Group Shows

Quite liking the latest Group Show from Humble Arts. Check it out here. Kevin Miyazaki, maker of fine booklets, also has nice, but tiny, group shows on his blog.

Vote Against Orphan Works, a PSA

Well, I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been pretty busy recently and haven’t kept up with the Orphan Works business as much as I should. And wouldn’t you know but this came into my mailbox and it makes it so easy to send a cogent letter to someone so I’m passing this along for you too.

BREAKING NEWS, May 6, 2008 - The House is meeting tomorrow 2:00 p.m. Wednesday,
May 7, 2008, 2141 Rayburn House Office Building markup of H.R. 5889, the “Orphan
Works Act of 2008″

This means that if you oppose the House Bill as it stands, it is extremely important to
make your voice heard before that meeting begins.

At this time, it is understood that the House believes that photographers and other visual
artists including their trade associations are in agreement with the current bills. APA
opposes both the House and Senate bills as written.

Please take a moment to be heard via a prepared letter of your choice, or by including
your own reasoned thoughts in a professional courteous manner.

This link will allow you to be heard.
Scroll down about half way to see “For Photographers”.

It is important to be heard. It is your future.

Martin Trailer
National President

Constance Evans
National CEO

Feeling Challenged?

The National Press Club has put together a humdinger, reserve by May 9 to guarantee a seat:

“CHALLENGES FACED BY PHOTOJOURNALISTS”
Evening Sponsored by the
National Press Club’s
Photography, Events, and History Committees

This event is a special tribute to the memory of famed photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and is part of the Club’s Centennial Celebration

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
National Press Club
Margaret Bourke-White Room

PANELISTS:

ROBIN ANDERSEN, Professor, Author, Scholar
MAURINE BEASLEY, Professor, Author, Journalism Historian
MAX DESFOR, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist
SARAH VOISIN, Staff Photojournalist, The Washington Post, and
Co-Founder, Women Photojournalists of Washington
***
Moderator:
MARLENE JUSTSEN, National Press Club Archivist

Welcome Remarks and Introductions by:
DARLENE SHIELDS, Chair, NPC Photography Committee

TO RESERVE, PLEASE CALL BY MAY 9, 2008:
Pat Nelson: (202) 662-7501
ALL ARE WELCOME – NO CHARGE

More Postcards from Peru

© Susana Raab

Who needs Madonna? These girls have never heard of vogueing, and yet, they have.

A good spot for a calming nerve tonic:

© Susana Raab

This picture in no way conveys how defined this surfer’s abs were, more’s the pity.

© Susana Raab

Why I Love Flannery O’Connor

© Susana Raab: Flannery’s Bedroom, Andalusia, Milledgeville, Georgia

Her thoughts on academia:

“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

- Flannery O’Connor

with apologies to Liz Kuball and best birthday wishes!

Mancora, Peru

some

scenes

from a

recent

surfing story

in north

peru

National Magazine Awards winners announced

National Geographic dominated with three awards. The judges cited them for their “photography that reveals wondrous and often threatened corners of our planet, and reporting that is both intrepid and tough-minded.”

Vanity Fair was the only other magazine to win multiple prizes, two, one awarded to an Annie Leibovitz portfolio called “Killers Kill, Dead Men Die,” which featured Hollywood stars posed in elaborate film-noir style scenes. Missed that.

Gourmet mag won for photography. I can’t imagine how many promo cards are on their way there as I write this. Well done Gourmet.

Other winners include: Atlantic Monthly for columns by the irrepressible and delightfully politically incorrect Caitlin Flanagan (whose appearance on the Colbert report was a hilarious example of someone unable to not play the straight man); The Virginia Quarterly Review, published by UVA; the Nation; Popular Science; Wired (for design); Harper’s (for fiction); Atlanta Magazine; Reader’s Digest; The New Yorker; and in General Excellence, GQ, Backpacker (go Julia!), Mother Jones, and Print.

These are magazines you might want to familiarize yourself with if you are interested in editorial.

Happy Birthday Look Underfoot - May 1

© Zoe Strauss

The blog is a year old today. I want to thank the 20,000 plus readers who stop by to share a little camaraderie, laughs, and hopefully inspiration with ‘ole Look Underfoot. Speaking of old, this Sunday I hit a milestone birthday: I’m going to celebrate with a road trip up to Philly to see Zoe Strauss’ fabulous I-95 exhibition (1-4 pm). Zoe does a great job of documenting her gritty urban surroundings, and her subjects make me feel young. So it works for me on a lot of levels. You can find out how to get there here. If you see a freckled brunette please say hello!

William Greiner

Photographic conspirator William Greiner is having a book signing and lecture this Saturday in NYC at 1 pm at Klompching. For those of you who aren’t subscribers his blog it is a nice marriage of photographs, words, and content. Oh, and I’ve been reminded by the master himself that the show opens Thursday night! Go for me!

FALLEN PARADISE (New Orleans 1995 — 2005)

Photographs by William Greiner
May 1 — June 25, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: May 1, 6pm — 8pm

William Greiner, born and raised in New Orleans, knows the city intimately. He presents here, a ’snapshot’ of the decade preceding hurricane Katrina, in which he evidences the city’s abandonment before natural disaster struck. Informed by the tradition of the new color photography developed by Eggleston, Greiner interrogates this urbanscape with a preceptive eye and a highly crafted use of the photographic frame, color and formal line.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

www.klompching.com | press@klompching.com | +1 212 796 2070
111 Front Street, suite 206 | Brooklyn NY 11201

Like a Rolling Stone - Read It, Live It, Love It

© Susana Raab

Friend Steven Kurutz has written a fabulous paean to that enigmatic rock icon: the tribute band. Like a Rolling Stone is an unstoppable and entertaining read, giving the skinny on a question that has long rattled around my bean: what makes a tribute band tick? In it Steven covers a year in the lives of two rival New York-based Rolling Stones tribute bands: Sticky Fingers and the Blushing Brides. You can get it here. Or read his blog here.