According to Button, “Changes in society aren’t always obvious.  Sometimes they can be very subtle.  The grocery store rides that many of us enjoyed as children are slowly disappearing from the urban landscape.  That mechanical horse or the spaceship ride made a trip to the grocery store bearable as a child but now seems hard to find.” Five years ago, Button began his project of photographing these rides in black and white.  He has returned to the same locations and shot roughly the same frame in color – perhaps at a different time of day or slightly different perspective – all to suggest change and the passing of time.

F-STOP MAGAZINE is an online photography magazine featuring contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers from around the world. Each issue has a theme or an idea that the unites the photographs to create a dynamic dialogue among the artists. 
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Button’s series, “Cerealism” is currently on view at the Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY

For almost 30 years, Judith Black has been photographing her immediate family and self. Black says, “Using images of family as a touchstone for memories reveals a deep collective need to make our personal narratives and memoirs a true representation of the past, which of course they can never be.  The photographs I exhibit are my family album made public, or perhaps the reverse, my “art” made useful within the domestic space.”

Three photographs of John Lurie by Sylvia Plachy are in the online New Yorker blog, Photobooth, the view from the New Yorker Photo Department by  Photo Editor, Whitney Johnson.  Another Plachy portrait of Lurie accompanies Downtown Chronicles by Tad Friend in the August 16 edition of the New Yorker.

Sylvia Plachy will exhibit at the Davis Orton Gallery from September 23 to  October 17; Reception: October 2, 6-8 p.m.

Meg Birnbuam’s photographs Nest and Night Flight (left) are featured in Vermont’s Photoplace Gallery (north) and Cow Girl and Circle Swing at the Houston Center for Photography (South).  Meg exhibited photographs from her series “Corn Dogs and Blue Ribbons” at the Davis Orton Gallery in 2009.

Work from Ernie Button’s series, “Cerealism,” has been selected for inclusion in the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s first Slideluck Potshow. At each event, the slideshow exhibition is preceded by a potluck-style dinner. SLIDELUCK POTSHOW is non-profit organization dedicated to building and strengthening community through food and art.

Mighty Man Bites by Ernie Button

Rosenthal’s exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA runs from June 30 through August 29.  (Artist talk and reception 6:15 pm., July 1.) Rosenthal’s photobook, “Stations of the Scale,” can be purchased at the museum, from the artist, and in Hudson, NY at the Davis Orton Gallery and Davis Orton Gallery online.