In our last communication, we misidentified this photograph as a self-portrait of the photographer, Meg Birnbaum. We received many emails thanking us for revealing this to the public. HOWEVER, we were very much mistaken. John Stephen Hatch is the subject of this chilly image by Meg. John’s partner, Janet Johnston and her friend, Carol Botteron made the costume for him and Yeti is its nickname. Kudos to the trio… a great vision.
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Shelby Lee Adams featured in Black and White Magazine
Shelby Lee Adams who, we are pleased to announce, will exhibit at the Davis Orton Gallery in Sept/Oct, is featured in the March 2011 edition (Issue #81) of Black and White Magazine. The piece includes a ten page portfolio of Shelby’s images and an extensive essay by Renee Jacobs, writer & photographer, who traveled to Kentucky for Shelby’s Guggenheim Party and did interviews and story titled: “Portraits From Appalachia.” (image © ross periodicals, 2010)
Jeff Jacobson in Boston talk March 8
For those in the Boston area, Jeff Jacobson will be appearing in a PRC sponsored talk: “Dialogue with Photographs: Jeff Jacobson and David Strick” on Tuesday, March 8, 7 pm. His exciting (and well reviewed) exhibition continues at the PRC through March 20. Mark and I had a chance to see the show in early February and we highly recommend it. Jeff will be exhibiting at the Davis Orton Gallery in Aug/Sept.
(Photo: Pierre SD 2003 ©Jeff Jacobson)
Nandita Raman at Artpost in South Bend
Nandita Raman, who will be exhibiting at the Davis Orton Gallery in June/July, is a featured artist at Artpost in South Bend, Indiana. In 2010 Nandita received the first prize from the Daylight / Center for Documentary Studies Photo Award for her series “Cinema Play House,” photographs of Indian theaters.
Howard Saunders’ “Axeman” Cometh
We are pleased to announce that “Axeman Who Will be 70 in the Year 2010,” the faux graphic memoir by Howard Saunders: “Artist/Writer/Agent Provocateur” has arrived!! Funded by 73 contributors through kickstarter, (we wonder if reaching his goal set a new kickstarter record), Axeman… has the scope of history along with diaristic intimacy. Now available available through Davis Orton Gallery, the book is featured in the electronic, peer-reviewed, international journal of poetry, literature and culture, Reconfiguration Volume 4: Emergence.
Saunder’s “URmonumental,” is also available at the Davis Orton Gallery. Of “URmonumental,” John Haber writes, “The New Museum may have opened on the Bowery with “Unmonumental,” but its architecture looks more monumental every day. A year past its opening, the metallic surface that seemed to dissolve into sky looks flat and sleek. Sanaa’s stacked boxes that seemed so playfully haphazard—or ready for unwrapping this very day—now resemble a step pyramid. Who knows which dynasty of art will end up buried inside?
[Saunders] got the idea for his urtext on his return home from “Unmonumental” to Hudson, New York. A flea market there felt to him an improvement on the show’s assemblages, and he set out to photograph its “random arrangements.” Some of them indeed suggest Surrealism’s “chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella,” although not all the operations are exactly a success. His self-published booklet, I find, opens with a quote from me: “Biennials and recycling centers alike fill up quickly.” So, I guess, do blogs, and I am grateful for the compliment.” URmonumental is in the collection of CCS Bard Library and Archives.
Saunders will exhibit mixed media compositions based on “Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010: at the Davis Orton Gallery from April 1 to May 8, 2010.
Vaughn Sills’ “Places of the Spirit” Wins Wide Praise
Vaughn Sills‘ book, “Places of the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens,” published by Trinity University Press with an intro by Hilton Als, has been receiving much deserved praise from several quarters. Filled with beautiful black and white photographs of gardens and gardeners throughout the South, Vaughns images honor these places of the spirit.
Last December, in MarthaStewart.com, Stacey Hervela wrote: “Every year, dozens of books cross our desks (a real perk of this job!) but my hands-down favorite of 2010 was Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens by photographer Vaughn Sills.” Doug Oster, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes: “Every once in a while, a unique and wonderful book appears. “Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens” from Trinity University Press is one of those extraordinary books.” This article also includes a terrific multi-media slide show of Vaughn’s photographs and her narration.
In 2009 she exhibited images from this portfolio at the U.S. Botanical Garden‘s West Orangerie Gallery in Washington DC. She will also be exhibiting them at the Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston later this year and the Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston SC in 2012. Vaughn exhibited photographs from her series, “Beyond Words” at the Davis Orton Gallery in July, 2010.
Meg Birnbaum online at Texas Photographic Society AND ….
Meg Birnbaum’s portfolio, Person/Persona was selected for exhibition in Texas Photographic Society’s online gallery by juror Chris Bennett, Founder and Director of Newspace Center for Photography, Portland OR. (above: Donna as Alexanderia the Great – escape artist extraordinaire and wife, mother and health club manager.) And, Meg was recently interviewed in Talking Writing in Judith A. Ross’s article, Opening Herself to the World. “Meg Birnbaum takes us into both the lives of her subjects in her series Person/Persona as well as her selected subjects’ impact on her.” AND her photograph of Jim Cook as John Quincy Adams appeared in the Boston Globe January 28, 2011.- AND Meg will exhibit work from her portfolio Person/Persona at the Davis Orton Gallery, April 1 to May 8.
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Karen Marshall offers course at International Center of Photography (ICP)
Photographer Karen Marshall, who is lecturing tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan 25 from 3-5pm) at B&H’s Event Space on “Establishing a Relationship With Your Work: From Intent to Edit” is offering a ten-week course at the International Center of Photography (ICP), “Photographing the Social Landscape” beginning on February 1. Karen also leads the “Winter Living Room Critique” series and individual critique sessions for photographers. 
Her photobook, “With a Rolleiflex The 1970’s,” was selected for inclusion in PHOTOBOOK!!2010 at the Davis Orton Gallery.
Jeff Jacobson Exhibition and Talk at PRC/Boston
Prints from Jeff Jacobson‘s “Melting Point” series (and book, Nazraeli, 2006) will be exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) Boston from January 18 to March 20, 2011 with a reception for the artist Thursday, February 3 from 6:30 to 8pm.
Read a great photography review of the exhibition by Mark Feeney in the Boston Globe: “A Dislocated Sense of Beauty and Fear. Jacobson’s images intrigue, unnerve.” Jeff will also participate in a the PRC’s Master Lecture Series with “Dialogue with Photographs: Jeff Jacobson and David Strick” Tuesday March 8.
We hope our Boston area readers will have a chance to see this show and/or the lecture. If you do, please send Jeff our best wishes.
Also, we are very pleased to announce that Jeff will be exhibiting photographs from Melting Point and other works at the Davis Orton Gallery from August 5 to Sept 4, 2011.