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Pete Brook has began his Prison Photography on the Road project. Brook is the lead contributor for Wired Magazine's photography blog Raw File, and creator of the Prison Photography blog that tackles such issues as "The Image / Incarceration / Representation / Media / Social Justice / Responsible Photography." For the project, Brook is traveling for 12 weeks to conduct interviews with photographers who, "through their work in prisons, have shaped America's visual culture and the debate on US criminal justice." He will also talk to leading advocates for prison education, arts, and law. 

Interviewees include Bruce Jackson, Jon Lowenstein, Deborah Luster, Danny Lyon, Lori Waselchuk, representatives from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Innocence Project, and many more.

Look at the photographs, listen to the interviews, check out his reading list...

Rocker, poetess and artist/photographer Patti Smith is having her first US, one-woman photography show, Camera Solo, this Fall at the Wasworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., October 21, 2011 – February 19, 2012. She "has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s.The exhibition will include seventy photographs, one multi-media installation and one video work." -from http://www.thewadsworth.org/exhibitions-2/

Events include a sold-out muscial performance, as well as a booksigning on Oct. 21st at 11am, and a lecture on the creative history of Polaroid, Smith's medium, by John Reuter on Oct. 22nd at 2pm.

Also on view are paintings by Andrew Wyeth, photos of Iraq War training sites in the US by Claire Beckett, and also a decorative arts, costume and ephemera exhibition about remembering the Civil War.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | 600 Main Street | Hartford, CT | 06103 | (860) 278-2670

Seeing Green (2011) is a transatlantic conversation of sorts between London based artist Aaron Mclaughlin and Chicago based artist Grace Miceli.  This is a larger zine, 11.75" x 8.25", that was published by a great press in London called Fourteen-Nineteen.  They were each using old textbooks, cutting out and rescuing the images from their out-dated tautological confines by turning them into strange psychedelic collages.  Its a playful collaboration; the collages seem quick and minimal, based primally on aesthetic response.  There is a vibrant mysticism and sense of wonderment: the floating geometry in the sky, the upside down mountains, and the entranced cat, perhaps a stand-in for the artists themselves, staring cooly into the prism's refracted light.

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Grace Miceli

Aaron Mclaughlin

Fourteen-Nineteen

Alexander Binder, from Niflheim, 2010. Barbara Kasten, from Constructs, 1985, Karl Blossfeldt, Phacelia congesta. Buschelkraut, Bienenfutterpflanze, 1935. Copyright the artists.

previously: o, oo, ooo, oooo, ooooo

Pati
Photographs by Sohrab Hura
October 5–16, 2011
John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, Durham, NC

The exhibition is the first in an annual series of collaborations between the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund and the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. Hura was a 2010 awardee of the Emergency Fund; his project—a poignant and compelling exploration of poverty in rural India—can be seen here.