Events

Edited by Susanne Lange.

Working from Memory is a collection of stories by the renowned photographer, painter and sculptor William Christenberry. Based on conversations with author and critic Susanne Lange, these stories elaborate the artist's memories of the Deep South, in whose rich literary tradition they are steeped. In a lyrical but lucid prose, they set personal experience against the backdrop of important political and cultural moments in the southern states, endowing that landscape with a vividness that will be familiar to fans of the artist's photography. Christenberry's own photographs accompany these tales.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1936, William Christenberry grew up in the Deep South, where old road signs, deteriorating buildings and dirt roads shaped his boyhood memories. During his early career, Christenberry was primarily a painter, but he soon began to incorporate the use of a Brownie camera into his practice. In 1961 he moved to New York and met Walker Evans, the celebrated photographer of the Farm Security Administration, who had documented the devastating effect of the Great Depression in the South. Evans' photographs--many from Christenberry's home area--particularly influenced Christenberry's work as an artist. In 1968 he moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the faculty of the Corcoran School of Art and Design, where he continues to work as a professor of drawing and painting. Today, Christenberry's international stature continues to grow as his work is featured in many museums throughout the United States and abroad.

Deadly Intent Crime & Punishment

Photographs from The Burns Archive

Book launch party 7-9pm

sites of Impact: Meteorite Craters Around the World

Book signing and opening reception 6-8 p.m.

Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photogrpahy

by Lyle Rexer

Opening reception and book signing  7-10 p.m.

12-6p.m.

Here's what Ken says:

What I have on view—

Early proofs from my new ongoing project The Somnambulist.

3 copies of my new limited edition book A New History of Photography: The World Outside and The Pictures In Our Heads, which I will make available. The edition of 350 is nearly sold out. A trade edition will be available in paperback will debut at the Arles Photo Festival (France) in July.

I am making 2 copies of my book Invisible City available. Invisible City is listed in Auer (#676). It was called "hellishly brilliant" by Vince Aletti in the New Yorker, was a NY Times notable book of the year, won an AIGA award for book design and was exhibited by The Museum of Modern Art in "More Than One Photography," curated by Peter Galassi.

I have limited edition (with print) and used copies of my out of print book The Geometry of Innocence available as well as some other books and catalogs I have work published in.

And some fine deals on proof prints.

Clearing the studio—

And I am also looking to sell three 36" and one 42" set of 5 drawer lateral files ($200 each—I believe they are Steelcase) and two 18.25" 4 drawer vintage steel filing cabinets for $75 each). And architect designed chairs $135 each or the set of 8 for $950. And for the photographers out there I have used Tenba and Lightware portfolio cases for sale. 

Thursday, May 28th, 6-8p.m.

Please join Princeton Architectual Press, Griffin Editions, and the Art Department and The Divisions of the Sciences at Marymount Manhattan College in celebrating the publication of 

Sites of Impact

Meteorite Craters Around the World 

by Stan Gaz

Stan Gaz will discuss his photographs, along with special guests Dr.Denton S. Ebel, a curator at the Museum of Natural History who is a geologist specializing in meteorites and Brian Paul Clamp, director of ClampArt.  

Stan Gaz's Sites of Impact photographs will be on display at ClampArt until June 6th.

Thursday, June 11 7-9:30p.m. at Capsule Studio 873 Broadway, suite 204

Todd Schorr—Book Signing Event on Saturday, 10/10/09

Previously Exhibited Artist Todd Schorr will be having a book signing event here at the gallery for his newly released monograph American Surreal this Saturday, 10/10/2009, from 3—5pm.

Please join us!

American Surreal
Todd Schorr
Published by Last Gasp
10" x 15" Quarterbound
120 full-color pages
$39.95

With more than 140 of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone, including many never published before and others not seen since they appeared in the pages of the legendary Harper's Bazaarof the 1950s, Lillian Bassman: Women offers a retrospective view of an extraordinary career in photography. At 91 and still hard at work, Bassman is a beloved figure in the pantheon of fashion photographers. Her signature style, once described by Richard Avedon as making "visible that heart-breaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things," offered a sensuous and intimate vision of modern women. Says Judith Thurman, "Bassman's women—perennially soulful,elusively chic—have the poignance of an endangered species." Well-known art writer and journalist Deborah Solomon contributes an introduction. An illustrated chronology gives a cinematic overview of a remarkable life.

Director, producer, writer, and artist Tim Burton makes a personal appearance in conjunction with his major career retrospective at MoMA, signing copies of the Tim Burton exhibition catalogue, as well as the newly published The Art of Tim Burton, a comprehensive, 434-page compilation of forty years of Burton’s artistry. 

The signing takes place in MoMA Books, on the second floor of the Museum. Museum admission is required for entry. Both books will be available onsite at MoMA Books and the MoMA Design and Book Store. No other books or collectibles will be signed at this event.

The New York Times, September 4, 2009

Treading in the footsteps of Charles Marville, Brassaï and Atget, German photographer Christopher Thomas creates black and white images of cities in a state of repose, as if only the viewer's gaze could animate these empty streets. After years of photographing his native Munich, Thomas turned his camera on his adopted city, New York. The resulting exhibition of 30 large-scale landscapes feels both nostalgic and contemporary, offering an elusive glimpse of 19th century tranquility while hinting at a cryptic apocalyptic ending just around the bend.

The exhibition, co-curated by Ira Stehmann and Petra Giloy-Hirtz, accompanies the publication of New York Sleeps, by Christopher Thomas, Petra Giloy-Hirtz (editor) Ira Stehmann (editor), with essays by Robert Shamis and Ulrich Pohlmann. (Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, 2009)

Curator  Bob Shamis writes in his essay Coming Upon New York: “The quietness that these photographs evoke, so at odds with our expectations, is at first unsettling for someone well acquainted with New York. The urban landscape may be familiar, but this is not the city that most of us know and experience. The total absence of people in Thomas’ photographs is the result of shooting in the early morning hours, when even New York’s streets are almost deserted, and because of the necessity of making long exposures with his view camera. With his lens shutter opens for many seconds for each exposure, moving figures did not register on the slow film that Thomas used, reinforcing the impression of the city as the site of a lost civilization.”

From views of an abandoned Staten Island ferry terminal to the deteriorating Coney Island Cyclone, Thomas documents urban scenes that while outwardly static, show a city in perpetual transition. The presence of previous inhabitants lingers heavily within each frame, like dinner plates that have recently been cleared away.

Like a Surrealist flaneur, Thomas explores the complex tension between absence and presence in his dreamlike outer landscapes. Devoid of human figures, his images of winding alleyways, imposing monuments and gleaming mist-filled harbors veer off at random into psychological terrain. Using a custom large-format camera and Polaroid film, he has created a nebulous archive of our collective inner longings.

Born in Germany in 1961, Christopher Thomas has worked for magazines such as Geo, Stern, Merian, and the SüddeutscheZeitung Magazin. He has produced numerous photo essays and received international awards for commercial and fine art photography. He lives and works in Munich and New York.

Christopher Thomas: New York Sleeps will be on view December 3, 2009 through January 9, 2010.

http://stevenkasher.com/html/exhibinfo.asp?exnum=1070

In an age where many high-adrenaline sports have become watered-down exercises in marketing, dirt bike racing remains intensely raw; a dangerous enterprise populated with a colorful, profane cast of daredevils. Ortolani applies an artist’s eye to this unforgiving sport and the riders who pursue it, resulting in an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes window into this punishing competition.

ENDURANCE offers embedded access to the races, the travel, the preparation, and a scope that spans three years' worth of WEC, GNCC, and Enduro races across the U.S. and Europe. Ortolani traveled thousands of miles to more than ten events in three different countries, in the process capturing Nathan Kanney’s ascent from underdog privateer to KTM Factory Team rider — an achievement that required beating world champions riding bikes three times the cost of his.

ENDURANCE includes photographs of Kanney's world-champion competitors and teammates including David Knight, Kailub Russell, Cory Buttrick, Homero Diaz, Ryan Mills, Anders Eriksson, and Bartosz Oblucki, with a cameo appearance by Travis Pastrana. Among the contributors are Ian Mclaughlin, Ezra Dyer, Eddie Brannan,Alexander Wolf, Nathan Kanney, Jerry Bernardo, Carrie Coombs Russell, Jason Weigandt, Kailub Russell, and Cory Buttrick.

For more information about Endurance, visit: theresaortolani.com

Painter, filmmaker, and writer Hugues de Montalembert, who was blinded during an attack in New York City in 1978, presents a screening of the award-winning documentary Black Sun. He will also introduce his new memoir, Invisible, published by ATRIA Books.

As documented in Black Sun, de Montalembert faced crushing despair in the year after losing his sight; but then he did the unthinkable by learning to “see” without the use of his eyes.

The meditation on his loss is explored in his latest book, Invisible. In this memoir, the author reflects on the thirty years since he lost his sight. Without a trace of self-pity, he writes about how the loss of this vital sense invigorated him, leading him to take solo trips around the world and giving him a new appreciation of life.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session, reception, and book signing with the author.

Black Sun
Directed by Gary Tarns, 2005. Color. 75 min.
In English

RSVP to mhulme@fiaf.org

tickets: $25 ($20 for FIAF members)

Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs that Warhol selected for his 1979 book Andy Warhol’s Exposures.The exhibition will feature over 70 unique vintage black and white photographic prints. It will be accompanied by a new book, Andy Warhol: Unexposed Exposures (Steidl/Kasher, 2010), edited and with an introduction by Bob Colacello (who was executive editor of the original book as well). Starting in 1976, Warhol shot several rolls of film every week and selected images for the 1979 book. He had intended to title it Social Diseases, but his concept was heavily watered down by his publishers at the time and many of the selected images were removed. Colacello writes: 

There is a sense of intimacy as well as of voyeurism, of funny-looking, insecure, wistful Andy, through flattery and attentiveness, trying to connect. Yet, because he was not just any photographer but a famous artist, a star, there is often a sense that the looking is being done at the man with the camera as well as by him. In some cases, the subjects are clearly performing for their fellow luminary, or close friend, or boss. As spontaneous as these images may seem, they are intrinsically staged, with Warhol himself as both chronicler and catalyst of the moments he is documenting.

And what moments they are! Only Andy could get David Hockney in extra-brief running shorts, or Susan Sontag batting her eyelashes across a fancy restaurant table at Gloria Vanderbilt, or Halston’s Venezuelan window dresser and lover, Victor Hugo, sitting under Goya’s Red Boy in Kitty Miller’s Park Avenue parlor. Here’s Faye Dunaway smooching fashion designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo; Paloma Picasso spreading her hands to indicate the width of one of her father’s paintings; Margaret Trudeau, Canada’s First Lady, chatting up Milos Forman. Indeed, almost all the face cards of the late 70s scene are here, at ease behind the velvet rope: brash Steve Rubell and reticent Ian Schrager, Diane Von Furstenberg and Barry Diller with Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger beside Catherine Deneuve, Roman Polanski, Diana Ross, Tatum and Ryan O’Neal, Liz Taylor deep in her Senator John Warner period, Arnold Schwarzenegger before politics, and O.J. Simpson when everyone still loved him. So are the footnotes of celebrity history: Elvis’s ex, Priscilla Presley, with her Scientologist model boyfriend, and Ruth Kligman, the woman who was in the car with Jackson Pollack when he crashed it into a tree and was killed. And let’s not forget—Andy didn’t—Don King, boxing impresario; little Edie Beale, Jackie’s batty cousin; Famous Amos, the cookie king, and Norman the neighborhood coke dealer, if your neighborhood happened to be the West Village. Enough! You get the picture. Andy always did.

Please join Bernstein and Andriulli for the launch of Olaf Hajek's first monograph "Flowerhead", published by Gestalten. The book presents his advertising and editorial work, commercial portraits, fashion illustration, as well as never before seen personal art.

This is the story or, more accurately, part of the story, of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda. In 1999, when they were 10 and 9 years old and living in a rural province of Buenos Aires, their paths crossed with photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Drawn to the girls, whose evident affection for each other is somehow magnified by their mismatched physiques, Sanguinetti took pictures to "crystallize their rich yet fragile and unattended world". As with her previous, much-acclaimed monograph "On the Sixth Day" this work is far more than straight documentary. To witness the evolving relationship between Guille and Belinda is to be privy to a touching, entertaining and utterly captivating interaction. At the same time there is the subtle awareness of a second relationship, that of this delightful pair and their photographer. The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams follows the cousins for five years, from pre-teen to adolescent, as they play, dream and unwind their way through the secret enchantment that is childhood.

Alessandra Sanguinetti will be at ICP on June 11 for abook signing. You may request a signed copy below (limit of two signed copies per customer; pre-orders and requests are not guaranteed but every effort is made to fulfill orders).

$60.00 | Members $54.00

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