude foundations of Senegal’s 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts and emphasized themes of Pan-Africanism and global black liberation. Visual artist Marilyn Nance served as the official photographer for the USA contingent of the North American delegation to FESTAC.
The book LAST DAY IN LAGOS stages an in-depth encounter with Nance’s FESTAC photographic archive. With a sensitivity to recurring formal and conceptual themes, it contends with the scope of the archive’s 1,500 images of the festival and its adjacent events. Locating Nance’s perspective within the context of geopolitical, historical, and aesthetic discourses of the Black Atlantic, postcolonial Nigeria, and the Black Arts Movement in the United States, LAST DAY IN LAGOS provides a series of entry-points through which to consider the construction, circulation, and maintenance of photographic archives that render black liberation and celebration.”
On November 3, 2022, the New York City Fire Museum celebrates the opening of the special exhibition “Firehouse: The Photography of Jill Freedman.” This community event will include a private viewing of the exhibition, light fare, open beer and wine bar, raffle prizes, silent auction, and more.
6-9 pm, 278 Spring St. New York, NY 10013. Get your ticket here.
Firehouse will be on display October 12-April 2.
Chester Higgins, 1976 by Carl Samrock
The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (IPHF) is pleased to announce its 2022 Class of Photography Hall of Fame Inductees and Awardees, to be inducted to the Hall of Fame and Museum, and will honor them at its 2022 Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony on Friday, November 4 at 6 p.m. CST at .ZACK in the Grand Center Arts District in St. Louis.
2022 Honorees to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and Awardees include photographers or photography industry visionaries who demonstrate the artistry, passion and revolution of the past and present art and science of photography:
2022 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Edward Burtynsky
Chester Higgins
Graciela Iturbide
Helen Levitt
Danny Lyon
Sarah Moon
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) – IPHF Leadership Award
Kyle Huber – IPHF Visionary Award
California State University Channel Islands hosts their inaugural exhibition in the President’s Gallery during the academic year 2022-2023. “The Long Struggles for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Icons, Moments, and Voices” includes over 25 photographs by Santi Visalli, who donated his archive to the University in 2015.
The photographs in the exhibition include Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr.
© Larry Racioppo
APAG member Larry Racioppo writes for the Brooklyn Public Library about his photographs of memorials and RIP walls dedicated to victims of the 9/11 attacks in Brooklyn and Queens.
Neal Slavin’s exhibition in Portugal is on now at Galeria WOW in Porto, Portugal, through October 31, 2022. “The beginning covers my life living under the fascist dictatorship of Antonio Oliveira Salazar in 1968 and concludes 50 years later in 2016.”
Join Ron Sherman on August 7, 2022, for the opening talk for his new exhibition at the Cultural Arts Center of Roswell, Georgia. 2-4 pm EDT.
