Susan Harbage Page at Hagedorn Gallery

North Carolina photographer Susan Harbage Page will open a show of her work entitled Postcards from Home in Atlanta on October 1st, 2009. The show will be at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, in Suite 25 at 425 Peachtree Hills Avenue, and will run through October 29th.

Susan's work often deals with identity, race, and gender, and often in almost painfully personal terms. The body of work in this show -- images of figures dressed in KKK robes sewn from contemporary fabrics -- explores, we are told, "how shared traumatic histories shape present-day social relations."

Susan will talk about her work in the Gallery at 7:00 pm on Friday, October 16th.

This show is part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2009.

Susan Worsham is Having a Year to Remember

 

Susan Worsham is a photographer from Richmond, Va, who -- after some time out west -- has recently begun photographing again in her home town. At the moment, she is finding recognition both regionally and nationally. In addition to winning awards and being juried into major photography shows, she has just published a large portfolio of her work in Ahorn Magazine, an online fine art photography magazine.

Her website features images made in Virginia. Susan's work invites consideration in terms of a southern perspective. One of her portfolios is entitled "Some Fox Trails in Virginia"; another, "By the Grace of God," drawing on the old self-identifying taunt, "I'm American by birth, but Southern by the grace of God."

Susan also has work in the 18th annual International Photography Competition sponsored by the Texas Photographic Society. This show opened at the Kirchman Gallery, 213 N Nugent Street, Johnson City, Texas, on September 11th and will remain up through October. Her work was awarded First Place in this show, juried by Cig Harvey, Associate Professor of Art at the Art Institute of Boston.

Susan will also have work on exhibit starting October 4th and up through November 8th at the 12 12 Gallery in Richmond, as part of the National Juried Photography Exhibition 2009, in a show juried by Julian Cox, Curator of Photographs at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

you can read an interview with Susan on Nymphoto.blogspot.com, here.

Slow Exposures in Candler Field Museum

 

Slow Exposures 2009, a show dedicated to photography of the rural South, opens Friday, September 18th, 2009 in the Candler Field Museum at 349 Jonathan's Roost Road, Williamson, GA.The show includes work from over 40 photographers that explore the South's complexities and contradictions. The show is up through September 27th, 2009. 

Jurors for this show included well-known NC photographer Tim Barnwell of Asheville, and Annette Cone-Skelton of MOCA-GA.Tim Barnwell will deliver the Jurors Talk on Sunday, Sep 20th, at 1 pm.

This show is part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2009.

Still Time for William Eggleston

 

Still time, but not much, to catch Mississippi photographer William Eggleston's major retrospective show at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, up through September 20th.  Eggleston is credited with winning acceptance for color in fine art photography as well as for producing a body of work that treats southern subjects like Elvis and Graceland, not to mention Faulkner's Mississippi, with wry humor and unflinching grace.

Photography at the Nasher Museum

 

The Special Collections Library at Duke University has a large and especially strong collection of photographs, especially of photographs in the documentary tradition. A generous sample of work from this collection is now on display at the Nasher Museum of Art in the show Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library, on exhibit through October 18th, 2009.

Work in the show covers the history of photography and includes images by Matthew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, William Bell, John Hillers and William Henry Jackson, Félix Bonfils, Eugène Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, F. Holland Day, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Lewis Hine, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Doris Ulmann, Aaron Siskind, Gertrude Blom, and Minor White.

The show also features documentary work on the American South, including images of Kentucky by William Gedney, Paul Kwilecki's photographs of Decatur County, Georgia, and Rob Amberg's images of North Carolina.

The show also includes work by southern photographers including Sally Mann and Alex Harris. Definitely worth a trip to Durham!