March 27 - April 1, 2011


NEWSLETTER
America's Most Talked-About Photography Event
QUICK LINKS:
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No Fee Slide Show Contest
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES APPROACHING
Workshops
If you are considering entering our extraordinary workshop program - the time has come to make a decision! Don't wait until the last minute - register now to assure your place in the following workshops:
Arno Minkkinen: Framing a New Vision 
Peter Turnley: Documentary, Reportage & Street Photography Master Class 
Lois Conner: The Black & White Desert Landscape 
Keith Carter: Finding Your Voice 
Christopher Griffith: The Still Life Revisited 
Graciela Iturbide: The Master Class 
Doug Menuez: Formal Documentary Photography 
Lorne Resnick: The Art & Commerce of Travel Photography 
Gillian Laub: Creating and Executing the Documentary Photo Essay
Portfolio Review Registration Deadlines
All those who pre-register for our Portfolio Review Program before March 1 will be eligible to have a free page devoted to their work (including photo & contact info), included in our Portfolio Review SourceBook, printed by Blurb, which will be distributed to each of the portfolio reviewers at the festival. Each reviewer (even those you don't sign up to see) will have this special book to keep.
In addition, all those registered for Portfolio Reviews before March 10 will be able to submit their top reviewer choices online. We will be able to grant at least 60% of these requests in nearly all cases! The remaining portfolio reviews will be available to all others once the pre-registered attendee's requests have been assigned. Of course attendees will be able to sign up for reviews at any time up to and including the festival days - but the largest possible choices will be reserved for those registered before the March 10 deadline.
The first 75 photographers signed up for Portfolio Reviews will be able to participate at no cost, in our Open Portfolio Review on Sunday, March 27. Over 500 people will visit this event.
No Fee Slide Show Contest Deadline is March 4
Enter our Free Slide Show Contest! Your winning work will be seen by the entire Palm Springs Photo Festival audience during our nightly Evening Presentations. Four finalists will be selected for gifts from our sponsors - and the grand prize winner receives a complete Canon T2i Kit, a $500 gift certificate from Blurb, $300 Gift Certificate from Samy's Camera, a Western Digital TV Live Hub Media Player and more! Blurb will send a film crew to make a 5-minute film about the Grand Prize Winner. In addition, all 16 slide shows shown at Connect 2011 will be considered for an outdoor projection at this year's "Night of the Year 2011" at the Rencontres D'Arles festival in France! Hurry because the deadline is March 4th! Click HERE for complete information.
REGISTER ONLINE NOW or call us at 1-800 928-8314 today!
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ARE YOU CURRENTLY PURSUING A BFA or MFA in PHOTOGRAPHY? ARE YOU A RECENT GRADUATE?
We have a total of ten EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER SCHOLARSHIPS available! Click HERE for complete information.
A WEEK IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT
Now is the time to make your decision to join us in the most exciting single week of photography available. Participate in our remarkable Workshop program, studying with celebrated, real world working photographers. Learn a tremendous amount of new information, essential to your work and career in our Seminar program. Attend important discussions about our current business environment at our daily Symposiums. Get your work in front of over 60 industry influencers in our Portfolio Review program (this year we'll offer over 850 portfolio reviews!) and submit your work in our No Fee Slide Show Contest and possibly have your work projected for the entire festival audience as well as win great gifts from our sponsors.
Here's what's included in your $75 daily registration fee:
* Admittance to 10 Seminars during the week
* Our important daily Symposiums: The Business of Fine Art, The Convergence Conference, Pursuing Your Passions: Funding Personal Projects and PDN Presents: Strategies for the Emerging Photographer
* Four Networking events with wine tastings from prominent California wineries
* Unlimited access to our Sponsor Headquarters. See the latest from Canon, Epson, Leica, Samy's Camera, Fuji, X-Rite, Western Digital, onONE Software, Academy University, ASMP, Blend Images Agency, Aperture Foundation, and Marshall Electronics!
* Access to the Open Portfolio Review Sunday, March 27 at the Hyatt Regency. Over 80 photographers will be presenting their work!
* Invitation to our Opening Reception immediately following our Open Portfolio Review.
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2011 SEMINAR PROGRAM
The Canon Digital SLR System
Identify Clients and Bring In New Business with Maria Piscopo
Understanding Color Spaces, Profiles and Calibration
Social Media Marketing: Put Facebook, Twitter & Linked-in to Work for You
Seeing the World Through a Leica Rangefinder Viewfinder With Justin Stailey 
Lightroom from Shoot to Finish With Peter Krogh
Pricing & Negotiating Strategies for Commercial Photographers With Maria Piscopo
Creating Pixel Perfect Photographs with Photoshop with Lee Varis
How to get your Photobook Published 
Blurb Presents: The Photographic Book: Edit, Sequence, Design and Market Your Book.
Final Cut Pro: How to Mix Motion, Stills & Audio into Short Films 
DSLR Convergence: Storytelling with Canon's Hybrid Cameras: Making Multi-media Films with Vincent LaForet
Photography & the Written Word With Colin Finlay
An Introduction to Marketing Your Photographs with Mary Virginia Swanson
Aperture 3: A Complete Primer with Martin Gisborne
Digital Asset Management: with Peter Krogh
 
Most importantly, you can join the community - meet like-minded people, exchange ideas, keep your work fresh and exciting. We're about the passion for photography. These are exciting times! Call us at 1-800 928 8314 for more information or go directly to our website at www.palmspringsphotofestival.com. See you in the desert!
 
 



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My friend Australian photographer Simon Davidson sent me this image.   I used to photograph swing sets when we were traveling across America on assignment.   I got kind of obsessed by the old janky ones from the 70's, littered in yards, or drive in theaters.   You just don't see many of them anymore.   This is kind of like the Cady Noland of swing sets.

William Eggleston: American Photographer
October 28 through December 23, 2010
 

 
RECEPTION:
Saturday, October 30, 2010 from 6 to 8 pm
 
Edward Cella Art + Architecture announces 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.

Eggleston is widely recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century owing to his innovative and unconventional approach to composition and early adoption and mastery of color photography. Over a more than thirty-year career, the artist's selection of seemingly commonplace subject matter lays bare the fleeting qualities of human existence while offering a tender compendium of his home, the American South. Eggleston offers epiphany-like insight into the everyday. The interplay of opulent color and nonchalant forms in Eggleston's photographs honors his subjects while providing an additional layer of meaning, turning them into stunning visual metaphors of an alienated world.

With an eye not to glorify the world in front of his lens, but with the intent to show things for what they really look like, Eggleston states, "I think I had often wondered what other things see -- if they saw like we see. And I've tried to make a lot of different photographs as if a human did not take them." Refining this idea, exhibition curator, Carole Thompson, notes, "Eggleston's color images flaunt their apparent formlessness.  Although the artist acknowledges a debt to Henri Cartier-Bresson, his photographs reject Bresson's decisive moments."



Representing a collaboration between Carole Thompson Fine Art and Edward Cella Art + Architecture, the exhibition of more than forty vintage photographs begins with several one of a kind black-and-white, hand-developed photographs of the 1960s and also includes pristine examples of the vivid dye transfer work of the early 1970s. To Eggleston, the richness of photography stems from the unexpected and uncontrollable, and the exhibition's inclusion of the artist's first experiments in color photography, unique Chromogenic-coupler prints developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, document his breakthrough with impromptu encounters with various individuals and scenes.  Comprehensive in nature yet approachable in scale, the exhibition features selected prints from six of the artist's influential series, including the landmark 1976 catalogue, William Eggleston's Guide,Graceland portfolio, Los Alamos series, The Democratic Forest, and, for the first time in Los Angeles, offers examples from the artist's Berlin Series. His oeuvre has profoundly influenced generations of photographers, as well as critics, curators, writers, cinematographers and filmmakers.
 
Image:
William Eggleston, Untitled (Orange & White Ford Truck)
1972, Dye-transfer color photography, 13 x 19 in


SPECIAL EXHIBITION PROGRAM:
William Eggleston: Seen and Unseen by Carole Thompson
 
Saturday, November 6, 2010 / 4:00 PM
6018 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Join independent curator and photographic historian, Carole Thompson for an overview ofWilliam Eggleston: American Photographer as she presents her personal and unique insights into the work and life of photographer William Eggleston.

Carole Thompson is a private art dealer with a specialty in American Photographers and Painters of the 20th Century. A former curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Thompson published the first catalogue raisonné of Eggleston's multiples. Her clients include the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, SFMoMA, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art among others. She is instrumental in creating important private collections as an advisor to private museums and individuals internationally.


THE PROGRAM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Seating is limited.  To reserve please call 323.525.0053

Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Levi's Photo Workshop

Levi's launches a temporary space serving NYC's photography community

by Josh Rubin in Culture on 8 October 2010 This story was written for Coolhunting.com

Dial the clock back a few years and Levi's was just another Big American Brand rapidly losing marketshare to other major labels and niche denim brands. Today (approximately one global financial crisis later) the San Francisco, CA-based clothier is mid-comeback with numbers to prove it and an unfolding multitiered campaign fueling the upswing. Of their various billboards, collaborations and promotions all under the banner "Ready to Work Go Forth™" the artistry-led workshops might not seem like such a big deal. But after visiting both the first S.F. printmaking installment earlier this year and the current photography version in NYC, I am hugely impressed by not just how well-executed they are but by the sense that there's some real heart behind the project. To find out the backstory, we checked in with Levi's head of Collaborations, Partnerships and Creative Concepts, Joshua Katz, who filled us in on what it's like working with the brand, the power of community, and what drives the different identities of each worksho

Where San Francisco's event drew on the "precious objects" culture that makes printmaking thrive there, the ten-week-long NYC edition is more about the democratic nature of photography and how it's "interwoven into everything" in the city. As such, there's a little something for everyone in the massive space (formerly Deitch Gallery) with digital and vintage Leica cameras, other vintage camera brands, digital technicians, photo assistants, a printing center and light box, as well as exhibitions and installations. Collaborators include photographer and curator Tim Barber, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, master photographer Bruce Davidson, chef April Bloomfield, and photography publisher Hamburger Eyes. Launched last night with an event featuring droves of guests, a photobooth, lots of drinks, and DJ duo Chances with Wolves, Katz explains, "the reason a lot of brands don't do this is because it's hard, it's tiring."

The payoff of course is "if you make that extra effort, people can believe in it." Or in other words, their success comes from embracing hard work and community as core values from the top down. "There are fundamental philosophies that don't change," says Katz. "The [brands] that stick around are people who recognize that they are part of a community." In addition to opening its doors to artists, community groups and non-profits, all proceeds from sales of Levi's goods (including the exclusive Trucker Jacket, pictured) and camera-related items will go to NYC-based charitable organizations Harvey Milk High School, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Edible Schoolyard New York.

Comparing his current job to his previous work with Quicksilver, Katz describes his own thinking on brands as having "a certain obligation to the people that wear them, to continue to solve their problems through products and be responsible members of their community."

And as for Katz' own role in that community? "I'm still a geek, I'm still a fan...photography is a way to ground me and remind me, capture some of those moments, and record what I do." Where he'll be documenting next as the project continues is still under wraps, though it shouldn't come as any surprise that it will have something to do with music.

ALT SPACE DEBUTS IN MAR VISTA WITH LADYKILLERS EXHIBITION BY MAYA MERCER
September 24 - October 23, 2010

(August 2010 - Mar Vista, Los Angeles, CA)  Alt|Space at Top Tomato Market, a new center for collaboration and, communication in L.A.'s Mar Vista district, opens its doors September 24, 2010, with an exhibition of 24 photographs by Paris- and Los Angeles-based artist Maya Mercer, curated by noted art critic Peter Frank and presented by international art dealerDelia Cabral. Mercer's images mangle photographic tropes so purposefully and convincingly that, in their alarming elegance, they spur our reconsideration of conventional beauty. In thejarring, provocativeLadykillers, one finds beauty amid a thicket of questions. 

In her Ladykillers series, Mercer has photographed men in the compromised positions one would normally expect in a glossy fashion shoot. The young, virile males are dressed up in elegant women's wear and pose against stunning natural settings in the French countryside, Los Angeles forests, and Malibu beaches. These "contemporary Renaissance portraits" vary in size and format, and are in turns confrontative, desolate, gorgeous, misunderstandable, and erotic. Gender juxtapositions aside, while the set-up of each image may be familiar to the viewer, this very turn, this inversion of expectation, gives the images their weight. In Ladykillers, Mercer has appropriated and undermined the visual language of advertising, offering it as a direct challenge to our sense of the normal. 

Are Mercer's subjects perverse? Or are we, having subjugated our ideals of acceptability and impulse to the machinations of art-as-trend-as-commerce, the perverse ones? Mercer asks such questions as she catches her subjects mid-performance-vulnerable, alone, desirous, potent, and cast aside by a society that will never quite see them for who and what they truly are, marginalized. Mercer has turned her camera lens on a cultural process to which most of us have turned a blind eye for far too long.
 

About Maya Mercer
Artist/actress Maya Mercer grew up in a creative milieu amongst actors, playwrights, artists and musicians. Daughter of actress Maria Machado and of radical English dramatist, playwright, and screenwriter David Mercer, and raised between Paris, Los Angeles, London, Russia, and other locales, Maya has always lived in a narrative world, at once English and French, experiencing "life as theater" from early childhood. In such a mesmerizing and tumultuous environment her perception of reality could only acquire a visionary dimension of awesome density. Having embodied characters invented by others in her onstage career, Mercer now directs others in visual stories and tableaux of her own invention, working in Paris and increasingly in the United States.
 

About Alt|Space at Top Tomato Market
Alt|Space at Top Tomato Market is a center for conversation and creation located in Mar Vista, a burgeoning creative enclave adjacent to Venice Beach, California. The Market conceptually re-imagines the neighborhood corner store as a curated idea emporium. Neither exhibition, performance, nor retail environment per se, Alt|Space at Top Tomato functions as a collaborative incubator, provoking dialogue through an interweaving of media and methods-visual and aural, sacred and profane, cerebral and gustatory.

There are no guests at Alt|Space, only participants. And participants do not merely encounter ideas at Alt|Space, they engage with them. Los Angeles-based composer and entrepreneur Dean Harada serves as Alt|Space's director of collaboration, and the project reflects his ongoing interest in exploring modes of conversive1, narrative, and figurative2 works.
 

Mark's always been cooler than school.   His talent, charm, manners and style are what makes him so special.   He graces the cover of Blackbook this month.   So HOT.


Ronson is the son of real estate entrepreneur Laurence Ronson and gregarious society dame Ann Dexter-Jones. (Dexter-Jones later married Foreigner founding member and guitarist Mick Jones, from whom she split in 2007.) At 35, he is two years older than his twin sisters, Charlotte, a New York fashion designer, and Samantha, a DJ based in Los Angeles. Anecdotes from his charmed childhood abound, most of them about decadent parties in London, where he was born and still keeps an apartment, with a rotating cast of boldface names from The Thin White Duke to The Boss. Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, was his best friend growing up, and together they had sleepovers with Michael Jackson and carpools with Roberta Flack.  by Nick Haramis/ Blackbook Magazine

The dandies, or Grand Sapeur's of the Congo are inspirational.   They may be poor, but they have great style and a strict code of ethics.

Gentlemen of Bacongo photographs by Daniele Tamagni

http://www.photodantam.com/

The arrival of the French and Belgians to the Congo, at
the beginning of the 20th Century, brought along the myth
of Parisian elegance among the Congolese youth working
for the colonialists. In 1922, G.A. Matsoua was the first ever
Congolese to return from Paris fully clad as an authentic French
gentleman, which caused great uproar and much admiration
amongst his fellow countrymen. He was the first Grand Sapeur.
The Sapeurs today belong to Le SAPE (Société des
Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes) - one of the worlds
most exclusive clubs. Members have their own code of honour,
codes of professional conduct and strict notions of morality. It is
a world within a world within a city.

Respected and admired in their communities, todays sapeurs
see themselves as artists. Each one has his own repertoire of
gestures that distinguishes him from the others. They are also
after their own great dream: to travel to Paris and to return to
Bacongo as lords of elegance.





































Designer brands of suits and accessories are of the utmost
importance to Sapeurs - Pierre Cardin, Roberto Cavalli, Dior,
Fendi, Gaultier, Gucci, Issey Miyake, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent,
Versace, Yohji Yamamoto are their patron saints. Unlike some
US hip-hop gangs who are dressed in similar fine threads, there
is no bloodshed here here your clothes do all the fighting for
you, otherwise you are not fit to be called a Sapeur.

*sip slip yawn wait run sleep kiss hug split sit sigh so what
*i've been tucked away in a hotel...drawing on the walls...details and photos coming soon...

*blanket...park
*bite...mango
*walk...west
*hug...hello
*kiss...goodbye
*pick...flower
*snap...pic
*stroll...home

pics via july stars and rvca