SxSE for Early Fall 2013

Nancy McCrary and all the good folks at South by Southeast Photography Magazine (SxSE) have a rich assortment of work for us in the early fall 2013 issue (volume VIII, issue 5), now online.

This issue comes out in the dog days of summer for 2013, and so its appropriate that much of this issue is given over to images of dogs, as well as to the not totally unrelated topic of children. 

We have portfolios of dog photographs by Allison Barnes, Beth Lilly, Jim McGuire, Karl Baden, Parker Smith, Priscilla Davis, Walter Beckham, and Willard Pate.

Their work is complemented by portfolios of children from DB Waltrip, Karl Baden, Kim Lane, Mary Anne Mitchell, Rick Smith, Builder Levy, Parker Smith, Rob Amberg, Rose Wind Jerome, and
Aaron Canipe.

We've also got a long interview with the distinguished American photographer Elliot Erwitt, a review of a new limited edition portfolio of Sally Mann's Southern Landscape (see image above), conversations with Jack Spencer and Clint Kimberling, and much, much more.

And you can have access to all this fine -- and award-winning -- work for a very reasonable fee, a fee insignificant in the larger scheme of things, a fee not worth a second thought.

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Photographers Meet-Up at the NC Museum of Art

If you are in Raleigh, NC on Friday, September 13th, this will be your lucky day.

In connection with the show Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions,  now up at the NC Museum of Art, the museum is sponsoring what it is calling "an informal evening of conversation with artists cool enough to call North Carolina home."

Photographers invited to attend include Titus Heagins (see image below), Bill Bamberger, Taj Forer, Alex Harris, Linda Foard Roberts (see image above), John Rosenthal, M.J. Sharp (see image below Titus' image), and Jeff Whetstone.

There will be other NC artists in attendance, but we are photographers and these are the folks who matter to us.

The NCMA is making an evening of the event.

Starting at 6:00 pm, there will be a food truck, then an hour of conversation with the artists, then "wine and ambiance" with Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band in the NCMA's West Building Wine Bar.

Congratulations to all these photographers who have the honor and distinction of having their work included in the permanent collection of the NC Museum of Art.

This should be a fine evening indeed. Come out and meet these folks, and see their work in the show on view in the North Carolina Gallery.

Mercure, Page, and Sole in the Galleries and in the News

Some news from the world of Southern fine art photography --

Nashville, TN-based photographer Tammy Mercure (see image above) is one of four featured artists in Fraction Magazine's 54th online issue, here.

Chapel Hill, NC-based photographer Susan Harbage Page has work from her U.S.-Mexico Border Project (see image above) in a group show now up at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art, through December 1st, 2013.

Page also has work on exhibit in a major show of images from the Bunnen Collection at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, up now through February 2nd, 2014.

Honorary Southern Photographer Magdalena Sole will have a show of work from her Mississippi Delta portfolio (see image above) opening this Friday, September 13th, with a reception from 6-8 pm, at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.

This show is up through December 15th, 2013.

Lots of good work here, by fine photographers, well worth your visit by internet or in the real world.

William Eggleston at the Tate Modern in London

William Egglestson, who had a major retrospective show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC earlier this year, now has a smaller, but still very strong retrospective show up now at the Tate Modern Museum in London.

The work on offer includes images from Eggleston's portfolio of work made in Georgia the year Carter was elected president of the USA (see image above), as well as a selection of Eggleston's iconic images from his work in the American South.

ard Cella Art + Architecture presents an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with William Eggleston: On the Road presented by dnj Gallery.

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Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with William Eggleston: On the Road presented by dnj Gallery.

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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with William Eggleston: On the Road presented by dnj Gallery.

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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with William Eggleston: On the Road presented by dnj Gallery.

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Eggleston was also recognized earlier this year as an Outstanding Contributor at the Sony World Photography Awards.

Eggleston's images are often essays in seeing, employing his uncanny ability to find just the right angle from which to transform an often highly ordinary subject into a compelling composition.

Mr. Eggleston is having a truly fine 2013. 

Titus Heagins is Having an Exceptional 2013, and its only September . . . . .

Durham, NC-based photographer Titus Heagins is having an exceptional 2013, and its only early September.

Heagins, one of North Carolina's most distinguished photographers, just opened a major retrospective show of his work at  NC Central University's Museum of Art, on the campus of NC Central University, in Durham.

This show is up now through October 4th, 2013. 

The show, Witness, brings together a large body of Heagins' images, work that, as he says, "Explores the lives of people often thought of as the “Other.”

 
This retrospective exhibition features over 50 select images from early bodies of Heagins' work, including images from his portfolios Dark Hallowed Ground; One Faith, One God, One Baptism; and Rainbow over Havana.

Also included are photographs from more contemporary bodies of work, Rorschach, Durham Stories, and Haiti: Before the Earth Moved.

You can read more about this show in the newsletter of the NC Arts Council, here. 

In addition to this major solo show of recent work, Heagins is also featured in two group shows up now at the NC Museum of Art, in Raleigh, NC.

Heagins has images in the show Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions, an exhibition of work added recently to the collection of the Museum, up now through February 9th, 2014. 

Heagins also has images in the show Outsiders: Facing the Camera, a show drawing on work in the NCMA's permanent collection of photographs to explore the concept of otherness in human experience and in photography. 

This show is up now through January 26th, 2014. 

Heagins photographs in the documentary tradition, drawing on his exceptionally discerning eye for the diversity of people who inhabit the American South, as well as people from across the globe.

Heagins was one of only a dozen North Carolina photographers to be added formally to the collection of the NCMA a few years ago, when the museum decided to make major acquisitions in photography.

I had the great good fortune to do a joint show with Heagins a number of years ago at the late, lamented POV Gallery here in Raleigh.

Heagins' work in that show included the image above, one of a series of powerful images in which Heagins explored the complexities of Southern social structures and the relationships among power, class, and race in the American South.

Since then, his projects have taken him to Africa, Asia, South America, Europe, and especially through the Caribbean, with extensive work in Cuba and Haiti.

I think Heagins is a brilliant photographer, with exceptional gifts of skill, vision, and understanding. It's really good to see him achieving the kind of broad institutional recognition represented by these shows.

And who knows what greater glory the rest of the year may bring . . . . .