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Posted on June 5, 2011

Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program
March 22, 2011 – July 10, 2011
Museum of the City of New York

Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program documents an innovative NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene program that provides underserved communities with access to fresh fruits and vegetables via hundreds of independently owned, mobile produce stands known as Green Carts.

Aperture Foundation asked five emerging photographers to undertake the NYC Green Cart Commission: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Thomas Holton, Gabriele Stabile, Will Steacy, and Shen Wei; each brining their unique point of view and visual interpretation of areas in New York’s five boroughs. Over the course of one year, they photographed the carts themselves, the lives of the vendors, interactions with customers, and the commercial landscapes of the surrounding communities.

The resulting photographs, in styles ranging from portraiture to landscape to street photography, capture not only the carts themselves, but also the stories of the vendors, customers, and their communities.

Moveable Feast invites consideration about the geography of food options and its relationship to a community’s health.

Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program was organized by the Museum of the City of New York in collaboration with Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, and was made possible with the generous support of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. Additional support has been provided by Kodak.

Posted by Elizabeth Stacy | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on May 30, 2011

We are very happy to see the work of our friend, Nicholas Vreeland, at The Leica Gallery in New York City.  His images emanate a sense of stillness, calm and quiet to the point where you feel you are with him on his journey. The exhibit is an incredible inspiration which everyone should take time to see.  It closes next week so make sure to get to the gallery before June 4th!

This exhibition follows the journey of photographer and Buddhist monk, Nicholas Vreeland, as he accompanied his teacher, Tibetan incarnate Lama Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, on his return to Tibet after 50 years. Khyongla Rato, author of “My Life and Lives”, fled Tibet in 1959. In 2003, he visited his birthplace, in Dagyab, Eastern Tibet, and Vreeland photographed the journey. These black and white photographs were taken as they rode horseback many hours each day towards “The Roof of the World” where Rinpoche was welcomed by devotees, many of whom had never before seen their Lama.

© Nicholas Vreeland

© Nicholas Vreeland

About Nick:
Nicholas Vreeland, Director of The Tibet Center, New York, and editor of An Open Heart, Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life, by The Dalai Lama, lives part time at Rato Monastery, reestablished in Karnataka, India. Photos for Rato, an exhibition of Vreeland´s photographs to raise funds for the reconstruction of Rato Monastery, was held at the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, and has since toured Europe, India, and the United States.

© Nicholas Vreeland

Return to the Roof of the World
April 22, 2011 – June 4, 2011

Leica Gallery in New York
670 Broadway / Suite 500
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 12PM – 6PM

Posted by Foto Care | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on May 4, 2011

The sun is bringing new life to New York and it’s the perfect time to go out and photograph. Get inspired by some of this Spring’s upcoming exhibits. Let us know if we’re missing anything you think is worthy!

Bonni Benrubi Gallery
Georges Dambier: Who’s That Girl?
March 24 – May 27, 2011

Soho Photo Gallery
Jazz by Hugh Bell
May 3 – June 4, 2011

International Center of Photography
Don’t miss two upcoming exhibits at the ICP, running alongside each other throughout summer.

Elliot Erwitt: Personal Best
May 20-August 28, 2011

Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945
May 20-August 28, 2011

Pace/MacGill Gallery
Henry Wessel Vintage Photographs
April 21-July 8 2011

Edwynn Houk Gallery
Herb Ritts
April 28 – June 25, 2011

Posted by Elizabeth Stacy | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on March 27, 2011

The Leica Gallery Presents:
wowe: Nightclubbing New York in the 80’s

On View: March 4, 2011 – April 16, 2011
The Leica Gallery / 670 Broadway, Suite 500 / New York, NY 10012

To best explain this upcoming exhibit we took this from the Leica Gallery WebSite:

“Fluffy hair, parachute pants, A Flock of Seagulls, Danceteria: If it weren’t for Paris and Berlin in the ‘20s and Ancient Rome around 264 BC, New York in the ‘80s could lay claim to hosting the world’s most fabulously decadent decade of all time.” – Stephen Saban, founding editor, Details

German-born portrait photographer wowe (Wolfgang Wesener) got his start cap¬turing New York’s nightlife for Details magazine in the 80’s. His images of this unique and decadent period chronicle the night-time prowling of such club deni¬zens as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lisa E, James St. James, Diane Brill and Michael Musto and celebrities on the rise including Madonna, Brooke Shields, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Jenny Lumet and Matt Dillon. Shot with an old Leica SL and a modified handheld flash, the black-and-white portraits are particularly compelling as each subject makes eye contact with wowe, who never clicked without permission.
In 2009 Edition Braus (Heidelberg) published a two-volume slip-cased collection: essence | twenty-five years of portraits by wowe.

Posted by Foto Care | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on February 10, 2011

Currently showing at the Jeff Bailey Gallery is an exquisite show of Chris Gentile’s photographs.  See a sample of the images and press release below. This is a show you will not want to miss, opening reception tonight!

Gentile’s photographs embrace spectacle, ritual and social interaction. The images depict Gentile’s sculptures and environments, made for the sole purpose of being photographed. In his recent work, the human figure is a new component, adding layers of psychological meaning.

The centerpiece of the exhibition, Limerence Network, is approximately two hundred framed portraits of the artist’s friends and family. Gentile’s fascination with cyber social networking has resulted in upending the traditional frontal portrait: each 10 x 8 photograph depicts the back of the sitter’s head, facing a gold background. Rich in color and individual detail, the portraits are grouped on a large table facing in one direction, reminiscent of an expanding crowd. The taking of the portraits is an ongoing project, but the majority of these were shot one night at a party in the artist’s studio. For Gentile, the event was a way to facilitate an overlap between art production and social interaction.

A grouping of six photographs, each titled Eminent Digressions, depicts the detritus of one of Gentile’s studio parties. Gentile painted all of the surfaces of his studio light blue and emptied it of any personal effects. Shelving and other fixtures were added for those in attendance to discard their empty beer bottles. The bottles deft organization, in an otherwise barren studio, belies the haphazard ways in which they were left behind.

On / Shit Out of Luck features a large sculpture in the shape of a hand making a peace sign. Made of wood and melted candles, it is situated in an antiseptic, light blue space. Evoking an oversized candelabra or strange prayer altar, it looks prone to collapse.

A keen attention to detail permeates each work, and the media of each sculpture or environment is apparent: wax and wood, pinholes and plaster, paper and glass, rubber. For Gentile, repeated use of the same medium, in the same shape, becomes a kind of personal ritual. It is their combination, and implied iconography that allows for broader meanings.

This is Chris Gentile’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. His has had solo exhibitions at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana; Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco and Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Swell, at Metro Pictures, New York and Blind Spot Lab and Exhibition at Wild Project, New York. Gentile received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Chris Gentile: Let it Down
February 9, 2011 – March 12, 2011
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
212.898.0156

Opening Reception
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:00PM – 8:00PM

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Posted on February 5, 2011

Moment of Recognition, on view in the Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery of the School of the International Center of Photography, is an exploration of portraiture in the new millennium.

© Susann Nuernberger

Intrigued by what is revealed when a split-second in time is captured, curator Amy Arbus asked her former students and teaching assistants to submit images of subjects that were in motion, either physically or emotionally. Included in the hundred or so prints on view are images of reality TV star wannabes, male escorts, survivors of genocide, Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, self-portraits, and functional as well as dysfunctional families. This new generation of photographers combine various genres like reportage, fashion, lifestyle, and sports to reinvent portraiture and create pictures uniquely their own. Each of the portraits implies a narrative or inspires the viewer to create one. Arbus writes in her statement, “In curating this exhibition I chose photographs that were strangely familiar despite the fact that I had never seen them before. It was as though I was meeting an old friend for the first time.”

Photographer Amy Arbus has published four books. The New Yorker called her most recent, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world. She has taught at ICP for fourteen years as well as at workshops all across the globe. Arbus has exhibited worldwide and her photographs are a part of the collections of The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Moment of Recognition
January 15, 2011 – March 20, 2011
Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery
School of ICP
1114 Avenue of Americas
New York, NY 10110

Posted by Elizabeth Stacy | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on January 27, 2011

The Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association presents Fauna : Land, Sea & Sky,  an exhibition of wildlife photography by Al Vinjamur.

Born in Bangalore, India, Al studied Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Between 1993 and 2004, he founded and ran a Statistical Arbitrage trading group at a well known wall street hedge fund. Since 2004, Al has been a private investor.  In addition to his passionate interest in photography, he also pursues his love of Finance, Economics, Car Racing, Astrophysics, and Scuba Diving.

Fauna: Land, Sea & Sky
February 4, 2011 – February 26, 2011
The Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association
321 East 73rd Street
New York, NY 10021
212.988.1733

Opening Reception
Friday, February 4, 2011
6:00PM

Posted by Foto Care | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on January 21, 2011

The Sultans is a series of close-up photographic portraits that depicts “Turkish men of a certain age in all their patriarchal glory” created by photographer Dirk Anschutz.  The work was produced during a month-long road trip through Turkey.  The images were taken in Anatolia, the mountains near the Mediterranean Sea, and in small villages along the Aegean coast.

Anschütz’ heavy lighting style, and use of medium format depict the etched faces of men who have spent a lifetime living off of this land.  The photographs examine patriarchs in a still patriarchal society, and old men who proudly make no attempt to appear younger than they are.

© Dirk Anschutz

The Sultans
January 28, 2011 – February 25, 2011
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
212.998.8660

Opening Reception
Friday January 28, 2011
6:00PM – 8:00PM

“Come to the NY opening of Dirk Anschütz’ new solo exhibition of his fabulous portrait series, The Sultans: Turkish men of a certain age in all their patriarchal glory.  Dirk is a most entertaining photographer and story-teller, as evidenced on his blog. You can read the back story on The Sultans at  TheHeavyLight.com” – Julie Grahame, aCurator.com.