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Burk Uzzle
Just Add Water: America in Color
Woodstock: 12 Vintage Photographs 
September 6 - October 27,2007

Booksigning and reception: 
Just Add Water: America in Color Just Add Water, $75.00 
Introduction by Vicki Goldberg,
Published by Fiveties Publishing, 2007

Laurence Miller Gallery inaugurates its fall season on September 6 when Burk Uzzle fills the entire space with his unique view of the persons, places and oddities that define the singular and diverse character of America. The main gallery will feature Uzzle's first series in color, taken from his new monograph Just Add Water; in the smaller room, the carbon prints of the home of the assemblage artist, John Herrmann; and on a singular wall twelve iconic, rare, vintage prints taken at Woodstock during the summer of love. The disparate nature of these three visions is best understood in Vicki Goldberg's introduction to the book: 

He's conducted a visual love affair with America for years. Uzzle likes her funny face and doesn't want her to change a hair for him. He sympathizes with her bad moods, her tragedies, her rather glaring imperfections, her obstreperous beauty, her unlikely aspirations. He is as fond of, and amused by, a bush having a really bad hair day at the side of the road as he is of a tree that ate a bicycle and couldn't digest it.
Burk Uzzle grew up in the south, began working at the age of 14, got his first full-time job as a photographer at age 17, became LIFE's first contract photographer at age 23, and has twice been elected president of Magnum. In spite of, or because of, his intrepid nature-he has traveled throughout America and Europe many times-he has said it is the small towns and ordinary places that interest him most. In Just Add Water: America in Color, Uzzle shares his love of and fondness for the American landscape and her people in an extraordinary way, by photographing the most unlikely people and things: a wall of gum in Seattle, a plastic Santa on a porch in Florida, POPEYE spelled out in wreaths in a cemetery in North Carolina.

The carbon prints of John Herrmann's home are the 21st century version of a 19th century process, the most truly permanent and tonally vibrant of all extant color processes. The richness of their production enhances the extraordinary quality and quirkiness of the imagery to make for a truly astounding rendition of the artist's obsessive collections-- in full, living, breathing, glorious color.

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Malick Sidibe 
“LOS SABENA CLUB”, Vintage and modern prints
From September 7 –  October 27, 2007 /opening September 6, 2007 /

This year Malick Sidibé (°1935, Mali) was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Venice. He is not only the first photographer, but also and maybe more importantly the first African artist to receive this honor. The jury describes Malick Sidibé as “the undisputed master of his photographic generation”. 

Fifty One Fine Art Photography has been working very closely with this exceptional photographer for over 10 years. Since the beginning of our collaboration we have been convinced of his pre-eminence. We have represented him with vigour and we will continue do to so in the future. 

It all began for Malick in 1955 when he undertook an apprenticeship with Gérard Guillats’ Photo Service Boutique. Three years later he started his own studio, Studio Malick, in Bamako (capital of Mali). Originally he specialized in documentary photography, his focus was on the youth culture of Bamako. He followed the Malian youth. In the seventies he turned more to making studio portraits. 

It wasn’t until the first meeting on African photography in Mali in 1994 that his work became more internationally appreciated. Since then his work has been shown in the Fondation Cartier in Paris, The Guggenheim in New York and Bilbao, the National Portrait Gallery in London, … In 2003 he was also the first African photographer to win the Hasselblad award for Photography. 

During the exhibition Los Sabena Club’ we will not only be showing modern prints, but also vintage and unseen prints. We kindly invite you for a drink at the opening on the 6th of September to have a chance to appreciate this amazing work. 

Joseph Bellows Gallery

Kate Breakey
Painted Photographs
September 8 - October 13, 2007

Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to present the gallery's second exhibition of artist Kate Breakey. The exhibition will be on view from September 8 ? October 13, 2007. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, September 8 (5-8 pm). 

Sweet aging fruit, beautiful lifeless birds, and delicate dying flowers. These are the subjects of Kate Breakey's hand-painted photographs. Breakey's work continues an art historical tradition of memento mori art, which is to remind the viewer of the fragility and brevity of life. Her work celebrates the beauty in nature while embraces death and loss as a part of nature and as a part of life. 

The artist begins with a silver photographic image of her subject. She then paints on many transparent layers of oil paint and colored pencils over the photograph, imbuing the previously black and white image with color. The rich tones and painterly textures enhance the subjects' forms, textures and details. The curl of a decaying petal, the delicacy of a bird's feather, or the shape of a piece of fruit are brought to life in Breakey's portraits, which at the same time memorialize lost lives. 

Breakey has said, "Making images of these things is a natural extension of being fascinated, touched, or intrigued by them. This process of seeing, and recording transforms me. It is how I express wonder and love, a form of dedication."

Breakey's art education inspired much of her work. The "Small Deaths" series is heavily influenced by Spanish court painting from the 16th Century. Breakey is also fascinated by the religious symbolism and metaphor common in Dutch and Spanish still life painting, where lemons represent the tears of the Virgin Mary, cherries represent the human soul, and a single carnation is always a reference to the crucifixion. Several of her Still Lifes are copies of favorite details of paintings. Still life with Lemons after Zubaran is a detail from the painting Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633), by Francisco Zubaran. Breakey also attempts to emulate Matisse, Cezanne and Van Gogh who have all inspired her use of light, color, and space. Breakey has translated their medium, painting, into her own, photography, as a loving tribute to those great masters, and as a way to participate in their traditions. 

Since 1980, Breakey's work has appeared in more than 60 one-person exhibitions and in over 50 group exhibitions in the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and France. A native of South Australia, Kate moved to Austin, Texas in 1988. She completed a Master of Fine Art Degree at the University of Texas in 1991, where she also taught Photography in the Department of Art and Art History until 1998. In 1999, she relocated to Tucson, Arizona. Breakey's work is held in many public collections, including The Australian National Gallery in Canberra, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Austin Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The Wittliff Galley of Southwestern & Mexican Photography. In 2004, Breakey received the 'Photographer of the Year' Award from the Houston Center for Photography.

Breakey's first monograph, Small Deaths, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2001. It contains 81 color images from her ongoing series, with a foreword by noted art critic A.D. Coleman. Her second book, Flowers/Birds, (Eastland Book) was published in March 2003.

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GRIEF
ERWIN OLAF
  

Hasted Hunt will present new work by photographer and filmmaker, Erwin Olaf in an exhibition opening on January 5, 2006 and running through March 2006. Hasted Hunt will debut two series of photographic work: RAIN and the specially commissioned HOPE with their accompanying videos.

These images are staged domestic narratives depicting enigmatic moments with individuals or couples - as Olaf describes it - just at an instant of indecision or consideration. This is not Henri Cartier–Bresson’s “decisive moment” but rather the half-second after you receive bad news but before you react. The characters seem to be dyspeptic mid-Westerners out of Norman Rockwell paintings. There is an air of tentativeness and secrecy. The color seems oddly diluted or drained.

Wildly inventive, iconoclastic, colorful, sexy, often rude, often disorienting, the artist has a unique contemporary vision and complete technical mastery of digital technology. Olaf satirizes middle class behaviors - fashion, advertising, and culture. At the same time he works very successfully within the commercial world with international clients like Diesel, Kohler, Microsoft, BMW, Nokia, Virgin and Nike.

Mr. Olaf lives and works in The Netherlands and enjoys a major reputation in Europe with more than a dozen museum and gallery exhibitions scheduled for the near future in his native country and Russia, Poland, Spain and Denmark. His work is represented in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Gemeentemueum Den Haag and the ABN AMRO Collection among others. “Perverse Elegance”, a major retrospective will travel in Australia in 2006. He is directing and producing a new film titled “Captain Tom”. His most recent retrospective book is Silver (2003).

Mr. Olaf’s debut at Hasted Hunt is his first major exhibition in the United States since 2001.

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RETROSPECTIVE 1979-2007

The Past, Present and Future of RICCO/MARESCA GALLERY with works by James Castle, Dwight Mackintosh, Thornton Dial Sr., Bill Traylor, Tricia Cline, Henry Darger, Laura Craig McNellis, William Hawkins, Calvin Black, Herman Bridgers, Judith Scott, Ken Grimes, Christopher Adams, Sam Doyle, Hester Simpson, and Robert Sholties. Reception October 4th: 6:00-8:00.

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STATEMENT
Opening exhibition in our new space in Frankfurt am Main.
Opening: August 31, 2007, 7 pm
With artworks by Marco Breuer, Daniele Buetti, Kyungwoo Chun, Margret Eicher, Tom Früchtl, Christian Hagemann, Simon Halfmeyer, Herbert Hinteregger, Markus Keibel, Harald Kröner, Ralf Peters, Peter Schlör, Adam Thompson, Cecilia Westerberg and others 

 
Daniele Buetti - MAYBE YOU CAN BE ONE OF US
October 05 until November 17, 2007 
Opening October 05, 2007, 7 pm 


Upcoming Fair:
Pulse London, October 11 - 14, 2007

New Book: 
Peter Schlör, DEEP BLACK 
128 pages, Texts by Dorothee Baer-Bogenschuetz, Harald Krämer, Daniel Spanke,English/German, published by Bernhard Knaus at Hatje Cantz Publishers, available now from us, EUR 35 

New Edition:
Ralf Peters, "Different Persons I", Series of 6 C-Prints

 

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La Maison Européenne de la Photographie

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Charles Matton - États de lieux"
13 June - 30 September 2007

Charles Matton uses different media (painting, sculpture, photography and film) to challenge appearances, bearing witness to what seems to be real in order to gain a better understanding of it. This exhibition presents reconstituted places and miniaturized spaces, names simply "Boxes" by Charles Matton, as well as photographs offering another way of exploring his approach. The paradox of juxtaposing appearances - on a reduced scale - and their almost life-size representations produces a sense of confusion and playfully calls into question our habitual ways of seeing. The way things are scaled down and the precision with which each piece is made inform a memory of place in which the imagination is ever-present. 

Fondation Neuflize Vie: Acquisitions for the MEP (1999-2006) 
13 June - 30 September 2007

Raed Bawayah, Katharina Bosse, Koos Breukel, Martial Cherrier, Antoine D'Agata, Alejandra Figueroa, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Pierre Gonnord, Nanna Hänninen, Loretta Lux, Tomoko Sawada, Trine Søndergaard/Nicolai Howalt, Sadegh Tirafkan, Carla van de Puttelaar, Masao Yamamoto, Kimiko Yoshida 

An active patron of the arts, Neuflize Vie created a Foundation in 1997 to provide a permanent framework for its work supporting photography in particular and image-making in general. A long-standing partner of the MEP, the Foundation contributes annually to the acquisition of works by young artists that are added to the Maison's collection. There are now almost 80 works by 37 artists, a selection of which are presented in this exhibition. 

Italie - doubles visions
13 June - 30 September 2007

Henri Cartier-Bresson/Mario Giacomelli, Paul Strand/Gianni Berengo Gardin, William Klein/Mario Carrieri, Raymond Depardon/Carla Cerati, Ernst Haas/Luca Campigotto, Herbert List/Mimmo Jodice, Sebastião Salgado/Giorgia Fiorio, Roger Ressmeyer/Antonio Biasiucci, Joel Sternfeld/Gabriele Basilico, Martin Parr/Massimo Vitali 

This exhibition deals with the idea of dual interpretation. It consists of around 100 prints on ten themes showing Italy past and present, presented alongside ten conversations with artists. Italie, doubles visions offers a series of accidental or deliberate juxtapositions involving two ways of approaching a single place or a single subject at different times. The resultung crossover reveals the singularity of the work of a number of major Italian and international photographers. 

Bruce Davidson "La Nature de Paris"
13 June - 2 September 2007

Following on from Mimmo Jodice's Paris in 1998 and William Klein's take on the city in 2002, the MEP commissioned a series of photographs from Bruce Davidson in 2006. This series on Paris parks and gardens, seen here for the first time, sees Bruce Davidson leaving aside social reportage for the first time. Sensitive to the combination of strength and fragility seen in the environment, he has captured the harmonious and majestic juxtaposition of natural and architectural features. Almost devoid of humans, his photographs are an ode to Paris and Nature. 

Marc Fumaroli "The Skin of the Trees"
13 June - 2 September 2007

Sensitive to the beauty of Nature's bounty, Marc Fumaroli here pays tribute to trees. "Silent, defenceless, their beauty gives without asking for anything in return, and besides their shade, their foliage, their flowers and their fruit, they unstintingly dispense their admirable upward thrust rooted in the earth as it carries them towards the light and the sky: it's an admirable example of spiritual attitude." (Marc Fumaroli)
Through close-up views of the " skin " of trees, reminiscent of engravings and abstract paintings, Marc Fumaroli invites us to share in the esthetic joy sparked by Nature's incredible and infallible artistic genius. 

The Athens Effect
The Photographic Image in Contemporary Art
13 June - 2 September 2007

Kostas Bassanos, Christina Dimitriadis, Panos Kokkinias, Pandelis Lazaridis, Dimitra Lazaridou, Nikos Markou, Despina Meimaroglou, Nikos Navridis, Maria Papadimitriou 

Following L'Esprit du Nord and L'été italien in 2006, the MEP continues its exploration of the European photographic scene. This exhibition brings together the work of nine Greek artists who use the photographic medium for narrative purposes. Their photographic stories possess a strong sense of place, resulting from an interpretation of the profound cultural, social and urban changes taking place in Athens today. 

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography

Temporary Closure of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography 

The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) is temporarily closed for an undetermined period due to major construction work led by the National Capital Commission.

To minimize disruption to the public caused by this temporary closure and maintain a high-quality experience for visitors, the CMCP exhibitions Jin-me Yoon: Unbidden, organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery, and Persona: From the Collection, organized by the CMCP, are being shown at the National Gallery of Canada from 1 December 2006 to 9 April 2007. Special activities scheduled at CMCP in conjunction with the exhibitions will instead take place at the NGC during this period. 

 

International Center of Photography

May 11-September 9, 2007

The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968 - 1993
 In the 1970s, Shore set the standard for large-format color photography of the vernacular landscape, transforming the environment into evocative tableaus. Drawing largely from Uncommon Places, the exhibition will also feature a selection from American Surfaces, snapshots photographed on the road to Amarillo, Texas; rarely exhibited conceptual projects; and examples from his recent iPhoto books.

Let Your Motto be Resistance: African American Portraiture from 1865 to the Present
Images from the mid-nineteenth century to the present illuminate the changing roles of African American photographic portraiture. Among the subjects Paul Robeson, Wynton Marsalis, Nat "King" Cole, Eartha Kitt, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, Judith Jamison, and Langston Hughes. The exhibition includes portraits produced by well-known
photographers such as James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Carl Van
Vechten, and lesser-known photographers.

Amelia Earhart: From Image to Icon
Between 1928 and her disappearance in 1937, Earhart's image was frequently in the newspaper, covering her record-breaking flying exploits, or in magazines, profiling her forays into clothing design or her endorsements for everything from cigarettes to luggage. She became the embodiment of the new roles that began to seem possible for American women. Through magazines, newspapers, and original press photos, the exhibition will trace the
construction of Earhart's image and its continued resonance.

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