PARIS PHOTO 2015

Muna Tseng, Director of the Estate Archive of Tseng Kwong Chi, will talk about her work on preservation and global exposure of her late brother’s work on the panel Epic Journey: Photographic Legacies, moderated by Lisa K. Erf, Chief Curator, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, with David Raymond and Loretta Würtenberger.

Paris Photo – The Platform
Grand Palais, Paris, France
Friday, November 13, 2015
1.30 – 2.30 pm

Tseng Kwong Chi’s photographs will be exhibited by Ben Brown Fine Arts
Paris Photo – Main sector: B16
November 12-15, 2015

Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera opened on August 20 at the Chrysler Museum of Art with over 1.000 visitors joining the festivities. Many participated in the #slutforart photocontest. Exhibition continues until December 13, 2015.
Take a selfie. Use the hashtag #slutforart!

In 2016 exibition travels to Tufts University Art Gallery January 21 – May 22 and the Block Museum of Art September 17 – December 11.

GLOBALLY ON VIEW

La Figuration libre, historique d’une aventure, Musée Paul Valéry, Sète, France, July 3 – November 15, 2015.
Keith Haring, The Political Line, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Holland, September 19, 2015 – February 8, 2016.

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Peter Kunhardt, Jr., Executive Director of the Gordon Parks Foundation, will speak about the pertinence of Gordon Parks’ work today, and the making of several Gordon Parks books with Steidl.

It Happened in Havana: A Yiddish Love Story 

A film by Judy Schiller

He didn’t speak Spanish. She didn’t speak English. After 61 years of marriage he was still on his honeymoon.

In Forest Hills, Queens, a couple sits on their living room couch as the husband and wife each recount how they met in Cuba during the start of WWII.

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.

Equal parts romantic tale and history lesson, the film features poignant period footage and priceless home movies. The accompanying soundtrack intertwines Cuban and American music and enhances the couple’s affectionate dialogue.

How did they stay married for the 61 years? See their daughter’s tribute–and find out.

http://ithappenedinhavana.com/

http://ithappenedinhavana.com/

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  – Gallery Talk with Jean Bubley

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)

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.

http://ronsherman.photoshelter.com/gallery/Ron-Shermans-ASPP-Photo-Archive-Story/G0000wTHA40Kc5pA/C0000SeVDCnpoVZU

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/arts/spare-times-for-aug-21-27.html?_r=0

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PLEASE CONTACT: info@savethevillagetours.com or 917 975 4415 (MEDIA ONLY)

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.

Charles H. Traub: Beach portfolio

by claartjevandijk

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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