APAG member George Malave is featured in En Foco’s Nueva Luz Volume 26:1, in an article titled “Tao of George Malave.” Read online.
News
Instagram Scam
A new Instagram scam is going around. Scammers send a message notifying you that one of your photos was reported for copyright infringement with a message reading: “We recently received a report of a photo posted on your Instagram. An image of your album is reported to contain copyright content. If no objection is made about the copyrighted work, we will need to remove your account. Please fill in the appeal form.”
There’s a “Go to Appeal Form” button below the message, inviting you to click on it. It contains a link that will take you to what seems an Instagram login page. If you enter your credentials – it’s done. The scammers have your username and password, which they will immediately change and ask you to pay them so they give your account back to you. Read the rest of this article over on DIY Photography.
APAG recommends setting up “Two factor authentication” so that only you can log into your Instagram account.
NFTs
“NFTs for Fine Art Photographers: What They Are and How to Make Your Own. Concepts, Real World Experiences and 7 Tips” by APAG member Steve Giovinco. Read it here.
Santi Visalli at 90: Una Storia
“Santi Visalli at 90: Una Storia” is on now through March 13th, 2022, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California. Click here to view the exhibition online.
Born in 1932 and raised in Messina, Sicily, Santa Barbara resident Santi Visalli traveled with a camera for three years across the globe before settling in New York during the late 1950s, aiming to become a successful photographer on the international stage. With an astute eye, tenacious energy, and patient skill, Visalli forged an extraordinary career that saw him photographing countless major world figures and important sites and cities for over five decades.
This exhibition of 29 photographs focuses on a specific area of Visalli’s art: perceptive portraits of well-known figures in the 1960s and 70s worlds of film, literature, art, music, and popular culture. Ranging from the spontaneous and joyous to the posed and quiet, Visalli’s portraits all relate a storia, an Italian word meaning tale, story, and history. Tactful yet honest, Visalli captures his subjects with a respectful distance that nonetheless allows the unique sense of these renowned personalities to emerge on their own terms.
Monolog Collective
A new show is on display at APAG member Gallery 270 in Westwood, now through January 4, 2022, with an in person opening on November 11, at 7 pm ET.
“This group of like-minded stalwart artists, by choice, work in the “slow” historical processes of monochrome film photography to express their vision. They’ll be with us to share both the stories behind their images and the amazing variety of vintage processes they employ to create them, such as platinum/palladium, silver gelatin, carbon transfer, tintype, wet plate collodion tintype and ambrotype.” Learn more.
The World of Yousuf Karsh
Le Monde de Yousuf Karsh
The exhibition “Le monde de Yousuf Karsh / The World of Yousuf Karsh” is open now through January, 2022, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Karsh fans who are not local to Montreal can purchase a beautiful catalog instead.
Ruth Orkin Centenary
Ruth Orkin was born on September 3, 1921, which makes this her centenary year. A major retrospective exhibition titled “Expressions of Life” is on view now through December 5, 2021, at New York City’s Fotografiska. Plus a new 240 page Ruth Orkin monograph, “A Photo Spirit,” (Hatje Cantz, 2021) is on sale now.
Congratulations to APAG’s founder, Ruth’s daughter Mary Engel, for her tireless work on preserving her mother’s archives. See more on the Ruth Orkin website.
Arthur Rothstein Illustrated Lecture
On February 20, 2021, at 2 PM EST, join Ann Rothstein Segan, PhD, for an online illustrated lecture about her father Arthur Rothstein. Visit the Whitesbog website.
Past Exhibitions
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- Gordon Parks
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- Harold Feinstein
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- Chester Higgins Jr.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
No upcoming events scheduled at this time.
Past Exhibitions
William Helburn obituary
We are sad to let you know that APAG member William “Bill” Helburn recently passed away. Thanks to Bob and Lois Lilly for sharing this information and for all their work preserving his archive. Sending condolences to them, the Helburn family and especially his son William Helburn who was an early member of APAG.
Fashion and advertising photographer William ”Bill” Helburn has died at age 96. A contemporary of Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman and Irving Penn, Helburn created playful, sexy images that jumped off the page, often juxtaposing the sublime with the absurd. “Shock value was a term that was used,” said Helburn “And I meant to shock people as much as I could.” A “first-call” photographer at the heart of advertising’s creative revolution, Helburn brought a fashion sensibility to everything he caught in his lens. From 1949 to the early 70s, his work was seen in Harper’s Bazaar, LIFE, McCall’s, Esquire, The New Yorker and many other magazines. His work and life story are featured in the book “Seventh and Madison William Helburn” (2014) and his images in galleries including Staley-Wise in New York, Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.