Photojournalist Betty Press  was interviewed by Audie Cornish on NPR on Sunday about her self-published book about Africa, I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom In Image and Proverb.  Published in partnership with Books For Africa, Betty’s book is currently in exhibition at PHOTOBOOK!!2011 at the Davis Orton Gallery. Betty reports, “Since the NPR interview, the orders are pouring [...]

Richard, Carlos, and Karen will be talking all things photography on Chad Weckler’s program, Art of the Hudson Valley on WGXC Community Radio Thursday, December 1 from 2-3 pm.  After the broadcast, the program will be available for download (nation-wide via the WGXC website).  The four of us are NYFA MARK photographers.  In additon, we’ve each been involved in other photography [...]

Congratulations to Shelby Lee Adams who exhibited prints from his new book, “Salt and Truth” (Candela Books, 2011), at the Davis Orton Gallery this fall. Today’s Sunday Times includes a  full page “exposures” piece in the Sunday Review section.  Accompanying the article online is an extensive slide show of work from his book. More congratulations [...]

  A wonderful night on Warren Street and at Davis Orton Gallery.  It was great to see so many people out and about.  This terrific exhibition, “Street Photography / Surveillance” with Bojune Kwon and Tomoko Daido and portfolios by Gary Duehr and Susan A. Barnett will be here through Sunday, November 13.  Don’t miss it. [...]

We have extended the deadline for entries to PHOTOBOOKS!!2011 to October 22. Pictured, left, is a collage of last year’s exhibit.  Visible photographs by Cara Barer and Lisa Dahl.  Besides selecting 20 books for exhibition, the gallery exhibits work by four photographers designated “best of show.” In addition to the sale of books during the [...]

We are pleased to announce that Shelby Lee Adams will return to the gallery from 6-8pm Saturday, October 1 for a book signing of  his fourth monograph, “salt & truth” just released by Candela Books. Come by and meet Shelby, check out this elegantly printed book and visit/re-visit the exhibition.  ”salt & truth” is also [...]

Howard Saunders whose mixed media collage series “Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010″ was exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery in April, will be a featured speaker at the Spencertown Academy Festival of Books on Labor Day, September 5 at 12:30 pm. He will be intereviewed by Wesley Brown.  Ten of his [...]

We have just announced  PHOTOBOOK!!2011, a call for work for our second annual photobook exhibition and sale.  Twenty photobooks will be selected for this show with the four “best-of-show” photographers exhibiting up to four prints each in the gallery.  Along with the exhibition and gallery sale, we create an online catalog of the twenty books [...]

      The current exhibition at the Davis Orton Gallery, Theaters & the Theatrical was the featured review in Hudson’s Register Star Scene arts magazine.  The photographs of Stefanie Klavens and Nandita Raman won praises from critic John Paul Keeler. Read Review         Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section featured “Roxy”, a photograph [...]

“Beauty is only skin deep. But ah! me; freckles go to the bone.” Fritz Liedtke quotes Mark Twain to introduce us to his new work, Astra Velum, a series of amazing photogravures. Visit Liedtke’s website for a full explanation of both the subject and the process of production, photogravure.  Gallery 291, 291 Geary St. will present this [...]