http://www.boweryboogie.com/2015/03/watch-this-yiddish-love-story-dixon-place-sunday/

The work of Chester Higgins, Jr. was featured in a segment on NY1 on Sunday evening, March 8. Higgins was a staff photographer at the New York Times for nearly 50 years, from 1975 until his retirement from the paper in late 2014. APAG linked to the Times commemoration of Higgins’ oeuvre of work on their popular Lens Blog; read his beautiful good-bye to the paper and see a selection of his photographs here.

Judy Schiller’s (FotoQueen) film, “It Happened in Havana: A Yiddish Love Story,” will screen at Dixon Place on Sunday, March 15 at 4PM. “In her cinematic debut, filmmaker Judy Schiller takes the viewer on two journeys: her mother’s, from Poland to Cuba, where she and her family were the only Jews in their town; and her father’s beginning on New York’s Lower East Side, where the street was the playground.”

Tickets are available now, both online and at the door.

Photo District News published an article on the planning, organizing, appraising, and digitizing that goes into the formation a photo archive. Mary Engel is quoted on p. 33 about the Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive. Read the scanned article below or on PDN’s website. The article is featured in the April 2015 issue.

http://www.haroldfeinstein.com/grateful-heart-valentines-day-2015/

Award-winning, New York-based photographer Linda Troeller collaborated with writer and ethnographer Marion Schneider to produce “Orgasm: Photographs & Interviews,” continuing “the investigation into female sexuality” started by Troeller and Schneider with their 1998 publication, The Erotic Lives of Women. The book involved the participation of 25 women from all types of backgrounds sharing intimate and candid stories about their own sexual experiences. Troeller will participate in an interview at Bluestockings on the Lower East Side (172 Allen St.) on Wednesday, February 11 at 7PM. More information about the event can be located on the Bluestockings Events page, and for more details about the book and the story behind its creation, please visit the book’s site.

A blog post from Emory University’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) discusses the 748 silver gelatin prints taken by Atlanta-based photographer Ron Sherman, mostly during the 1970s. Sherman — depicting American culture since the 1960s — photographed historically groundbreaking events and subjects, such as Hank Aaron’s 715th home run; Coretta Scott King, the King family, Mayor Maynard Jackson, Congressman Andrew Young, and Cesar Chavez at Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tomb in 1974; and Jimmy Carter’s campaign.

An excerpt from the blog: “When asked about what message he had for the students who would be looking at his images, Sherman hopes that students will be able to examine past events through photographs, by being able to see the setting and characters in this remarkable collection.”

Photographs from documentary photographer Joseph Rodriguez’s just-released e-book with FotoEvidence was featured in the New York Times Lens Blog on January 22, 2015. Rodriguez took these photos between 1990 and 1996, following the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and sparking a revolution to overthrow one of the most brutal Communist regimes in the world. The photographs reflect the jarring industrial landscape; children in orphanages and psychiatric institutions; and — a “lighter side of Romania” — daily life in the countryside.

Rodriguez has been working as a photographer for over 25 years, and has published monographs about communities in New York City, Los Angeles, Sweden, Mexico City, and many other cities and countries around the world. He has published several books in addition to “Romania,” and is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography. Rodriguez recently had a show at Hardhitta Gallery featuring some of his photographs of inner-city life in New York and Los Angeles.

The e-book can be purchased via the FotoEvidence website or the iTunes bookstore.

Craig Highberger sent APAG some photographs of the Rhinovault Security Structure that he had installed to house the Jack Mitchell Archives in Alabama.

As per Craig’s email, the Rhinovault is made of welded insulated steel and can withstand extreme weather, falling debris, or even a fire (it is a ballistic protection system). It was delivered on a flatbed 18-wheeler truck and put into place on a concrete slab, and all archival shelving and storage has been installed inside of it.

The Jack Mitchell Retrospective Exhibition, curated by Eric Hornak Spoutz, opened at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, MO.