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“Wonder Wheel: Harold Feinstein” will be on view at this year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles photo festival.
Harold Feinstein cannot be reduced to a series. Born 1931 in Coney Island, a “land without shadows”, his favorite place to take pictures and the perfect illustration of how he viewed American society, the only thing he ever wanted to be was a photographer. At 17 he joined the Photo League, a group of politically committed artists, and became a member of Sid Grossman’s circle. As the child of working-class Jewish immigrants, he empathized with the “little people” of New York and those left behind by prosperity. Joining the left-leaning Photo League was risky in postwar America, but Feinstein saw no other possibility for his photography than to be as close as possible to the senses and the living. For 60 years, he regularly went back to his roots, seamlessly combining biography and community. But there was more to Feinstein than Coney Island. During the Korean War his photography was revealed in its many teachings and especially in its commitment to all minorities. The exhibition brings together the original prints loaned by the Harold Feinstein Photography Trust.
Retro Photo Archive, in collaboration with DUPLEX, presents “Naked Seduction: Elizabeth Sunflower 1970-1972.” This series of photographs, captured between 1970 and 1972 in the burgeoning North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, centers the role of sex workers in propelling the feminist movement from a counterculture ideal to a national conversation. The photographs are divided into unique story lines that weave together to tell a larger narrative: focusing on avante garde exotic dancers and models that were emerging from the underground and normalizing sex in a time when the socially marginalized were misunderstood and less tolerated.
The exhibition is curated by Ricki Blakesberg.
DUPLEX, 17 Essex Street, New York. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22nd from 4-8pm. Thursday – Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment.
Elizabeth Sunflower (1943 – 2008) was a prolific photojournalist based in San Francisco, CA. She lived and worked out of the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco documenting alternative pop-culture of the 1960s and 70s. Sunflower primarily focused on photographing news and pop culture beginning in the late 1960s and continued actively into the 1990s.
APAG Member Paula Barr has work included in “Causality”, an upcoming exhibition at M. David & Co., curated by Jason Andrew.
Exhibition runs April 14 – May 14, 2023; Opening Reception: April 14, 2023, 6-9pm. M. David & Co., 56 Bogart St.,# 114, Brooklyn, NY 11206.
Causality: when disparate elements are combined or random materials are stacked, when unlikely shapes are forged or incongruent designs are assembled, whether situationally mounted or unconventionally installed, this mishmashing, this mixed-amalgamation incites a new visual equilibrium. Our contemporary world is made up of this dynamism—an unceasing revel of cause and effect.
Mary Virginia Swanson, with long-time co-author Darius D. Himes will inform and inspire participants by sharing their knowledge and experiences in bringing long-term projects to the book form. Our distinguished faculty members will be joined in our virtual classroom by thirteen Special Guests who are eminent members of the photobook community including editors, designers, book producers and publishers, curators and published / self-published artists and will provide crucial insight into each stage of the publishing journey.
Structured sessions focusing on being published, self-publishing, making and marketing photo books will provide broad awareness of the process of bringing your project to the book form.
Defining the appropriate audience for your book, seeking funding and sponsorship, and gaining clarity on the role in-house production teams and/or independent collaborators play in the making of a book will be discussed throughout this series. Participants will gain insights into book structures and production materials to aid in choosing the optimum combination of paper, printing, text and binding to most impactfully merge form and content.
The course concludes with sharing steps necessary to successfully launch your book, introducing it to those who share an interest in the subject of your work as well as placing it in the growing community of collectors and collections of photobooks today.
APAG Members get an exclusive 10% off. Go to the Members Only area and log in for details. Pre-order the new edition of “Publish Your Photography Book” here.
Jurgen Schadeberg solo exhibition opens Friday, February 10, 2023, at Capitis Galerie in Hamburg.
Marcel Marceau and Ben Martin, photo by Ben Martin
A special exhibition at New York’s National Arts Club features photographs of Marcel Marceau by Ben Martin, to coincide with the centenary of Marceau’s birth. Martin was a Time/Life photographer who produced the work in close collaboration with the famed pantomime artist for the book “Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime,” released in 1978.
A revised edition of this photographic portrait of the artist in performance and off-stage will be published by classic actress and book publisher Kathryn Leigh Scott – Ben Martin was her former husband. “Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime” will be published by Cumberland Press and released in March 2023 to coincide with the exhibition.
© Robert Kalman
“What’s It Like for You to Be an American?” is an ongoing project by Robert Kalman, and he is seeking help.
I’ve been wondering what Americans think of themselves in these fraught, divisive times. What is their (and our) sense of identity as Americans? So, I went out into the street and asked, “What’s it like for you to be an American?” and invited my subjects to answer on a single notebook page. Their responses proved to be a mix of sincere, emotional expressions: pride, deep ambivalence and even shame.
I made their portraits with a large format 8×10 camera, positioning individuals identically, in a formally structured way. The result is a series of closely related images of distinctly diverse American faces. I was aiming for a type of democracy expressed through portrait photographs. From many, one: e pluribus unum.
“In terms of guidance, we need place-specific information on where we are likely to encounter a decent amount of pedestrian foot traffic throughout the day. In our experience, diners, restaurants, farmers’ markets and grocery stores are good possibilities, but it helps to have information locating them. Green spaces like public parks are also likely areas, as are any other places in the city where people tend to congregate. Any assistance you can give us will be immensely helpful.” Email Robert if you can help.
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On Wednesday, February 1, at 1 p.m. ET, the Copyright Alliance—in partnership with 15 Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) organizations across the U.S.—will host a Copyright Claims Board (CCB) webinar titled What We Know About the CCB Thus Far.
The event speakers will take an in-depth look at how things are working with the CCB seven months after its launch by the U.S. Copyright Office. There have been interesting developments and challenges that may help guide prospective CCB claimants and respondents, and other interested parties regarding this new copyright small claims tribunal.
Read more and sign up here.