Short film about the Sam Shaw opening and exhibition at the Centro cultural de Cascais in Portugal. Attended by his daughters Meta Shaw Stevens, Edie Shaw and his granddaughter Melissa Stevens.
Up Close with Esther Bubley at the Phillips Collection on August 27, 2015
Up Close with Esther Bubley – Gallery Talk with Jean Bubley
August 27, 2015, 6:30 pm
An independent photographer during the heyday of American photojournalism, Esther Bubley documented a wide range of subjects including families and children, industrial installations, and transportation. Her photographs of ordinary life capture the unique personal dimension of seemingly mundane activities. Jean Bubley, director of the Esther Bubley Photography Archive, discusses the work of her aunt Esther Bubley, featured in American Moments.
http://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2015-08-27-gallery-talk
(go to related multimedia on lower right hand side to hear a 2:30 minute talk by Jean Bubley)
Ron Sherman’s ASPP Photo Archive Story
How Universities Can Give Your Photo Collection A SECOND LIFE by Ron Sherman
When I arrived in Atlanta in 1971 and started doing assignments for national, regional and local publications, including Time, Newsweek, Business Week and Georgia Magazine, I did not realize then that I would create a photographic archive that would be valuable enough to be acquired by a an important university library decades later. This article is a guide for other photographers who have a collection of photographs and are looking for placement of their images.
Save the village: A walking tour of the photographs of Fred W. McDarrah
RECENT MENTION IN THE NEW YORK TIMES 8/21/15
Save the Village (Tuesday) Last year the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea put on an exhibition with the photography of Fred W. McDarrah, who documented the changing scene of Greenwich Village since the 1960s. Now, the spirit of that show has taken the form of this walking tour, which includes stops at the places McDarrah captured on film: locales like Washington Square Park and the Stonewall Inn. At 10 a.m.; the tour meets at Christopher Park, Stonewall Place, at Seventh Avenue, West Village, savethevillagetours.com.
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SAVE THE VILLAGE: A WALKING TOUR OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FRED W. McDARRAH
TO KICK OFF AUGUST 4.
Based on the blockbuster show at Chelsea’s Steven Kasher Gallery, these unique walking tours don’t bring people to a gallery, but instead to the downtown locales documented by the longtime Village Voice photographer and picture editor Fred W. McDarrah – and the stomping grounds of the individuals he photographed that helped shape the 1960s ethos, including Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac, Jimi Hendrix, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg and many more.
During his 50-year association with the Voice – the world’s most famous alternative newspaper and the house organ of the postwar counterculture – McDarrah amassed a 250,000 image archive that is an encyclopedic catalog of the people, places, movements, trends and events of the New York scene over the second half of the 20th century. So many individuals and groups came to the Save the Village gallery show, and staffers were peppered on a daily basis with so many questions about the photos and the changing face of Greenwich Village and the convulsions of the culture that McDarrah captured… The exhibition ended, but the interest in the Village in the ’60s and McDarrah’s documentation of the changing scene did not wane one bit.
Now, tour-goers will get a multi-postcard set of some of the most iconic of McDarrah’s images and see the exact same places today, including the townhouse on West 11th St. blown up by the Weather Underground, Electric Lady studios, the Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, Judson Church and Washington Square Park.
Other tours in the series include The Beats, The Artists World and The East Village.
If Greenwich Village is the historic home of the counterculture, then the East Village can be called famous for its off-the-counter culture. On this tour, see where Chicago 8 defendant Jerry Rubin paraded down St. Mark’s Place with a machine gun; the Polish catering hall where the Velvet Underground played its first gigs, the original home of the Fillmore East concert hall, and more.
The Artists World tour is based on a 1961 McDarrah book that is often the sole visual record of a special time and place in the history of American art. The tour visits the East 10th St. Gallery Row where de Kooning had his studio and the nearby neighborhood spots where artists including Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, and Adolph Gottlieb lived, worked, played, exhibited and famously drank.
The Beats tour will visit the coffee houses, clubs, and other venues (some remaining, some not) where Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Peter Orlovsky, Diane DiPrima, Gregory Corso and William S. Burroughs made literary history.
In addition, all tours are available for private bookings; custom or combination tours can be arranged.
Tickets are $15 (Students, seniors, individuals with a valid library card, or a membership in a Historic
Preservation Society, Group or Association) to $25 (Adult) and every ticket includes a keepsake postcard packet.
For tour schedules, to make reservations and for more information, go to SaveTheVillageTours.com.
Conversation about Tseng Kwong Chi exhibit on 6/25/15 at the Museum of Chinese in America, and Muna Tseng walk-throughs on Weds nights
CONVERSATION: DORYUN CHONG AND HERB TAM ON TSENG KWONG CHI
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015 AT 6.30 PM – 8.00 PM
MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA
215 CENTER STREET, NEW YORK CITY
Doryun Chong, chief curator, M+ Hong Kong, and Herb Tam, curator and director of exhibitions, Museum of Chinese in America, will discuss Tseng’s life and art in New York, his influence on younger Chinese artists, and how his cultural identity may have impacted his work.
Generously supported by the Asian Cultural Council. Co-sponsored by the Museum of Chinese in America and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery.
Muna Tseng will offer walk-throughs of the exhibition “Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera” on Wednesday nights in the month of June. Please RSVP with your date to reserve your spot. The tour from 7.00 to 7.30 pm FREE.
Exhibition on view: APRIL 21 – JULY 11, 2015
GREY ART GALLERY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
100 WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST, NEW YORK CITY
Tseng Kwong Chi’s “Mao Suit” and photograph are part of the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibit “China Through the Looking Glass”
CHINA: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: MAY 7 – AUGUST 16, 2015
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
Tseng Kwong Chi’s “Mao Suit” and photograph from his East Meets West series are part of the exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute and the Department of Asian Art, high fashion is juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, including films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery.
George Tice to receive the LUCIE AWARD for Lifetime Achievement on 10/27/15 at Carnegie Hall
George Tice
2015 Honoree: Lifetime Achievement Award – LUCIE AWARDS
October 27, 2015 – Zankell Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC
George Tice has been working in the field of photography for more than 60 years, focusing his camera on the American rural and urban landscape. He is drawn to vestiges of American culture on the verge of extinction – from people in rural or small-town communities to urban and suburban neighborhoods that are often in decline.
Tice was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey in 1938. At fourteen, he joined the Carteret Camera Club and later worked as a darkroom assistant for a Newark portrait studio. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy at age seventeen, Tice’s talent quickly promoted him to Photographers Mate Third Class. One of his images of an “Explosion Aboard the U.S.S. Wasp, 1959” was acquired for the Museum of Modern Art by photographer Edward Steichen. After his navy service Tice worked as a home portrait photographer for the next decade.
In the 1960s, Tice shifted from smaller camera formats to larger ones, which enabled him to craft finely detailed prints. George Tice is considered a virtuoso of the fine print, and a master printer, not only of his own work, but for others for whom he has made fine prints. During this time, he met Lee Witkin and helped establish the Witkin Gallery, the first commercially successful gallery in New York dedicated to fine art photography. The association with Witkin also led to Tice printing limited-edition portfolios of some of his favorite photographers, among them Edward Steichen, Edward Weston and Fredrick H. Evans, as well as other important photographers including Francis Bruguiere, Ralph Steiner and Lewis Hine.
By 1970, thanks in part to shows and sales of his work through Witkin, Tice was able to concentrate entirely on his own photography. The extended photographic essay is an important part of Tice’s work. The form and process of each project is an investigation leading to a book. Tice taught a master class at The New School, NYC and the Maine Media Workshop for over twenty-five years.
Tice has had eighteen books published to date. His first book Fields of Peace, documented the life of Amish and Mennonite communities of Pennsylvania. In the late 1960’s, Tice began exploring his home state and those photographs formed the beginnings of two of his best-known books: Urban Landscapes, A New Jersey Portrait, (1975) and Paterson, (1972), with sequels, George Tice : Urban Landscapes in 2002, Common Mementos in 2005 and Paterson II in 2006. His most recent book Seldom Seen (2013) is a collection of previously unpublished photographs. James Rhem states in an article in Focus Magazine, “The stillness in what Tice himself describes as the “sad beauty” of his urban scenes has a different weight, the weight of history, not moments, but stories evolving.”
His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are represented in the collections of many institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty Museum, Whitney Museum, Newark Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale. He has received fellowships and commissions from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Media Museum, (UK). In 2003, he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from William Paterson University.
Tice, a 10th generation New Jerseyan, makes his home on the Jersey Shore.
Mary Engel’s blog – Recent Symposiums
Last December I was able to attend a wonderful symposium at MoMA about a project that had taken four years to complete based on The Thomas Walther exhibit. It was attended by over 150 people, and included several presentations with a Q and A after each one.
In February of this year I went to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut to attend a symposium in conjunction with the wonderful Coney Island Exhibit. The curator Robin Jaffee Frank started off the day with an entertaining talk about how the exhibit came about, and highlighted some of the artists that are included. Among them are Morris Engel and Harold Feinstein.
I also attended the first Documentary Summit that Thom Powers organized which was held at the IFC Center in the Village, which was interesting. The opening night panel included award-winning filmmakers Barbara Kopple and D.A. Pennebaker. The summit highlighted a new project called www.indiecollect.com that Sandra Schulberg started to help identify and keep track of all independent films. It gave me some ideas and also inspiration for doing something similar with APAG members, and the millions of photographs that they have taken and represent.
The last event I recently attended was an informative panel at B & H Photo about archives titled “What Will Happen to Your Legacy? There were at least 40 photographers in attendance who had many questions afterwards for the panel regarding the future of their work.
Reconsidering the Object: Researching Interwar Photography in the Digital Age
December 12, 2014 – MoMA Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art announces Object: Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949, the result of a four-year collaborative project between the Museum’s departments of Photography and Conservation, with the participation of over two dozen leading international photography scholars and conservators, making it the most extensive effort to integrate conservation, curatorial and scholarly research efforts on photography to date.
Coney Island: An Intersection of Art and Identity
February 28, 2015 – Wadsworth Atheneum
Robin Jaffee Frank, Exhibition Curator, Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Wadsworth Atheneum. Panels included: Nightmares and Fantasties: Painting Coney Island, Race and Identity at Coney Island, Coney on the Silver Screen.
Documentary Preservation Summit
presented by ida & doc nyc 3/31/14 – 4/1/14
Keynote Panel: A Call to Action for Dcoumentary Preservation, moderated by Thom Powers and included Barbara Kopple and D. A. Pennebaker and Sandra Schulberg from IndieCollect. Also, other panels titled Earning new revenue from old films, Confronting Clearance and Legal Issues, How does your preserved film become preserved and discoverable, Best Practices: Don’t lose your footage in the digital age.
What will become of your legacy? Best Practices for the future.
April 15, 2015 – B & H Film and Photo
A panel discussion dedicated to answering the key questions about estate planning for artists and art collectors. Topics to be addressed: Creating an Inventory – What should be included? Choosing an executor, an attorney, and an accountant. What are your goals? Do you want to bequest the art to family and friends or to an institution? Do you want to avoid taxes? Is a Will sufficient or should you think about setting up a Trust? Can you afford a Life insurance policy that will pay for storage costs after your death? Beyond the art itself, what do you keep? Who will control the copyright? Do you want to allow for reproductions or restrict use? Panelists: Sean Corcoran- Curator of Prints and Photography, Museum of the City of New York, George Bischof, Wills, Trusts and estates attorney, Jennifer Stoots, AAA- Accredited Fine Art Appraiser, Certified in Photography
Susan May Tell awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship for 2015 Summer Residency
 ©Susan May Tell_Waiting for train, 1982 |
| I am thrilled and humbled to announce the MacDowell Colony has awarded me a Fellowship for the 2015 Summer Residency. Their tagline is “Freedom To Create” — which is exactly what I’ll be doing. Using the studio’s darkroom, I will revisit, edit and print my early (1974-82) B&W negatives. Although the early edit led to solo exhibitions, the fellowship offers the opportunity to prepare an updated portfolio for galleries and museums. It will also be a fascinating opportunity to look through the prism of time to see what the imagery says now about that era. |