Category: Exhibitions

Erin Dorbin "Kalamazoo in Photos" book launch/show, MI, US

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Erin Dorbin's Kalamazoo In Photos book launch/exhibit flyer

Don’t miss the book launch/exhbit for Erin Dorbin‘s new book, Kalamazoo in Photos: A Photographic Catalogue of Kalamazoo’s Most Unique Places. The event is 5–9pm, Friday, 7 Sept., 2007 at the Art Cons Gallery in the Park Trades Center, Kalamazoo, MI, US.

There’s a larger, more readable version of the announcement here.

About the book, Dorbin says:

This sixty-eight-page photo book focuses on the Kalamazoo region. It showcases the many local spaces I have visited with my camera over the past few years. I have features on bowling alleys, motels, and other unique landmarks in Kalamazoo County. However, you don’t have to be a resident of the area to appreciate the book. In fact, Americans nationwide can enjoy this collection that details the shift from places rich with character to that are visually uninteresting.

I used a number of cameras in the creation of this photographic collection including the Holga, Mamiya C220, Yashica Mat, Brownie Hawkeye Flash, Canon Rebel G 35mm SLR, Hasselblad and Diana toy camera. The book includes a camera index in the back to show the reader which camera was used to take each image.

It’s 7 × 7 inches, full color, softcover, and costs US $20.

Japan Pinhole Photographic Society members’ show & symposium, Tokyo

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Annual Members’ Show of the Japan Pinhole Photographic Society (JPPS) featuring work from members around the Japan and international members from the USA. Poland, Germany, and Australia. A variety of work in color and black and white.

The show runs Wednesday, 8–12 August, 2007, at the Koto-Ku Culture Center, 4-11-3 Toyo, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Symposium on 12 Aug, 2:00 pm with speakers Shikiko Endo, Mieko Tadokoro and Edward Levinson.

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Flowers and Foliage: Photographs by Peter Black and Robert Mapplethorpe, Wellington, NZ

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This exhibition showcases two portfolios of photographs. One is by the celebrated and often controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe; the other by Wellington photographer Peter Black.

Both photographers have created images of controlled and restrained nature. Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs are elegant, luxurious, and sophisticated. They are perfect specimens in the studio, cleaned up and isolated from nature in the wild.

In contrast, Peter Black documents how trees and plants are used and constrained in the wider urban environment. The nature he portrays is more untidy than Mapplethorpe’s, but his images reveal that people’s everyday treatment of plants is no less controlling than that of a studio photographer like Mapplethorpe.

Continue reading at Te Papa.

The show runs through 31 August, 2007 at Te Papa, Wellington, NZ.

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"Before It’s Gone" group show, NM, US

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The Santa Fe Downtown Public Library is proud to announce the opening of the photography show:

"Before It’s Gone"
Photographs of the Albuquerque Rail Yard

Silver gelatin, platinum palladium and gum bichromate photographs of the Albuquerque Rail Yard by David Bram, Joshua Spees and Todd Stewart.

The show runs through July 31, 2007, at the Santa Fe Public Library, 145 Washington St, Santa Fe, NM, US.

Not Yet Utopic group show opening TONIGHT, NYC, US

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Not Yet Utopic show flyer

A group exhibition of six photographers:

Eric Hairabedian
Dana Gentile
Terry Girard
Kristopher Graves
Jersey Walz
Tricia Zigmund

Pocket Utopia is pleased to present 6 brave photographers who courageously make a space within a raw and demolished storefront. Where some gallery’s present shows in recently renovated yet not quite finished interiors, Pocket Utopia is simply sweeping aside the debris and putting up work.

Eric Hairabedian theatrical color photographs, are carefully posed and Dana Gentile’s site-specific collages, personable and composed, creatively and delicately cover the raw space. Terry Girard’s Polaroids explore aspects of undefined and uncomfortable places. Kristopher Graves’ disarmingly descriptive images of solitary adventures reference nature but are not about the natural environment and Jersey Walz’s black and white photographs glisten with sausages and other beautiful arrangements in light and space. Working in color, Tricia Zigmund hangs images created during the shooting of a film, along with other provocations and transgressions.

What’s inherent in all the work presented in this demolished space is that the show becomes a sculpture. Photographic imagery, portrait or collage, expands from the actual picture and floats off into the space, just for a moment, before renovation and change occur and the next image is captured.

Pocket Utopia is located at 1037 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, US (directions here).

I’m not familiar with the other artists, but Dana Gentile’s got skills; if the others as good, this should be one hell of a show. Check it out!