skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The print edition of the New York Times for Sunday, October 23rd, 2016, includes in T, the NY Times Style Magazine, a feature on Distinguished Southern Photographer William Eggleston.
Eggleston is proclaimed by the Times to be one of seven people who have "redefined our culture" and thus "not only embodies our definition of great, but our understanding of its power."
The feature on Eggleston includes an interview, here, by Augusten Burroughs, and a video and some photos of Eggleston by the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (see image above).
Tillmans' video is here.
The story contains some previously unpublished photographs by Eggleston (see image below), who says in the interview that he still photographs every day.
Eggleston's companions in this feature include Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Junya Watanabe, Kerry James Marshall, Massimo Bottura, and Zadie Smith.
I'd say that's pretty high cotton for a hometown boy from Memphis to be hanging out in.
Congratulations to Eggleston for this distinctive recognition of his many, many contribution to Southern, and American, photography, the arts, and culture.
Congratulations to Nancy McCrary and all the fine folks at SxSE Photomagazine for reaching a significant milestone in the history of this outstanding contribution to the world of Southern photography.
This past summer SxSE celebrated its first five years, a remarkable achievement in this age of radical transformations in the world of publishing.
In addition, McCrary and the gang have expanded the scope of their activities to include sponsoring photoworkshops and offering prints, books, and other photo-related goods for sale in the SxSE Shop, here.
The newest venture for this Southern photography conglomerate is South x Southeast PhotoExhibitions, a process intended to bring photography "to
the eyes of collectors, gallery directors, editors, and photography
enthusiasts through curated exhibitions with established galleries in
the American South."
These shows will be juried by photography professionals and exhibited in galleries that are "skilled at achieving the maximum
exposure for your images"
Work selected for these shows will be for sale during the bricks-and-mortar show, then in a virtual gallery on on SxSE's special photo exhibition website. This work will also be featured in SxSE magazine and on SxSE's social media pages.
The first of these exhibitions has recently been announced, to be juried by Elizabeth Avedon and exhibited in March of 2017 in the Brickworks Gallery in Atlanta.
For full details, go here.
But the most important thing, of course, is the ongoing range, quality, and variety of photography SxSE brings us every two months.
The riches in the latest issue include features on photographers like Charlottesville, VA-based Stacey Evans (see image above) and Baltimore, Maryland-based photographer Karen Klinendinst (see image below).
They also include reviews of shows like the Thomas Struth show (see image below) now up through January 8th, 2017 at the High Museum in Atlanta.
Also, reviews, interviews, and features about new photography books, including the new one by Ed Croom focused on the landscape around Roan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi.
Everything McCrary brings us is worth our careful attention -- congratulations on the first five years, and definitely keep up the great work!
The days are getting
shorter , the weather is getting cooler, and across the South we are
gearing up for the second round of fall photography festivals.
FotoWeekDC is only a few weeks away, now, running from November 12th-20th, 2016 in Our Nation's Capitol, and you can find the full schedule of events on their website, here.
December will bring us PhotoNOLA, this year running from December 8th-11th, 2016. The full calendar of events is here.
Already open, in anticipation of PhotoNOLA, is a major exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art of work by Mississippi-based photographer Maude Schuyler Clay (see image above), from her Mississippi History portfolio.
This show opened at the Ogden on October 1st, 2016, and will be up through January 15th, 2017.
An annual feature of PhotoNOLA is the show at the New Orleans Photo Alliance of the previous year's winner of the 2015 PhotoNOLA Review Prize, which for 2015 was Jeanine Michna-Bales (see image above).
So much to see, and to celebrate, in the world of Southern photography!
This news from Abbie Culbertson, from the Insight Counseling Centers, in Nashville, Tennessee:
The goals of the Insight Centers are to
- Provide excellent professionally licensed psychotherapy to any individual, couple or family in our community.
- Offer help and healing from a heart of compassion and personal faith
that accepts and respects the beliefs of every individual with whom we
work.
- Raise and provide financial support to help those who cannot otherwise afford care.
To support this work, the folks at Insight Counseling Centers are holding the InSight Photographic Arts Contest to support their work.
This contest is open to all levels of photographic artists who reside in one of the following US states: Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, or Virginia.
This year's contest theme: New Beginnings. There is no entry fee. The deadline for entries is October 11, 2016, just 7 days away.
Entrants will be judged by a panel of experts, who will select 24 finalists to be named on October 19, 2016.
The
24 final images must be printed, framed, and delivered to the Insight
Counseling Centers at 100 Vine Court, Nashville, TN 37205 no later than
November 7, 2016 for gallery installation. (No exceptions.)
The finalists will be exhibited at the event “InSight Photography Show and Auction” on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at Rail Yard Studios in Nashville, TN.
All selected works will be placed in the event’s silent auction, and photographers will receive 20% of the final winning bids.
Award prizes, to be announced the evening of the event, include $300 for first place, $200 for second place, and $150 for third place winners.
The proceeds of InSight will go to Insight Counseling Centers to support families, individuals, and couples in Middle Tennessee who are in need of affordable mental health counseling services.
The official rules are at http://insightcounselingcenters.org/new-beginnings.
Enter up to three (3) images. Send submissions to pcctinc@gmail.com.
Sounds like a worthy cause.
The price is right for entries, and the rewards for participating are both tangible and intangible.
What's not to like?
The Southern Photographer (who made the image above) sincerely believes in copyright, and all its protections.
The Southern Photographer believes that one owns one's images, and that they are copyrighted from the moment one presses the shutter button, or whatever act one makes to admit light to the recording medium.
The Southern Photographer believes in giving credit where it is due, and would never, ever, do anything that would imply that someone else's work was his, or do anything that enable him to earn money through the use of someone else's images.
The Southern Photographer also believes in the doctrine of Fair Use, which says the following:
The fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction
in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that
section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or
research, is not an infringement of copyright.
The Southern Photographer believes that his use of low resolution images of other photographers' work on this blog falls within this definition of Fair Use.
The Southern Photographer believes that his system of documenting the source of images he uses on this blog is appropriate, clear, informative, and enabling of other photographers' getting full credit for their achievements.
The Southern Photographer also believes that the way he documents work on this blog is sustainable, while other methods of documentation would be sufficiently time-consuming as to bring the viability of this blog into serious question.
The Southern Photographer is grateful to all those photographers who have expressed their appreciation for the extra bit of attention to their work that might have been achieved by its appearance on this blog.
Such expressions of appreciation help keep this blog going.
I'm grateful for them.
Posts
