tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15537015924184238302024-03-18T08:55:40.988-04:00The Southern PhotographerThe Blog about Fine Art Photography in the American South
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"In the South they are convinced that they are capable of having bloodied their land with history. In the West we lack this conviction." <br><br>
-- Joan DidionJohn N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.comBlogger840125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-32769825404520955562021-04-20T18:32:00.003-04:002021-05-06T17:55:24.440-04:00Carrie Mae Weems at the Nasher Museum in Durham<p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"> <img height="179" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/users/196311/Nasher2.jpg" width="367" /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Honorary Southern Photographer Carrie Mae Weems (see image above) is having a major show of her work in Durham, NC, made possible by Duke University's Nasher Museum. Weems' work is visible all over Durham, on billboards in a lot of locations. </span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: unset; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #262626; display: inline; float: none; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Marshall Price, the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Nasher explains:</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: unset; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #262626; display: inline; float: none; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">“It kind of fell in our laps,” he says. Artist and MacArthur grant-winner Carrie Mae Weems, a Black woman whose art is in the Nasher’s collection and who has collaborated before with the museum, had created an outdoor public art installation during a Syracuse residency, and she was spreading it out to museums in places like Philadelphia, Chicago, and Nashville, Tennessee. Did the Nasher want to participate?</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: unset; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We felt like it was a really great opportunity,” Price says. “We kind of rolled up our sleeves and got to work.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: unset; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Weems’ work, called Resist Covid/Take 6!, exists completely outdoors, largely as public-service announcements and statements of encouragement about surviving COVID. “Don’t worry, we’ll hold hands again,” reads the caption of an enormous banner hanging on the outside of the Nasher, showing a row of people holding hands. Says one of a series of banners on Campus Drive lampposts: “Because of inequity, Black, Brown & Native people have been the most impacted by COVID-19. This must be changed!” Other banners and window clings thank frontline workers and remind people to practice social distancing. They show up on building sides and in windows all over Duke—on the Rubenstein Arts Center, on the gates to the (currently closed) Duke Gardens.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: unset; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The signs show up all over Durham, too, from billboards to the windows of community partners like the American Dance Festival headquarters. Part of Weems’ design of the installation was that community collaboration. “It functions in that context just as much as a public-service announcement as art,” Price says. None of the posters have Duke or Nasher branding. The point is to get people talking about how to respond to COVID; how it’s affecting them and their community; how Black, brown, and native populations are being especially hard hit."</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: unset; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">The above quotes are from a story in the Duke Alumni Magazine; read more if you go here:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/art-nasher-time-covid"><span><span>https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/art-nasher-time-covid</span></span></a></span></span></p>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-26816822685993533852021-04-12T15:31:00.026-04:002021-04-12T15:42:22.902-04:00Southern Photographers Sweep Top Awards in LensCulture's Annual Competiton<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><img height="301" src="https://photos.lensculture.com/contain/520x/e310be6e-44fa-436d-90d5-3fe81779cb96.jpg" width="376" /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.lensculture.com/2021-lensculture-art-photography-award-winners" target="_blank">LensCulture </a>has released the results of its annual art photography competition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In first place in the Series Competition is a set of images (see image above) by Richmond, VA-based photographer <a href="https://susanworsham.net/" target="_blank">Susan Worsham</a>, from her <i>Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane </i>portfolio. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img class="mw-100" height="248" src="https://photos.lensculture.com/contain/640x/6fc56e89-6cf9-4202-bec7-cf9bc6a05dc7.jpg" width="372" /> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In first place in the Individual Image competition is "The Clouds Whispered Your Name" (see image above) by Washington DC-based photographer <a href="https://www.tavontaylor.com/" target="_blank">Tavon Taylor.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was clearly something about subjects shirtless and lying down that appealed to this year's jurors. Fine work, though! </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVzudjoxjL8BIDFRIiqgp_Ia6huccKlOD4gR0dyUFT9W-qWkVPhqsYKliPG5-vuUuds_-kVvDCHlq3V0aje0anyI6v_jzXto-1h_TWMrbGBNDAjBClQiWrFy7CEobfjlCxeN1GTQJLmJ84/s703/Untitled-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="608" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVzudjoxjL8BIDFRIiqgp_Ia6huccKlOD4gR0dyUFT9W-qWkVPhqsYKliPG5-vuUuds_-kVvDCHlq3V0aje0anyI6v_jzXto-1h_TWMrbGBNDAjBClQiWrFy7CEobfjlCxeN1GTQJLmJ84/w305-h352/Untitled-4.jpg" width="305" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Among photographs singled out for special recognition by the competition's jurors is the image above by Houston-based photographer <a href="https://www.karennavarroph.com/" target="_blank">Karen Navarro</a>. </span></div>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-75820664333242419602021-04-12T09:14:00.006-04:002021-04-16T14:53:18.040-04:00The Importance of Photography for the American South<p> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhD8p-oEdCftQhULS8dwxJ0uOTyxgLnlCkRYPpHOAjAS80hVxEAYKyN0Mcisid-JClWLbNn147Qe6YzoITEFVsq_WViJpIZtTOUSJ7W2kbPT010e-Ygw5Q5pIZhyygA752Zt_Q9A08uGG/s1600/Untitled-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1600" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhD8p-oEdCftQhULS8dwxJ0uOTyxgLnlCkRYPpHOAjAS80hVxEAYKyN0Mcisid-JClWLbNn147Qe6YzoITEFVsq_WViJpIZtTOUSJ7W2kbPT010e-Ygw5Q5pIZhyygA752Zt_Q9A08uGG/w419-h285/Untitled-3.jpg" width="419" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <br /></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/gh5x" target="_blank">Grace Elizabeth Hale</a>, who is the Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia, has written a first-class article entitled "Photograph as History in the US South," in <a href="https://www.southerncultures.org/article/signs-of-return/" target="_blank"><i>Southern Cultures</i></a>, the quarterly publication of the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Center for the Study of the American South, at UNC-Chapel Hill. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Hale points out that while "</span><i>We understand the South as a major site of U.S. history, a landscape littered with evidence of the past, from plantation slavery and the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. What fewer people know is that the region is also an essential location in the history of photography. </i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She goes on:</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>For photographers making work in the world rather than the studio, the South has been a rich place to make images. At odds with the grand story of America as expanding freedoms, the region has been understood as both the national reservoir of cultural authenticity and the national cesspool of white supremacy. The contradictions give artists a lot to look at. </i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>An admittedly partial list of photographers who have done important work in and about the U.S. South might start with Doris Ulmann and Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott and Arthur Rothstein, Clarence John Laughlin and Ralph Meatyard, Eudora Welty and Gordon Parks, Emmet Gowin and William Christenberry, William Eggleston and Dawoud Bey, Sally Mann and Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Luster and Susan Lipper.</i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>In much of this work, artists render the forms of history visible by returning to photograph the same place, people, or subjects at different times. They restage old images or revisit places photographed by others. They employ old photographic processes, formats, and materials. And they consciously go back to former histories, to older Souths and to the relationships people have constructed with these pasts. </i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Aleo, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In their work, return as a practice, a process, a subject, and an aesthetic structures time and, in this way, marks and makes history. How we understand and give form and meaning to change over time becomes as much the subject of this work as what exists on the other side of the lens.</i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Aleo, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is much more to learn from Hale's essay, and you can read it here: </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Aleo, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.southerncultures.org/article/signs-of-return/">https://www.southerncultures.org/article/signs-of-return/</a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Aleo, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></p>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-42495192346799904452020-10-21T11:39:00.017-04:002020-10-21T11:46:10.463-04:00 Dawoud Bey Named "One of the Greats"<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img class="rad-lazy ll-init ll-loadstarted ll-loaded" data-pattern="{{file}}" data-widths="{"MASTER":[{"width":495,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-master495-v3.jpg","name":"master495","height":599},{"width":675,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-master675-v3.jpg","name":"master675","height":817},{"width":846,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-jumbo-v3.jpg","name":"jumbo","height":1024},{"width":1692,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-superJumbo-v3.jpg","name":"superJumbo","height":2048}],"MEDIUM_SQUARE":[{"width":320,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-square320-v3.jpg","name":"square320","height":320},{"width":640,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-square640-v3.jpg","name":"square640","height":640}],"TWO_BY_THREE":[{"width":735,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-verticalTwoByThree735-v3.jpg","name":"verticalTwoByThree735","height":1103}],"MOBILE_MASTER":[{"width":1800,"url":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-mobileMasterAt3x-v3.jpg","name":"mobileMasterAt3x","height":2179}]}" height="320" itemprop="url" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/19/t-magazine/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4/19tmag-bey-slide-6PY4-master675-v3.jpg" width="269" /></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorary Southern Photographer <a href="http://stephendaitergallery.com/artists/dawoud-bey/" target="_blank">Dawoud Bey</a> has been named "One of the Greats" by the <i>New York Times</i>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/19/t-magazine/dawoud-bey.html?searchResultPosition=1" target="_blank">go here</a>. </span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Times celebrates Bey and four other contemporary artists as "</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">talents who, in
mastering their crafts, have changed their fields — and the culture at
large."</span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bey is celebrated in the essay as an artist who "</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the seemingly simple gesture of photographing Black subjects in
everyday life, . . . helped to introduce Blackness in the context
of fine art long before it was trendy, or even accepted." </span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This celebration of Bey's singular achievement in his career so far follows up on an earlier <i>Times</i> essay on Bey from 2018, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/lens/dawoud-bey-seeing-deeply.html?searchResultPosition=4" target="_blank">go here</a>. </span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bey was awarded a McArthur Fellowship in 2017, which led to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/10/16/a-radical-reshaping-of-the-world-is-possible-one-person-at-a-time-dawoud-bey-on-being-awarded-a-macarthur-genius-fellowship/" target="_blank">this essay in the Washington Post, worth reading for an overview of Bey's illustrious career</a>. <br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bey has photographed in the American South as well as in Harlem and other locations. We featured him and his work in 2011 when he had a major show of work up at Emory University in Atlanta, <a href="http://southphotography.blogspot.com/search?q=bey" target="_blank">go here.</a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is an image from that show, also featured in the 2018 <i>Times</i> essay. </span><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="Randall Burkett and Kevin Hatcher, Atlanta, 2010. From the “Strangers/Community” series." class="css-1m50asq" height="256" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/12/24/lens/24Bey14/24Bey14-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" itemprop="url" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/12/24/lens/24Bey14/24Bey14-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" style="opacity: 1;" width="320" /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Incidentally, the photographs of Bey in the <i>NY Times </i>article were made by another Honorary Southern Photographer,<a href="http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/" target="_blank"> Latoya Ruby Frazier. </a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Congratulations to Bey for this exceptionally well-deserved recognition! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p></div>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-60792860893005878362019-09-10T14:21:00.002-04:002019-09-10T14:21:58.060-04:00Robert Frank dead at 94<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The distinguished photographer Robert Frank has died at the age of 94. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the <i>New York Times</i> obituary,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead-americans-photography.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank"> go here</a>. For the Washington Post,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-frank-influential-photographer-who-captured-the-americans-dies-at-94/2019/09/10/d46e4ca8-d3cc-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html" target="_blank"> go here</a>. For the <i>Guardian</i>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/10/robert-frank-obituary" target="_blank">go here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frank's early images, published in his landmark book <i>The Americans, </i>helped shape generations of photographic work in the American South, both in terms of technique, style, and subject matter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only the work of Depression-era photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Marion Post Wolcott rivals Frank's in this regard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The International Center of Photography's website has a helpful overview of Frank's career, <a href="https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-frank?all/all/all/all/0" target="_blank">go here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Lens Culture</i> weighs <a href="https://www.lensculture.com/articles/robert-frank-the-americans" target="_blank">in here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-8330760534389145042019-09-04T16:05:00.001-04:002019-09-05T12:25:37.233-04:00SOUTHBOUND now in Raleigh and Durham through December 2019<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>SOUTHBOUND</i>, The epic show of contemporary Southern photography, is opening this month in North Carolina, at two venues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Part of the show opens on September 5th, with a reception between 6-8 pm, at the Gregg Museum of Art + Design in Raleigh, off Hillsborough Street, on the campus of NC State University. </span></span><br />
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The other part of the show opens the next day, September 6th, with a reception between 6-9 pm at the Power Plant Gallery, in downtown Durham, in the <a href="http://www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com/index" target="_"blank"">American Tobacco Campus</a> near the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both venues will have this work on display through December 2019. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The full title of this show is <i>Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South</i>. The show was originally put together by Mark Sloan and Mark Long of the Halsey Institute
of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston School of the Arts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The show includes images by fifty-six photographers now either living or working in the South. According to the organizers, the show seeks to explore "</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the
storied, charged, and enduring place that we call the South."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This show is not to be missed. The large number of photographers with work on view, as well as the range and diversity of their visions of the South, make this show as complete and as thorough an envisioning of the South as we are likely to get for some time to come. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One could easily think of others whose work is as deserving of inclusion as the work included here, but that is the case, regardless of how large the show might be. Such is the happy state of photography in the American South in this second decade of the 21st century. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>The show was up in Charleston last year, and now travels to North Carolina, where it has been rearranged by author and North Carolina native Randall
Kenan into two separate but related interrelated exhibitions: <i>Flux: Nostalgia vs. the Future</i>, on view at the Power House in Durham, and <i>Home: How We Make Ourselves</i>, on view at the <a href="https://gregg.arts.ncsu.edu/opens-soon-southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south/">Gregg Museum of Art + Design</a> at NC State University. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The organizers of this rendition say the purpose of the show is "to engage with the South through the
eyes and minds of fine art and documentary photographers working in the
region since the year 2000, a time when, for all the overlapping
processes of economic, demographic, social, and cultural change, it
makes sense to think about a New South. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The photographs that result from
the artists’ sustained thinking about, looking at, and discovery of the
multifaceted and startling New South speak to the history, complexity,
and ongoing transformation of the region. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The images represent the
photographers’ own considered responses to their chosen environments–no
photographs were commissioned for the project. The <i>Southbound</i>
photographs provide the viewer with shifting pathways to moments of
unbridled joy and deep frustration, and, ultimately, to an
understanding, however fleeting, of this place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"While the South represents too many things to too many people ever to
be condensed into any one medium–literary, cartographic, scholarly, or
photographic–<i>Southbound</i> opens windows onto the region. The
photographs presented here underscore the resilience of the South even
as they reveal it as a place remade, once again, in the early
twenty-first century."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To learn more about this show, go to the Southbound website, <a href="http://southboundproject.org/">southboundproject.org</a>,
which serves as an archive for the show and includes all the 550 images
from the fifty-six participating artists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are also lots of ancillary events going on while this work is on view in Raleigh and Durham. For a calendar of the events in Durham, go here to the <a href="http://powerplantgallery.com/events/">events page</a> for the Power Plant Gallery. Events held at the Gregg Museum can be found on the Gregg's <a href="https://gregg.arts.ncsu.edu/programs/">website</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://powerplantgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Southbound_WorksatPPG.pdf">Click here to download a pdf copy of the works on view at the Power Plant Gallery.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://powerplantgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Southbound_WorksatGregg.pdf">Click here to download a pdf copy of the works on view at the Gregg.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And make your plans to see SOUTHBOUND at these two venues. This is the REAL DEAL, the BIG DEAL, the REALLY IMPORTANT show you must see if you care anything at all about the quality of photography in the American South today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a very fine article on the history of photography, and the history of the South, <a href="http://www.southerncultures.org/article/signs-of-return/?utm_source=Southern+Cultures&utm_campaign=f62ace5c31-12.21+Cat+Square+%2B+Emmet+Gowin_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c45226e84-f62ace5c31-169249885" target="_blank">available from the fine journal <i>Southern Cultures</i>, here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The title of the article is "Photography as History in the U.S. South," and the author is Grace Elizabeth Hale, who </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #aaadb4; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">is Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia and a 2018–2019 Carnegie Fellow.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She says, of her subject:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"For photographers making work in the world rather than the studio, the South has been a rich place to make images. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"At odds with the grand story of America as expanding freedoms, the region has been understood as both the national reservoir of cultural authenticity and the national cesspool of white supremacy. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"[Parts of the rural South] became de facto open-air museums where poverty, vernacular culture, and a material sense of the past in the present seemed to be permanently on display, even if as time went on you had to crop the Dollar General out of the frame.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Hales mainly talks about the work of Emmet Gowin, William Christenberry, and Sally Mann, but the ideas she works with are worthy of consideration for a whole wide range of photographers. </span></span></span></div>
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John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-51991192211315751892018-12-18T14:28:00.002-05:002018-12-18T14:28:20.787-05:00Christmas at Graceland -- December 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the words of Paul Simon, "I have reason to believe we all shall be received in Graceland."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Best
wishes for a joyous holiday season to Southern photographers and Southern photography fans
everywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you for your <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">interest in <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The</span> Southern Photographer</span></span>, and especially for your kind words of support for this blog during the past year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I especially appreciate your patience with me during my Sabbatical. We are back now, with what I hope is a sustainable practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I know I'm a bit behind right now in chronicling the world of fine art photography in the American South. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless,
the
Southern Photographer must now take a short break, while yr humble
blogger attends to other professional and personal responsibilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We look forward to resuming our chronicle after the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1st of January 2019</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the meanwhile, remember that Christmas is a season, not just a day, and the season of Christmas is 12 days long.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So its Christmas from the eve of December 25th of 2018 all the way through until Twelfth Night, January 5th, 2019. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Graceland,
of course, the home of Elvis, who became famous by appropriating the music of Arthur Crudup and Big
Mama Thornton. They wrote the music, and he made the
money. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But what he spent it on was this tacky McMansion in Memphis. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's one of the things I believe about the South -- it can set you free and break your heart, all at the same time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy holidays, everyone!</span></span><br />
John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-7391898242279730782018-12-18T14:22:00.002-05:002018-12-18T14:22:44.161-05:00Southern Photography at the Nasher<h2 class="exb-summary-title">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Nasher Museum at Duke University has up an important show of Southern photography entitled <i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/across-county-lines/">Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont.</a></span></span></span></i></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While concentrating on photographers who live and work chiefly in Piedmont North Carolina, the show demonstrates the diversity of subjects, styles, and interests of several generations of Southern photographers. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Photographers in the show include </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ben Alper, D.L. Anderson, Bill Bamberger (see image directly above), Endia Beal, Diego Camposeco (see image below),
Aaron Canipe, Kennedi Carter, Faith Couch, Phyllis Dooney, Tim
Duffy, William Ferris, Maya Freelon, Tamika Galanis, Michael Galinksy,
Alex Harris, Harrison Haynes, Titus Brooks Heagins (see image at the top of this blog post), Colby Katz, Anna
Kipervaser and On Look Films, Jeremy M. Lange, Bryce Lankard, Jim Lee,
Elizabeth Matheson, Lisa McCarty, Lindsay Metivier, Susan Harbage Page,
Tom Rankin, John Rosenthal, Margaret Sartor, MJ Sharp, Christopher Sims,
Heather Evans Smith, Leah Sobsey and Tim Telkamp, Hồng-Ân Trương and
Hương Ngô, Burk Uzzle, Caroline Hickman Vaughan, and Gesche Würfel.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This show is up through February 10th, 2019. It's very worth your while to make the journey. </span></span></span><br />
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John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-80581943645915074542018-12-05T16:53:00.001-05:002018-12-05T16:53:37.029-05:00PhotoNOLA for 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://photonola.org/">PhotoNOLA</a>, </span>the annual photography festival in New Orleans, this year runs from December will bring<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>us this year running from December 12th-15th, 2018. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the full calendar of <a href="https://photonola.org/photonola-2018/" target="_blank">events for this year's festival, go here.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A special feature of this year's festival is the show now up at the Ogden Museum, entitled <i>New Southern Photography</i>, featuring the work made in the past 10 years by 25 photographers, many of whom are familiar to readers of this blog. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwbDGAUcoFGCZFZ2uHG-VkefRWvTMudEgG80h6MxdQDL3IPaleMdktni-82e_CACI2YyNNFP-1wpatwiFEIDWRMWPCL9c6ecMzPhQLOrGxCKTWSanik-HIrq9K6ivizyM8ET-Es6UMUGLt/s1600/Kael-Alford-720x492.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="720" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwbDGAUcoFGCZFZ2uHG-VkefRWvTMudEgG80h6MxdQDL3IPaleMdktni-82e_CACI2YyNNFP-1wpatwiFEIDWRMWPCL9c6ecMzPhQLOrGxCKTWSanik-HIrq9K6ivizyM8ET-Es6UMUGLt/s400/Kael-Alford-720x492.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The photographers chosen for this show include David Emitt Adams, Kael Alford (see image above), Elizabeth Bick, Christa
Blackwood, John Chiara, Scott Dalton, Joshua Gibson, Maury Gortemiller,
Alex Grabiec, Aaron Hardin, Courtney Johnson, Tommy Kha, Brittany
Lauback, Carl Martin, Jonathan Traviesa & Cristina Molina, Andrew
Moore, Celestia Morgan, Nancy Newberry, RaMell Ross, Whitten Sabbatini,
Jared Soares, Louviere + Vanessa and Susan Worsham (see image below). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="272" src="https://ogdenmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Worsham-Marine-300-720x492.jpg" width="400" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to the folks at the Ogden, "<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>New Southern Photography</i> explores the role photography plays in
formulating the visual iconography of the modern New South."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They go on: "Regional
identity in an interconnected and global world is central to the
exhibition’s narrative. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Themes and ideas addressed in <i>New Southern Photography</i>
include: memory, the experience of place in the American South,
cultural mythology and reality, deep familial connections to the land,
the tension between the past and present, and the transitory nature of
change in the New South." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you can't make it to PhotoNOLA this year, the show at the Ogden is up through March 19th, 2019. </span></span><br />
</span></span>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-83787832520505804882018-11-27T15:13:00.002-05:002018-11-27T15:13:57.655-05:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i>SOUTHBOUND: Photographs of and about the New South, </i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">the show now up at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in Charleston, SC, has received appreciative coverage from the <i>New York Times</i>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/lens/ogden-museum-new-southern-photography.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank">go here</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <i>Times</i> story features a number of images from this show, including <i>Blizz and Brooke</i> by Jares Soares (see image above). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story argues that "Accepting the South for what it is, instead of what we imagine it to be, is not easy. “I think that if you were to Google ‘Southern photography,’ you’re going to come up with the images of a rusted pickup truck in a field,” Richard McCabe said. “But the South is as much Houston as it is the Mississippi Delta. I think what we don’t realize is the place is just as connected as everywhere else.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It goes on: “New Southern Photography” . . . challenges the outdated assumption that the South is disconnected and isolated. Many people have tried to create a new visual language for the South, only to fail because they’d presumed there was a singular, representational way to do that. Mr. McCabe, who is the museum’s curator of photography, didn’t make the same mistake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“‘New Southern Photography’ is not intended to define the South,” Mr. McCabe wrote in the exhibit’s catalog, “but rather to create an open discussion.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so it will. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Times article also brings to my attention a new book by historian Scott L. Matthews, <i>“<a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469646459/capturing-the-south/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px none; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Capturing the South: Imagining America’s Most Documented Region</a></i>,” which examines documentary work of the South throughout the 20th century.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Matthews is quoted in the Times piece as arguing “that as early as the 19th century, portions of the South — particularly the rural South and what was almost considered the West at that time, but what we would now think of the Deep South — became this frontier culture that stood in stark contrast to the rapidly-modernizing cities of eastern America, that were not only becoming industrialized, but beginning to experience rapid immigration from Europe.” The South remained true to itself while “emerging markets were standardizing the rest of America. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> This book will be on my wish list for Christmas, for sure. </span></span></div>
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<br />John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-24030955006066359282018-11-07T16:18:00.003-05:002018-11-27T15:15:54.522-05:00Southbound in Charleston<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/" target="_blank">The Halsey Institute</a> has on exhibit at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and City Gallery at Waterfront Park, both in Charleston, SC, a new and exceptional show of Southern photography called <i>SOUTHBOUND: Photographs of and about the New South, </i>through March 2nd, 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This show is a major landmark in contemporary Southern photography, featuring the work of 56 of the best photographers working in the South today (including Durham's Titus Brooks Heagins, see image above), all of whom contribute to the project's overall goal of "offering a composite image of this storied region." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The work on offer in this show includes photographs that reveal the South as "a bastion of tradition, as a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as a land full of surprising realities."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had the chance to meet Mark Sloan and Mark Long a while back, and their enthusiasm for this project was extraordinary. The show they have assembled justifies fully their enthusiasm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This show is not to be missed. The good news is that once it comes down in Charleston, it will move to other places. We'll keep you informed about its stops along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, seek out the massive catalogue of the show, <a href="https://secure.touchnet.com/C20590_ustores/web/classic/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=714" target="_blank">now available here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can also check out <a href="http://southboundproject.org/" target="_blank">the show's own website, here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the website, don't miss the<a href="https://scgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=55a1b8b3d5f6488d8cfcdb0a109d219f" target="_blank"> MAP OF SOUTHERNNESS, here. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also check out <a href="http://time.com/longform/new-voices-american-south-photography/" target="_blank">the feature story about this show from <i>TIME</i>, here</a>. </span><br />
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And, whatever you do, if you practice or care about photography in the American South, you have to see this show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You really do.
</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-759291966916514522018-11-07T14:34:00.000-05:002018-11-07T14:35:58.288-05:00Return to the South<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your faithful blogger is returning to his work documenting the world of Southern photography. At least, on a limited basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I recognized last winter that I had taken a 'way too expansive view of my subject when I started this blog back in 2009. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I wound up spending lots of time trying to keep up with every show, every publication, every photography related event that came to my attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I plan a more selective view this time, but hope my work is still useful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If anyone feels left out by my new policy, please let me know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will see how this goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">JNW </span><br />
John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-26265811043218176262018-06-19T15:11:00.003-04:002018-11-07T16:28:22.346-05:00Recent Events in Southern Photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yr humble servant is beginning to emerge from his sabbatical, at least to recognize major events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's one definitely worth a visit, when you are in Atlanta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Atlanta Photography Group is now hosting an exhibition of Southern photography called <i><a href="https://www.atlantaphotographygroup.org/events/2018/5/3/exhibition-know-south-no-south" target="_blank">Know South / No South</a>, </i>up through July 14th, 2018 <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> its gallery space at the <a href="http://www.atlantaphotographygroup.org/directions">Tula Art Center</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Photographers whose work is included in the show are <a href="http://www.aaronblumphoto.com/" target="_blank">Aaron Blum</a>, <a href="http://www.rosie-brock.com/" target="_blank">Rosie Brock</a>, <a href="http://www.akeabrown.com/" target="_blank">Akea Brown</a>, <a href="http://www.jdudleygreer.com/" target="_blank">Joshua Dudley Greer</a> (see image above), <a href="http://www.garza-cuen.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Garza-Cuen</a>, <a href="http://www.aaronhardinphoto.com/" target="_blank">Aaron Harding</a>, and <a href="http://www.andersonscottphotos.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1529429539724_295" target="_blank">Anderson Scott.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Work in this show, juried by Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at the <a href="https://ogdenmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Odgen Museum in New Orleans</a>, were chosen to address the perennial question, "Is the South still a distinct cultural and geographical region apart
from the rest of America?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">APG says the work on offer "explores and
challenges the idea of Southern identity in the 21st century."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-5469071935212627922018-03-05T11:34:00.000-05:002018-05-12T12:01:00.433-04:00UPDATED -- Sally Mann at the National Gallery of Art<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Distinguished Southern photographer <a href="https://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/" target="_blank">Sally Mann</a> is having a major retrospective show of her work at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, up now through May 28th, 2018. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is too important an event for Southern photography for me to let it slip by unnoticed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a review of this show by Grace Hale, writing in <i>Southern Cultures</i>, <a href="http://www.southerncultures.org/article/a-thousand-crossings/?utm_source=Scalawag+friends&utm_campaign=e6ca4b7c09-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a44e75f586-e6ca4b7c09-517839409&mc_cid=e6ca4b7c09&mc_eid=ffcf58fb07" target="_blank">go here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This show signals Mann's acceptance as among the most distinguished of living American artists</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The show contains some 110 of Mann's photographs, ranging over her entire career. Here is what the National Gallery says about the show:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"For more than forty years, <a href="https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.39122.html">Sally Mann</a>
(American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly
beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence:
memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial
indifference to human endeavor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"What unites this broad body of work is
that it is all bred of a place, the American South. A native of
Lexington, Virginia, Mann has long written about what it means to live
in the South and be identified as a southerner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Using her deep love of
her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks
provocative questions—about history, identity, race, and religion—that
reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. <i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings</i>
considers how Mann’s relationship with this land has shaped her work
and how the legacy of the South—as both homeland and graveyard, refuge
and battleground—continues to permeate American identity.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Organized into five sections—Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide
with Me, and What Remains—and including many works not previously
published or publicly shown, the exhibition is the first major survey of
the artist’s work to travel internationally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The exhibition is accompanied
by a fully illustrated catalog with essays that explore the development
of Mann’s art; her family photographs; the landscape as repository of
personal, cultural, and racial memory; and her debt to 19th-century
photographers and techniques."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mann's show will travel after it closes in DC to the Peabody
Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., then to venues in Los Angeles, Houston, Paris and
Atlanta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a not-to-be-missed show for all of us, and for anyone interested in Southern photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/sally-mann--a-great-artist-who-loves-tumbling-into-trouble/2018/02/28/c3a752c0-1b04-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.8b741c959183" target="_blank">a review of this show, from the <i>Washington Post.</i></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span> John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-43140026452025532482018-01-12T14:55:00.000-05:002018-01-13T13:20:40.906-05:00The Southern Photographer takes a Sabbatical<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Southern Photographer (aka John N. Wall, see image above) is taking a sabbatical. Professional work demands are crowding in while the subject of Southern photography continues to expand in scope and variety. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As some of you know, I have a day job as a professor of English literature at NC State University. <span style="font-family: serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to recreate through digital modeling the look and sound of worship in St Paul's Cathedral in London in the 1620's. We are recreating a part of London that was totally destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is a preliminary example of the kind of thing we are trying to produce. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see more<span style="font-family: serif;"> </span>if you go here:<a href="http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/" target="_blank"> vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our grant runs out at the end of this year, and there is till much to do. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not doing anyone any favors by trying to fit in work on this blog along with trying to meet deadlines with this multi-year project. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, after 8 years, 833 blog entries, 163 loyal followers, and 530,676 pageviews, we take a pause. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Durham-based photographer <a href="http://titusbrooksheagins.com/" target="_blank">Titus Brooks Heagins</a> (see image above) and Asheville-based photographer <a href="http://www.ashevilleart.org/artists/ralphburns/" target="_blank">Ralph Burns</a> (see image below) have work in a group show called<a href="http://cameronartmuseum.org/index.php?c=current&s=program" target="_blank"> </a><i><a href="http://cameronartmuseum.org/index.php?c=current&s=program" target="_blank">Created by Light -- Photographs from North Carolina Collections,</a> </i>now up through February 11th, 2018 at the<a href="http://cameronartmuseum.org/index.php?c=current&s=program" target="_blank"> Cameron Art Museum</a> in Wilmington, NC. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heagins and Burns will discuss their work at a gathering at CAM Wilmington on Sunday, January 14th, 2018, at 2:00 pm. The discussion will be monitored by Jennifer Dasal, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, in Raleigh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This exhibition explores the photography collections of eight North Carolina
institutions, including the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill; the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville; the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington; the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh; the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; the Mint Museum, Charlotte; and the North Carolina Museum of Art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The over 100 works included in the exhibition range from 1887 to 2016
with pioneers of the medium including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis
Hine, Robert Maplethorpe, Edward Muybridge, Andres Serrano, Mickalene
Thomas, Lorna Simpson and Alfred Stieglitz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">North Carolina photographers with work in this show, in addition to Burns and Heagins, include Diego Camposeco, Carolyn DeMerritt, Taj Forer, Cathryn Griffin, George Masa, Elizabeth Matheson, John Menapace,
Susan Harbage Page and Caroline Vaughan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Definitely worth a visit to Wilmington!</span><br />
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John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-6382496680329133912017-12-19T15:33:00.000-05:002017-12-20T14:46:20.875-05:00Christmas at Graceland -- December 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the words of Paul Simon, "I have reason to believe we all shall be received in Graceland."*</span><br />
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wishes for a joyous Holiday season to Southern photographers and Southern photography fans
everywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you for your <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">interest in <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The</span> Southern Photographer</span></span>, and especially for your kind words of support for this blog during the past year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know I'm a bit behind right now in chronicling the world of fine art photography in the American South. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the
Southern Photographer must now take a short break, while yr humble blogger attends to other professional and personal responsibilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We look forward to resuming our chronicle after the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1st of January 2018</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the meanwhile, remember that Christmas is a season, not just a day, and the season of Christmas is 12 days long.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So its Christmas from the eve of December 25th of 2017 all the way through until Twelfth Night, January 5th, 2018. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Graceland,
the home of Elvis, who became famous by appropriating the music of Arthur Crudup and Big
Mama Thornton. They wrote the music, and he made the
money. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But what he spent it on was this tacky McMansion in Memphis. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's one of the things I believe about the South -- it can set you free and break your heart, all at the same time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy holidays, everyone!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mark your calendars now for October 19th, 2018, to attend the opening of <i>SOUTHBOUND: Photographs of and about the New South, </i>at the <a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/" target="_blank">Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art</a> and the <a href="http://citygalleryatwaterfrontpark.com/" target="_blank">City Gallery at Waterfront Park,</a> in downtown Charleston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This will be an exceptional -- and exceptionally important -- group show, featuring the work of 56 photographers who are either Southerners or who </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">have had, in the words of the show's organizers, "a sustained engagement with the South." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each of the photographers will be represented by four photographs, for a total of 220 photographs in the joint show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The goal of this show, according to co-curators Mark Sloan and Mark Long, is "to engage with and unsettle assumed narratives about this contested
region by providing fresh perspectives for understanding the complex
admixture of history, geography, and culture that constitutes today’s
New South."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sloan, the Director of the Halsey Institute of
Contemporary Art, and Long, a professor of political science at the College of Charleston, envision this show as embracing "the conundrum of its name.<i>" </i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They go on:<i> "</i>To be
southbound is to journey to a place in flux, radically transformed over
recent decades, yet also to the place where the past resonates most
insistently in the United States. To be southbound is also to confront
the weight of preconceived notions about this place, thick with
stereotypes, encoded in the artistic, literary, and media records."</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">They suggest the scope of their plans and the range of their ambition, thus:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The history of the American South is among the most storied of any
region in the world. As a result of the vitality of its culture and the
diversity of its inhabitants—to say nothing about the salience of
photography in the U.S.—the region has also come to be among the most
photographed. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: serif;">"</span>Through the exhibition, video, remappings, website, and
catalogue—separately and in tandem—the Southbound project charts new
courses to expanded imaginings for the twenty-first century South."</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are so many aspects to this show -- and it is so important -- that I'll need several blog posts to cover all the details. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For now, however, please note that you can find out more<a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/travel-exhibitions/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south/" target="_blank"> about the show here</a>. A list of all <a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/travel-exhibitions/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south/#AdditionalInfo" target="_blank">the photographers is here</a>. Plans for<a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/travel-exhibitions/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south/#AdditionalInfo" target="_blank"> the show's catalogue is here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you go here and scroll down until you see the heading<a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/southbound-trex-prospectus_hica-1.pdf" target="_blank"> Exhibition Prospectus</a>, you can find more details about the show, including your opportunities for supporting the show, and the overall project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These opportunities include the chance to receive a print of an image by four of the show's photographers, or to schedule a personal portrait shoot with <a href="http://www.jerrysiegel.com/index2.php#/home/" target="_blank">Atlanta's master portraitist Jerry Siege</a>l. <i></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This show will travel after its run in Charleston concludes in March of 2019. If you have influence with a gallery or museum or other exhibition space,<a href="http://halsey.cofc.edu/travel-exhibitions/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south/#AdditionalInfo" target="_blank"> go here as well to learn about how to book it.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm happy to say that the first sites for the show after Charleston include NC State University's own Gregg Museum of Art and Design, here in Raleigh, and Duke University's Power Plant Gallery, in Durham, sites that will share the show from September 5th - December 29th, 2019.</span><br />
<br />John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-83931499898697642017-12-08T10:34:00.003-05:002017-12-08T10:34:58.200-05:00Corey Lowenstein -- RIP<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Corey Lowenstein, a long-time photojournalist and documentary photographer for Raleigh's <i>News and Observer</i>, has died of cancer at the age of 49. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lowenstein never exhibited her work in galleries or other venues we seek
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my view, however, she was a brilliant documentary
photographer and an award-winning journalist who brought to our attention the lives of Southerners we otherwise </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">would </span>never have known. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article188637374.html" target="_blank">Go here for the newspaper's tribute to Lowenstein,</a> as well as for links to some examples of her work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew her only briefly, some years ago, when she spoke or juried shows for our local Camera Club, but I always appreciated the way in which she regarded us as colleagues rather than the novice photographers most of us really were. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She took our work seriously, and that helped make us better.</span><br />
<br />John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-5903000259978299482017-12-07T16:01:00.002-05:002017-12-08T09:55:14.796-05:00Southern Photographers in the News, Part One -- Late Fall 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yr humble servant, the Southern Photographer, has had a very crowded fall, but is now back on the hunt for news of Southern fine art photography. Will take me some time to catch up on news from the usual sources, so please be patient.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chapel Hill-based photographer William Ferris (see image above) has published his latest book, <i>The South in Color</i>, from the UNC Press, and has been <a href="http://lenscratch.com/2017/10/william-ferris/" target="_blank">interviewed on <i>Lenscratch</i> by Aline Smithson, go here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mississippi-based photographer <a href="https://www.bettypress.com/" target="_blank">Betty Press</a> (see image above) has work up now in two group shows, CURRENTS 2017 (the New Orleans Photo Alliance Showcase), up at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans through February 4th, 2018, and the Small Works show at the Center for Fine Art Photogrpahy in Fort Collins, CO, up now through December 16th, 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Press has also had solo shows of work from her <i>Finding Mississippi</i> portfolio at the Eula Bass Lewis Gallery in Ellisville, MS and the Jefferson Davis Fine Arts Gallery in Gulfport, MS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Iowa-based photographer <a href="http://www.jeffreyrich.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Rich</a> (see image above) has work from his <i>Watershed</i> portfolio now up at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, as part of their group show <a href="http://museum.middlebury.edu/exhibitions/current/node/1995" style="color: #ff8400;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: black;">Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment</span></i>, </a>until December 10th, 2017. <br />
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Rich also had work in the exhibition <i><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.hathawaygallery.com/landscapes-and-interventions" target="_blank">Landscapes and Interventions</a></span></i> at the Hathaway Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this fall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span _blank="" https:="" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;" www.brandonthibodeaux.com="">Dallas-based photographer Brandon Thibodeaux (see image above) continues to have a wonderful year, publishing </span>his book <i>In that Land of Perfect Day</i>, with Red Hook Press.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This book was the subject of<a href="https://www.pdnonline.com/features/photo-books/brandon-thibodeauxs-new-book-explores-family-faith-perseverance-mississippi-delta/" target="_blank"> a feature story in <i>Photo District News</i>, go here,</a> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span features="" https:="" notable-photo-books-2017-part-iii="" photo-books="" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;" target="_blank" www.pdnonline.com="">and was subsequently named one of <a href="https://www.pdnonline.com/features/photo-books/notable-photo-books-2017-part-iii/" target="_blank">Photo District News' Notable Photography Books of 2017, go here. </a></span></span></span></span><br />
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Thibodeaux's work was also featured in the November issue of <a href="http://gardenandgun.com/slideshow/look-life-mississippi-delta/" target="_blank"><i>Garden and Gun Magazine</i>, go here</a>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Other titles of interest </b>to us on PDN's List of Notable Books include the following:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Charlottesville, VA-based photographer Matt Eich's book </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/11/42679/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>Carry Me Ohio, a </i></a>portrait of life in western Ohio where residents struggle to recover from the end of mining in the area.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lexington, KY photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard is at the center of Brian Sholis' <a href="https://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/12/43412/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>Kentucky Renaissance: The Lexington Camera Club and Its Community, 1954–1974.</i></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Photographer Grey Villet's book</span>;<a href="https://potd.pdnonline.com/2017/06/46725/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i> The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait, </i></a>about the Virginia couple whose relationship led to the<i> </i>landmark ruling ending bans on
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Photographer Shane Lavalette's book of photographs made in the South, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><a href="https://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/12/43131/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>One Sun, One Shadow.</i></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to all these folks for their notable achievements! We look forward to keeping track as their careers develop. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More news to come, from The Southern Photographer. </span></span><br />
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Fayette County, GA-<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">based photographer <a href="http://www.dalenilesphotography.com/" target="_blank">Dale Niles</a> (see image above) is having a wonderful 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Niles' photograph <i>Pardon?</i> (see image above) received the People's Choice award, as well as Third Prize overall at this year's Slow Exposures show in Concord, GA<i>. </i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Niles' work was also selected for recognition through the <i>Rfotofolio</i> Call for Entry process, and has been the subject of<a href="https://rfotofolio.org/2017/10/29/dale-niles/" target="_blank"> a feature story and interview on the website <i>Rfotofolio</i>, go here. </a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her work has also appeared in <a href="https://shotsmag.com/products/fall-issue-137" target="_blank">the most recent <i>SHOTS</i> magazine, go here.</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She also had her work included in the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lensculture</i> Emerging Talent Competition Gallery; in <i>Rfotofolio</i>'s<i> Depth of Field</i> exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA; and in the Southeast </span><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;">Center for Photography exhibition <i>Other Worlds</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;">Among Niles' other awards this year include </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First Prize for work in the Summer Vacation show at the Santa Fe Photographers Gallery; a Gold Award from the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;">Moscow International Foto Awards; second place in the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">L.A. Curator International-Textures show;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">and Honorable Mentions in shows at the A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas and in </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="im"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">International Photography Awards competition, in the Nature category. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Niles also had work in a <span style="background-color: white;">Duo show with Donna Rosser at the Lamar Arts Center in Barnesville, GA and in a solo show at the Rankin Gallery in Columbus, GA. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">She also had work in the Summer Show at the SXSE Gallery, in Molena, GA; in the Atlanta Photography Group shows in Atlanta;and in</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <i>Puppy Love</i>, a show at the Hathaway Gallery in Atlanta held to benefit charities that support rescued dogs.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Now, I'm confident this is a partial list of Niles' achievements this year, but even on this evidence, its been an exceptional year for her. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And, who knows, we have 4 weeks of December still to go. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Congratulations to Dale Niles for all this fine recognition -- The Southern Photographer looks forward to hearing of even more good news in the months and years ahead.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
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John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com224tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-12387301497468615542017-12-06T15:02:00.001-05:002017-12-06T15:02:24.708-05:00William Eggleston in the Guardian, Fall 2017<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Distinguished Southern Photographer William Eggleston (see image above by<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #767676; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Steve Pyke)</span></span></span> </span>continues to garner attention because of the new CD of piano music he's released this fall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eggleston has recently been the subject of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/19/william-eggleston-interview-i-play-the-piano-musik-photography" target="_blank">a feature story in the <i>Guardian</i> newspaper from the UK, go here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Writing for the<i> Guardia</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>n</i>, <a class="tone-colour" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/seanohagan" itemprop="sameAs" rel="author" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #951c55; cursor: pointer; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; outline: 0px none; text-align: start; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span itemprop="name">Sean O'Hagan</span></a><span itemprop="name"> </span><span itemprop="name">provides us with an overview of Eggleston's career both as a photographer and a musician, based on extensive interviews with Eggleston. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="name">Well worth having a look!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="name"><br /></span></span></span>John N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-42498475082603946012017-11-08T08:27:00.001-05:002017-11-08T08:28:42.135-05:00Transitions -- Fall 2017 <img alt="CfA madmimi 2" height="155" src="https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/0519/7242/original/CfA_madmimi_2.jpg?1474377389" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fall is a time for transitions. As the song goes, it's time for us to pause and watch the seasons turn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In that spirit, we notice that Jennifer Yoffy Schwartz has announced the end of her Crusade for Art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Schwartz' campaign to develop new opportunities for artists to connect with new audiences and find markets for their work grew out of her experience running a really fine photography gallery in Atlanta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can read more about <a href="https://madmimi.com/s/8b081b" target="_blank">the programs she started and the adventures she had on this journey by going here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We thank Schwartz for her efforts and look forward to learning where the road of life next takes her. </span><br /><BR>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The days are getting
shorter, the weather is getting cooler, and across the South we are
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fotodc.org/">FotoWeekDC</a> is only a few weeks away, now, running from November <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11</span>th-19th, 2017 in Our Nation's Capitol<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> December will bring<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>us <a href="https://photonola.org/">PhotoNOLA</a>, this year running from December <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7</span>th-10th, 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the full calendar of <a href="https://photonola.org/photonola-2017/calendar/" target="_blank">events for this year's festival, go here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An annual feature of PhotoNOLA is the show at the New Orleans Photo Alliance of the previous year's winner of the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PhotoNOLA Review Prize, which for 201<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6</span> was</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.samanthageballe.com/" target="_blank"> Samantha Geballe</a> (see image above). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking ahead, winter 2018 brings us another edition of FOTOFEST, Houston's biennial photography festival, to be held </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">March 10 - April 22, 2018<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: serif;">. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the schedule for <a href="http://home.fotofest.org/2018biennial.aspx#.Wfi0NTspCUk" target="_blank">this year's FOTOFEST 2018 Biennial, go here.</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So much to see, and to celebrate, in the world of Southern photography! </span><br />
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